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X-up
Learned x-ups today at the local dj's. Can anyone give tips or comment on them?
Sorry for the embarrasing noise at the end :L
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- Date Posted
- Mar 25, 2012 at 8:15Mar 25, 2012
- Category
- Dirt Jumping
- Location
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Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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Caezar
(Mar 25, 2012 at 8:33)
Awesome !! Can ou provide tips? I have been wanting to get them but I hit my legs on the atempts . on a long tt I did not have this problem. My friends can do turn-downs on my bike but my thighs are too large to fit under the bars 
damn high school wrestling 
damn high school wrestling - + 1
haha cheers 
just find a jump you are comfortable on, that gives you plenty of air. come off of the lip as usual, and when you get close to your peak, lean back a little and straighten your legs a bit to give you clearance to turn the bars. then just go for it. just work your way up from big bar tweaks and gradually get the bars further around, then just go for it
i still have alot of room for improvement, so my advice may not be 100% good, but i find it's what helped me
just find a jump you are comfortable on, that gives you plenty of air. come off of the lip as usual, and when you get close to your peak, lean back a little and straighten your legs a bit to give you clearance to turn the bars. then just go for it. just work your way up from big bar tweaks and gradually get the bars further around, then just go for it
i still have alot of room for improvement, so my advice may not be 100% good, but i find it's what helped me
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Best advice for x-up's (depends what you prefer, straight bike or whipped) if you kick the back out a fraction to the opposite way you spin the bars it will straighten you out in the air, if you wanna go whipped, whip the back out a fraction to the way the bars spin. The bars should take the rest of the bike for you. When i x-up i lean over the bars a fraction and turn it as much as i can, when i usually look they look over rotated but if your taking a picture its best to over rotate so the camera will be able to take a pic of a perfectly dialled x-up. Good luck with em you've pretty much got it just send that extra tweek!
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I hate it when tricks feel like that 
Yah, went up the skatepark and then rode the dirt jumps later
Yah, went up the skatepark and then rode the dirt jumps later 
the dj's are ok, the first 3 ride good but the step up takeoff is too soft - + 1
ah well, manage to transfer unturndowns to the dj's?
just sounds like it needs compacting. wet it, smack it with a spade, then let it dry for a couple of days and it'll be sweet. just make sure no one rides it when it's wet!
just sounds like it needs compacting. wet it, smack it with a spade, then let it dry for a couple of days and it'll be sweet. just make sure no one rides it when it's wet!
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Ok chill out dude. I've offered to Lee to come along and help build. I patched up the lips that had be rolled over by a moto. I understand your concerns but i'm not harming them and i patched the lips up when we left.