Hello everyone

I’ll start by opologising (sp) because I’m sure you get millions of these sort of posts but anyhoooo. As you may have already relised, I’m new. I decided to buy myself a unicycle 3 days ago because I’ve always been interested in the idea of riding a ‘one wheeler’ and so I raided ebay in search of a unicycle. On the advise of a few a random websites I bought a 20inch cycle as that fitted my height and waited…
So a bit about myself,
my names Lee, I’m 16 and live in Newcastle, UK. My other hobbies include parkour (google it if you don’t know what it is) and 2 wheeled trials riding (which gives my a certain level of experience of being on on one wheel, although I don’t no whether that should help me or not)
Within the past 3 days I’ve just about mastered what I deem to be the basics of riding a unicycle ie riding in a straight line, turning and the ability to ride a straight line, and I can hop it around like a pogo stick for ever(don’t no if that has a special name or not) and now I’m appealing to you s to see where I should go next, is it just a case of just messing around and practising and should it slowly just come to me, or can you advise anything in particular bearing in mind at the moment I think I’m heading in the dirrection of street/trials unicycleing. THanks for your help in advance/hope.

Lee

Welcome!
Sounds like you’re pretty good after 3 days riding. Probably the bike trials and the parkuour has helped you out a bit.

Ride down stairs. Be careful, take one step at a time. Go 2, then 3, then 4 etc. Find some that are very wide. Standard steps are hard at first.

Backwards. It is very uselful later on.

Huck steps. 2 3 4 etc.

Get some pallets and start working on sidehopping higher and higher.

Weirdly, I would recommend getting yourself a vid of very good riders, or go riding with other people. It gives you ideas and motivation.

Welcome to the Forums!

Welcome

thanks

thanks for all the help everyone. greatly appretiated and I will definitly be looking into NUTs more.

Lee