Rider Submitted Description #1

VARIATIONS: Fufanus, tiretaps, x-up abubucas, barspin abubucas, one-handed abubucas, etc.

DESCRIPTION: Start out by learning these on flat ground.  Keep one or two fingers on your brake lever, whichever is more comfortable and works for you.  Start at a slow pace and do a bunnyhop manual, put all of your weight on your back tire and pull hard on your brake lever.  Make sure you keep your tire at the right height to stay in your balance point (as you do in a manual). Lean back but not to far.  When you get them down on flat start trying them on banks or steeper areas.  Do the same as on flat but then pull your front end up a little more and bunnyhop up and fakie back.  When you are comfortable with those try them on curbs or small corners.  Sort of shoot yourself into the corner so that you stick.  It will take a while but eventually you will find the right area you need to land so that your tire stays.  When you get those down start trying them on banks to ledges.  To get out pull your front tire back really hard then lift off your back, suck up your bike so that your front tire doesn't hang up on the object and try to even out your bike with what you are landing on then fakie out.  Make sure you start out small and work your way up.  Good luck.

Submitted By:  Travis

Rider Submitted Description #2

VARIATIONS: One handed, no-footed, one-footed, X-up, no-handed, and anything else you can think of 

DESCRIPTION: To do this trick, ride straight up the transition of the ramp you are doing the abubaca on. Make sure you have enough speed to get the back wheel on top of the coping, sub-box, or whatever you plan to land on ride with your predetermined speed and bunny hop off of the lip. Lean back and push the bike forward pull the brakes and land in the manual position on the coping. to drop back in still hold the brake and bunnyhop straight back into the transition. Make sure to let go of the break on re-entry and hold on for a scary fakie back down

Submitted By:  Luke Bornn

Rider Submitted Description #3

PREREQUISITES: Tailtaps, small fakie airs, fakie sprocket rock and rolls....pretty much any fakie or rollback trick is going to help on this one.

VARIATIONS: Abubaca to icepick, one handed abubaca, no footed, front wheel, on the back rail of a ramp, benches, coping, this is a trick that is extremely versatile. (When Wilkerson invented this, I think it was called a backwards abubaca. The front wheel was the normal way to do it until street took off in 1988 or so and everybody started to do this on benches and such.) 

DESCRIPTION: Before you even start this one you should be very confident with fakie tricks. Learn to ride up the transition, then roll right back down backwards. I do this trick with a freecoaster and I think its a lot easier that way. If you run a freewheel you are going to have to pedal backwards Then learn to hook up your sprocket when you roll up, then roll back down. Once you are confident with rolling backwards at high speeds, pick a small ramp, maybe 4 feet tall, or maybe a box jump transition. You can also learn them on banks but to me the feeling isn't quite the same. Approach the ramp a medium speed. Faster than a peg stall, maybe a little slower than a disaster. You don't need to go super fast, just enough to land your back wheel on the coping. As your front wheel leaves the ramp, pull back on the bars, and get your weight over the back wheel. Pull your back brake hard and try to fly out just a little bit to land your back wheel on the coping. If you fly out too far, you won't be able to make it back it without hopping, and nobody does it like that anymore. Land in the stall just on or behind the coping, and KEEP THE BIKE STRAIGHT. If you get crooked you won't be able to make it back in. Stall for just a second and prepare to jump backwards into the transition. This is by far the hardest part of the trick. BE CONFIDENT and don't hesitate, that's the biggest killer of this trick. After just a second, jump back into the transition by pulling the bars back towards you and pulling your back wheel off the coping. Get your weight off the back wheel, I think over the center of the bike is best. Be careful with your front wheel, pull back hard so you don't hang it up on the coping on the way in. Most of the time you won't, but it can hurt if you do. You'll feel a little weightless when you drop back in, and then you'll be in the middle of the fastest rollback you've ever been in. Keep the bike straight, roll back into the next transition or do a back wheel 180 and roll away. Ledges are about the same, but you have to hop a lot harder up to the ledge, push your weight back like crazy, and aim your back wheel at the ledge.

Submitted By:  Darren Hough

Rider Submitted Description #4

VARIATIONS: One-handed, one-footed, X-up... Combinations of those.

DESCRIPTION: The abubaca was invented and named by Ron Wilkerson way back in the day. You can do an abubaca on pretty much any obstacle. Vert-ramp (scary), mini-ramp, banked incline, etc etc. I've even seen it done on a fire hydrant. :) Basically it's a tailtap fakie. You bunny-hop on top of something then LAND and BALANCE on your BACK wheel (front wheel never touching the top of the transition or deck or fire hydrant :)) then bunny-hop UP and BACK and roll backwards DOWN the transition. It's best to learn it on a small bank, maybe with a parking block or something similar at the top. I'll assume that you're learning it on a bank. 1) Start by rolling up the bank JUST fast enough to clear the top. 2) As you roll up the bank, LEAN BACK and pull the front wheel up off the surface. 3) Do a little bunny-hop up onto the top of the bank, landing your BACK wheel on the TOP of the curb -- this is the tricky part because you have to be going fast enough to clear the top of the bank but NOT so fast that you can't STALL on your back wheel on the top of the bank AND you have to have a finger or two free to clamp down on that back brake when you're in the air. 4) Balance there for just a second then bunny-hop up and back HARD, landing on the transition. On a bank you have to bunny-hop really hard to get your front wheel all the way back onto the bank. 5) Roll backwards... :) The hard part, at least to me, is LANDING and BALANCING on your back wheel. It might be helpful to do it on a bank without the first bunny-hop. In other words, do a manual up the bank, come to a stop at the top then pull back and roll-back down the bank. Abubacas are hard to describe (heh). How hard it is to DO just depends on what sort of obstacle you're doing it on.

Submitted By: DGW

Rider Submitted Description #5

VARIATIONS: Xup, 1 handed xup, barspin, manual to fufanu, no footed.

DESCRIPTION: It is easy to learn abubucas on a small bank. Once you have them down, you can do them on ledges or anything else that is on top of a bank or hill. they can also be done on mini ramps and quarter pipes etc. 1. Roll up to the bank with enough speed to jump off the top of it. 2. When you get to the top of the bank, jump up and stall your back tire on right on the lip with your front tire in the air. 3. Once you have stalled on the lip, jump backwards off of your back tire back into the transition. it is important to get your front tire back over the lip. 4. Roll backwards down the transition until you reach the flat ground. 5. Once you reach the flat ground, whip your bike around 180 degrees so you are going forward again (just how you pull out of a roll back).  You can roll them back for as long as you want.  This is probably my favorite trick right now because you can always do it on something bigger and faster.  As long as you can roll back with a little bit of speed and can do tire taps, you will be able to do abubucas.

Submitted By:  Zach

Rider Submitted Description #6

PREREQUISITES: Bunnyhops are a must if you want to abubaca. You should also have good balance so you can keep you're front end up.  Practice manuals.

VARIATIONS: 360 to abubaca, 720 to abubaca, barspin to abubaca, tailwhip to abubaca.

DESCRIPTION: 1) Ride towards an obstacle at a moderate speed. This speed should be just comfortable for you. 2) When you get to about 2 feet/or a distance you would need to bunnyhop over the obstacle, begin to pull up your front end, shifting your weight to the rear. 3) Then lift up your back end like you were going to bunnyhop, your butt should be past your seat a lot so you can keep your balance when you hit the obstacle. 4) When you get in the air, lock up your rear brake with two fingers so you will stay on the obstacle. 5) Try to hit the top of the obstacle at first, then you can eventually work your way towards hitting the corner of the obstacle. 6) When you hit the obstacle with the rear wheel, your bike will want to go forward, shift your weight to the front, with the bike a little bit but not to much that your front end touches the obstacle. 7) After that, rock your bike to the back, to get the momentum you need to spring off the obstacle. DO NOT LET GO OF THE BRAKE UNTIL YOU ARE IN THE AIR GOING OFF THE OBSTACLE! 8) When you begin to land, release the brake and land with both wheels touching the ground at the same time. Then go into a roll-back and spin a 180. 9) Ride away happily.

Submitted By:  Joe Felice

Rider Submitted Description #7

PREREQUISITES: Rollouts, tiretaps (not essential), bunnyhopping.

VARIATIONS: Barspin abubaca, xup abubaca, be inventive!!

DESCRIPTION: For this trick, you need to approach the ramp (mini, or whatever), at a speed that will at least get your back wheel level with the coping. Just before your wheel gets to the coping, you should hop a little to allow your wheel to connect with the coping (makes it look cooler), as you hop slam your rear brake on so that you don't slip when you are on the coping (hurts if you do).  As you feel the bike connect with the coping, allow your bodyweight to absorb the impact, all the time keeping your ass behind the seat. The idea of this is so that you can push you body back up to 'hop' off the coping. gripping your seat with your knees helps, as it will help keep you stable when you are on the coping. now, rolling out should be easy, (c'mon you can't say you can't do this) just roll down the ramp, allowing the crank to spin backwards (let your legs go with it) then whip your brake on, and pivot around to the left or right, depending on whether you are left or right-handed.  There you can now go and try it for yourself!!

Submitted By:  The Caveman

Rider Submitted Description #8

PREREQUISITES: On ramps, it's good to be able to do basic tailtaps and fufanus.  Know how to re-enter from the tricks without casing.  You might also want to know how to do air to fakies to know how to re-enter properly.

VARIATIONS: You can add x-ups, barspins, tables, x-up to barspin, no- footers, anything you can think of basically, originality is key when on the back wheel.

DESCRIPTION: First, approach the ramp with the same speed you would as a tailtap or fufanu. Keep your body centered over the bike and head straight up the face of a quarter pipe (when learning, it's good on a mellow ramp, calms the nerves). This is where precision comes in, you want to get your rear wheel to land right on top of the coping, it is more difficult than the fufanu because you can't see the ramp behind you. You can get the feeling by just going up the ramp, getting the wheel on the coping and just pushing forward to put your front wheel on the deck. Once you get the balls up to go through with it, head up the ramp. With your weight centered, put your rear wheel on the coping. Do your best to stall it out as long as you can, balance and centering your body and bike is super key.  Now for the hardest part, the re-entry.  I found that by pushing the bars forward and just exploding up and back will bring your rear wheel far enough away from the coping that it won't hang up!  So just push your bars forward , explode up and back and land on the ramp going reverse, ride out like a normal fakie. After ramps you can bring the abubaca to many different spots such as bank to sub-box, bank to rail, and any other street object that you see fit.

Submitted By:  Ryan Demoura

Rider Submitted Description #9

DESCRIPTION:  You can do these on just about anything. i.e.. ramp, ledge, rail. 1. To do an abubaca, you must first know how to bunnyhop and role out fakie. 2. Approach the object ( ledge, ramp, or rail) with moderate or slow speed depending on your comfort level. 3. Bunnyhop as needed and brake as soon as you get your rear wheel off the ground. it helps to use only one finger, either your middle finger or index finger depending on where your brake lever is. 4. Tag the ledge or whatever with your back wheel and lean your butt behind the seat as if doing a manual. this will keep the front end up and keep the weight on the back wheel. stall for just a second and keep you r balance for as long as you can. 5. When your ready to dismount, bunnyhop backwards by pulling all your weight back and pumping trying not to hit your front wheel on the ledge. 6. When you land, don't forget to back pedal. you can role back as long as you want. when your done tap the back brake and turn your head in the direction you want to spin, pulling out and riding away smoothly. Abubacas are nice healthy alternative to peg grinds and are extra fun as well!

Submitted By:  Ryan Lamont

Rider Submitted Description #10

PREREQUISITES: Rollbacks/fakie airs are a MUST, tailtaps.

VARIATIONS: One-handed, one-footed, no-footed, 360 (cabalarriel) to fakie, can-can, no-footed can-can, rocket abubacas (stall while on back pegs), x-up, barspin etc.

DESCRIPTION: First, you will need to find a quarterpipe with coping or a small ramp with a flat ledge above it. Before you try the stalling part of the trick, ride up the ramp somewhat slowly and bunnyhop to fakie, just so you can get used to how fast you're gonna be rolling back. Once you have a grasp of the fakie part, ride at the ramp at a fast enough pace to air out at least a foot or so, or fast enough to land on the flat ledge if you're using a ramp without a lip. AS SOON as you feel your back tire get air, grab your back brake hard. Try to aim your landing for the very edge of the coping or the ledge. Now the longer you stall, the better the trick looks, but knowing your balance points is more important when learning abubacas. When you are ready to jump back in, do the following in one quick motion. Lean your body back but use your arms to keep the bike in the same place or even a little forward. Then snap the bike backwards, like you would for a bunnyhop and make sure your back tire is high enough to clear the lip/ledge. LET GO OF YOUR BACK BRAKE! Make sure that you've spotted your landing, and try to get your bike pretty close to vertical when you land (if you're on a quarterpipe). The rest is just like riding fakie. The most important thing to remember is that your bike should be straight when you are just about to jump back in, because otherwise you WILL land crooked on the ramp and you'll most likely loop out, unless you have exceptional bike control.

Submitted By:  CyUrU

Rider Submitted Description #11

PREREQUISITES: Don't even try an abubaca until you can do a rollback and a fakie air. I was doing 180s to fakie and had them wired before I tried it. You also kind of want to know how to tail tap.

VARIATIONS: I don't know...There's like barspin to abubaca,x-up abubaca, barspin out....stuff like that.

DESCRIPTION: When I first learned abubacas, it was on the lip of a shitty old dirt jump. I'd say you can learn them on anything with a nice transition. Approach the object of your choice with enough speed just to land on the top like a tail tap. When you reach the top, you have to bunnyhop and pull up enough so you are at a good balance point. Don't pull up too far or you might loop out and if you don't pull up enough, the front wheel will fall down and if it falls, on your next try pull up a little harder....Knowatimsayin? Once you learn the balancing on the wheel, you just do a little hop and sort of pull the bike back in and roll out of it fakie. If you watch people who are good at it, then you'll get the idea and with a lot of practice. They aren't that hard. Then later you can try them on a sub box or guard rail or whatever to make it harder. They're fun.

Submitted By:  Sean Pederson

Rider Submitted Description #12

Sprocket Abubaca

TIME DOING TRICK: From 2-4 Months

PREREQUISITES: Bunnyhops, 50-50 stalls, rollbacks. WARNING!- I would not attempt this trick without having a decently thick sprocket (10mm thick would be best)and chain (1/8 will work, 3/16 is best) if you plan on doing concrete! 

VARIATIONS: X-up, barspin, out of grinds, 180 out.

DEFINITION: Stalling on a surface on your sprocket/chain.

DESCRIPTION: To do an abubaca, you must first find a decently high ledge, about waist height.  It can be basically any material, but concrete is most fun. Once you get better, you can do higher stuff.  Approach the ledge at a medium speed, going straight at it. When your front tire is about two feet away from the ledge, bunny hop onto it so that the sprocket rests on top of the ledge and your chain is against the edge. Don't go so fast that your front tire falls and touches the ledge, next pull back on the bars and use your legs to hop off the ledge. After your front tire is clear of the ledge, lean your weight forward again so your bike lands flat on the ground. Come out of it like you would a 180 roll-back. This is a fun trick because it is extremely original, and because it causes damage to the material you're doing it on > :)

Submitted By:  Anthony Perone

Rider Submitted Description #13

PREREQUISITES: Fakie airs (not necessarily above coping) and easy lip tricks like 50-50 stall and feeble stall. 

VARIATIONS: X-up, one handed.

DESCRIPTION: First off, find a mellow ramp, it shouldn't be too high. I suggest 4 feet. It's a lot easier if the ramp doesn't have a coping! As opposed to many other lip tricks, you have to approach the ramp in a straight line.  Perform the trick on the center of the ramp.  You should approach the ramp with more speed than a regular 50-50 stall.  Make sure though that you are not going to fast, this will launch you way to far onto the deck.  Ride onto the ramp and lift your front wheel just like you would do with a fakie air, but don't bunnyhop!  Keep your front wheel up and focus on the back wheel. You don't have to know how to manual for this trick! When you feel your back wheel approaching the edge of deck and platform pull your rear brake and 'stall' your back wheel on the edge, or slightly over the edge, on to the platform. Be sure to have your arms stretched!  I always look at my bars or front wheel at this point.  Lift your weight slightly to the front, so you front wheel will go back down a little.  Then immediately pull the bars backwards, this gives you enough strength to hop your back wheel back into the transition.  The first few times you're front wheel probably hits the coping or the platform, but after you've practiced this trick about a zillion times, you'll feel much more comfortable and your front wheel will just glide into the transition!  Please be sure your rear brake works!  It is no fun to have your back wheel slipping through the brakes on the platform.  That'll result in falling backwards straight onto the ground.  You shouldn't be too scared either, try to feel confident, even if it doesn't work, you usually have enough time to let go of your bike or to reach the platform.

Submitted By:  Hein