hi freaks,
today I made my first uphill-gliding for a distance over about 80-100m…now I’m very happy 
It’s really a great feeling to roll down the hill. With the gliding technic you can try to drive as far as normal bikes down steep hills…
Do anyone of you know good tips and hints for better gliding ?
thanks and
greetings
-felix
Re: gliding sucess
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:57:00 -0600, foxx
<foxx.1fa2m@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote:
Did you really glide uphill for 80-100 m (being pulled by something
then I guess) or did you mean DOWNhill?
Klaas Bil
>hi freaks,
>
>today I made my first uphill-gliding for a distance over about
>80-100m…now I’m very happy It’s really a great feeling to roll
>down the hill. With the gliding technic you can try to drive as far as
>normal bikes down steep hills…
>Do anyone of you know good tips and hints for better gliding ?
>
>thanks and
>greetings
>
>-felix
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hi people,
sorry for this big big mistake in my posting! I wrote “up” instead of “down”…these two words I’m always mixing up English is a very difficult language…hehe
Once again: It’s really a great feeling to roll down the hill. With the gliding technic you can try to drive as far as normal bikes down steep hills (nearly).
Do anyone of you know good tips and hints for better gliding ?
greetings from germany
-felix
Re: gliding sucess
In a message dated 3/14/02 8:03:18 AM Eastern Standard Time,
foxx.1iaem@timelimit.unicyclist.com writes:
>
>
>
>
> hi people,
>
> sorry for this big big mistake in my posting! I wrote “up” instead of
> “down”…these two words I’m always mixing up English is a very
> difficult language…hehe
>
> Once again: It’s really a great feeling to roll down the hill. With the
> gliding technic you can try to drive as far as normal bikes down steep
> hills (nearly).
>
> Do anyone of you know good tips and hints for better gliding ?
>
> greetings from germany
> -felix
Re: gliding sucess
Felix, I’d like to hear your tips on how you got into gliding. I just
mastered one-foot-wheel walk. I’m ready to glide.
Joe
>
> hi people,
>
> sorry for this big big mistake in my posting! I wrote “up” instead of
> “down”…these two words I’m always mixing up English is a very
> difficult language…hehe
>
> Once again: It’s really a great feeling to roll down the hill. With the
> gliding technic you can try to drive as far as normal bikes down steep
> hills (nearly).
>
> Do anyone of you know good tips and hints for better gliding ?
>
> greetings from germany
> -felix
Re: Re: gliding sucess
When I learned to glide, I started by 1ft wheel walking down a hill, and trying to extend the scuff part in to a glide. I did learn to glide that way, but afterwards I had to relearn it so I could ride fast on flat ground (or down a hill) and start gliding with some speed. My friend learned to 1ftww, and than started working on gliding by riding in to it, and he progressed faster than I did.
Now, my question is, I see some people get in to a glide by riding one footed for a few rotations. The most natural way for me to do is to bring my dominant foot from the back pedal to the tire, and go half a rotation with my other foot to get in to balance for gliding. Is there any advantage to riding a few rotations one footed before starting the glide? I’m not so great riding one footed with my left foot, so I haven’t been able to get it to work.
Ben
Re: gliding sucess
On the subject of gliding, anyone have any comments on gliding with knobby
tires?
I haven’t been actively working on gliding on my muni. One day, I rode it
to class. I was wearing my most non-unicycling shoes (the soul is far from
being flat, lots of annoying bumps and stuff). Anyway, I randomly tried to
glide, and succeeded at over 150 feet (the entire length of the hill) with
my horrible shoes, lack of practice, and a 24x3.0 Gazz tire.
Maybe it’s just one of those things where if I don’t try for a while, I’ll
try once, and beat my old record by a factor of 5.
Jeff Lutkus
Since I hit the reply button on Ben’s message… I don’t see the point of
riding several revolutions one-footed, but I suppose I could. For whatever
reason, I’m best at one-footed riding with my right foot, and I glide with
my left foot. Is anyone else like this? I think I became left-dominant in
gliding because from the start, I tried to go right from riding into
gliding.
>
> Nycjoe@aol.com wrote:
>> *Felix, I’d like to hear your tips on how you got into gliding. I
>> just
>> mastered one-foot-wheel walk. I’m ready to glide.
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> *
>
> When I learned to glide, I started by 1ft wheel walking down a hill,
> and trying to extend the scuff part in to a glide. I did learn to glide
> that way, but afterwards I had to relearn it so I could ride fast on
> flat ground (or down a hill) and start gliding with some speed. My
> friend learned to 1ftww, and than started working on gliding by riding
> in to it, and he progressed faster than I did.
>
> Now, my question is, I see some people get in to a glide by riding one
> footed for a few rotations. The most natural way for me to do is to
> bring my dominant foot from the back pedal to the tire, and go half a
> rotation with my other foot to get in to balance for gliding. Is there
> any advantage to riding a few rotations one footed before starting the
> glide? I’m not so great riding one footed with my left foot, so I
> haven’t been able to get it to work.
>
> Ben
>
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RE: gliding sucess
> Now, my question is, I see some people get in to a glide by riding one
> footed for a few rotations. The most natural way for me to do is to
> bring my dominant foot from the back pedal to the tire, and go half a
> rotation with my other foot to get in to balance for gliding. Is there
> any advantage to riding a few rotations one footed before starting the
> glide? I’m not so great riding one footed with my left foot, so I
> haven’t been able to get it to work.
I think it’s mostly a matter of what works for you. I learned by riding one
foot and transferring that foot to the tire, sounds like the same as you.
Then other riders were doing it straight from two-footed pedaling. This was
always scarier for me, because the way they did it they had both feet
briefly off the pedals and tire. But it clearly works well for them,
including Emi Uji of Japan, who won the gliding competiions (overall,
beating all the women and men) at both UNICONs IX and X. If you are
comfortable with that method, you can reach a higher speed before starting
your glide, which is an advantage in that event.
If you start from one-footing, you’re limited to your top one-foot speed. I
have since learned to glide from two-foot riding, but am not as comfortable
with that as the original way I learned it. I’m sure I could be though, if I
practiced it more.
Stay on top,
John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone
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Re: gliding sucess
When gliding, do both feet scuff the tire or only one? I’ve been working
on this for some time, but I can’t figure out if it is better to have the
foot resting on the frame slightly scuffing or completely off the tire.
Thanks,
Jeff
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RE: gliding sucess
> When gliding, do both feet scuff the tire or only one? I’ve
> been working on this for some time, but I can’t figure out
> if it is better to have the foot resting on the frame slightly
> scuffing or completely off the tire.
From the point of view of the IUF and Standard Skill competition, gliding is
done with one foot only on the tire:
“Riding with one foot on the wheel and the other foot resting on the frame,
maintaining balance only by the braking action of the foot on the wheel. In
c), d) the free leg is extended.”
This definition makes sense for indoor competitive riding on a level floor.
When going downhill, a second foot can be very helpful though.
The basic gliding position is to have one foot on the tire and the other on
the frame. The frame foot provides a lot of stability while the tire foot
controls the speed/balance.
But on a long hill, your hamstring will get tired and possibly even cramp
up. Especially if the hill is steep. So I often use the toe of my other foot
to help out, while keeping that foot on the fork to maintain my anchor onto
the unicycle. Now my dominant foot can use lighter pressure and continue to
do the controlling, while the other foot holds a steady pressure into the
tire, like a unicycle brake that’s set with a shift lever.
In Standard Skill you can also glide with one foot on the tire and the other
leg extended. That ups the difficulty quite a bit. Then there’s backward
gliding, with the foot behind the frame, and stand up gliding, with one foot
standing on the fork and the other gliding. Those are the only variations on
our current Standard Skill list, though other forms of gliding have been
done.
Stay on top,
John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone
jfoss@unicycling.com
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bathroom light bulb in a 737?” Based on what I saw on the way home from
Phoenix recently, three!