Behind my Handlebars - GoPro BMX Calling the Shots

The Art of Riding: A Session with Adam

As we sat on our bikes, ready to take on the day, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and nervousness. The goal was to ride as smoothly as possible, to take each trick and turn it into an art form. We started off by cruising around, getting comfortable with the bike's handling and making sure everything was in working order.

At one point, we found ourselves on the box, a feature that offered a unique opportunity for riders to show off their skills. The trick required precision and control, but I felt like it wasn't quite coming together as planned. "I feel like that one was kind of ugly too," I said to Marcel, my friend and fellow rider. He nodded in agreement, and we both knew that we would need to try again.

As we continued on our ride, we came across a double peg down feature. The trick required me to balance on the bike while navigating through a narrow opening, but I was struggling to get it right. "I go too slow," I said, frustrated with my performance. Marcel encouraged me to keep trying, reminding me that practice makes perfect.

We also tried out a nose bunk down ledge, which was a challenging trick that required a lot of skill and control. When I finally managed to pull it off, I felt a sense of pride and accomplishment. "I just broke like a thousand spokes," I said, laughing at my mistake. Marcel chuckled along with me, and we both knew that it was all part of the learning process.

As we rode on, we came across a technical line that I had been working on. It required precision and control to navigate through a series of tight turns and jumps, but I was determined to get it right. "I'm going to do that first try," I said, confidently. However, when I attempted the trick, I realized that it wasn't quite as easy as I thought. Marcel's advice to take it slow and careful proved to be wise words.

The rest of our ride was filled with various tricks and features, each one presenting a new challenge and opportunity for growth. At one point, we stopped at a ledge and discussed the possibility of doing a nose mail drop down manual 180. "I'm going to wait for this wind to die down a little bit," I said, as we waited for the right moment to attempt the trick.

One of our friends asked me if I had gone to Canada with my girlfriend Lauren, but I corrected him that her name is actually Nicole. It's always good to set the record straight and make sure everyone knows the correct information. As we continued on our ride, we came across a gap and decided to attempt a bar manual down there.

As the session drew to a close, we took one final trick, a feble hard 360. The bike's power and responsiveness were put to the test as I attempted to execute the trick perfectly. When it worked out, I felt a sense of excitement and satisfaction, but when it didn't, I couldn't help but feel frustrated.

We ended our ride with a full Cab bar in the bank, which was a challenging trick that required precision and control. As we came to a stop, Chad yelled out "D's going to call out the last trick," signaling that we were almost done. The final trick was a nose press to Smith, followed by a double peg fakey off. When I finally managed to pull it off, I felt a sense of accomplishment and pride.

As we wrapped up our ride, I thanked everyone for calling out the tricks and participating in the session. We had a great time riding together and sharing our passion for the sport with each other. It was clear that everyone was excited about the new idea we had tried out and were eager to see more content like this in the future.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: ensup guys this is my boy Marcel and he's going to explain what we're doing here today all right uh we're going to calling shots at we skate park we're doing calling the shots but it's going to be a little bit different because everything's going to be first person we got all the homies out here going to call out tricks and we're going to do it all first person be good H I love you all right Marcel first trick what do you want Smith hard God you picked the worst first trick okay we're going to call A Smith hard 180 we'll do a Smith hard 1880 bar later maybe okay all right we're going to give a nice lofty one for Marcel all right Ryan Baker what do you want to see all right guys what's up I want to see a foot whip on this quarter okay that's still pretty big excuse me pardon me I'm coming behind you foot this thing now all right what do you want to see I want to see a feeble hard 180 half cab bar into the bank got it yay this is one I know I can do all right what do you want to see Punk feble up hard one bar hard one okay I can do that I can do that I've actually never done this one up a hubba but I can do it on a flat ledge so I can't think you would be too difficult H oh uh back to the ledge no freaking heck man freaking heck coming around coming around town can you backwards menu yeah hop onto the Pentagon back or 180 onto the Pentagon backwards menu man okay backwards manual backwards manual that's cool that's cool 180 bar the pyramid to FY whip look at my eyes not the camera I'm just I'm kidding whoa ah oh I hit my heels so hard that hurt I'm talking about boys your table the hip let's go I can go fast finally this is my favorite hip because I can literally just go mock 10 at it and just power pump everything woo cruise that bowl we'll do first first person texting Nicole right now oh crap everyone knows my code now what you want to see I want to see a tabog on the hip to 270 on the box got you I feel like that one was kind of ugly too whatever we'll take it all right Marcel what you want to see backwards double Peg down in the why you yelling at me man I go too slow I go too slow I remember the day freaking slow I want to try to do it you know when like they nose bunk down the ledge I want to try that wow I just broke like a thousand spokes we freaking heck man we broke them they're all broken all 500 all right Marcel you know that tech line that I do every single time that I come here with the bar manual no smithing I'm going to do that first try no I'll try it's not going to be first try watch out Marcel whoa whoa whoa oh okay hold on come on Town yes bring it around Bring It Around come back come back to me come back to me where we going where we going where we head it where we head it a actually yeah not kind of really oh that's me hey add me in Snapchat adamlz this is me checking how many of you guys like the latest howto I wonder how many guys have liked this video that you're watching right now they're all looking me like I'm weird woo oh score multiplier oh wait he not finished he not finish hey Adam do a hang five okay I'm not really that good at hang fives but I do them once in a while cuz they remind me of Cody who's like my best friend for back home and I miss him but I'll see him soon no cases for Cody only kisses oh wow yo guys I want to see Adam do a nose mail drop down manual 180 got that I'm might even do a switch we'll see oh we going to see switch now we might we might wow oh God that was terrible oh I want to see a gap to Bar manual down there got it I'm going to wait for this wind to die down a little bit this guy just asked me if I went to Canada with Lauren you know my girlfriend's name is Nicole right dud even my haters know my girlfriend's name I don't watch your you're not a true hater and you're not a true fan what are you there's no in between yo you burn some rubber in this thing oh my God you got enough power to burn some rubber in this thing I might I might yeah I might all right let's see let's see I'm calling the shots for you now oh boy that curb came on real quick real quick I'm going to call one out for myself I'm going to do a feble hard 360 watch out kid who doesn't know my fiance's name wow all right going to keep it going keep it going in here I want to see this 2 360 boys ew was yucky I want to see the nose press to Smith oh my God so you got to do the nose Bon Smith uhhuh and then you got to go double Peg fakey off that thing over there uh-huh uh-huh okay that's how it is uh-huh woo all right D's going to call out the last trick we're going to do for today make it tough Nolly bar manual uh feeble manual 180 full Cab Bar in the bank okay Chad yo we only have 5 minutes left so I don't want to push my luck and screw up on that full cap bar so I'm just going to do full cap instead okay I'm done down all right we'll take that we'll take that all right guys all right all right we're going to take it as the session's over later guys thank you for calling out all the tricks see you next time take a road be safe it be sick to see there you should go for it sweet man get how was this drive all the way H it was good until broke a rocker arm that was like the smoothness though oh it was good it was good he has not bad it's loud but it's okay it's tolerable see you see you L man piure oh okay later Marcel you put my steering wheel in can't get in with that thing in my knees are too big really comfortable later all right guys so I just wanted to thank you for watching and be sure to let me know if you like this type of video it's kind of a new idea that we just randomly got and then I wanted to try out so let me know if you like it and I'll try to do more make them better today we're going to teach you guys how to do a manual all right so one of the first things you guys want to know is how to get comfortable flipping back cuz if you don't know how to flip back dip your knees in and ease it back nice and easy make sure your arms are straight over your seatsup guys this is my boy Marcel and he's going to explain what we're doing here today all right uh we're going to calling shots at we skate park we're doing calling the shots but it's going to be a little bit different because everything's going to be first person we got all the homies out here going to call out tricks and we're going to do it all first person be good H I love you all right Marcel first trick what do you want Smith hard God you picked the worst first trick okay we're going to call A Smith hard 180 we'll do a Smith hard 1880 bar later maybe okay all right we're going to give a nice lofty one for Marcel all right Ryan Baker what do you want to see all right guys what's up I want to see a foot whip on this quarter okay that's still pretty big excuse me pardon me I'm coming behind you foot this thing now all right what do you want to see I want to see a feeble hard 180 half cab bar into the bank got it yay this is one I know I can do all right what do you want to see Punk feble up hard one bar hard one okay I can do that I can do that I've actually never done this one up a hubba but I can do it on a flat ledge so I can't think you would be too difficult H oh uh back to the ledge no freaking heck man freaking heck coming around coming around town can you backwards menu yeah hop onto the Pentagon back or 180 onto the Pentagon backwards menu man okay backwards manual backwards manual that's cool that's cool 180 bar the pyramid to FY whip look at my eyes not the camera I'm just I'm kidding whoa ah oh I hit my heels so hard that hurt I'm talking about boys your table the hip let's go I can go fast finally this is my favorite hip because I can literally just go mock 10 at it and just power pump everything woo cruise that bowl we'll do first first person texting Nicole right now oh crap everyone knows my code now what you want to see I want to see a tabog on the hip to 270 on the box got you I feel like that one was kind of ugly too whatever we'll take it all right Marcel what you want to see backwards double Peg down in the why you yelling at me man I go too slow I go too slow I remember the day freaking slow I want to try to do it you know when like they nose bunk down the ledge I want to try that wow I just broke like a thousand spokes we freaking heck man we broke them they're all broken all 500 all right Marcel you know that tech line that I do every single time that I come here with the bar manual no smithing I'm going to do that first try no I'll try it's not going to be first try watch out Marcel whoa whoa whoa oh okay hold on come on Town yes bring it around Bring It Around come back come back to me come back to me where we going where we going where we head it where we head it a actually yeah not kind of really oh that's me hey add me in Snapchat adamlz this is me checking how many of you guys like the latest howto I wonder how many guys have liked this video that you're watching right now they're all looking me like I'm weird woo oh score multiplier oh wait he not finished he not finish hey Adam do a hang five okay I'm not really that good at hang fives but I do them once in a while cuz they remind me of Cody who's like my best friend for back home and I miss him but I'll see him soon no cases for Cody only kisses oh wow yo guys I want to see Adam do a nose mail drop down manual 180 got that I'm might even do a switch we'll see oh we going to see switch now we might we might wow oh God that was terrible oh I want to see a gap to Bar manual down there got it I'm going to wait for this wind to die down a little bit this guy just asked me if I went to Canada with Lauren you know my girlfriend's name is Nicole right dud even my haters know my girlfriend's name I don't watch your you're not a true hater and you're not a true fan what are you there's no in between yo you burn some rubber in this thing oh my God you got enough power to burn some rubber in this thing I might I might yeah I might all right let's see let's see I'm calling the shots for you now oh boy that curb came on real quick real quick I'm going to call one out for myself I'm going to do a feble hard 360 watch out kid who doesn't know my fiance's name wow all right going to keep it going keep it going in here I want to see this 2 360 boys ew was yucky I want to see the nose press to Smith oh my God so you got to do the nose Bon Smith uhhuh and then you got to go double Peg fakey off that thing over there uh-huh uh-huh okay that's how it is uh-huh woo all right D's going to call out the last trick we're going to do for today make it tough Nolly bar manual uh feeble manual 180 full Cab Bar in the bank okay Chad yo we only have 5 minutes left so I don't want to push my luck and screw up on that full cap bar so I'm just going to do full cap instead okay I'm done down all right we'll take that we'll take that all right guys all right all right we're going to take it as the session's over later guys thank you for calling out all the tricks see you next time take a road be safe it be sick to see there you should go for it sweet man get how was this drive all the way H it was good until broke a rocker arm that was like the smoothness though oh it was good it was good he has not bad it's loud but it's okay it's tolerable see you see you L man piure oh okay later Marcel you put my steering wheel in can't get in with that thing in my knees are too big really comfortable later all right guys so I just wanted to thank you for watching and be sure to let me know if you like this type of video it's kind of a new idea that we just randomly got and then I wanted to try out so let me know if you like it and I'll try to do more make them better today we're going to teach you guys how to do a manual all right so one of the first things you guys want to know is how to get comfortable flipping back cuz if you don't know how to flip back dip your knees in and ease it back nice and easy make sure your arms are straight over your seat\n"