Jump on your bike and get ready to hit that quarter-pipe! Here’s a list of tricks specially selected for testing your balance on the coping/deck/table. These are almost all (just in case) the taps and stalls ever invented.
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.
Some of the how-to’s for the taps are oriented for doing them out of a Bunny Hop, so just replace the hop for a jump off a quarter and you’ll be fine.
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) Footplant
2) Disaster
3) Feeble Stall
4) Smith Stall
5) Un-Luc-e Stall
Standing with your front peg and front pedal on the coping and the back wheel in the air.
6) Sprocket Stall
Standing on your sprocket on the ledge.
7) Tail/Tire Tap
8) Pedal Stall
9) Handplant
10) Tire Slide
11) Downside Smith
Hitting an element with your front peg as you ride.
12) Abubaca
13) Double Peg Stall
14) Luc-e Stall
A stall on your pedal and back peg while the front wheel is below the coping
15) Fufanu
16) Footjam
17) Can-Can Footjam
18) Vader Footjam
19) Canadian Footjam
20) Can Vader Footjam
21) Lawnmower
22) Ice Pick Stall
23) Footjam Tailwhip
24) Downside Footjam Tailwhip
25) Opposite Downside Footjam Tailwhip
26) Toothpick Stall
27) Nosepick
28) 180 Tailwhip
29) 360 Tap
30) 540 Tap
A 540° rotation on the back wheel.
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Photo credits: [Featured image: by -Maik- / Flickr / CC License] [Footplant: by Kevin Cortopassi / Flickr / CC License] [Disaster: by Scott / Flickr / CC License] [Feeble Stall: by Brett Hiltz / Flickr / CC License (modification: cropped)] [Smith Stall: by Gerardofegan / Flickr / CC License] [Tail/Tire Tap: by -Maik- / Flickr / CC License] [Pedal Stall: by Scott / Flickr / CC License][Handplant: by AdamCookMedia / Flickr / CC License (modification: cropped)] [Tire Slide: by / Ricardo Abengoza Herna / Flickr / CC License] [Abubaca: by AdamCookMedia / Flickr / CC License (modification: cropped)][Double Peg Stall: by Klaus Friese / Flickr / CC License][Fufanu: by dh Reno / Flickr / CC License] [Can-Can Footjam: by Glyn Roberts / Flickr / CC License] [Vader Footjam: by Glyn Roberts / Flickr / CC License] [Canadian Footjam: by WillVision / Flickr / CC License (modification: cropped)] [Can Vader Footjam: by Alexander Steffes / Flickr / CC License] [Downside Footjam Tailwhip: by Ricardo Abengoza Herna / Flickr / CC License SA] [Opposite Downside Footjam Tailwhip: by Michael Emmendoerffer / Flickr / CC License SA][Nosepick: by Bristol ridin / Flickr / CC License G (modification: cropped)] [Toothpick Stall: by Tom à la rue / Flickr / CC License SA][180 Tailwhip: by re up photo / Flickr / CC License G (modification: cropped)]
