Is it just me, or does everyone else learn like this?

Riding Advice
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Is it just me, or does everyone else learn in punctuated steps? When I’m trying something new, I can’t get it right at first. One time, it will “click”, and then I can do it (I still have to practice and get better after that, but I can still do whatever it is correctly). For example, when I was learning to ride, I could only go 2 or 3 revolutions. Then one time, I tried and rode all the way down my street. Then I could ride all the way back. The same thing happened when I was learning how to idle. One time I got it right, then I could do it just fine.

Does anyone else learn like this?

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Yes. Its as if your body suddenly ‘gets it’.

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Going uphill was tough for me. Couldn’t get a steady cadence, very jerky pedaling. Read some advice given for going backwards, applied it to going uphill, combined it with other stuff my head was figuring out that I couldn’t put words to yet, and voila! It clicked. Now its a cakewalk, except for the burning thighs and heaving lungs…

You are not alone!

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Yes and no… I have had tricks that I have learned, been able to do a few times, and than I couldn’t pull it off again for months.

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I’m with SpaceFmk. I could do it and then couldn’t. It was so stinking frustrating while learning. Now when I do something new, having an off day is temporary. It’s the great thing about unicycling though. While you become natural at certain aspects of riding, there is always more to learn.

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The thing I like about unicycling is that there’s so much to learn - almost every time I ride I notice I can do something (or do something better) than I could the last time I rode.

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Aaaahhh, I hate that. I was like that with 360 unispins for about two years. It didn’t help that I kept twisting my ankle.

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I ALWAYS learned like that, regardless of what I was learning. It didn’t need to be about unicycling.

I remember the day that I rode 30 meters successfully, the distance down to the end of the sidewalk where it became a crosswalk. From that point, it was like my progress skyrocketed. Suddenly I could reliably turn, a few tries later I went 40 meters, then 60, and eventually I could ride indefinitely.
The same goes with learning a new piece of music, or a new concept in math. One day everything just clicks, and I’ve “got” it.

I never really got around to getting a decent tricks uni, so my fascination born from learning, and the games I played to see how far I could get blossomed into me becoming a distance rider.