I am getting back into unicycling after a few years away from it. I never
learned to idle, so that is what I am concentrating on right now. I have
read that it is easiest to learn by supporting yourself against a wall
until you get the feel of it. I tried that, but wasn’t getting anywhere.
I happened to be just freemounting to ride around a little bit and realized
that my normal style of freemounting lends itself to going straight into
idling. I have now found that I enjoy trying to idle this way (straight
from a free mount) than against a wall. I just wanted to know if anyone
else learned this way. Has this worked for other people?
Also, out of curiosity, any other unicycle enthusiasts in the Northern
Virginia area?
I think your normal style of freemounting is the rollback mount then?
(Where you place your foot on the backward pedal and apply force so
that the uni rolls under you.)
This has worked for me the other way round. I learned to idle while
holding onto something (and by doing single, then double etc, idles
during forward riding). Once I had that down, I discovered the
rollback mount was way easier than the “standard” mount (where you
jump forward and up on the uni with little or no rotation of the
wheel). It is now my preferred mount.
Klaas Bil
>I am getting back into unicycling after a few years away from it. I never
>learned to idle, so that is what I am concentrating on right now. I have
>read that it is easiest to learn by supporting yourself against a wall
>until you get the feel of it. I tried that, but wasn’t getting anywhere.
>I happened to be just freemounting to ride around a little bit and realized
>that my normal style of freemounting lends itself to going straight into
>idling. I have now found that I enjoy trying to idle this way (straight
>from a free mount) than against a wall. I just wanted to know if anyone
>else learned this way. Has this worked for other people?
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> I have now found that I enjoy trying to idle this way (straight
> from a free mount) than against a wall. I just wanted to know if anyone
> else learned this way. Has this worked for other people?
>
Yes, that’s exactly how I learned idling. Now I have to figure out
how to go to idle from forward riding…
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