Check it out…
Today I learned to ride with just my right foot. I can do up to seven rotations without falling down. Thing is, I’m only level 2. One footing is a level 6 skill. Why? It was so easy…
I ride around town alot and people are always gawking, heckling, etc. So right after the “wow” or “you’re so cool” or “you suck!,” I pop one foot off and elicit a greater response. The best part about the trick is there’s no change in momentum. It’s so fluid.
Thanks all for reading my brag post.
Good deal. I still remember when I had my breakthrough with one foot riding. I had been practicing my one foot riding outside on a parking lot and not making much progress. Then I had an opportunity to ride indoors in a gym and within 15 minutes I was riding around one footed. The nice smooth floor really made a difference.
One foot riding with the free foot just hanging in the breeze is more difficult than one foot riding with the free foot perched on the frame. It takes a little practice to learn how to get the free foot up on the frame, but once you get the hang of it your one foot riding will improve.
One foot riding for 10m is actually a level 4 skill. But in order to qualify for a level test you must be able to recover and get your foot back on the pedal.
cool for me too,was the one footer my first “big trick”.but with that said there are other tricks that are consitered easier that i cant do.some thingz come quiker to others.
try a 2 minute still stand or jump rope while hoping on uni.now that is the tuff stuff.(i cant do either)
anyway one footing is cool,i just with that other foot would get up there and glide
Good job, falldown. If you only have one wheel, why would you need more than one foot? Please feel free to come here and gloat as much as you want. Skipping levels is cheating, though. You’ll have to go back and unlearn that until you get to level four.
I don’t want to make you feel bad or anything but one footing isn’t really level six. It’s level four. Being able to ride one foot with both foot is level six. But the jump from learning on your first foot to your second is a lot eaiser then where you started. Right foot took me about a week of practice, (I could then go about 50 revolutions) but left only took me two hours (again, 50 revolutions).
Uh oh! Does this not do something funny to your “twice the man” quote? Something like -
(twice the man/half the legs)=four times the man?
But then again, does single footing not just exponentially increase the saddle emasculation effect (as per my sig) and cancel everything out, or worse? Maybe -
(twice the man/half the legs)*mangled manhood=lopsided eunuch?
Arithmetic I could cope with, but this is getting into reproductive biology and I know just enough about that to survive.
One-foot riding came to me when I only had a unicycle with one peddle to
practice on. I would idle with the right foot and push the peddless crank
with my left foot to assist until I was finally going forward one-footed.
A variation I like to practice is riding with the free foot pulled back
in a “quadriceps stretch position.” Be sure your wearing your best pair of
biker shorts for this one tho.
-Sned
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Subject: Re: Learned one foot today…
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> cool for me too,was the one footer my first “big trick”.but with that
> said there are other tricks that are consitered easier that i cant
> do.some thingz come quiker to others.
>
> try a 2 minute still stand or jump rope while hoping on uni.now that is
> the tuff stuff.(i cant do either)
>
> anyway one footing is cool,i just with that other foot would get up
> there and glide
>
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