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Street
Street is one of the more popular forms of BMX freestyle. Street includes anything and everything you encounter while riding in the streets. Some of the staples of street biking are hand rails, gaps, and stair sets. More technical street tricks include wall rides, manual tricks, and various types of stalls. Professional street riders include: Van Homan, Garret Brynes, Josh Stricker and Garrett Byrnes.
Park
Park is another popular form of BMX freestyle. Park is simply biking at a skatepark. Park biking includes ledges, ramps, boxes, quarter pipes and anything else the particular park has to offer. Many street riders also ride park because it is somewhat similar to street. Professional park bikers include: Allistar Whitton, Seth Kimbrough, Ryan Barret and Kevin Porter.
Vert
Vert biking isn't the most popular style but is probably one of the more difficult. Vert biking is done on a half pipe (vert ramp) and includes many spin and flip tricks. It is also common to see vert riders link flips and spins into one trick such as a 360 backflip. The most famous BMX riders are vert riders and include: Dave Mirra, Matt Hoffman, and Kevin Robinson.
Dirt
Dirt BMX is not as popular as street because of the lack of places to ride dirt. To make a dirt spot you have to dig up dirt and shape it into jumps. This process can be explained in the Building Trails section. In dirt BMX the jumps usually flow so you land one jump and go right into another so it takes a quick mind or a pre planned run to be a good dirt rider. Also many dirt jumps have a landing ramp That means that there is a gap that you have to clear to hit the jump successfully. There is little room for error. If you don't clear the jump the results could be bad depending on the sizse of the jump and the gap size. Pro dirt riders include: Chris Doyle, Corey Bohan, Cory "Nasty" Nastazio, and Mike Aitke.
Flatland
Flatland is probably the most uncommon style of freestyle BMX. Flatland consists of various one-wheeled flatground spin tricks and grabs. All flatland bikes are very light and have large pegs with rubber grips making them useless for grinds but perfect for flatland peg grabs. Pro flatland riders include: Chad de Groot, Martti Kuoppa, and Paul Osika.
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