#bmx

A metal cylinder over the axle used to grind, stall, and stand on.

Consistent and perfectly executed, or perfectly set up.

Bars cranked nearly 180 while the front end is pulled up sideways.

Both feet taken off the pedals and stuck out to the sides mid-air.

An especially dangerous gap that could badly hurt you.

Rolling backward then pivoting 180 on the rear wheel.

Discomforting, scary, or unnerving.

Grabbing the lead from the gate into the first turn.

Riding packed-earth jumps, berms, and doubles.

A 180 turn while rolling backwards, from the caballerial.

A grind balancing on opposite pegs, front-left and back-right or vice versa.

Grinding on the front peg only, back wheel balanced in the air.

Taking both hands and both feet off the bike mid-air.

Grinding on the rear peg only with the front wheel raised above the rail.

Clean, smooth execution of a trick or combo.

Turning the handlebars a full 180 so the arms cross.

A banked corner built up on the outside of a turn.

To flatten out a jump to shed speed and stay low.

Swinging the rear of the bike right and a leg back over the top tube.

Kicking the frame a full revolution around the head tube while the rider stays put.

A nasty fall flipping over the bars onto your face and chest.

Kicking one leg over the top tube and back mid-air.

Laying the bike flat sideways in the air, then leveling out.

To fold your body or bike around a rail or wheel.

Requiring serious strength, nerve, or experience.

A jump flat across the top from lip to landing.

Twenty-inch wheels, the BMX standard.

A rider who constantly breaks bike parts.

Taking one foot off the pedal and kicking it out mid-air.

A failed trick where the rider stays rigid in the air before landing.

Extending both legs straight back off the bike in the air.

A trick pushed to its stylish extreme; done to the fullest.

Spinning the handlebars a full 360 degrees and catching them mid-air.

A grind on the back peg and pedal with bars turned 45 degrees.

A detangler letting the bars spin without tangling brake cables.

A long, winding concrete channel of quarter-pipes.

Adjusting spoke tension to remove wobbles from a wheel.

Swinging your body a full rotation around the bike in the air.

Lifting both wheels off the ground at once; the base of nearly every BMX trick.

A slope leading up into a vertical wall to ride.