Forwarded message: > Reply-To: ab020c@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Amos Bloomberg) > > > I think it would be cool to have a compilation of all the unicycle moves and > tricks people here have seen or done themselves. That way we could all see how > we could improve our riding. Im willing to compile a list if nobody has done > so already, kindof a move FAQ but it might take me a while to get out > depending on how hard I study. If someone wants to put it on a web page that > would be best i think. Email me with comments or your tricks or just to tell > me its been done already. > > Amos snoppy@cif.rochester.edu >
You might check out the unicycling home page. There is the 10 skill levels
listed in the FAQ, with background files telling how to do many of them. There
is also a list of mounts in the FAQ. Elsewhere in the web page there is a list
of fun things to do on the unicycle, which covers activities that aren’t
considered part of the regular skill list. Finally, in the IUF section of the
unicycling page, there is the standard rulebook, which contains a list of skills
for competition.
Beirne
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Scott Hone wrote: |> Because you can naturally bend over forwards alot easier and further than |> backwards, so if you are rolling backwards you use this leaning forwards |> thingy to keep your centre of gravity stable. Is this correct? Jack H? hmmm,
In principle, all skill that I know of are more difficult backwards than
forwards, and I believe coasting is the same. But I am nit the man to ask, since
I go tumnbling down after coasting glorious 30 cm Ken, John, and dozens of
others could respond to this, I guess.
I am just wondering if coasting backwards would actually be easier than
coasting forwards?
I am very very far from coasting on a unicycle (well perhaps not as far off as I
think… would a coasting wheelie down a hill on a freestyle BMX using the rear
brakes for balance be similar?) but in my experience on a freestyle bike, the
tricks where you are rolling backwards are much easier to keep balance then the
foward rolling ones. Ice skaters too land backwards after doing a triple axle
blah blah blah jump.
Because you can naturally bend over forwards alot easier and further than
backwards, so if you are rolling backwards you use this leaning forwards thingy
to keep your centre of gravity stable. Is this correct? Jack H? hmmm,
In a message dated 95-09-14 23:46:20 EDT, you write:
>I am very very far from coasting on a unicycle (well perhaps not as far off as >I think… would a coasting wheelie down a hill on a freestyle BMX using the >rear brakes for balance be similar?) but in my experience on a freestyle bike, >the tricks where you are rolling backwards are much easier to keep balance then >the foward rolling ones. Ice skaters too land
backwards >after doing a triple axle blah blah blah jump.
I am not a skating expert, but I’m pretty sure that the skaters land backward
because it’s harder than landing forward. Landing forward might be considered
wimpy, just as riding forward is seldom done in the German form of Group
Standard unicycle competition, in which all the higher scoring groups ride
mostly backward!
>Because you can naturally bend over forwards alot easier and further than >backwards, so if you are rolling backwards you use this leaning forwards thingy >to keep your centre of gravity stable. Is this correct? Jack H? hmmm,
You may have a point here. If we only had eyes in the backs of our heads, I
think backward coasting might be easier to learn than forward! As it stands for
me, I can do it a lot better forward than backward.
Forwarded message: > Is costing another name for gliding ? About 3 months back the levels up to 10 > used the term gliding.
Coasting is when you ride the unicycle with no body parts touching the wheel,
pedals, etc. When gliding you can use a foot against the tire surface as a sort
of brake, to help control your speed.
Beirne
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>I am not a skating expert, but I’m pretty sure that the skaters land backward >because it’s harder than landing forward. Landing forward might be considered >wimpy, just as riding forward is seldom done in the German form of Group >Standard unicycle competition, in which all the higher scoring groups ride >mostly backward! > >>Because you can naturally bend over forwards alot easier and further than >>backwards, so if you are rolling backwards you use this leaning forwards >>thingy to keep your centre of gravity stable. Is this correct? Jack H? hmmm, > >You may have a point here. If we only had eyes in the backs of our heads, I >think backward coasting might be easier to learn than forward! As it stands for >me, I can do it a lot better forward than backward. > >John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone unicycle@aol.com
It’s not the same thing, but backward somersaults are easier than forward ones.
This is partly to do with the fact that you can see where you are going when
coming in to land (“air-traffic controller to somersaulter - you are cleared for
landing…quite a jump you made”).
When I started to learn riding backwards, I found that the ease and smoothness
were far better than my forwards riding - something to do with the posture and
balance. I can believe that some skills might be easier going backwards.
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jerryp@eden.com (gerald peterson) writes: >Beirne Konarski (bkonarsk@mcs.kent.edu) wrote: >: You might check out the unicycling home page. There is the 10 skill levels >… > >And where might the unicycling home page be? j
Hello? Hello? Huh, lights are no but no one’s home…
The URL was given in Beirne’s .sig, which you deleted when you followed-up.
Jack Halpern (jhalpern@super.win.or.jp) wrote: : Scott Hone wrote: : |> Because you can naturally bend over forwards alot easier and further than : |> backwards, so if you are rolling backwards you use this leaning forwards : |> thingy to keep your centre of gravity stable. Is this correct? Jack H? : |> hmmm,
: In principle, all skill that I know of are more difficult backwards than : forwards, and I believe coasting is the same. But I am nit the man
Is costing another name for gliding ? About 3 months back the levels up to 10
used the term gliding.
: to ask, since I go tumnbling down after coasting glorious 30 cm Ken, John, : and dozens of others could respond to this, I guess.
Ken, John, and dozens of