[HowTo] Rockwalk [F]

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Article from BMX-Zone.com, http://www.bmx-zone.com/en-article-id-69.html
Translated from german to englisch, Author: Wynex

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Trick Description:

While rolling your spin your bike 360 degrees, starting with 180&deg; on the front wheel and then 180&deg; on the back wheel. This Trick can be done clockwise and anti-clockwise.

Learn before: Endo
HOWTO:

Begin with a slight left turn, followed by a quick right turn...

Keep your body weight leaning to the right side and the lean forward quickly.

... Use your front brake and turn the handlebar about 90&deg; to the right direction.The speed will bring up your back wheel and you turn the bike.

Take advantage of the momentum and keep turning your handlebar to the right side. The bike will follows this movement and keeps turning too.

You can use the feet for assistance to pull the pedals horizontally while spinning. It's easier to make the full 180&deg; that way.

As soon as the back wheel hits the street you pull the back brake....

... and lean back very quickly. Start lifting the front wheel...

... and turn your handlebar to the right side. I

Stretch your legs and try to get some physical tension...



If you did everything right, the rest of the Rockwalk should be very easy.

... - Finished! You can do Rockwalks now.


For most Beginners it's difficult to do the first 180&deg;. Like most tricks, also the Rockwalk is easier if you don't ride to slowly &ndash; at least modearate speed.


And the video:

Rockwalk, 317Kb (divx) (http://../videos/article/BMX-Zone.com_Rockwalk.avi)

Don't forget to wear your helmet when learning this trick!

[Supracondor]

i used to do that all the time just when i was bored and when i had my front brake, i didnt know it was actually a trick?!

[Z0HT]

ive never used brakes for rock walks, but i use to try j-turn with brakes never could do one (and i got hurt often trying them)

[Maiden]

hmm I should try this, on a scale from 1-10 rate the difficulty

[Maiden]

10 being Extremely Difficult, 1 Being Peice of cake

[Maiden]

hmm Not too difficult but i cant seem to get the first 180 i get 90 degrees then either my leg hits the seat and i come down or i come down anyway hmm

[fiend]

Im tempted to put my front brake back on my bike..

[lowcar100]

once i get flat 180's down im gonna get a front brake, i think those look so cool lol.

[fitbikeco909]

can you do them if you dont have a front brake

[Z0HT]

can you do them if you dont have a front brake
absolutly

[Supracondor]

..though it will be Much harder

[FOL]

Me and a friend practised this a long time ago, we didn't get it done. Maybe with the small extra hints form this article we'll get it done again.... I need to get my front brake on and my back brake working decently again though.

I've seen brakeless (front and back!) rockwalks...It just looks...weird...very different. (at least it goes faster)

[Z0HT]

I learnt them without any brakes, you just need to have medium speed probaly a little faster then with brakes (you cannot do them slow as he said), you slightly turn one direction to wind up and then turn quickly to the other direction (near 90 deg, if you turn this much and lean forward your back will come up without brakes) while putting most of your weight on your handle bars to bring up your back tire. then treat it like a 180 endo, it spins by leaning... and then the second 180 on the back tire your handle bars should be turned opposite of the way you first turned them or straight and it almost feels natural to spin back around.

You do the raise and spin very very fast, and then the last 180 can be done slowly for added style.

thats for me at least

[Steve323]

I want a front brake now...

[SkaItUp58]

people people.....your not sopose to use your front brakes....or your bake brakes really.

[Carnage]

can you do them if you dont have a front brake

I learned how to do this brakeless...it's quite an easy trick to learn and it can come in handy if you don't have breaks if you want to stop :)

[mr_tailwhip]

10 being Extremely Difficult, 1 Being Peice of cake

2.5

[EndoToFaceplant]

i get the first 180 on the front wheel and then on back wheel I only do 90 :( ... that's when I'm lucky :)

[Hybrid-Bmx]

pretty easy with both front and back brakes, becomes a bit harder without brakes

[joeshack]

everyone look at hardcore in the background rocking the razor.

[faolangrady]

rockwalks are really fun...esspesialy in street when you do them off of ledges...their kinda scarey but their real fun...and i do them more than regular 180s now....

[Sweetman]

i tried it, and got close, but my front brakes suck nuts plus i dont have the patiance for flatland. thanks anyway it totally inspired me for the short time i was trying it.

[PhoenixBMX]

everyone look at hardcore in the background rocking the razor.
lol......and whats up with ur avatar? myspace spreads AIDS? random lmao :lol:
i can do 180 endos but my back brake's so crap that i cant get the second 180

[faolangrady]

ok you dont need brakes for rockwalks or to come out of fakies because im brakeless....i have no brakes at all....i use my pedal to turn around....

[akuma]

yea i learnt that trick trying to do a g turn 8) well im still learning it (looks cool tho

[asd]

woah! wheres his arm??


I learned those a while ago w.o front brakes. cant do them any more though.. lol.

[JonJon4420]

people people.....your not sopose to use your front brakes....or your bake brakes really.


"supposed to" is a conformist tool life is meant to be lived dont tell me what to use damn **** bushist

never use shouldhave cuz if you should have you would've and never use would've cuz its a precursor for an excuse. never use could've cuz you CAN

[sprocketassasin]

um i do these over my box all the tie but i didnt know its a trick

[jawn]

It's a very old trick, from a time when people sessioned kickturn ramps and did 1 foot 1 hand kickturns.

[jawn]

Actually, on further investigation, it's even older than that, Bob Haro did one for a magazine back in '79.

[ChrisPowell]

lololololol i can do these brakeless theyre really simpel just learn G-turns or nose pivots and then put pressure on the pedal when you get into fakie and turn

[fitbike61]

^ this was back in 05. hardly anyone has front brakes anymore. so everybody does em without brakes, its a standard now.

[dutchidiot]

this trick is really cool to link in stuff try hopping out of a pool, rockwalk and hop (while doing the second pivot) bakc in to the pool. looks pretty cool.

[raisedbyllamas]

Any advice for us guys that dont ride a front brake?

[dutchidiot]

Any advice for us guys that dont ride a front brake?

just practise, treyer perfectly possible and even pretty easy without front brakes, just lean forward, pop you backwheel up and keep turning the bars. look on youtube for clips and watch closely what they do (backwheel pop height, bar turning stuff etc.)

edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK3ci8iuOgY that guys has got em pretty dialed.

[germinator]

I tried this triick but i can get only the first 180 then i just lose balance.........

[germinator]

i used to call this trick a 180 endo i didnt know that this was a rockwalk........thnks

[tjgamer12]

lol......and whats up with ur avatar? myspace spreads AIDS? random lmao :lol:
i can do 180 endos but my back brake's so crap that i cant get the second 180

u dont need a back brake u can just take a crank which is to the same effect.

[Molesrkool]

lol i dint know this was a trick.. i just do it muckign around.

[oddessybmx]

i was just learning this trick when you dont get around on the 180 is there much chance of buckling your rim?

[noblet]

you dont even need to crank it round just use the momentum from the 180 on the nose and slide the front wheel round nicely :)

[fitam08]

i can do em and im 13

[iceman720]

nice how to +rep