| Freestyle BMX otherwise also known as Bike | | | | other. It is around 10 to 13 feet high and both |
| Stunt is actually the trick of maneuvering bicycles. | | | | faces of the ramp have an extended vertical |
| Well, these bicycles are not your ordinary ones | | | | transition. |
| and they come with 20" wheelbase that are | | | | Trails consist of a series of jumps built from dirt |
| originally meant for races. Started in the late 70s | | | | that is usually compact mud. The trick usually |
| and the early 80s, bike stunt reached the pinnacle | | | | consists of taking a steep jump and landing at a |
| of its popularity in the 80s decade but was soon | | | | slightly plainer ground. |
| robbed of it in the 90s. However, this temporary | | | | Flatland is almost a lost form of art which has |
| decline in popularity brought to the market | | | | seen no popularity in recent years but has a loyal |
| rider-owned bicycle companies, which gave a | | | | fan following. Flatland is usually performed on |
| fresh lease of life to the bicycles. | | | | smooth ground and the tricks are usually spinning |
| The Bike Stunt is divided into five major genres, | | | | and balancing. |
| namely Street, Skateparks, Vert, Trails and | | | | Different types of tricks |
| Flatland riding. | | | | The basics of the freestyling tricks have always |
| Street riding is exactly what it sounds like, the | | | | been the same and whatever new tricks that are |
| players use anything on the street to show their | | | | found are usually based on these ones. |
| skills. Be it walls, banks, rails, gaps or anything that | | | | 1. Air seems to be the most common and most |
| forms an obstacle, the best thing about being a | | | | preferred one. It basically consists of jumping in |
| street freestyler is that there are no limits and no | | | | the air and landing with both legs on the pedal. |
| stopping. However, those who try BMX Street | | | | 2. Bunny hop- making the bike jump off the |
| have a different bike than the other types like | | | | ground without actually performing a jump. |
| Park or Dirt. Firstly, they are the heaviest and | | | | 3. Manual - where freestylers ride with the front |
| strongest types of bikes for these tricks, and | | | | wheel in the air, without pedaling. |
| secondly, they have two or four stunt pegs for | | | | 4. Fakie - It simply consists of riding backwards |
| grinding. In fact, these features make it hard to | | | | 5. Grind - Slithering down any object without using |
| do Park or Dirt with the same bike. | | | | the wheels. |
| Skateparks is the name derived from the parks | | | | 6. Endo - where the bike is stopped with the |
| that are meant for skateboarders, but due to | | | | front wheel and raining the back wheel in the air. |
| scarcity of space, the BMX bikers are forced to | | | | 7. Wallride - riding along a vertical wall or anything |
| practice there. Hence, much of the Saktepark | | | | similar to it. |
| tricks are influenced by the tricks that | | | | There are sub divisions to these tricks, but these |
| skateboarders do. | | | | remain to be the foundation of all freestyling BMX |
| In Vert riding, two players ride on a Vert ramp | | | | tricks. |
| that consists of two 'quarter pipes' that face each | | | | |