The fastest way I have ever seen people learn to ride a unicycle is the “2 Step
Crash Course”:
STEP 1: Accept the fact that you will fall and learn how to do it safely.
Practice dismounting to your feet with the seat caught by your hand (this keeps
the seat from poking holes in your feet and prolongs the life of the unicycle).
It may help to put a brick behind the wheel when you first try to mount (get rid
of the brick as soon as you can). Then purposely dismount forward, backwards,
and sideways each time catching the seat as you step to the ground. If you know
that you can dismount without hurting yourself, you will have less fear about
actually riding.
STEP 2: Learn from your mistakes. Gravity does not lie, so the direction you
fall is the key information as to what you need to correct. Which ever direction
you fall, lean a little more in the opposite direction next time (now don’t ride
until you actually fall, remember to dismount as soon as you feel yourself start
to fall). This won’t work if you are holding on to a fence, people, poles, etc,
you have to let go of everything and just ride. By making the right corrections
after each try, you will be riding in no time at all.
Happy landings…
o/ Thank you and have a FANTASTIC day! /| >> Captain Fantastic
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>The fastest way I have ever seen people learn to ride a unicycle is the "2 Step >Crash Course":
* STEP on one pedal
* STEP on the other pedal
* CRASH
* Repeat until convinced that it's not as easy as it looks.
Honestly, this is the procedure executed by every guy I ride past on the
street, who has to show his girlfriend/fellow frat boys that “Hey, I can do
that! You, mr., uh, tricycle guy, c’mere!”
>STEP 1: Accept the fact that you will fall and learn how to do it safely. >Practice dismounting to your feet with the seat caught by your hand (this keeps >the seat from poking holes in your feet and prolongs the life of the unicycle).
Also remember: for the first 50 or so times you do this, step on one
pedal, step OVER the second pedal, and don't let yer butt touch the
seat. This teaches you to keep that second foot high enough that you
don't trip on the second pedal. It also teaches you not to nestle
yourself into the seat until you're safe from getting your male
anatomical unit squished (provided you have one).
This is the ego-building step, BTW. Once you start grabbing the seat
instinctively when you fall, it's no longer a fall - it's a
"dismount". You have to lose your balance pretty awkwardly to clue to
passers-by that you are falling instead of purposefully dismounting.
Thus, you don't have to worry about the whole world watching you screw
up as you learn.