Most People Make This Mistake When Learning Tailwhips

We're going to break down some tricks. That's what we're going to be doing

And the first trick we're going to break down, you guys are going to be surprised because you're like

wait a minute, this is not a beginner trick. In the last few weeks, we've been breaking down beginner tricks

But somebody mentioned last week to do tail whips. And I was like, you know what? I like tail whips. Let's talk about tail whips

so someone in the discord uh lenar lenar posted a tail whip attempt and i was like you know what

let's just let's break down tailwhips because this what he did right here is a very common

thing that most people do wrong it's and it's not like it's not his fault just the way that

tailwhips happen is very naturally weird it's like i gotta draw i gotta draw a line or something

I, it's like you are starting out right here and you like first try your first tail whip and you

kick the bike around. And so that feels like you've really progressed a lot. And then you start to

realize that to land it, you need to do your body weight needs to be 110% different. So then you just

get really frustrated and it feels like you are terrible. That's what happened with me on tail

That would happen to me on tail whips is I kicked in. I was like, yo, I think I could land tail whips pretty soon

I was just hyped. I was like, I could definitely tail up soon. So I kept trying and trying and trying and trying

But what I actually had to do to land it was very different. And so here I want to give him some pointers because hopefully he can learn it a little bit quicker than I did

And he can land tail whips because this is a really cool trick

So can anyone guess what kind of the main issue that I'm talking about is here

Anyone in here that can do tail whips can kind of notice this but it looks good like he doing the tail whip good there just one one tiny problem and I point it out here you know what here

I'm watch this okay I'm quick talking just watch and then I'm gonna play an attempt from me

here's one okay and I just want you to kind of look at the difference

Can anyone tell a difference? And pro tip, now it's not the quarter

It's not that I'm jumping out of a quarter. Okay, I'll do it. This one's on a bank

That'll make it even easier. It's all about kind of my body position right here

This is the big difference. So look at my body position. Look at where my body's at

Look at where my bike's at. and look at where the bike is at

Jesus, I have so many tabs open. The bike is at right here. Okay, so it's kind of grainy, blurry

I hope you guys can see it. But yes, Kirk, pretty much pushing the bike too far away from yourself

So right here, this is what most people do because it's easy to kick a tail whip around if you just do this

Like you kick it and you throw your arms up and you, you know, and it's easy to get the bike around that way

But to actually land it, the bike has to be under you

You want to have that bike like directly under you. Otherwise, it's going to be really hard to do

So let me show you here. The bike is like my handlebars are below my knees on the tail up

And it's like that for every tail up that I land. And the reason for that is that when that bike comes around just like it is right now my feet need to come down onto the pedals And if the bike is up here my feet can come down onto the pedals

My feet have to come up onto the pedals and that's physically impossible. So kicking the tail whip and keeping the tail whip under you, like right here, you want the tail whip to be under your knees

definitely under your waist, so that that tail whip can come around and your feet can come down onto the pedals

and the way that you have to do this is more scary because potentially you dead sailor when you kick

a tail whip and you keep it under you this is how dead sailors happen so there's a fine line between

like doing the tail whip and then dead sailoring and that's what makes makes it makes doing it the

right way really scary okay but let's watch one more time kick it bike stays under me comes around

feet down onto the pedals. Now I caught all the cranks right there, but it was a tail whip out of

a little bank. Look at how small this bank is. It's practically a hop whip. Um, so that's like

the common issue that people have with tail ups is that they're, they're kicking it and they're

pulling their arms up instead of staying over it. And so in the bike school video, what we talk

about is how you need to be right here. Like what I'm doing with my body here is I'm making an arch

motion. So I'm coming out and my chest is going like this and I'm keeping my bike under me the

whole time. So look, so you see how my chest is still moving in this motion, no matter what

and my bike is under me just doing tail whip things so that's like i'd say that's the biggest

thing that people do wrong with tail ups is they're they're throwing their arms out and getting it away

from them like kirk said and the reason for this though is when they coming out of the quarter and they kicking the tail whip is their body weights going more up instead of out You want to arch around You want to make sure that you coming out and you going like this So that the bike can stay right here

and do the tail whip while your body's moving like this. What people do is they come up like this

and they try and kick the tail whip up here and it's just wrong. It's just very wrong

So for homie in the discord, I would highly recommend to, um, the, the way to fix this

is like I said, it's scary, but what you're going to notice is that I kick the bike just

a split second later than, um, than usual. Like I could kick the bike right here, but I just have to wait just a split second, keep

it under me and I'm throwing my chest, look at my face. I'm throwing my chest forward and then

kicking it so that my bike is like level. I want my bike to be level just like that when it comes

around. And so just kick it a split second later. When you're used to kicking it, don't. Kick it

just a split second later. Okay. What's up, Brandon? How are you doing? Brandon, I'm going

to double whip for you this week. Okay. You called me out on a double whip on, I can't remember where

I should have screenshotted it so I could put it in a video, but oh well. Anyway, so you got to keep that chest over the bars, over the neat bars under you

Like just keep it there. Brandon, what's your number one tip for tail whips

We should have Brandon on one of the live streams. Okay, so if any of you guys are trying tail whips, I hope this was a little bit helpful for you

Just like a tiny bit. And yeah, I want homie in the discord to land the tail

But I saw that attempt and I was like, okay, okay, we got to make a video. We got to, hopefully this is helpful for him