I had quite the experience tonite. I am trying to learn to jump on my uni, and I was sort of getting the hang of it… until I decided to drop off a half foot drop. My butt had a very intimate meeting with my saddle. Obviously I did not land right. Can anyone offer some advice on proper landing techniques. PLEASE. Thank you so much. Tim.
Try to land with your pedals in the 3- and 9-o’clock positions. Lower your seat a little to give yourself some room, and use your legs to absorb the shock (make sure to land with slightly bent knees). Make sure your feet are in good contact with the pedals: don’t land on your tip-toes or heels! You could even land with your feet on the cranks if necessary.
Also watch some videos of people doing drops and watch how they fold at the waist, dropping their upper body on impact to take some of the load off their legs.
But more importantly… keep trying! Good luck.
Don’t land with any weight on the seat. Try to land with you feet, as maestro said, on the pedals in the horizontal position.
You shouldn’t have any problems this way.
Yes, land all your weight on your feet. but DON’T LOCK YOUR KNEES!!! That’s how you break things (by that I mean the unicycle)
Try to work your way up to drops. start with 2", then 3, 4, 5, 28, etc…
It also helps if you can hop up and down to stay in one spot, so you can land from a jump instead of just rolling off and hoping for the best.
yeah, get a muni before you break my unicycle!
In other words, don’t land on your butt. In the words of my college roommate, “If it hurts when you do that, don’t do that.”
I got it!
Last nite, I got it right… I dropped off some curbs, without losing balance. Thanx for the tips everyone.
Spudman mentioned hopping in one spot. I’ve not been able to do that yet.
Don’t worry Brian, I’ll replace anything I might break… or I’ll give you Road Rash. woop woop woop
I’d love to see that new cut, suckah!
You know curtis, baby!
Congrats on the curb
the best way to land a drop is to roll off of what you’re going to drop off of. In other words, don’t stop on the edge and then hop a little, and go off. I have to admit that that is what I often do but from a unicycle that wants to be kept pristine’s viewpoint, roll of the drop. While you are in the air you should stand up and hold onto the handle.
In order to land it so that it doesn’t hurt you just stand up really rigid and then when you land buckle your knees (unless the impact was really weak and not head on, which would happen if you rolled it). Plus, if you roll off of drops it looks a lot cooler.
I learned how to do 6 inch drops and then moved up to like 4 ft. Picnic tables are a great thing to drop off of for practice.
i like picknick tables… im trying to learn how to 360 off of them… but i get to a 180 and stop rotating… but im a skiier and i try to do it like im skiing so that might be my problem
Yeah, I know Curtis…
it’s what set them arabs off… it’ll put the humps on a camel’s back.
I wasn’t lookin at his neck, man. You as clean as Skeeter’s peter.
any tips on hoppin in one spot… I can hop 3 to 4 times, then i fall over…???
also, still looking for riders in North Bay… know of anyone???
Smell yaz later.
Hop towards the direction you fall… say you start falling to the right, hop to the right… it should “undo” the fall.
Considering the fact that I had jalapenos on my sammich today, you just might. 
Got the Hop
To hop, or not to hop. That is the question.
I hop.
…and I hope, you will all hop along!!!