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| 360 | Stu Thomsen blew the crowd away at Fountain Valley's grand opening in october 1975 by doing a 360 off a small jump near the track. | Stu Thomsen 1975. |
| 360 tailwhip | Chad Herrington, GO september 1991 : I've landed partially on my bike but I haven't perfectly pulled one yet. Tom Haugen is also almost pulling them in the Baco 4 video, back in 1992. David Frame was pulling Tailwhip 360's at livingston Skatepark in Scotland in 1993. Brian Vowell also pulled 360 tailwhips in 1993. Tom Haugen was pulling 360 tailwhip to x-up at the 2001 X-Games. Dave Osato has pulled an opposite 360 opposite tailwhip over a spine at the Vancouver Metro Jam September 5, 2003. Joey "Whitesnake" Marks has done what he calls a 360 downside double tailwhip. It is basically a decade tailwhip jump. He done it at the 2004 Gravity Games on dirt. Danny Hickerson has done 360 tailwhips over a spine to manual to 180 out. 2005, Cranmer has pulled a cross-footed 360 tailwhip. Jason Perz pulled a 360 double whip over a spine at the Baco Halloween jam in october 2005. Jason Perz july 2006 : i actually pulled my first 3 double on a spine in feb. 2005. Daniel Dhers has done 360 no footed can to tailwhip. Also 360 x-up to tailwhip in 2006. Mike Spinner pulled a 360 triple whip in october 2006 at Dave MirraÕs warehouse. James Foster pulled a a 360 tailwhip to whip back at the april 2008 JoMoPro contest. |
Mike Dominguez 1984. Tom Haugen over a spine 2003. Mike Spinner 360 triple whip october 2006 video. |
| 360... other variations | Kurt Schmidt has done No-handed 360 jump and Rocket 360. Jay Miron 360 superman seatgrab. 360 toboggan by Ryan Nyquist in 1998. |
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| 720 | Oscar Gonzalez, www.vintagebmx.com, may 2006 : 720's go back a long way in nor-cal.......Hugo Gonzales was doing them back in the early 80's. He was doing them off dirt jumps......I know that Mike Krinach, Danny Schow and myself were doing them in 87-88. Dave Voelker and Craig Campbell were the 1st to pull them in a comp. Freestylin november 1987 : Chris Moeller completing a 720 over a double jump ? Tis true... Jay Miron complique la chose en rentrant 720-truckdriver (Schwinn American Muscle video) en juillet 1996 et il a rentré 720-lookdown en octobre 1996. Dave Mirra done a no handed 720 in 2001. Ryan Guettler has done opposite 720s both on dirt and park in 2004. He tried a 720 tailwhip and looked like he has landed them before. 720 whip got pulled at the Portland Dew Tour, august 2006, by Mike Spinner during the Free Flow contest. Mike Spinner, www.dewactionsportstour.com, august 2006 : I landed my first 720 whip maybe a month ago. ItÕs pretty scary, and IÕve never done it on a box this big. That was the fourth one IÕve rolled away from. Steven McCann pulled a no-handed 720 to turndown at the 2006 Dew tour round 4, september 2006. Mike Spinner pulls 720 Double Whip on resi: April 4, 2008. Ryan Nyquist nails first ever double barspin 720 landed in competition during 2008 Dew Tour round 1, june 2008. |
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| 1080 | christhejob, www.radbmx.co.uk : The legend has it Carlo Griggs went to Southsea one night, jumped out of the jump bowl a few times, 1080ed, then went home. no reason not to believe it. Carlo Griggs, june 2003 : I just built a big jump box I guess one of the next Clicked videos in the near future will have me doing one. Its funny how many people ask me if I did one in the early 90s. But yes I did. I have pulled 3 of them this year but its not fun hucking yourself over my big box spining them. Mike Spinner gets his rotation on and pulls Òthe worldÕs first contest 1080Ó over a box at a comp in Wellington, New Zealand, February 11, 2007. |
Mike Spinner february 2007 video. |
| backflip | Jose Yanez 1984 Steve Swope, 1992 : The number of people learning backflips is multiplying faster than hosing down a room full of Gremlins. |
Backflip web page. 1984 ABA Grands film RAD (1986) Jeff Cotter BMX Plus! may 1991. |
| backflip 360 | Zach Shaw 1993 Zach, march 2005 : I came up with the idea after doing the Mansfield Demo with Mat Hoffman in 1990 where he pulled the first flair, it got me thinking that a 540 flair was possible but I had to learn flips first ! ... when I finally got the opportunity to learn flips I started messing with flipping and spinning (on a jump), I could do 180 flips no problem but getting the extra rotation was really hard and I never could get more than flip 270's until I went too the jump at Crowhurst in Hastings. When I first jumped at Crowhurst I realised that this was THE jump i could do it on, I didn't say anything to anyone there and just rode in to try it, the first one i rotated full 360 and landed then my back wheel slid out, the second attempt the same thing happened on the third attempt I landed sideways and blew the spokes out of my back wheel and had the wind taken out of me as I landed on my ribs, this footage is on a rare video called WASTED II, possibly available from Custom Riders in the UK? I vowed to pull the trick the very next weekend ! When I went back to Crowhurst it took me 2 attempts to pull the 360flip (zakflip) which was documented by DIG magazine. Stephen Murray did a turndown-360-flip in 2002 and a turndown to xup 360 flip in 2003. Dave Mirra did a no handed 360 flip in march 2006. |
Zak Shaw 1993 Ride BMX US july02 Angus video |
| backflip barspin | Ryan Nyquist pulled it first. He has also done suicide no hander to barspin backflip, and double barspin backflips. | |
| backflip tailwhip | Mat Hoffman almost pulled one in 1993 and Adam Strieby did it in 2001. Scotty Cranmer has pulled double tailwhip backflips in 2004. Cameron White pulled a barspin-to-tailwhip backflip at the 2007 Dew tour round 4, september 2007. FatTony, www.ridebmx.com, August 18th, 2008: Anthony Napolitan tried to do a triple whip flip over the 50-foot jump during Big Air at X Games a few weeks ago and just this week he actually landed one on the resi ramp at Woodward. |
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| backflip... other variations | Mat Hoffman has done no handed backflip jump. Jay Miron rentre no-footed backflip en mai 1992 puis no hand to no foot backflip en juillet 1996. Dennis McCoy unveiled an amazing no-footed cancan backflip for his last trick during the 1997 X-Games. One footed xup backflip by Todd Lyons in 1996 Lookbackflip by Chris Hallman in Props 14 1996 An unknown rider did a superman backflip in 1997 at the bmx worlds in Holland. Backflip nothing by Adam Strieby in 2002 No-handed to turndown backflip Stephen Murray 2002. |
Backflip x-up one foot by Todd Lyons in 1996. Backflip no hand by Cyril Dangeul in 1997 Backflip superman by Alan Cooke in 2003 |
| barrel roll | Barrel roll tailwhip by Chris Hughes, december 2007. | Barrel roll tailwhip by Chris Hughes. |
| barspin | In today fast-paced BMX world, the busdriver has transformed intothe barspin.
Instead of following the bars around with a hand like the original busdriver, riders now throw
the bars to get the spin. No-footed barspin by Dennis McCoy in 1992. Paul Roberts is doing a barspin to no-hander lander out of a bowl in the Ride from december 1993. Duncan has pulled a quad-barspin at the Panasonic King of Dirt, LA County Fair, september 2000. |
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| bike flip | Brad Blanchard was attempting bikeflips in 1989. The Brad Blanchard bikeflip had been a complete huck-and-hope until 2004. Senad Grosic laid claim to the trick over a box and Morgan Wade let one fly over the spine during the X-Games X in Los Angeles. Morgan Wade, Ride BMX US, december 2004 : Nathan Wessel was trying it on the vert ramp and I thought it was pretty cool. He said, "Why don't you try it?" so I tried it twice in the foam. Once I threw the bike away and I thought it wasn't going to work, but then Nate said something about how to throw the bike. I tried again and pretty much landed on the pedals in the foam. I just wanted to see how it felt, because I had never tried it before. Fifteen minutes later I pulled it on the resi and 15 minutes after that I pulled it on the box to pedals. It's way easier over the spine. It's just a little bit of a low awkward landing, that's all. You don't jump forward: you just go straight up, do it, and go straight down. Going over the box you have to drift over the whole deck, so it makes it a little difficult to get the rotation right. When I first learned it I had both gloves on and it was working since my grips were worn in real well. But then when I put new grips on I couldn't do the trick anymore because my hands were sticking to my grips. I went to get a drink of water and a light bulb went off in my head. I put my hands under the fountain, got my gloves soaking wet, and then pulled it first try. So that's the key-get your gloves wet, with new grips, anyway. Eventually I took the gloves off and just got my hand wet. Sweat works better. anyway, because it doesn't dry out as fast as water. I tried a 360 bikeflip into the foam, but it didn't work out. It seems like you could try a regular three and come around like a three-whip. I don't know how you'd hang onto the bike. Morgan Wade superman bikeflip 2005. Zack Warden was close pulling 360 bike flip at the 2007 Dew in Baltimore |
Morgan Wade 2004. |
| busdriver | 360 bar spin by Jeremy Alder in Spring of 1988. Jeremy Alder, august 2007 : A guy names Saber would go around saying all kinds of stuff. Stuf that would lader prove to be lies. He would say he pulled a trick when no one was looking and we would say do it again and he would say no. I/we would get frustrated with his lies. I had seen Todd Anderson (redline) do a 1/2 barspin airs and I loved them. I learned to do them and put them in to contest routines. Sabre having to out do me and in his lies said he could do 360 barspins. He always said he could do them and when asked to do it he always declined. Even at contests he would NOT do them. I/we would get so mad at his lies so out of frustration, I thought about and was tempted to do them. I thought how it would work in the air. I was convinced that I could do it but the risk factor scared me. One week in March of 1988, my brother and I went to spend a week at Rick Moliterno's house (I rode for Haro and was teamates with Rick at that time.). We rode and had a great time with him and when we returned home then next day was a local contest at the Anne Arundel county fairgrounds. So me and my bro's went. At that contest there was no one to compete against me in my class. The guy who runs the event asked me to do a little demo after the contest was over. I was a sucker for showing off...so I said yes. There I did a run with all my best tricks like 540's (4 feet out), 360 abubaca's, hop drops, front hops to backwards drop-ins and some airs. The run into the quarter pipe was short and so big airs were limited to speed and endurance. My bro was announcing to the crowd as if it was a show and then when I was done asked the crowd if they wanded to see me do a 360 barspin. The crowd cheered loud and so I took a couple practice tries and then signed that I was going to attempted the barspin. The first time I tried it I almost got both hands on and crashed, but I knew at that point I could do it. The second attempt I pulled it and tried it a third time and when I grabed the bars I also put on th rear brake and my weight went to far forward and I fell after I rode off the bottom of the ramp and then pulled my forth attempt. I have all this on video and a guy was taking still pictures of this and sent one onto Freestylin' mag and it was published in the next mag. I do not remember off the top of my head what issue, but I do have a copy. Thats the story. Sabre was not at that contest and I never saw him again... Chris Moeller did busdriver in 1989 at an ABA National race in Reno Nevada. He was already doing x-ups and one handed x-ups, so he figured, why not going all the way around ? Although he had already done them off picnic tables, his first busdriver on dirt was at this race and he pulled the first one. |
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| cancan | Dave Cullinan 1988. | |
| cancan nothing | Chad Herrington 1992 | Ryan Nyquist no foot cancan nothing 2004. |
| canonball | Double Seatgrab Toboggan by Thomas Stellwag in 1998. Ryan Nyquist unveiled the powerball during 2008 Dew Tour round 1, june 2008. It's a cannonball (no-footed double seat grab) with a double barspin. |
Adam Strieby 2000. |
| crankflip | John luc-e Englebert 1992 | Ride BMX US july 2001. |
| decade | Superman decade by Reuel Erickson in 1998. | Reuel Erickson 2002. |
| double backflip | Bob Kohl 1992 (attempt) Jay Miron october 1996 (pulled). Chris Clanton had pulled a double backflip no hand in Woodward in 2006. |
Backflip web page. No-handed double backflip video. |
| drano | Body varial. In 1993, Chad Herrington is doing nothing seat grab body varial. |
Jeff Harris 1991 |
| frontflip | Joe Sandilands pulled the first frontflip. Scotty Cranmer has pulled a frontflip turndown in 2005. Ryan Guettler tried a frontflip tailwhip on Mellow Park Contest in Berlin in 2005. Morgan Wade tried a no handed front flip at X Games 11 (2005). He didn't land it but may have previously. Scotty Cranmer pulled no footed frontflip in his homepark in 2005. Daniel Dhers pulled a front flip over a spine at the Baco Halloween jam in october 2005. He carved a large distance sideways to make it happen. Seriously twisted looking. Scotty Cranmer pulled a frontflip tailwhip in september 2007. January 2008, Chris Jones gets close of a double frontflip on dirt. October 2008, Dan Sieg pulled a double barspin frontflip over the giant jump in front of The Unit. |
Freedom #2 Joe Sandilands 1993 |
| indian air | Indian air seat grab on the cover of Spokesmen #2 summer 2000 Andre Ellison 2000. |
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| nac nac | Will Smith1987. Le nom comme la figure est le verlan de can can. |
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| no foot cancan | Ryan Nyquist landed a nothing no footed can can to barspin at X-games 99 on dirt. Ryan Nyquist has pulled a barspin no foot cancan in june 2006. |
Brian Foster 1995 Steve McCann no foot cancan one hand 1999. |
| no footer one hander | Possibly one of the looniest dirt jumpers EVER was "Trash Can" Morgan. He was the ultimate thrasher, responsible for trash canning many a bike and also the first person to ever pull off a no-footer one hander. | Morgan 1981. Chris Moeller 1987. |
| no hander | There's a picture of Anthony Sewell doing a no hander way ahead of its time in BMX Plus! magazine july 1981. | Bicross magazine october 1983 cover. |
| nothing | Chris Moeller was pulling them back in 1987. Chad Herrington is doing many nothing variations in Ride On video. |
Chris Moeller BMX Action april 1988. Nothing seat grab Chad Herrington 1995. Dave Voelker 1997. |
| one footer | BMX Action, may 1979 issue featured a small pictorial on Timmy Judge. "The Judge," who had some pretty hefty NBL titles from back east and was full-factory Thruster, did the unthinkable. Well, maybe thinkable, but never done before-a one-footer. Fiola and you guys... you know who to thank. | Tim Judge, Thruster factory rider, doing his famous one-footer on the cover of BMX Action october 1979. |
| one footed x-up | Cover of BMX Plus! july 1983. Ron Wilkerson 1988. |
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| one hander | Mike Poulson on the cover of BMX Plus! june 1982. | |
| superman | Bob Kohl was doing them on ramps back in 1987. Ron Wilkerson superman on dirt sequence in BMX Action may 1988. No handed Superman by John Parker in 1993. Superman seatgrab busdriver by Joe ÒButcherÓ Kowalski in 1996. |
Ron Wilkerson in BMX Action may 1988. Cyril Dangeul 1997 Alan Cooke 2000. Superman nothing 2000. TJ Lavin superman nothing 2002. |
| suicide | Mike Parenti 2003. | |
| tabletop | Despite rumors that Johnny Tabletop first did it in 1968, the first tabletop ever recorded on film was of David Clinton on his Kawasaki at Saddleback. The date? July, 1975. One footed TableTop by Timmy Judge in 1980. Brad McDonald, www.vitalbmx.com, september 2006 : My foggy memory is that a Judge was originally a lookback, but Harry Leary claimed the trick (The Leary), so Tim Judge found something new to claim (a one-footed table). At least that's how I remember BMX Action presenting it. Seems hard to believe that someone could claim to invent the one-footed tabletop, but I guess someone had to be first. I'm sure being sponsored by Hutch or Diambondback back then helped with "naming rights" for tricks. |
David Clinton 1975. Matt Hadan, one-footed, 1990. |
| tailwhip | Darren Whitfield, www.radbmx.co.uk, may 2007 : I'm from Barnsley in South Yorkshire. Many may dispute this but I THINK (and if I'm wrong don't jump on me) I invented the Tailwhip Jump. Southsea Skatepark around 83 I was trying to do a Can Can jump out of the bowl just in front of the main key hole bowl that everyone jumps out of. As I was practicing them my foot slipped off the other pedal as I stepped over the frame and the frame unintentionally spun round which gave me the idea. Next time I tried to do it and I meant to kick the frame round but didn't get my feet back on the pedals. Anyway, after many attempts I managed to get my feet back on the pedals and ride out which I think was probably one of the first Tailwhip Jumps. Albeit not as high or as stylish as they do it these days. Jess Dyrenforth did witness it if he remembers but no photographer was there at the time so you only have mine, Dave Slade's and Jess D's word for it. I did learn it in one day and I did again many times after. However, because I wasn't a high profile rider no big deal was made of it. Action Bike rarely ventured up north as many will testify so after doing it at Southsea no one else would see me when I got back home. Mat Hoffman was pulling them on dirt in 1990. Taj Mihelich had the one handed version down first. Dave Osato did superman tailwhip at the 1997 worlds in Netherland. Allan Cooke has done opposite tailwhips in 2001. Was he the first ? 2005, Scotty Cranmer has pulled a turndown to tailwhip. Morgan Wade superman double whip 2005. James Foster pulled a triple tailwhip at the RedBull Elevation contest in august 2005. Matt Sparks has landed a tailwhip to tailwhip back in october 2006. Mike Spinner pulls quadruple tailwhip on the resi at Dave Mirra's warehouse in Greenville, North Carolina, July 5, 2008. |
Go august 1990 Blackjack, FISE 2002 x-up tailwhip. Mike Spinner quad july 2008. |
| tailwhip to barspin | Colin MacKay, Ride BMX UK #56 december 2001 : I'd like to think I did tailwhip to barspin first. | |
| toboggan | Toboggan by Jeff Tabbachi in 1986. | Jeff Tabbachi on the cover of BMX Action september 1987. |
| truckdriver | Double truckdriver Dennis McCoy and Jay Miron 1993. Ryan Nyquist has done Truckdriver to x-up one foot, Triple Truckdriver, Triple Backtrailer (bus to bus back to bus) and double barspin to barspin back 360 in 1997. Duncan has pulled a quad-truckdriver at the Panasonic King of Dirt, LA County Fair, september 2000. Danny Hickerson has done truck drivers over a spine landing in a manual to 180 out in 2004. Ben Hennnon pulled a truckdriver to whip at the 2005 Backyard jam. James Foster pulled a truck-to-downside-whip during Dirt qualifiers at the Dew Tour round 3, august 2006. Jeremiah Smith pulled a a Truck to tuck no-hander at the april 2008 JoMoPro. |
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| turndown | Harry Leary invented them in the 70's. His first pic of a Turndown is in BMX Weekly October 1976. Cette figure est d'ailleurs parfois appelée un leary. |
BMX Action july 1979 Harry Leary. BMXup #11 mars 1998. |
| x-up | Less commonly known as a Cross Up, the x-up is one of the oldest tricks in Bike Stunt. During the early days ('70s), it was the radical jump. It's called an X-Up because when you do it, your arms form an X. There is also a variation called an X-Down, which is turning an X-Up the opposite way you normally would. | RL Osborn (?) 1977. |
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