A proud little unicyclist!

I found this note under my son’s bed. He’s 6-years old.
Made my day! I have yet to figure out how he spelled unicycle correctly. Maybe a UDC sticker that’s on my cello case.

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Might there be a unicycle.com sticker on his uni? Way to go young Podzol! May you have many more happy turns of the wheel.

ohh man that’s cool stuff.

it’s kinda sweet that he wrote it just cause he wanted to, no prompting or anything.

hehe… that a boy, How old is your son? His writing it better than mine!

That’s great stuff :slight_smile: And he doesn’t even fathom that he’s learning to do something that will impress and amaze people fo rmany years to come haha.

hahah thats awesome

Chase

That’s something to save and pull out when he’s in his 20’s :slight_smile:

Indeed, I will be saving it!

That gone straight to my PC’s backround machine.
Very kewl.

Is it possible to copy that and have it put on a T-shirt?
I’m thinking for his birthday maybe?

EDIT: also makes a killer avatar.

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Hi Gild,
Thanks for the ideas! I think I’d wear that on a T-shirt. I’ll give you some royalties if it goes into production. :slight_smile:

It does make a cool avatar. I’m suprised that it can be read at that resolution. Your avatar, is that an undersea diver? I can’t tell. Do you do scuba?

Any how, the kid is a bit young for the forum, but in another year you might just see that on an avatar associated with some posts that will curdle Miss Ayelery’s tea!

I don’t take milk in my tea, dear, so it’s unlikely to curdle. But I welcome those posts to come. The wee ones should be encouraged to write by any means, and then gently encouraged to write well. It’s the teenagers I have to be tough on. They’ve no excuse save laziness.

MA

would every one here call me cute and little (see my avatar) :roll_eyes:

haha how old are you?

Chase

i was 11 on thursday:p

Hi Hanzy,
Welcome to the unicycling Forum!
Do you unicycle, or are you interested in learning?

Happy Birthday.
Podzol

Finally somebody my age! I’m 12, level 7 almost, and I am 12. Now somebody’s going to try to hook me up… :roll_eyes:

uh oh…

Hes pretty good at spelling, over 50% of that note IS spelled correctly and the whole thing is understandable. Having an interest is a good way of expanding ones vocabulary, my infant school teachers were surprised at how well I did in a standard reading test when I was about 7 and way behind on the reading scheme, I was in a church choir and could read all sorts of interesting words I’d sung and seen in hymn books , the reading scheme books were very dull and boring. Admittedly my spelling and hand writing were incomprehensible for a few more years to come.
Sarah

Right on. I can’t wait to get my little guy on a uni. How old was your child when you taught him to ride?

Hi Tim.
He’s six, we’ve had a 16" uni since he was 6 years and 3 months. It was a very cheap one and the wheel was not true. I spent the money just before Christmas on a 16" torker and that helped him right away.

When he wrote the note (apparently within the past month) he could comfortably move around the house on his uni bracing with one hand on chairs, tables, etc. Just today, though, in the basement he rode 15 feet unassisted and unsupported except for the mount! I am so proud. I will post pictures soon. He turns seven in march and I’m sure he’ll be really motorin’ by then.

He’s about 48" tall and about 50 pounds and honestly, he’s very strong, but not exceptionally coordinated (so I thought) compared to other kids his age. I both delighted AND surprised.

I learned when I was 6 or 7 and I am certain there are many folks who have learned younger. Tri Cities Unicycle club website cites people as young as 18 months starting to learn (At what age the tiny ones get up and ride, I don’t know. You’ll have to ask them :slight_smile: http://www.tcuc.org/faq/#anyage ).

Good luck!
Blake