Thanks to all who helped in my “First post, first uni” thread.
FWIW, here’s a quick update from a rank beginner.
After 2 hours’ practice, I was pleased to have done a single pedal revolution on my new 24" Torker. Let’s…pi * diameter = about 2 meters - woohoo!
Last night, after total of 5 or 6 hours on the uni, I made 3 complete pedal revolutions…3pidiameter = 6 meters, and all off the wall. You couldn’t believe how broad of a smile I had.
Questions:
How long do folks take to go from a few spins to actually wobbling down the street?
Turning still seems impossible - any tips on that?
oh, i think most of us here know EXACTLY how broad your smile was
wait for klaas bill to post the link to his stats site
that will allow u to check the average learning time depending on age, gender and unicycle
dont worry about it too much till u can ride far enough to make turning neccesary
'-)
while learning to ride u will occasionally turn, almost ‘by accident’, if u can pay attention to what your body is doing at the time to make u turn, u can later use that information to learn how to turn ‘on command’
for right now just focus on getting all your weight on the seat and to smooth out your pedalling motion as much as possible
yeah, totally right
i alternated trying to freemount and trying to ride
it was a prety stupid thing to do and extended my learning time quite substantially, but i was able to freemount very soon after learning to ride
go to the ‘search’ function on this forum and look thru old threads where u will find a mine of information about learning to freemount and start practising
the variety helps to keep the frustration-levels down during your practise sessions
(and learn the roll-back mount rather than the static - it helps when u want to learn how to idle later)
Yes! I did my first free mount an hour ago. I didn’t measure but I
believe my smile was as broad as when I first managed to wobble away
from the wall (which happened only a few days ago).
Someone here gave the advice to keep ‘lessons’ short ant frequent. I
think this is an excellent advice because then there will be time for
the acquired ‘knowledge’ to sink in.
Yes! I did my first free mount an hour ago. I didn’t measure but I
believe my smile was as broad as when I first managed to wobble away
from the wall (which happened only a few days ago).
Someone here gave the advice to keep ‘lessons’ short ant frequent. I
think this is an excellent advice because then there will be time for
the acquired ‘knowledge’ to sink in.
Yes! I did my first free mount an hour ago. I didn’t measure but I
believe my smile was as broad as when I first managed to wobble away
from the wall (which happened only a few days ago).
Someone here gave the advice to keep ‘lessons’ short ant frequent. I
think this is an excellent advice because then there will be time for
the acquired ‘knowledge’ to sink in.
you will find that once you can pedal any considerable distance you can turn by: turn left put you left arm out toward your back and right arm over your chest. turn right exactly the opposite left arm over your chest right arm torards your back.
you will also find that if you are falling left turn left and you will regain balance. same goes for right turn right. hope this helps keep trying:)
>wait for klaas bill to post the link to his stats site
>that will allow u to check the average learning time depending on age,
>gender
I was on holiday but since GILD implied that I would post, here it is
as yet:
<http://www.xs4all.nl/~klaasbil/agelearn_short.htm>.
>> 2. Turning still seems impossible - any tips on that?[/B]
>> 3. Free-mounting - yeah, right!
For tips (on this and more), see this Word document “Learning to
Unicycle” written by Andrew Carter and myself:
<http://www.xs4all.nl/~klaasbil/Learn_unicycling.doc>.
Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict
I like the idea of not having to balance when out on a ride - joe
