Bailing with hang 5's

[Louis K]

I was praticing hang 5's because I was bored. And 10 mins into praticing them I finally learned how to pop them up and then fall back down. Well then I got like a adrenaline rush and kept doing them and finally got them so high I was holding them for like 5 feet and then taking my feet off and bailing like that. Well then I decided "I will go and try it further" So I did it, held it for like 5 feet and totally flipped over the bars, landed on my face and slid all the way down the grass for like 5 feet on my face and then my bike falls flat on my back. It didn't really hurt because my adrenaline was pumping but when I came inside I started to hurt super bad, I got a nice scrape on the side of my knee and small one on my lip and I had a rock in my mouth when I got up. I still have the skid mark my face did outside on the dirt. Thank god I praticed it on dirt/stones before the real cement or I would be even more messed up than now.

Anyway I love doing these now. I will higher my seat soon and then ride again after my shoulder stops hurting I heard a small pop and my shoulder hurts bad right now while typeing. But I was wondering, what is the proper way to bail without the bike falling ontop of you when you do hang 5's? Any tips? Thanks.

[Ante]

I've seen lot of people geting hurt when bailing hang 5's. I only fell on my hands the first time i fell over the bars. You just have to step over the bars with your balancing foot and push the bike behing you. I added the movie of me doing a bail. Try to do something like that...

[Ante]

[Louis K]

Thanks so much! Thanks for that video. I think I did all of that but my foot got hung up on my bars and thats how I fell on my face. But i'll pratice some more tomorrow thanks lots!

[leon_luxton]

Thanks so much! Thanks for that video. I think I did all of that but my foot got hung up on my bars and thats how I fell on my face. But i'll pratice some more tomorrow thanks lots!
haha...thats what happened to me,wOot

[redbone]

did you put your hands in your pockets that you slid on your face for 5 feet without doing anything? you just hop over the bars if you see you're bailing over the bars.

[smay]

how did you make that clip ,.gif thing? ante?

[Ante]

I just exported a movie i have to animated gif using Adobe Premiere.

[Louis K]

did you put your hands in your pockets that you slid on your face for 5 feet without doing anything? you just hop over the bars if you see you're bailing over the bars.

Have you ever actually tryed them? My hands got caught up too somehow and the only way to land was on my face. Its a matter of like .05 secs to react when your hand is tangled up with your grips behind your legs and your legs stuck behind the handle bars. But seriously, have you ever tryed them?

[imnotok]

i tried it on thursday and i hurt myself real bad.i got i poped up and i felt like i was going to fall over so i put my foot down and i was going so fast my frame spun around and my peg tore a chunk out of my leg

[Scorchy]

ouch :o

[reyesjr02]

i tried to bail like that. it ended up with me going over the bars, the pedal hitting my ankle. its swollen now :roll:

[Louis K]

I still fall over the bars like that before. I wear a full face when I pratice it now. It still hurts though but gotta keep praticing.

[description]

Why don't you just try them with a slower speed? then you wont crash so bad and you still ca get them pretty long if you have the balance :wink:

[Scorchy]

i was tryin them again the other day, i got me a nice bruised shin from my pegs, luckily i have bizhouse pegs so the rubber rings wasnt overly painful as full on metal pegs would be :P

[JimboDrofxo]

hmmm...seems like i catcher mask would go a long way on cement, no scars..........................just a thought

[imnotok]

ouch :o
it didnt hurt much,it jut felt like i had a bad bruise.i didnt realy notice it till my mom got pissed off for getting blood on the white carpet

[Louis K]

Why don't you just try them with a slower speed? then you wont crash so bad and you still ca get them pretty long if you have the balance :wink:

I do things better when going faster. Most of the time the outcome is better believe it or not..

[Scorchy]

going faster for hang 5's could end up worse though, gettin the back end up at a fast speed tryin to keep balance seems kinda hard? and a fast bail could hurt more and put u off the trick

[redbone]

double post..

[redbone]

yes, I did tried them. usually I hop over the bars, or if my legs get cought into the bars I fall on my hands. it seems natural to put hands before face when I feel I'm leaning forward too much.
I know it's old topic but whatever :wink:
how are your hang5s steven?

[smay]

word this is all you need dawggy

www.bmxfreestyler.com/sounds/diaryofahang5.mp3

[Louis K]

how are your hang5s steven?

Haven't praticed them since I fell last time. I am working more on 180's and 360 taps now.

[jake2o04]

hehe that song rules

[smay]

yeah the guys liek 38 and still rockin it hardcore. rad dad is the shit www.bmxfreestyler.com

[jake2o04]

ow just racked myself trying a hang 5

[smay]

i still cant do them haha i give up

[rocket]

Check This Out
(im not sure if its the same as what 'Ante' posted cause his link didnt show up for me)

Anyway after you go to http://www.bmxonline.com/bmx/how_to/0,15753,,00.html# click on the link that says "Wednesday How-to: Hang Fives"


Theres some insane Hang 5's toward the end of the video.

[Wotan]

Yeah, nice ones. It looks so simple, but i even canīt pop up the tail for only an inch. Very hard trick.

[jake2o04]

yeah after track yesterday there was some guy next to my bike and we went riding in our school parking lot----he could hang 5 across the whole frggn parking lot.

[Ante]

Try backwords hang 5. Do a squeaker and just kick your self a bit more and try to balance it. Use your brakes if you feel like falling. When you learn that forward hang5 will be much easyer.