21 BMX Grind Tricks (In Order/How To/Step By Step)


Ready to slide? Here you have a list of all kinds of grinds with and without pegs in relative order of difficulty. By the way, if you need pegs make sure to check my recommendations and buyer’s guide here.

You’ll find the ‘how-to’ for these tricks following the links on their titles and/or pictures, which will take you to a new tab, to one of the tricks trilogy posts (beginner, intermediate, and advanced tricks) on which this list is based.

If there is a trick you can’t find here, make sure to check the links above.

That being said, let’s jump right into the tricks!

1) Double Peg Grind

Making a 180° turn in the air landing on the rail/ledge on two pegs and sliding on it.

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2) Baby Duster Grind

Sliding on your bottom bracket with your front wheel rolling on the ground.

3) Feeble Grind

Grinding on the rear peg with the front wheel on the ledge/box.

4) Un-Luc-e Grind

Sliding with your front peg and front pedal on the rail/ledge and the back wheel in the air.

5) Smith Grind

Grinding on the front peg with the rear wheel on the ledge.

6) Crooked Grind

Sliding on front and back pegs with one wheel at each side of the rail.

7) Snaggletooth Grind

Sliding on the opposite side of the rail with your front peg.

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8) Derek Duster Grind

Sliding on a rail on your back peg and bottom bracket.

9) Predator Grind

Sliding on back and front pegs on one side of the rail then hopping and doing the same on the opposite side of the rail.

10) Crankarm/Pedal Grind

Sliding on a rail on your front crank/pedal.

11) Luc-e Grind

Sliding on your front pedal and back peg while the front wheel is below the grinding surface.

12) Pedal/Sprocket Feeble Grind

Sliding on your back pedal and sprocket with the front wheel on the ledge/box.

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13) Pedal Crooked/Bottom Bracket Grind

Sliding on a rail on your back pedal/crankarm and bottom bracket, with your wheels at each side of the rail.

14) Toothpick Hangover

Sliding on the front peg bringing the back end of the bike over the rail.

15) X-Up Grind

Sliding on your front and back pegs with the bars turned 180°.

16) Roller Coaster Grind

Sliding on all 4 pegs on two rails simultaneously.

17) Ice Pick Grind

Sliding on the back peg with the front wheel in the air.

18) Levitation/Butcher Grind

Sliding on your front peg and pedal, keeping your back peg above the ledge.

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19) Back Pedal Grind

Sliding on a rail on your back pedal with your wheels at each side of the rail.

20) Toothpick Grind

Sliding on your front peg with your back wheel in the air.

21) 180/Alleyoop Grind

Making a 180° turn in the air landing on the rail/ledge on two pegs and sliding on it.


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Photo credits: [Featured image: designed by Freepik][Smith Grind: by AdamCookMedia / Flickr / CC License (modification: cropped)][Crooked Grind: by A K / Flickr / CC License][Luc-e Grind: by Pavel Odehnal / Wikimedia Commons / CC License][Toothpick Hangover: by Vinicius Hawk / Flickr / CC License] [X-Up Grind: by AdamCookMedia / Flickr / CC License (modification: cropped)] [Roller Coaster Grind: by AdamCookMedia / Flickr / CC License (modification: cropped)][Ice Pick Grind: Designed by Freepik][Toothpick Grind: designed by Freepik]

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