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Freestyle fixed gear riders style can be generally described as doing "BMX-style tricks on their fixed-gear bikes". [2] The sport was "born from the fusion of freestyle BMX and track cycling". [3] As early as 2007 people "started to see how rad they could get on a track bike, it started with skids and progressed from there."
The trick is usually done on a quarter pipe, over a box jump, and over dirt jumps. The trick was invented in the 1980s. Heelwhip The rider performs the tailwhip his unnatural direction. Pulling tricks your unnatural direction is as hard as throwing a baseball with your opposite hand. Allan Cooke was the first known rider to pull the trick in 2001.
Flatland tricks are given names, usually by the first person to invent it. For example, the first flatland "bunnyhop tailwhip" was first landed in a Burger King parking lot by Bill Nitschke, and there named a "whopper". Terry Adams invented a trick following Hurricane Katrina (since Terry lives in Louisiana), and named his new trick "The Katrina".
BMX bike riders also performed a demonstration freestyle show in 1979 during a skate competition at Rocky Mountain Surf Skatepark in Salt Lake City, Utah. [7] Towards the end of 1979, William "Crazy Lacy" Furmage and Tony Ray Davis formed the Super Style II BMX Trick Team and later began performing freestyle shows at BMX races and other events. [8]
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