How long did it take you to become consistent with the 180 unispin?
I think I got it consistent almost immediately after landing my first one. I spend so much time not commiting, that by the time I did my first my technique was already very clean.
The thing is, I have landed it eight times over this week, the first day it took me two hours and I got two lands makes sense because it was my first day landing it. On the second I got five after two hours, but on the third day, I practiced for two and a half hours and only got one land, because I could never get myself to commit. Do you have any tips to get me to know that I can land it and get over that mental block and just do it, besides just practice because trust me I have tried that. Unless that’s what works. Also my main problem is my back foot because I jump high enough and I can land my feet on but its my back foot, I have tried to tell myself that I can just land on the cranks but my fear is so stubborn.
Your question may be for Finnspin who is the expert but hope its ok if I answer your question on committing. I am by no means an expert but I think I have overcome my fear of committing after 3+ years of being able to land a 180. I overcame it when I knew my chances of falling even with a bad land is quite rare. Sometimes we do have to fall a bit to learn how not to fall, and that takes some time and experience. Few tips I have to lessen the chance of a fall is to recognise a bad land, even when in the middle of a jump, or when we land we feel we are not landing squarely on the crank/pedal, and one of our feet should be ready to land on the floor. Once we have less fear of a fall , we can commit. (Btw, Finnspin was the first one who gave me tips to land a first 180 unispin 
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Learning to commit is tricky. I think it is very different what works for different people, but my main tip would be:
Do things that increase confidence, don’t do things that decrease confidence.
In your case, it sounds like you are doing many failed attempts for hours. That’s probably not increasing confidence, more the opposite, you are racking up failed attempts.
Something you could try is:
- Do a 180° unispin, but planning to land only your front foot on the crank, the other one on the ground.
- Then the same but landing only the back foot on the crank.
- Then a jump mount with a unispin, landing on the cranks.
(Basically typical exercises for unispins). You’ve just shown yourself that you can do all parts separately, so putting them together is possible. Convince yourself of that fact and go for one (or two or three) real attempts.
I would not only practice like this, sometimes when you see that each attempt is getting better, it’s also not bad to just keep trying. But maybe that can give you an idea on how you could build up confidence.
I am actually consistent now, so I think that the best tip is to practice. I was just impatient to land it more. Thank you for the response.
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