thats because special wasnt doing it with a 360 and tailwhip after. if you look at the bike during the flip the front wheel never turns so you know the bike is doing a legit flip. the 360 just puts it on a different axis
Filipei7 u are totally right! And to pinkbike, you are too slowpoke this days... this happened on sunday and you've posted it on tuesday, and one simple video without description... Someone is too lazyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
is this like one of those pictures that if you stare at it long enough you see what it is ?? Coz I'm not seeing no bike flip, more like tail whip with a 3 in it......
All the it's hard to notice, the first part of the trick you see one hand and the bar, and the bike rotating around the hand left on, that's the bike flip. Then catches the bars and spins the tail whip and finishes the rotation. 1 bike flip, 1 tail whip, one 360
I don't know much about trick nomenclature, but that looked like 3 complete bike whips with one rider twist (360) so isn't that a triple (tail)whip 360 or do only the tailwhips off the bike count (ie a double tailwhip 360) ? No flips here though, even I know that !
Before I say this I want it to be clear, I give shit tons of respect to Pro BMX riders and what they do, but it looks to me at this point like a bunch of twisty flippy shit in the air that i cant make sense of, not in a bad way but thats how i process it. Make trix too fast for my dome to understand you see?
i just watched it about 6 times before i caught on. so, he let go of the bars right at the start, right? making it a bike flip, before doing a tail whip? was that it? still looks like a double whip 3 to me. the bike did more of a "whip" rotation than a "flip" rotation by the looks of it, just sayin' is all.
It's pretty clear if you slow it down, during the bike flip the bike is rotated around the grip/hand, the bike doesn't spin around the head tube like a whip, then the bike gets spun around the head tube for the whip part
the bike flip does look just like a tailwhip in a vertical fashion but he does take one hand off the bike whilst he's doing it then grabs the bars again to whip it. very sick
Don't feel bad...I probably watched it 10 times...
And even then...I had to read the comments to figure out what was exactly going on.
You have to be unbelievablly creative and talented just to break new ground and do new tricks these days...
Pretty incredible!
Coz I'm not seeing no bike flip, more like tail whip with a 3 in it......