I've been trying to learn the barspin for months. Three days ago, I got to the point where I could do it well without thinking, and I even learned the manual barspin. Then, while trying to do a 180 barspin, I fell and hit my back and head. From then on, it's like I'd forgotten how to do it and I'm doing it sketchy. Has this happened to anyone else? Here's a clip of my second manual barspin ever. And now i can’t think of doing it again ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
Is it normal to forget how to barspin?
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by LoveSausages
4 Comments
Consequence of no helmet
Probably dealing with some PTSD. I once opened my arm up pretty bad doing an over icepick. After that I stopped doing them for years because of that crash. Took a while to try them again.
Did you by chance lower your seat ? I did once without thinking and couldn’t for the life of me figure out why I couldn’t barspin anymore. Raised my seat and voila could do it again no problem.
You can be proud of that clip, even if it was just the manny or just the bar spin BUT it’s clear you don’t have the bar spin on lock yet. Trying to 180 bar you’re really playing with fire. Go back to hop bars till you got em dialed. Then up curbs, off ledges, then to banks, etc. I see younger guys at the bike park trying to progress too fast and it usually bites em in the ass. Master the first move before trying combos. Or go do fly outs on the resi. Consider wearing a helmet. I was riding trails last October and looped out smashed the back of my head I’m 100% certain the helmet saved my life all I got was a mild concussion. Anyway good luck bro