So, my brother is trying to learn gliding. He has gotten wheel walking down pretty well, but not 1 foot yet. how he has been working on it is to ride 1 footed with his foot on the frame, then take his other foot off of the pedal. he then controls his balance by way of the foot that’s on the frame.
Is this gonna work? Everybody else I’ve heard of learned after 1 ft ww.
Re: Methods of learning to glide
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Fuego wrote:
> So, my brother is trying to learn gliding. He has gotten wheel walking
> down pretty well, but not 1 foot yet. how he has been working on it is
> to ride 1 footed with his foot on the frame, then take his other foot
> off of the pedal. he then controls his balance by way of the foot that’s
> on the frame.
>
> Is this gonna work? Everybody else I’ve heard of learned after 1 ft ww.
I never learnt 1ft ww very well, but did learn to glide succesfully. It
was a combination of pull-gliding (a lot! find someone patient), and
launching myself down (not too steep) hills for hours on end.
The two skills kinda came along together, but gliding is the skill I was
after, so it came quicker.
My method for gliding on the flat is riding 2ft as normal, then taking
both feet off the pedals, giving one good push of 1ft ww, then gliding
with the foot I just pushed with.
I guess it depends if his strong foot is the one he’s riding with.
Thinking about it, I ride 1ft with my left and glide with my right, so
there’s probably no real reason it shouldn’t work.
Wish him luck!
Cheers,
Stu
I learned how to 1foot ww,then gliding came INSTANTLy almost.
i think the thing that holds most people back is puthing to much pressure on the tire, thus slowing you down to a stop in about 10ft, the way that helped me learn is to keep your foot just off the tire and then you need help ballanceing just graze the tire with your shoe for about half a second then you can use that slowing to get ballanced again.