How I learned to unicycle.

Step 1: Buy Coker. It arrives 3/16/2.
Step 2: Buy videos and Dancey book and flail around aimlessly roughly 2.5
months without learning how to unicycle.
Step 3: Buy Halpern’s Anyone Can Ride A Unicycle…

3 days (6 half-hour lessons later (with one spotter instead of the
recommended two - thanks Christa!)) I rode almost a hundred feet!

The 6x6x12 block I bought to stabilize the Coker was basically useless - I
didn’t even try to use it after the first 5 minutes of my first practice
session. The first couple of lessons were really interesting: they went
from ‘this is impossible’ to ‘this is easy’ in about ten minutes each.

The pamphlet is a couple of dozen pages, rather less than half text. If Mr.
Halpern were to post his advice at www.unicycling.org, it could save clumsy
oafs like me a lot of time, compared to, say, the unicycling faq or the
advice on the JIS.

Learning on a Coker was supposedly harder than learning on a 20", but Cokers
rawk.

Re: How I learned to unicycle.

In a message dated 6/8/02 9:11:09 PM, skurland@juggler.net writes:

<< Step 1: Buy Coker. It arrives 3/16/2.
Step 2: Buy videos and Dancey book and flail around aimlessly roughly 2.5
months without learning how to unicycle.
Step 3: Buy Halpern’s Anyone Can Ride A Unicycle…

3 days (6 half-hour lessons later (with one spotter instead of the
recommended two - thanks Christa!)) I rode almost a hundred feet! >>

I must say, the corker (while i have never ridden one) is a really really
ballsey step. I can tell you it was a large learning prossess going from the
20 to the 24 when i first got it. I think i would have some trouble going
100 ft on a corker if it arrived in my hands tomarow.

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trevor andersen

Re: How I learned to unicycle.

In a message dated 6/8/02 9:11:09 PM, skurland@juggler.net writes:

<< The first couple of lessons were really interesting: they went
from ‘this is impossible’ to ‘this is easy’ in about ten minutes each. >>

sereously, is there soemting similar for weel walking?? adn if so, why not??

Re: How I learned to unicycle.

<ChxWitBrix@aol.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1023592698.20940.rsu@unicycling.org
>
> In a message dated 6/8/02 9:11:09 PM, skurland@juggler.net writes:
>
> << The first couple of lessons were really interesting: they went
> from ‘this is impossible’ to ‘this is easy’ in about ten minutes each. >>
>
> seriously, is there something similar for wheel walking?? and if not, why
not?

No. Because Jack Halpern hasn’t gotten around to writing it yet.