manny help

[Frank T]

yeah i wanna be able to hold a manual for like more then two seconds haha, any help or tips

 

[Dylan Crane]

with one or both feet on the deck?

 

[Frank T]

both feet

 

[Kevin Lo]

When you get into a manual, make sure you have one foot on the front of the deck but not touching the headtube, and your back foot on your brake, but dont use it. Only use it when you want to slow down and balance your manuals. If you want long manuals, go really fast and to balance it's sort of like humping the air, and try to keep the bars up as long as you can and dont even think about letting it touch the floor.

Trust me, it's going to help you a lot when you want to learn like double whip to manuals haha

 

[robtom123]

just practice and find your balace point and use the brake to lower your bars when you are going to loop out and then lift your bars when the front wheel is going to touch the floor it took me about a month to get them consistently for a decent lenth just takes practice

 

[Bennett_J]

Lean back, have your back straight, and don't put the front end down until you are out of speed

 

[mason buckley]

i use my brake the whole way haha. i go to my balence point and use my break(not super hard, soft just to to help) and yeah haha

 

[TUC]

don't use your brake, it makes manuals look terrible and kills your style. you kind of want to push forward with your legs and pull back with your arms and just keep balanced. it helps if your front wheel is really close to the ground and your weight is quite far back over the rear wheel. just whenever you are riding street find two cracks in the rode and try to manul between them, just keep doing this wherever you go and find cracks that are further apart all the time and you will get better at them. i find it helps me if i have somewhere that i am aiming to hold the manual till like a crack or something...

 

[morgan_bvrns]

i use my brake the whole way haha. i go to my balence point and use my break(not super hard, soft just to to help) and yeah haha

Same. I wish I didn't though, it slows me down way more than I'd like it to.

 

[tylerbillman]

If you start to feel like you're falling backwards while in the manual then press the brake to bring yourself forward more. If you're falling forward continuously then you've got to lean back farther.

Also, I find these two things help me:
1). I like to keep my arms completely straight and extended while manualing. obviously a lot of people don't do this (Like Jesse Ikedah) but I personally prefer it.
2.) Keep your knees locked together and touching. This is the main thing that causes me to lose balance is getting too bowlegged and uneven when I'm trying to manual.

 

[btyczki21]

practice practice practice practice practice
practice practice practice practice practice
practice practice practice practice practice
practice practice practice practice practice
practice practice practice practice practice
practice practice practice practice practice
practice practice practice practice practice
practice practice practice practice practice
practice practice practice practice practice
practice practice practice practice practice

only then will you be doing manuals forever.