BMX RACE - Gate start tips for advanced riders
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ม.ค. 2025
- Hey guys, after so much great feedback from my beginner tips video, Bryce and I got together to make an intermediate to advanced gate start tips video.
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Beginner tips video:
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I knew all this but now seeing it visually helps me mentally to replicate it for myself. Especially the slingshot, I can do it but occasionally I bump the gate as it drops so my timing is a bit off but watching you demonstrate it helps me visualize how I can fix it. What it is for me is I wasn't pulling at all I was pushing the bike out now I see I can push my body forward and pull the bike just slightly and I can have a faster gate because I won't have to hold up when I bump it.
Thanks for posting this! We really appreciate you taking the time to make these. Looking forward to the next ones!
please do jump tips too!
Will do!
Just found your channel... Mad respect... I come from minimal BMX background and a lifetime of motocross racing... Still awesome to see the art and beauty that goes into pro level BMX...Cheers
Great work Connor your an amazing role model and a great athlete keep grinding brotha!
Do a how To double manual
I just posted a HOW TO MANUAL on my channel. I'll have a HOW TO DOUBLE MANUAL posted this week! Check it out!
This was great. Thanks guys definitely helpful for me as I'm getting back into racing. Never had the best gates to begin with and hoping to change that now.
awesome! good luck!
good tips!! I'll try it tomorrow at practice in Pflugerville!!
Once again, amazing tips - thankyou!! We need these gates in the UK!!!
Thanks really needed some help on my gate
Awesome video, definitely looking into getting one those gates
Hey Connor can you make a how to for jumping And manualing I'm have troubles with them I'm ok at manuals but I can't jump that well and I love everything your doing I'm trying to go pro myself and love your videos
Yeah good tips thx connor and Bryce you guys are the best. ps plz put this in a video thx
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hey fella's i whas working on papendal and zolder... as a medic near the track..!!! i even talk to my hero conner fields... trent jones and brice ... who al riding nice in holland..!! love your'e vlogs and tips... ceep it on... !!! like youre riding style ... thnx conber and im from holland and realy like to have youre plate from papendal... greets
Hey Robbert I don't have it anymore, next year I will give it to you!
very informative video, will try some of these tips next time I am at the track. where do you get those timers? that way can see what differences yield faster times
I tried your tips in Reno and got 1st place thanks
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HAZNATIONBMX already do
If your right handed why have your right start peddle and not your left??? @5:14 you can see that you got an okay snap but your follow through was a bit weak. If you had that right peddle for your follow though you'd get much more power on that all important 2nd crank. Just a little trick Mike Redman showed me when he had a small training shop in Costa Mesa (it could've been Santa Anna, I don't know it was back in 1992). Thanks! Ok riders lets set'em up. On the gate. Riders ready. WAtch the lights!
please come to emrald valley bmx in oregon. watch some vids on it im number 9
please do manauling tips and when is the right time to switch to clips
Do a video how to stay close to the grond when you jump
hey Conner I was at a tomy zula clinic and he said to keep slight presser on the front foot... that's the only thing I don't get is it just personal preference? I love what u do and and that you make these vids it really helps when I watched this video every thing just opened up and now I realize what I can fix on my gates thanks so much:] please comment back
Yeh you are the best TH-camr eveeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr go Conner feilds and I also do bmxing also and I have just made my dreams and made the world champs in azabaizan baku I wouldnt of been there if it wasnt for you conner you are my hero hi my name is seamus
Thank u and would u look at the gate or the light
thanks connor i was waiting for this
Hey man I’m having problems finding the right tire size and rollout I feel like it’s to hard to start pedaling or to easy when switch from a 1.60 to a 1.75 like I can’t get the front end up to ride the gate down as it drops
Hy Conner nice video
I will wil and nice 1ste in Zolder SX BMX!!!
I'm totally going to win more races know thanks good info
Awesome!
Bought a start gate. Posted pic of it on fb. Hope I got it. I have three kids that are huge fans.
you won! shoot me a message on facebook!
Hey whats the best way to learn how to slingshot out of a really steep gate? Where do I start?
Connor I know I have asked this other times but can you please come to the fernley bmx track
If I am ever in the area I will!
Thanks
Could you do a tutorial on how to jump properly
hey good gate start tips
What do you consider which is the better the lights or the Whistles ??
whichever you like! they both are fine!
Alejandro Rodriguez I would recommand the lights dude, it allow you to start faster, because your eyes are faster than your ears to tell your brain to go, hope you got it xD
i would reccomend lights coz you have a quicker reaction to ur brain than from the ears to the brain
Thank you for posting this!! My gates have been my main struggle for a while and I feel like you and Bryce really helped me! Also do you go on the light or first beep? Also will you be in Nashville next weekend?
And I love your videos too Bryce Betts
Thank you for this tips i am a german rider and our bmx team has not a trainer maybe you know Jakob bernhard he is also from my BMX team and again thank for this tips
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Nice video guys!!
Can you put a link to the practice gate I’m interested in purchasing it
What about the front pedal, when your are up and ready to start would you push a bit on it or just keep your muscles relaxed?
L luck try to be relaxed til the first beep
Thanks!
hey Gents... curious what is best practice, looking at the gate or the lights?
My 8 yr old raced his first race yesterday and got 3rd place. My question is how do you figure out when the gate will drop to do the slingshot and not go way too soon and eat it ?
cheers Connor, needed to practice my gate starts and that video was helpful.
Question: I have been going to the gym for roughly 2 months and focusing more on explosive exercises and trying to improve my burst out of the gate. been doing: squats, lunges, leg press etc. for my legs and i feel stronger on the bike but not quicker, do you have any suggestions?
Try squat jumps, where you have a slow count squatting down, hold at the bottom, then explode up! Also box jumps with a weighted vest. Flat start sprints with flat pedals where you learn to convert your strength to the bike.
Wait vut how do you have your tired go up and not flind over your vike cause thats what i afraid to do
Please do a how doble manual
Thank
I've been watching elites doing the sling shot you talked about in this vid and have a question or two. 1) does the bike coming back happen naturally or is that something you consciously tell yourself to do?2) do you push off the gate backwards to engage the sling and then advance forward?3) essentially how do you go forward with the body and backwards with the bike simultaneously?Thx
Skimoore Powder good questions, I can answer the third one, the bike goes back because you push the bike with your legs when the gate fall, then you pedal so it comes back :) hope you understanded me ^^'
do you put any pressure on the front pedal?
awesome tips
Hey I was just wondering what time do you start the slingshot. I don't do it and go off the first beep. Was just wondering do I go before the first beep?
Nope, go on the first beep or light, but have to be really focused and ready!
oooh jeah that will be awesome..!!! thnx already..!! ceep on riding..!! (Y)
excellent tutorial.
You are the best toutuber
I need to learn the slingshot and then I will be pretty golden with my gates (for my liking)
Interesting. You call it a slingshot and in our day it was called rolling the gate and it was illegal. I am noticing all the new riders using this technique. The advantages are multiple if one understands anatomy. When was this technique deemed legal again? I am curious. Been watching your vids for a few months and enjoy the trip down memory lane. Signed, the Human Dragster. No, not Tommy Brackens, the other Human Dragster. I'm in my middle 50's and still ride. Still have a Thrills on Wheels sticker on my bike from when I lived in your neck of the woods. Been thinking about hitting Orlando track after watching your vids. Pretty sure I will still be the first guy to the first jump...LOL...Peace!
I can remember around 1983(?) when the ABA formalized that in their rule book - the rider's front tire had to be in contact with the gate until the gate was released and wasn't allowed to break the plane of the gate, informally referred to as the "Ronnie Anderson rule." I just started up again in USA BMX's 46-50 Novice after 35 years away from the sport and I was surprised to see how many expert riders were doing this until the gate operator mentioned that rules had changed.
Thanks for the tips
Interesting to see other peoples perspective on gate starts, everyone has something slightly different to say.
What did you get that gate
good tips
Thanks!
Good video really helpful
Thank you!
any tips for flat pedals. I'm still a novice and can't run clips
Larry Daugherty check out his beginner gate start video
Are u going to Nashville
not this year!
Where is the link
Did anyone show get that plate yet
My coach is working with me on banana pealing
LOL
Amazing video!!,,thank you so much,,I'm off to do gates.
Cheers
#881
It helped 🎉
Are u racing in England at all this yr
no plans to race in england this year
Oh bryce
Nice ! :)
Thx !
I have the same gate as you
awesome I'm ready to win
Who's going to state races
slow motion would be cool
Hi conner
Thank you
i finally know what im doing wrong :') thanks
You're welcome! now go win some races!
thanks ☺
Yo
i hope on some reaction.. :-)
This workerd
big rider
first
Bryce Betts do you think you would have any sponsors without your social media presence?
yes but not the same sponsors or levels of support
Bryce Betts do we explode on the first beep? Or does the gate drop after the fourth beep or something?
Clayy Harvey first beep