You can already barspin (you aren’t allowed to look at TCU unless you can barspin, please leave and never come back if you can’t) but there are plenty of kids out there that can’t. For those poor souls, former TCU interview subject Adam LZ made an updated version of his viral barspin hit.
Take some tips from Mark Mulville on how to get started doing and dipping toboggans. He gives you some good info about setting up for it, taking your hand off and getting it nosed in. And no matter how many times I see Mark do a bar to tbog, it still looks so good!
Danny Josa gives a thorough break down of how to snap inverts in this new how to video. With the aid of Danny’s tips, a quarter pipe, and some practice hopefully you’ll have some luck learning this classic ramp riding trick.
Take some tips from Sean Moor on how to dial in icepick to hop overs on a flat rail. And can we all agree that 60p footage looks incredibly awkward?
Here is our latest how to featuring the famed, glasses wearing freak of nature, Craig Passero teaching you to 180 barspin. Anyone who knows Craig knows that he doesn’t talk too much and doesn’t give a fuck about being on camera but we got him to spit some reality about this barspin world of ours. Enjoy!
In honor of the holiday season, we got Brian Kachinsky to teach you the ways of the coveted nollie. Did you know Brian could nollie bar? I didn’t. And I did know that he nollied into the mighty El Toro but it was nice to see that again in here. Happy nollie days!
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I think it’s common knowledge that when filming a How To, one should use fun, light hearted music. One should avoid using swear words. And one should do everything possible to maintain a sense of professionalism. Fortunately, this is The Come Up where we don’t care about any of those things. So here we have Tony Hamlin saying the F word 80 times to a death metal soundtrack while trying to teach you the ways of the 180 down whip. Fuck, fuck, shit, poop.
The latest Pro Tip from Relentless Energy comes courtesy of Lima, teaching you to disaster 180. He breaks it down pretty well, offering up a couple of different ways to do them, so have a watch then head to your nearest quarterpipe and give them a try.
This is our 11th TCU How To and to celebrate such a delightful palindrome, I decided to teach the BMX world one of my favorite tricks, the kickflip. The kickflip has seen it’s popularity go up and down over the years but I’ve always been a fan. I tried to communicate some of the intrinsic benefits of the kickflip in this how to, filmed at our beloved MLK skatepark. Stickers and shirts are available in The Come Up’s online store.
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Take some tips from Harry Main, Chuck Berry and Michael J. Fox on how to do tuck no handers. “Who’s Johnny?” “Don’t worry about it.”
Eric Bahlman is definitely the dude to be learning fakie hop inverts from, cause nobody does them better than him. Even if you aren’t interested in the how to, definitely watch the video to see Eric working inverts into a couple of really rad clips at the end!
For this week’s Friday Flick Eastern and Josh Perry came through with a dialed how-to for footjam toothpicks. Instead of just showing one clip over and over with the rider struggling to convey the nuances of what it takes to get it done, Josh gives you some really good insight about how to set up, lock in and practice this trick.
Here’s our latest how to featuring Broc Raiford demonstrating the coveted nose manual. He gives a pretty in depth analysis and Mastroni used Fat Trel’s “White Cocaine”, which is perfectly fitting for Broc, who is Straight Edge. If you’ve missed any of our recent how to’s, make sure to check out hop 360′s with Kareem Williams, icepick 180′s with Jake Seeley and feeble hard 180′s with Drew Hosselton.
For the latest installment of Ride’s how-to’s, Tony Hamlin gives you a really good breakdown on one footed tables that will keep your bars from getting tangled in your shirt and have you rolling away clean.