I had just woken up and I went out for a unicycle. I tried a footplant crankflip thing and didn’t commit to it. I missed the ledge with my foot and let go of the seat. The seat fell behind me and I was unlucky enough for my left testicle to land right on the handle of the seat…
Well it was my most painful unicycling accident yet. My left ball was sore for the next 2 hours and I only just got enough confidence to land a 180 uni-spin like 20 minutes ago. I usually land 90% of my 1 spins.
Anyway now I’m too scared to try a footplant crankflip without jumping way infront of the uni before I land. Hopefully I’ll have my confidence back tomorrow so I can continue practising. I’m just gonna take it easy learning to wheel walk for the rest of today.
then try doing it with the middle of your foot more than the balls.
if you get really used to using the balls of your feet, you will hurt your anckles alot…
I don’t agree with any of this foot plant nonsense. I think the best way to do it is to just go for it. I’ve never tried a zero or foot plant and look at me, I’m landing double flips.
Really the best advice is practice and committing. You have to put a lot more effort than you think into kicking and jumping and don’t let your body slack up once you are in the air, stay focused. I also find that a really low seat helps a lot. You might as well also say goodbye to your current plastic seat base now because its not going to last a whole lot longer with all these failed flips.
I learned footplants, but skipped zeroplants or whatever. I found that using the curb to my advantage helped me stay over the unicycle when I went to land it. I was too stupid to use the ball of my foot though.
I think its because I get more flick on the cranks with the whole power of my legs.
I think I’ll keep trying footplant ones for now, I know if I go for it I’ll probably just hurt myself and won’t even get close to landing. Once I can spin the cranks fast enough and jump high enough I’ll go for it.
That’s a good idea about lowering my seat, I was thinking of doing that. And why will I break my base? You don’t put that much weight on the seat and I’m not very heavy. I don’t really plan on spending $140 NZ for a CF base.
Thanks for the advice anyway, I’ll try with my foot on the side of the pedal. I’ve kinda got my confidence back now.
O and I live in the country so there’s no curbs unfortunately.
I’m sorry, its dark out now and I leave my parent’s house in the morning and will no longer have a video camera. At the end of the double flip competition thread I have a few clips of me doing doubles though.
Gee, man. How’d you manage to miss the ledge? Just practise jumping at the ledge, I guess. When you’re confident with that, try to flip. Also, practise jumping at the ledge on both sides, to find which one is more comfortable.
I’ve only missed the ledge once, when I was doing a footplant crankflip, and it was more of a 10cm wall than a ledge. I was lucky not to fall on the other side…
Lol basically the ledge wasn’t very long and my pedals went level when I was almost at the ledge and after I had jumped I realised that I might not make it so I pulled out. Just bad luck I s’pose lol.
I thought you should use your kicking foot to plant on the ledge? That’s what I’ve been doing so far and it feels fine.