Flatland/Street-Tutorials

if the trick is that i was wrong haha , i think in another hm.
Unihopper i have a question for you haha , how long takes to you land your firsts flat ttricks? leg around , crankrolls , rolling wrap , 180 unispin 360…
I pratice so much , but the tricks takes so much time to i land hehe , i think i’m a very very slow learner :stuck_out_tongue:

Yup, varial roll. That’s a really pretty skill.

Erik, I know what you mean about learning these skills. I haven’t worked on them very much yet since I didn’t know about them before this thread - but I think they may just look a little bit easier than they are…most of this freestyle stuff is not eye-popping in the way a standup wheelwalk is for example, but I’m sure is just as difficult…

Try breaking things down into simple steps, and then mastering them in order, like the donkey kick tutorial suggests. For example, when I start working on seatwraps and other similar skills, I’m going to run electrical tape around my fork and through my spokes so my wheel won’t be able to turn. That way I can allow my muscle memory to learn the requisite movements over a period of days, until I can do it quickly and simply, flawlessly, and only then will I add in the element of front/back balance by removing the tape. Then, I’ll learn the seatwrap like normal, but I’ll be miles ahead of someone learning from scratch.
Another advantage of small steps is that you can notice on a daily basis that you actually ARE improving, which is comforting.

oK. JUSt watched the seatwrap tut again, and taping like I described wont work.

instead, tape two bars pependicularly through you spokes so the tire can only revolve 1/4 of the way.

Cheers.

I’m going to emend the design one last time!

Tape the CRANKS to the spokes. Then, they will remain horizontal.

Your cranks and spokes will already remain in the same position relative to each other… (unless you have a schlumpf geared hub)

Just learn it normally, your cranks rolling won’t be a problem, your point of balance and hand/leg movements will give you more trouble.

Intoit relax man , Do not look for many alternatives to learn a trick, simply try, can take minutes, hours, days, weeks or even one month, but the taste of getting land the trick is indescribable, no matter how small, when I learned just broke in two seatwrap share the first leg wrap, then learned the second part, it took me almost one week, but it was awesome when I could do it, I’m very impatient, I like to learn things quick ways, the unicycle has been great therapy for me, see this thread that I created!

Haha, it’s a talent and passion of mine to bypass things/accomplish goals in alternative ways - the ways that the majority of people do…just about anything…is rarely actually best, from my experience. In this case though, I think I agree with Julia. The cranks rolling isn’t nearly as big of a problem as I thought it would be.
But projects of this type are fun nonetheless.

havent seen a double flip tutorial so heres one, its missing a lot of things :stuck_out_tongue:
have any question feel free to ask :slight_smile:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLjYouW5Fgk

I haven’t been working on the seatwrap TOO much, but I do a little bit every day (I use the mount a lot) and I’ve started showing some improvement quicker than I expected. Really want to get the pedalgrab down… but I can’t work on it for long because I smoke and I get exhausted very, very quickly.

Quitting smoking in a few days when I go back to my parents’ over the break. I think then, by the time I get my new uni two weeks from now, I will have a little bit better respiration and can practice tiring tricks for longer. Wish me luck on that one.

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How to jump high.

Just click the Insert Link button (its a globe with a paper clip on it), and then copy paste the youtube video link in, and it’ll embed itself automatically. :slight_smile:

If you are looking for tutorials, check out http://www.unicyclist.ca/.

Wow! lots of videos to follow. Just 1 video at a time though to perfect most of the tricks here.

This page is a good idea :smiley:

Thanks guys for some awesome tutorials (:

super !!

its wonderfool +100500

bump

Some really good information here.
Don’t want beginner to be lost in the thousands of threads with just one or two video tutorials in them.

Here’s a site with a lot of street tutorials http://www.relentlessbyfate.com

Keep em up!

I am getting into flat give a list of trick tutorials in order i should learn please