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Manual, Bunnyhop, 360 Bunnyhop, Stall/Abubaca, Fufanu, Grinding

    Street riding is where you ride around using anything at all to perform tricks off.  These tricks can include anything from airs, manuals, flatland tricks, wall rides and grinds.

THE MANUAL.  A stand up, non peddling version of the wheelie, a lot harder than doing a wheelie though. Once you have pulled the front of the bike up you need to be able to keep your arms straight and bend and straighten your legs to balance yourself. It takes good balance to be able to stay up, keep a finger or two on the rear break so that you don't loop out!

THE BUNNYHOP.  (Pretty much a fundamental for street riding) The bunnyhop is properly done by lifting the front end of the bike first and then-all at once-under weighting the rear end of the bike so you can clear whatever obstacle or gap that gets in your rode.  It takes a bit of practise to get good at bunny hopping, keep practising and you may become the world champion.  The record is well over a metre!
TIP:  To get big air of jumps of small jumps (i.e., a gutter jump), you need to know how to bunnyhop because that is what you do just before the lip.

360 BUNNYHOP.  A bunnyhop that you spin 180 degrees when in the air, land on your back wheel and pivot another 180 degrees before riding off.   180 + 180 = 360.

STALL/ABUBACA.  Usually done on ramp, but can be achieved during street.  Find a lip with something to land on after it.  Go up the lip then land your back wheel on the landing while leaning back with the back break on hard.  Once you have stalled there for a little bit, start to fall backwards and do a bunnyhop back down the lip, rollback out of it.

FUFANU.    Pretty much the same as a abubaca but instead of going backwards into a fakey, you do a 180 as your dropping back in so that you ride out forwards.

GRINDING.  This can be lot's of fun, it's where you slide along a ledge or rail on your pegs.  The easiest proper grind that I find to do is the feeble grind.  This is executed by riding along next to a ledge, then bunnyhop your front wheel onto the ledge but let your back peg land on the ledge and slide along, it's easy because you can steer a little bit.  The easiest grind on a low rail is the back peg grind, this can be used by beginners to get the feel for having the peg sliding along something it's kinda cool to do them once in awhile to! just ride next to the low rail, do a small nose wheelie and land the back peg on the rail with your front wheel left on the ground.  Make sure that you lean the bike into the rail so the peg doesn't fall off, don't steer the front wheel into the pole either!  Double peg grinds on rails are a bit harder because you can't steer, you have to keep your weight centred, all I can say is bunnyhop onto the pole or rail with both pegs, practise practise practise.

This is all that I have added for the moment, hope that what is here will help you out, Hopefully I will get to add some more stuff in the future.