Tsunami / Kiss of death

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On the Kiss of Death, Adam Jones sais:

In my opinion the best way to do a good kiss of death is to first learn a conventional superman, but since steve isnt paying me enough to teach you both of them, we will go straight into a big lookback K.O.D.

1. the first step to doing a kod would be to come off the ramp in a good position to get the bike looped out a little bit, not too much or else youre going to end up doing a superhuge move called the boner air.

2. after you get the loop out down without a full boner air, the next thing is to jump forward pointing your head towards your front fender, almost like your trying to bounce your head off your fender.

3. next you want to tuck your legs up to your stomach while keeping a good bit of momentum to push your butt up in the air

4. for me, from here i tuck my head back, because it helps to keep your body moving up, after you tuck your head, your body is pretty close to being straight up if your doing it right, so what you wanna do next is kick your legs straight with a good thrust to try and make your body as straight as possible

5. after you get to full extension, making sure to put your feet together because if you dont youll never hear the end of it from your friends, you want to snap your head back to looking forward, and that will get your body moving back towards the pegs.

6. the last step is to twist on your grips to make your bike come back from being straight up and down, scramble your feet back to the pegs, land smooth and then go brag to all your friends that Adam Jones taught you how to do a Kiss of Death.

On the Kiss of Death, Steve sais:
As you leave the ramp you must be over the front of the bike, and as your rear wheel leaves the lip put your head over the fender while pulling back on the handlebars. When watching most pros do these, you can see as they thrust their head over his bars and into their front fender. This is what redistributes his weight and gives the leverage to eventually push off the handlebars. In the video you can see how far over the fender I get as I do this motion. As you are tucking your head, start pushing down on the handlebars as well, while you lift your rear end up and above your head. Your hands should make a circle motion as you pull back, push down, and then push off of the handlebars while you kick your feet above your head, similar to a hart attack style. To come back on, pull your upper body over the front fender, and then push down on the bars. Grip the handlebars tightly in order to make full use of your arms' movement. Once your body is over the front of the bike and the nose is dropping, ball up your legs slightly to bring them in close to the bike and push them down onto the pegs.

On the "Tsunami" [Kiss of Death] Nate Adams Sais:
"When leaving the ramp/lip , first begin to look behind you toward your back fender. This will put your head behind your shoulders and will bring your butt up to be in alignment with your back ( straight up and down ). Then extend your legs as straight as you can to complete the trick. After extending it the first thing you will need to do to bring it back, is look back toward your handle bars to get your sense of balance back and then tuck your legs back and put them on the pegs as soon as possible. This way you be at least some what prepared for the landing."

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