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Alucard: Yes, BOS, most definitely! It’s something that I have to keep reminding myself of, and it really does make a big difference.
WheelieDaft: I’ve been trying to do some of that too in fact. I managed to acquire a bad tendency to tilt to the right after starting, I guess because I did a practice session last week where I was bracing myself with my left hand on an air conditioning unit next to the driveway. So my first move was to get away from it and back to the middle of the driveway. It took some time later on making myself tilt to the left to get rid of that.
Uni Lateral: A snail!?!? I had a good laugh at that. But I guess another good thing about hanging on a little longer and trying to get it back under control is that the big UPDs are some of the best exercise I’m getting. I’m feeling it afterward for sure. All of that arm windmilling and running and hopping to try to keep from falling seem to make for a good high intensity workout. 
I think “guni” is already taken so how about we call it “luni” for lawn unicycling?:
I did three sessions of something like 40 minutes each today with breaks of about 30 minutes in between, the first for dinner and the second to watch “Jeopardy” and cool off for a little while on the couch. It was a warm afternoon/evening and I needed to cool off every once in a while. I also used some of my down time to break out the GoPro and give that a try.
I think I did better than my last try at grass riding. I don’t know how tough others would find this but it’s very challenging for me. My cat was entertained by it for a little while but then decided he’d seen enough and wanted to be let in to eat.
Great effort dude… riding on grass is quite tough on the small wheel isn’t it and transferring from a smooth surface to grass is a challenge too!
We look like we’re at fairly similar stages in our learning.
Keep up the good work.
UL
Thanks Uni Lateral! Yes, the grass was tough with the small wheel, particularly since we’re not looking at an Augusta golf green or Wimbledon tennis court sort of surface.
I knew I was working hard but didn’t realize just how mega a day it was until this morning. I haven’t felt this knocked down by a workout since the days after 20-milers back in my hardcore runner phase. And I didn’t have bruises up and down my legs then like I do now.
Can’t wait to do try it again.
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This is how far I have gotten in one year
jyngles, that’s fantastic! Forward, backward, hops, idling, and over two minutes without putting a foot down. Very well done.
If you accomplished nothing else in the past year, that would still be a year well spent.
Thank you, I still think that I am not where I am suppose to be. I really don’t know many people that ride and I only ride with one other person and they ride forward for the most part. So, I have nothing to gauge it on and I can’t learn from someone to see what I am doing wrong.
Wow! That is fantastic! I remember we started about the same time, but you are so much farther ahead than I am. We live so close by. I could ride my 24. I really should practice something else other then forward riding.
Do you have any larger wheels? You could try my 29 or 36? What is you inseam? The problem I have with getting together with anyone is time. The longest time I get to ride is lunch, after that everything is filled up with family events. But I could probably find a slot.
Hello everyone,
Almost a year ago I got my first unicycle, recently I bought a KH20 and I am making progress!
After a very tiring hour yesterday, I managed to get the kick-up mount down! 
However I’m still struggling with a legwrap and 180 unispin (I land 1 out of 5 now, and it looks like I lost a bit of skill on how to do it because I was landing like 1 out of 2 a week ago). But I’m not giving up, just taking a break for a moment because after an half hour unispin practice my ankle was bleeding a lot!
Also my one-foot idling is also getting better and better.
my inseem in 26, I only have the one uni. Not much for distant riding although I have been to Hampton Beach twice this year riding up and down the strip. That would be cool to connect some weekend.
As far as Piter’s post I am jealous. I am not even close to what you are describing. I would love to learn how to wheel walk, but it is extremely difficult and I have not dedicated enough time to it.
Just keep practicing + I go once a week to my unicycle club in my town and I noticed that I learn waaaaaay faster when I’m with other people. (encouragement, competition, …)
There is only a tiny space between the top of the shoe and the bottom of the shin pad. It is amazing how often you hit that spot when you are practicing unispins and crankflips. A strip of cardboard stuffed into the shoe and under the shin pad is an effective ghetto solution to this problem. After a few rides, it forms itself into the shape of your ankle and you don’t even realize it’s there. It looks ridiculous but don’t worry about that (^_^)
Trying to send you a PM. The language that is showing up on my screen from this computer is not english. So I don’t know which link to click on. I will try tonight. Can you travel? We can meet you half way, or maybe even in Portsmouth. We love Portsmouth.
We usually find schools to practice at, the parking lots are sometimes pretty good and some have side trails for there xcountry track teams. I was hoping to let you try my bigger unis if you wanted, but my inseam is 30.
I will have to try my 24 that I learned on. I got on it yesterday and could barely ride it. I need to relearn it, and it is the perfect size to learn idling. I signed up for a bunch of track events at the Nationals and I will have to ride it. Anyway, PM me or I will PM you tonight when I get home.
Wow, that’s depressing 
Nice riding, jyngles! Now I feel like I need to get out and practice some more. I’ve been riding for about a year and I’m nowhere near that.
– UniT
I didn’t get to ride over the weekend, and I probably needed the time off to recover from last Friday’s mega luni session anyway. This evening I was back on the patio for another hour and change. It started with a few minutes of my usual creeping forward and backward along the wall just to get back into the groove of it. Then I wound up spending the rest of the time just working on free mounting. I’m sure I attempted least 150 of them and had maybe 5 or 6 successes–success being determined by if I was able to ride at least the two cranks it takes to get off the patio and onto the grass.
For my first time actually trying to free mount I’m not disappointed with that. At least I got a sense for what it is I’m supposed to be trying to do and how it’s supposed to feel. Toward the end I was getting myself on top of the unicycle (or getting it under me as the case may be :)) pretty consistently, mainly having trouble with the part about getting away from a standstill and riding it out. I expect that to improve partly from getting better at putting myself in a good position to ride away more often and partly from my riding improving generally and being better at riding out of shaky positions. I’m looking forward to trying it again, and especially to being able to free mount well enough to be able to practice wherever I want without needing a support there to get started.
If I’m counting correctly, today was my 13th time out unicycling for something like 16 hours of saddle time so far. Maybe it comes from my background with distance running and road cycling but I don’t like to stop once I’ve gotten myself started if I feel like there’s a little more benefit to be gotten.
Great quote I read today, attributed to cycling Greg Henderson: “Training is like fighting with a gorilla. You don’t stop when you’re tired. You stop when the gorilla is tired.” Maybe that applies to endurance training more than to skill development but I like the spirit of it.
Hey LargeEddie, we’re kneck and kneck in the learning stakes aren’t we!
I found starting free mounting on grass a good confidence boost as the wheel is a bit more subdued, however, riding away is much, much harder. I now start each session with a little of this ‘on-grass’ free mounting as it builds a bit of confidence in my balance before trying any actual riding.
I initially found I was hoping up into the saddle and was perfectly balanced for a few moments which I thought was good, but of course it isnt. You need to go over the top to immediately start that forward lean to pedal into.
I now examine what’s going wrong when a free mount fails so I can think about what corrective action to take on the next attempt. That got me from a success rate of 1 in 10 to 9 in 10 within an hour (on tarmac). Just started the same process on the larger Muni as the mounting dynamis are all different to the 20" trainer. I deffinitely need to throw myself further over the top of this bigger beast!
Tally Ho…
UL
Yes, I know what you’re talking about now. I got as far as knowing that I needed to end up farther forward than perfectly balanced, as you say. But my attempts at doing that so far are rather crude and I’m as likely to be too far forward as not far enough. I’m assuming that’s just a matter of time and practice. I was happy even to get to the point last evening where I recognized that as something I needed to work on.
You’re ahead of me there too. Mine’s sitting there smiling at me with the shiny new Hookworm tire I put on it a couple of weekends ago. I’m feeling like there’s plenty for me to learn yet on the 20" uni, and the 26er will still be there when I feel ready to start on it. And I’m enjoying your reports on your progress with it. I’m keeping that in mind for when I try to get started on mine.
(A week and a half passes.) Too much work to do and raining buckets when I might have taken a few minutes to go out and practice… I finally found time for a little bit of riding after dinner this evening and I was wondering how it would go after 8 missed days. Not to worry though. After a couple of minutes I felt fine and wound up doing my best and longest rides to date.
I started on the patio, doing a few cranks forward and backward to warm up and feel my balance again, then moved over to the driveway for a couple of short rides. That felt good enough that I decided to venture out into the street for the first time. I steadied myself to launch on a car parked by the curb (no free mounts today) and after a few misfires was rolling up the street to 30, 40, and eventually over 50 half-cranks. For the first time, I had time to actually think about what I was doing as I was riding along. That was fun.
It was steamy hot here today, still 88 °F and 70% RH after 8 pm, so I kept it short but I’m very encouraged by that. I guess that’s the power of rest and recovery, or maybe it’s just the passing of time letting adaptation run its course.
That sounds great, LargeEddie, you’re really coming along! Great to see the progress.
It’s funny how you can be struggling with something for a while, then all of a sudden it just “clicks.” I’ve been working on mounting the 36’r, and have been stagnant at about 20 - 30% success rate for weeks. Then this morning out of about a dozen mounts I got 9 or 10 of them. (And they were mostly pretty good ones, too, not sloppy, barely saving it.) This is practicing at the far (mostly deserted) end of the parking lot at work – I’m almost encouraged enough to try it out in public. Maybe this weekend…