Uploaded January 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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When doing Beetle Races in the correct direction gets boring.
Both of these use a glitch to gain control, and the animation slides just came from mucking around.

CAVES BEETLE RACE
Gain Control - Enter Orangstand Barrel just before you fail. If this is your first time entering the Barrel, you'll get a FTT and will gain control afterwards.
Reverse Direction - A lot of jumping has to be done in order to bypass the slide trigger. It's not exactly consistent. It's then just a matter of working your way up. There are some invisible walls along the way that you have to bypass (NOTE: It looks like I used L to Levitate to bypass one of them, but I didn't. The wall literally forces you upwards like that).
Unfortunately there are gaps in the race.

AZTEC BEETLE RACE
Gain Control - Do the Beetle Race Skip, but Grab the GB just before you fail the race.
Reverse Direction - Bypassing the slide trigger here seems to be just as annoying as the Caves Beetle Race one. But if you long Jump and then slide-kick, you should be able to bypass it with a slide-kick-slide..
Unfortunately, there seems to be a point mid-race which automatically puts you back into the regular slide..

Aztec Beetle Race Skip - youtube.com/watch?v=bEgMJqYqHt8