00:01 Seat pass hitchhiker juggler to one-hand juggler to Dave duster. This was nothing special, just me kicking off the month and trying to clear out the jugglers in a garage closet.
00:19 The first of many undertakers this month. The stalls wanted to happen so I went with it and stalled this into a rope-a-roni.
00:29 Seat pass juggler to one-hand juggler to another one-hand juggler. Again, clearing out the juggler closet this month.
00:43 I hadn’t done one of these in a few years and wanted to make sure I could still do it, without getting stuck on attempts for two hours. Undertaker to gerator to smith in about 15-20 minutes, in a Satriale’s t-shirt.
00:55 Seat pass juggler to invisible hand to steamroller to half hiker to one-hand juggler.
01:14 Undertaker stall to late barspin. I really wanted this to smith decade out, but I’m not really consistent at this late barpsin thing and needed to work on that first. It’s gonna happen, it might just take a few weeks.
01:24 Double seat pass juggler to opposite elbow glide. Nothing special, but still a challenge in a two-car garage.
01:40 Half lash to foot jam barspin to smith decade. Looks easy, but it took a while. Combining an undertake with this is going to take a lot of work and my brain wasn’t ready for it this month.
01:53 Half hiker to Dave duster to backwards hitchhiker. No notes!
02:16 Cancan to undertaker to late barspin. Still working on consistency with the late barspin so I figured I’d throw in some stuff at the beginning. I also like treating undertakers like they’re vert airs.

Soundtrack: Marriages, J. Robbins, Drive Like Jehu, The Replacements, The Garage Fan, Neighborhood Cicadas, Karate, Soulside

00:01 Four seat grab jugglers in the garage. I thought three was the max in this space but I somehow made it happen.
00:18 Four barspin weed wacker to undertaker. I had never done four barspins before this. Someone held on and made it work though.
00:30 One hitchhiker juggler to backwards whip to backwards hitch (I may have done this already but never in the garage before.)
00:50 Cancan undertaker to gliding greater. Not much to report here.
01:03 Juggler to frame grab invisible hand to around the world.
01:26 Barpsin undertaker to backside barspin at the end. Watch closely, I figured out another silly way to add one more spin at the end. It took a while for this to happen, and when it finally did, I swear, my brain was hovering over my body watching it happen. I think some people call that flow state but I’d prefer to remain with my body while doing 30 year old BMX tricks.
01:36 Double seat grab juggler to invisible hand to hitchhiker. I am pretty proud of this one.
01:53 This day was 98 degrees in the shade and I decided to ride anyway. This is nothing fancy, just a fire hydrant to undertaker. But when it’s that hot, it’s hard to even retain grip of the bars without the moisture from your sweat interfering.
02:04 Seat grab juggler to one-hand whip juggler to seat grab juggler.
02:17 I kept trying my last trick for three days and it wasn’t happening on the first two of those three days. This was from day two and I thought it looked okay so didn’t want to scrap it.
02:29 And finally, on day three, it happened. This is a double barspin to undertaker to late barspin at the end. This is not a consistent trick by any means, so do not expect to get caught down a wormhole on this trick next month.

00:02 I hadn’t done a rolling undertaker in the garage since we moved in last year, so this is me figuring out how to do them in circles. To be honest, I prefer the straight line version better but considering this is filmed on a tripod in a garage, I’m not complaining.
00:18 Hidden hand frame grabs are kinda gimmicky but give the trick a completely different feel from the seat grab version. This is just a fun version of a combo I’ve done before with that slight variation.
00:38 And because I did a forward rolling undertaker, I needed to do the backward rolling version as well. Done in circles, these are pretty fun, and sweaty.
00:50 Another hidden hand frame grab combo…
01:07 The rainiest day of May fell on a weekend so I was forced to ride in a humid hot box for at least an hour. I hadn’t done the half stubbleduck exit in a long time and sweated out half my body weight making it happen this day.
01:25 Right around this time of the month, I was dearly missing undertakers with the brake, so I decided to do an opposite one where my left hand grabbed the back brake.
01:43 Hitchhiker to backwards hitchhiker. Because I’m spoiled and have a brakeless setup, I never really do any brakeless type stuff on the brake bike. But I decided to try one and it came out okay. This sent me down a juggler wormhole for the remainder of the month…
02:03 Hitchhiker seat pass juggler to one-hand whip juggler to around the world to the sweet sounds of Stevie Nicks.
02:22 Hitchhiker seat pass juggler x 2 to one-hand whip juggler. This will probably become a majority of my June riding so consider this your warning.
02:35 After a few chiropractor sessions, my doctor found that my right humerus bone was out of socket. Once she moved it back, the tendonitis pain started to go away almost overnight. And to cap off the month, I decided to try my first undertaker since March 31.

So instead, inspired by the “old school” feel of that second trick (which I actually filmed on March 31), I decided to try to make most of April a tribute to some classic tricks of my childhood, including smith decades, elbow glides and infinity rolls. (Let’s be honest here: that’s what most of my videos are anyway.) Some of this is very old, some of this is very old but things I never bothered to learn. And some of it, like the “dancing” smith decades, were just things I saw in videos that I tried, did a few of it, and decided I don’t need to do anymore.

As for trick 1: All year long so far, I’ve been doing pinky squeaks to walkaround g-turn hitch commensurate with the month, so in January I did one pinky squeak, Feb I did two, March I did three, and on April 29, I finally did four. I thought for a brief moment about keeping the trend going all year long, but multiple pinky squeaks is straight up cardio and my garage isn’t big enough for five. So I think it ends at four, for now.

In retrospect, I’m pretty happy with how everything turned out, and think that three of the links in the above video will definitely count to my year end compilation, which I won’t complain about in March.

I’m kinda out of words this month, so I’ll keep this short. The one thing I will say is that the second to last trick legitimately took two nonstop hours to film, and I grinded bars during the hitchhiker part. I used to hate grinding bars during hitches (there’s a huge scar on my right knee from when sharp bars punctured my knee at age 15…) but because this took so long to land, and because my garage floor is smooth enough to allow bars grinding during a hitchhiker, I decided it was good enough.

Oh, and I got a haircut.

Then it ended, and almost 28 days later, I was riding in shorts and sweating profusely. “Talk about the weather or how the weather used to be” said John K. Samson of The Weakerthans once upon a time.

February is almost a repeat of January, except I tried to do a few more pinky squeaks in the first part of the trick. Pinky squeaks are almost a forgotten art and though there are several masters out there (Scott Powell, Chase, Paul Osicka to name a few), you don’t see a lot of them anymore. My aim with this month was to try to do 2-3 in each trick and see how it felt. The result: they are still pretty hard and take a lot of concentration and focused breathing to do well. (I do this silly thing where I hold my breath during a lot of tricks and I’m trying to break that.) This video is the result of my February pinky squeak challenge, minus a few days for an ice storm and a trip to New Orleans/Florida. So, this is two weeks of riding basically, ending with an abrupt camera fall.

Not surprising, it can get you into a lot of places. But, it’s definitely a use your front brake in tight circumstance trick since my brakeless pinky squeaks take up about 10-15 feet of travel per tailwhip. So the plan went awry once the bike without brakes came out and I ultimately decided that too much structure around riding isn’t a good thing. (says the guy who committed three years to undertakers…)

I also edited out a few clips that were basically done cause I wanted to ride even though the wind, wet weather and cold got in the way. So this is absent three tricks that were done outside in the bleak Texas winter and you don’t have to thank me for saving your time.