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1.Bar spin

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--Begin by rolling at a slow speed with your left foot on the left pedal and your right foot on the right rear peg.  You should be holding the handlebars normally. 
--Practice by leaning back in a quick motion and squeezing the seat slightly between your legs.  The seat should hit your left leg right around the knee and your right leg about your thigh. 
--When you lean back quickly squeeze the seat and lift the front end of the bike.  You don't need to take your hands off the bars or even get the front wheel more than an inch off the ground- ALL you are trying to do is learn how to unweight the front of the bike. 
--When you are comfortable with this you should do a barspin... 
--Do this by riding as you were- slowly... one foot on the pedal- the other on the rear peg. 
--Now take your LEFT hand and put it on the right grip- palm up.  That is, twist your left hand 180 degrees counterclockwise so that the top of your hand is pointed towards the ground. 
--Now turn slightly to the right and while you are turning snap the bars around clockwise 180 degrees.  RIGHT before you spin the bars throw your weight slightly backwards as you had practiced before. 
--Congratulations you have just performed a barspin. 
--Repeat this process with the bars backward to get them to face the right way again.

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--Begin by rolling at a slow/medium pace.  Not to slow- but fast enough that you will coast for a while without pedalling. 
--You should be standing normally on the pedals holding the grips... 
--JUMP
--Jump off the pedals and using your arms to push your weight up high- jump over the handlebars. 
--To help with clearing the bars you should pull your knees up to your chest as high as you can.  don't try to land on the pegs till you get the hang of it!
--Aim for the ground in front of your bike...  Once you have the jump perfected you must learn the 'handlebar ride' part of the trick... 
--Sit on the handlebars and coast.  This is something you can learn several different ways and should probably have pretty dialed before you try barhopping into it- 
--To help learn to balance reach back with one of your hands and hold onto the seat to steer with. 
--To keep your speed up kick the top of the front tire forward with your feet.  This will keep you from losing to much speed. 
--Eventually you should take your hand off the seat and adjust your weight a tiny bit from side to side to maintain your balance.  DEPENDING on who you are you may find this easier to do with your hands off the grips- or on the grips- it does not matter.  As long as you are just sitting on the handlebars. 
--To ride out snap your legs up and back. 
--As with riding in you want to put ALL your weight on your arms and tuck your knees as CLOSE to your chest as possible so that you clear the bars. 
--When you have done this a few times aim for the pedals and land both feet on them at the same time and ride away.

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4.Bunny hop

--Begin by rolling at any speed. probably a good speed to learn the trick is slow so if you case it you won't get hurt.
--DO THE TRICK  IN A VERY QUICK AND SMOOTH MOTION!
--Lean down and back on the bike- slightly behind your seat. Pulling back on the handlebars to get the front wheel of the bike off the ground. The higher you can get the front wheel at this point the higher you will usually be able to go.don't pull back to far!!!!! NOTE: This is just like pulling up for a wheelie!
--Make SURE your weight is back when you try this next part. If your weight is to far forward you will nose dive and could even go OVER the handlebars...
--When the front wheel has peaked out shoot your body straight up and a little bit forward. Do this by pushing down on the pedals and pulling on the bars. In a split second your weight is travelling upwards.  BASICALLY YOU ARE JUMPING.  With the front wheel in the air already you do not have to lift the full weight of the bike when you end up lifting it.  But you must lunge (jump) upwards as quickly as possible.  This will REALLY affect your height.
--As your body is now travelling upwards, lock your feet against the pedals (see note below) and lift the bike off the ground. HUH? How do you lift the bike?  By pressing down and slightly backwards on the pedals you can grip them.  You don't put your WEIGHT on the pedals...  you have your feet at an angle and pull UP with your feet.   This is the HARDEST part of the trick.  Do NOT think it will come in a day... or even a week.  Once you can do it do NOT expect to be able to get a foot of the ground... MAYBE a few inches...  But height will take practice...  
--To get really high....  Because you have extended your legs when snapping upwards you should bend your knees and tuck the bike in as close to your body as possible to get the maximum height. 
--Riding out isn't a problem- just let gravity do its thing.

5.Pogo

--Begin by rolling at a VERY slow speed while holding the grips normally and standing on the rear pegs. 
--Do a SMALL endo (about an inch or two high) while grabbing both your front and rear brakes hard. 
--When the back of the bike hits the ground lean back far enough so that the front wheel comes up off the ground and toward you. 
--Bend your elbows to help bring the bike closer to you and begin hopping on the back wheel. 
--This sounds EASY- but it can be very challenging at first. 
--If you JUMP while standing on the pegs you will jump OFF the pegs and the bike will stay on the ground and will fall over. 
--You MUST use your arms and your feet to help lift the bike off the ground and put it underneath of you to maintain your balance like a pogo stick. 
--This is hard to explain so you will have to try it for several days to get the feel for it...  But to lift you shoot your body upward and instead of letting your arms push away from the bars you pull UPWARD (toward the sky) on your handlebars.  This will pull the bike UP into your feet and off the ground as your jump. 
--To keep your balance you must learn to PUT THE BIKE WHERE YOU WANT IT... 
--For example- if you are falling to your left- you are leaning left... don't try to jump RIGHT- this will only lean the bike further to the LEFT... 
--You must jump to the left and put the BOTTOM half of the bike futher to the left then the top half of the bike.  That is you shift your feet under you. 
--It is the same thing as leaning forward to jump and landing leaning backward. (like long jumpers do) 
--To ride out you just lean forward and as soon as the front wheel hits the ground you release the brakes and coast forward.  Step to the pedals.

6.Tailwhip

--While rolling at a slow pace with both feet either on the pegs OR pedals bring your left foot over the top tube (so both feet are now on the same side of the bike) and JAM it between the fork and the top of your front tire sideways (big toe towards the front of the bike) and at the same time grab both your front and rear brakes (this is shown very well in the video!).  Sideways means about an inch behind your big toe so the ball of your foot will be on the tire when the frame spins around. 
--As soon as your foot is jammed in, kick  the frame around. 
 --when you kick the frame! Weave slightly into the trick.  If you are just turning the bike to the right when you stick your foot in the tire it gives the bike some momentum.  Then KICK means TWIST your hips sharply and PUSH the bike to the left and forward.  Don't really kick the frame in a quick motion like a soccer ball it is more like a push.   If you twist your hips then you can REALLY get your weight into it and it will allow you to keep your foot pushing the frame around longer. 
--Now that the frame is going around put all of your weight on your left foot on the tire and bring your right foot around to catch the frame.  The hard part of this trick is to learn to get your weight centered over the front wheel.  If you kick the frame around instead of pushing it (as described above) then you will really be in trouble for learning this trick until you learn to push the frame around. 
--Your right foot, which will be catching the frame doesn't do anything besides hang out waiting for the frame to come around.  Typically  you push so far with your right foot that while the frame is going around you are bringing your right foot into the position to catch the frame- but mostly it just dangles in the air helping you balance. 
--Put your right foot on top of the top tube as soon as you can reach it with your foot.  Don't over stretch, but you can actually stick your foot about 1/4th the way around the frame and pull yourself out of the trick or pull the frame the rest of the way around sometimes... try not to make it your habit. 
--As soon as the rear wheel hits the ground and your weight is over the bike pull your foot out from the tire and release the brakes as your left foot steps down on the pedal.