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I think this is the first time I have made
a submission for Trick of the Month
a submission for Trick of the Month
Kevin Jones, Ride UK august 2005 : The Hang Five. As
weird as it seems, at the time, at least for the first month or
so, I just treated it as a way to get into the squeaker. I had a
contest routine and I started off with a squeaker and then I
did a whole routine or whatever. And then the next time I
wanted to do the same combo and add some shit to it. I was
messing around in my garage and I figured instead of hitting
my brakes I could just pop up and coast a little bit to the end
of my garage, do it forward for a while then go into a
squeaker. First I went five feet and I was stoked, then ten
feet, then I ran out of space, then I went out into the street,
which is kind of a slant, and I went to the top of the road and I
hauled down the road doing it. It was something that I
learned in ten minutes; like ten minutes before I couldn't do
it, then I was going a couple of hundred feet. And I was
freaking out. It didn't open up any doors at the time, really,
because there wasn't a hitchhiker, there wasn't a lot of front
wheel rolling type combos. So I pretty much did it no-footed,
did it one-handed, did little combos out of it. Then later, of
course, it led to much more stuff. I remember showing people
and I didn't even think it was a good trick at the time. I
thought it was a corky way to get into something, almost like
a peg wheelie. Then I went to a contest and did it and
everybody thought they were seeing a brand new trick, like
something totally different. I thought that was cool. Then
everybody learned it.
weird as it seems, at the time, at least for the first month or
so, I just treated it as a way to get into the squeaker. I had a
contest routine and I started off with a squeaker and then I
did a whole routine or whatever. And then the next time I
wanted to do the same combo and add some shit to it. I was
messing around in my garage and I figured instead of hitting
my brakes I could just pop up and coast a little bit to the end
of my garage, do it forward for a while then go into a
squeaker. First I went five feet and I was stoked, then ten
feet, then I ran out of space, then I went out into the street,
which is kind of a slant, and I went to the top of the road and I
hauled down the road doing it. It was something that I
learned in ten minutes; like ten minutes before I couldn't do
it, then I was going a couple of hundred feet. And I was
freaking out. It didn't open up any doors at the time, really,
because there wasn't a hitchhiker, there wasn't a lot of front
wheel rolling type combos. So I pretty much did it no-footed,
did it one-handed, did little combos out of it. Then later, of
course, it led to much more stuff. I remember showing people
and I didn't even think it was a good trick at the time. I
thought it was a corky way to get into something, almost like
a peg wheelie. Then I went to a contest and did it and
everybody thought they were seeing a brand new trick, like
something totally different. I thought that was cool. Then
everybody learned it.
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Andrew McDermott
It's warming up over here in Australia, so
we are all getting out in the sun to ride :)
we are all getting out in the sun to ride :)