Like the subject suggests, I just signed up for an account today so hi.
I’ve been unicycling for a little more than 2 years now but am recently slightly more active in trying out for trials. I’m using a 24" uni and I’ll get around to putting up videos and stuff as soon as I progress past the falling all over the place stage.
But yeah, hello all and I hope there’s fun to be had here.
Currently it’s the regular try-to-avoid-falling sort. But I’m falling kinda miserably. It’s more trials and hockey than anything else nowadays. I wish I had a 20" though I’m not strong enough to hop around properly on a 24.
I can hop on the spot, just not high enough and i haven’t the guts to actually hop up objects mainly because the 24" wheel looks waaay too intimidating. I used to have a 20" one which I learnt on but that got stolen…
As for what I’m doing currently, I’m trying to learn the seat drag, improving slowly but surely, learnt to be fluid with one-foot riding, learning to wheelwalk… generally safe things that don’t involve lifting myself and the uni off the ground. I’m ok with bruises but a little wary of breaking bones.
GILD: I play in Singapore with the local uni community… I think some of them frequent here as well.
monkeyman: Yea I know it sounds weird but I have taken a bunch of nasty falls before and I’m more willing to try out moves where I know what sort of injuries to expect.
That said, the most memorable fall I had was when I just started to uni. I missed the pedals completely and tried to land properly but my pedals had other plans and whacked my shins causing me to fall back. But I couldn’t break my fall because the seat moved back under my butt and I ended up having what would be the handle of the seat shoved between my legs as I fell on it.