Video: Learn How To Wheelie With Legend Danny MacAskill

 @wolfe1027: Actually Mike Tyson! Sent to you from Evander Holyfield's ear

 @kingpine: Of course, paraphrased from von Moltke's famous "no wheelie plan ever survives contact with the tailbone"

 @jgoldfield: Well played! That's why I always ride with a Helmuth...

 I put my seat down a little a couple of weeks back and now I can basically wheelie until I get bored or tired.

 Here's the list:

 Victor Koretzky won't help us feel better - last year when he got a front flat at Snowshoe he wheelied through the whole finish area (and maybe farther, I don't remember).

 @ABhardtail: I’ve seen cam zink endo at speed down turns longer than a football field, and then practically manual down an entire run at North Star bike park.

 @thechunderdownunder: yeah, that is an incomprehensible level of skill

 What about putting a big pillow under your backside?

 @IluvRIDING: the big pillow under your back side is called rear brake control. If you don't have it, you can't wheelie

 Low tire pressure and lightly dragging the brake to avoid stabbing it too hard helped me. Also can't decide if locked out is better... I'm leaning toward yeah.

 New bikes are too damn long!

 Practice

 Kyle and April at Ride MTB put out some of the best instructional videos, and they have one on Better Wheelies in 1 Day. It's not rocket science, and other people have good tips, but I've found their videos more helpful than most.
Remember, practice makes permanent, so it's actually "perfect practice makes perfect". If you start knowing the key pointers, it's much easier to progress and not have quite as much to unlearn.

Oh, and you need to practice more frequently

 @albert03: Ryan Leech's videos are one of the best because they have everything broken down into progressive steps. You complete one, then move on to the next.

 @rrolly: Seconded. You need to spend a lot of time programming the brain to hit the brake if you're looping out, then reprogram the modulation to control the wheelie. Also there's lots of techniques for mastering side to side balance, and the balance point is a range, not just a point, which takes a lot of learning as well. the Ryan Leech course breaks this all down and you learn the right techniques safely, plus some more advanced things like changing gear, one handed wheelies, steering in a wheelie and so on.

I've never got all that from these youtube vids. "Find the balance point and modulate your brake" is a correct statement but doesn't actually help you to learn the wheelie.

 I have the same issue. I always fall sideways. I am wondering if its because i haven't actually found the balance point???

 @mel22b: As in my comment above, you need to learn the different techniques for side balance control first - turning the bars, sticking your knees out either in the same or different direction simultaneously with or without tilting your foot on the pedal, leaning the body a little and "muscling" the saddle with your butt cheeks. the first 2 have the biggest effect in my experience. But, you do need to be at a comfortable place in the front/rear balance range as well, otherwise it's hard to control the wheelie at all, let alone side to side.

Once you've got those side balance techniques mastered individually you'll then need to experiment with combining them for side balance in a straight line and once you have that dialled, you can then usiethem in combination to steer and keep yourself upright at the same time. but its the turn of the bars that initiates and "leads" the steer, with the other techniques contributing to the steer and side balance at the same time.

Also have your rear tire quite firm (but not rock hard) when learning as this makes the bike more responsive to the steering inputs. And this is one you need to practice on a hard surface rather than grass becuase a soft surface will mute the steering response, so be sure you can save yourself from looping out before learning to steer. Good luck!

 Try turning your front wheel a little to feel the sensation. It's the opposite direction of what you would do with two wheels on the ground, but do it enough and it becomes natural. Also, look way ahead where you are trying to go

 Some of the guys are saying to turn the bars, but I feel like it's more of a pull on one side of the bars to get the bike to follow you back to center. Kind of like counter-steering to turn. Hard to explain I guess. If I think about using my hips I can usually steer a wheelie pretty good, so try that as well.