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Candybar/Saran Wrap

Doing this move requires you be comfortable moving your leg around the motorcycle. Putting your leg over the handle bars is no easy thing, and if you land in this position and aren't ready, be certain a crash will follow. The most efficient way of learning candy bars is to start bringing your leg up to the gas tank as if you were attempting a can can. Instead of putting your leg over the other side of the bike, however, try kicking your foot up towards your head. This must be learned in extremely small increments, and often you will have to move your body back on the bike to allow enough room to put your foot between your hands and over the handlebars. Be sure that if you are needing to move back on the bike because you need more room for your foot to get over the bars, you might have to lean forward as you leave the takeoff. This will compensate for your weight shift as you move your foot over the bars. When you pull your foot back over the bars, you have to be sure to lift it up so your heel won't get caught on the bars.

If your foot does get stuck over the bars (it happens) and you have to "crash land", try to center your body and put most of your weight on the foot that is on the footpegs. Leaning back slightly might help if your body is thrown forward as you hit the ground. When you land, pushing on the bars in order to keep your dangling leg from restricting movement and keep plenty of weight on the leg that is still no the peg; that will help in keeping your leg from taking control of the bike.

When doing the saran wrap, you have to take off your hand (the hand you take off should be the hand on the same side as the foot which is going over the bars) as your leg is going over the bars. Move your leg to the outside of the bike while your hand is coming up and over your leg. As soon as your leg is out from under your hand, you should grab the bars to keep in control. At that point your leg should have a strait shot to the footpeg.

The saran wrap can be sort of strange to learn, mainly because you really just can't throw it out there. It requires the rider to pay attention and coordinate their hand and leg at the same time, but once mastered it is a trick that can be thrown on tiny gaps with little to no risk. See video

STEP BY STEP

Okay, I know I know....this is a left-side camera angle, and since I saran with my right leg/hand, it is not the best video clip to use for this trick. Bear with me, as I've been searching my tape through and throughout to find a right-side video clip for this trick. I'll do my best to explain clearly what's going on in case you can't really tell.

I'm about to be off the ramp here, and I'm a little further forward (not a whole lot though) on the bike then I would be for a "grab trick". I'm just getting ready for this "bar trick". Just like normal, I'm starting to pop off the pegs, but nothing crazy. I'll have my left leg on the peg to push my hips up, and my arms to help seperate myself from the motorcycle.

I'm about a foot or so off the bike, and since this is a very second-nature trick for me, I'm already starting it. You can barely tell that I'm lifting my right leg up by rotating my right-hip muscle up and bending my knee to bring my foot up quicker.

I've reached the point wheree my foot is about even with my seat, and to make room for it going through the bars I must straiten out my arms. I'm actually slackin' off here, and my arms are more bent than they should be. Luckily for me, I've done this trick enough to know exactly how much room I need. However, you shouldn't approach this trick that way, make more than enough room then you think you need.

An important landmark with this trick, and a good stopping point if you're just practicing/working up to it. My foot has reached the crossbar/barpad of my handlebars. I could easily come back now, but if I cross this threshold, coming back will be a little tougher. I'm sure to straiten my arms as much as I can (or as much as I know I need to) to provide myself with plenty of room.

This is the point where if you're just doing a candybar, you would just pause your upper leg where it's at, and extend your knee while using your shoulders to move your upper body forward on the bike to kick it out. Then, bringing it back in it just the opposite of throwing it out, but you do want to be aware of how high your heel stays above the bars, and to not allow it to stag the handlebars on the way back over them.

This looks like the same frame, but my leg has moved over all the way to where my outer-thigh is beginning to brush agaist my right arm. That's my signal that it's time to take my hand off and "wrap" my foot around the right side of my handlebars. I'm somewhat peaking out of the corner of my eye just to ensure nothing crazy is happening to my bike/arm/leg here.

Right now my right-hand is off the handlebar about a foot and a half (you can't see it due to the camera angle), and I know that so I've moved my leg over and to the right of the edge of the right side of my handlebars. It's important to keep the elevation of my foot the same here as I move it to the right, to ensure it doesn't get hung up on the bars.

From practice, I'm aware that my leg has cleared the bars and it's okay to come back the the handlebar with my arm. However, when you're first learning this trick you may want to glance/peak out of the corner of your eye (while still maintaining focus on the landing) so that you know for sure that your leg has cleared the bars completely.

As soon as my leg clears the bars, I want to get my hand back A.S.A.P. for my own control and peace of mind. My foot was moving so fast in the "wrapping" part of the trick that it's already back to the peg (or almost back).

Now I'm just doing what I need to prepare for my landing. My bike is almost perfect - slightly pitched downward to roughly match the landing angle. My legs are prepared with my knees slightly bent, and my arms are the same. I will fine-tune my bike though, mainly because I have the time to do that.

I have a pretty good dirt landing, so I'm spoiling myself and going to make my touch-down perfect. Since I have some extra time, I've allowed my bike to pitch downward a little more. It was actually going to no matter what - that was its natural flight path. All I really did here was not do anything to keep the nose from dropping, such as "panic rev" to try and keep it level/bring it up. I'm ready for the landing, perfect body poisitioning

I'm about to be off the ramp here, and I'm a little further forward (not a whole lot though) on the bike then I would be for a "grab trick". I'm just getting ready for this "bar trick". Just like normal, I'm starting to pop off the pegs, but nothing crazy. I'll have my left leg on the peg to push my hips up, and my arms to help seperate myself from the motorcycle.	I'm about a foot or so off the bike, and since this is a very second-nature trick for me, I'm already starting it. You can barely tell that I'm lifting my right leg up by rotating my right-hip muscle up and bending my knee to bring my foot up quicker.	I've reached the point wheree my foot is about even with my seat, and to make room for it going through the bars I must straiten out my arms. I'm actually slackin' off here, and my arms are more bent than they should be. Luckily for me, I've done this trick enough to know exactly how much room I need. However, you shouldn't approach this trick that way, make more than enough room then you think you need.
An important landmark with this trick, and a good stopping point if you're just practicing/working up to it. My foot has reached the crossbar/barpad of my handlebars. I could easily come back now, but if I cross this threshold, coming back will be a little tougher. I'm sure to straiten my arms as much as I can (or as much as I know I need to) to provide myself with plenty of room.	This is the point where if you're just doing a candybar, you would just pause your upper leg where it's at, and extend your knee while using your shoulders to move your upper body forward on the bike to kick it out. Then, bringing it back in it just the opposite of throwing it out, but you do want to be aware of how high your heel stays above the bars, and to not allow it to stag the handlebars on the way back over them.	This looks like the same frame, but my leg has moved over all the way to where my outer-thigh is beginning to brush agaist my right arm. That's my signal that it's time to take my hand off and "wrap" my foot around the right side of my handlebars. I'm somewhat peaking out of the corner of my eye just to ensure nothing crazy is happening to my bike/arm/leg here.
Right now my right-hand is off the handlebar about a foot and a half (you can't see it due to the camera angle), and I know that so I've moved my leg over and to the right of the edge of the right side of my handlebars. It's important to keep the elevation of my foot the same here as I move it to the right, to ensure it doesn't get hung up on the bars.	From practice, I'm aware that my leg has cleared the bars and it's okay to come back the the handlebar with my arm. However, when you're first learning this trick you may want to glance/peak out of the corner of your eye (while still maintaining focus on the landing) so that you know for sure that your leg has cleared the bars completely.	As soon as my leg clears the bars, I want to get my hand back A.S.A.P. for my own control and peace of mind. My foot was moving so fast in the "wrapping" part of the trick that it's already back to the peg (or almost back).
Now I'm just doing what I need to prepare for my landing. My bike is almost perfect - slightly pitched downward to roughly match the landing angle. My legs are prepared with my knees slightly bent, and my arms are the same. I will fine-tune my bike though, mainly because I have the time to do that.	I have a pretty good dirt landing, so I'm spoiling myself and going to make my touch-down perfect. Since I have some extra time, I've allowed my bike to pitch downward a little more. It was actually going to no matter what - that was its natural flight path. All I really did here was not do anything to keep the nose from dropping, such as "panic rev" to try and keep it level/bring it up. I'm ready for the landing, perfect body poisitioning