What is a Tail Tap BMX Bike Trick?

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The "Tail tap" is one of the elementary deck tricks that you are going to learn. It employs a lot the aspects of more complicated lift tricks, especially gauging speed, making sure that you have a good center over the bike, it is a little bit different than the "peg coping tricks". So it is a very important trick to learn. If you want to start doing things like "Five Forty tail taps" and more difficult tricks of that nature. With this trick you are going to go a little bit faster than on any of the previous tricks that we have talked about, because you want to make sure that you are actually hopping up out of the quarter pipe and you are getting both wheels up over. What you do at that point, is you basically want to pop up and you spin just a little bit and you want to keep your head and your body mass just actually inside of the coping, on the deck once you get up there. This is where your manual position is usually going to help a little bit if you have good balance on your back wheel. It makes the trick a lot easier. Basically you want to spin usually about ninety degrees or so, maybe a little bit more. As you are coming up on the quarter pipe, you wan to keep your front wheel up and as you land you want to absorb the impact, by sort of squatting into it with your legs so that you keep your front wheel up. If you do that properly, what is going to happen, essentially, is that you will spin around just a little bit and as you spin, assuming that you have not gone too far in on the deck, you should find that your back wheel is back over the transition. From there you basically just drop in like you would with any regular "drop in" on a quarter pipe. You are going to need a good solid hop to make sure that your sprocket and your back wheel clear. This is all stuff that you should have down pretty well just from some of the more elementary clips on "how to ride a skate park" in general. So, the main thing is that you want to try to go kind of fast, not to fast, like I said you will carry your speed way to far inside and from there it is almost impossible to get back into the transition. At the same time you do not want to go to slow because if you have to hop to hard to get up over the coping, you are going to find that you do not have nearly as much control when you land and you are going to have a harder time keeping your front wheel up while you do it. So basically just make sure that the, you plant your back wheel, a couple inches ideally inside the coping on the deck and squat into the land to absorb the impact. You really want to absorb the impact completely with you legs, because if you start doing it with your arms, all of the sudden the front end is going to drop or you are going to loop out. Then once you stall in that position you are naturally going to spin a little bit.

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