today, i freemount at 3rd try, but it´s still difficult, and i ride over the grass like 100 meters without falling 
20-30 min a day
I started 6 weeks ago and usually get 20-30 min practice in per day. I am mid 40s so don’t take too many risks anymore so progress is a little slow. Still cant idle but I can ride around town on my 20" fairly confidently (all the stupid comments get pretty annoying after a while though). The next think I’d like to learn is how to hop forwards up gutters. I am also looking forward to be able to hit the tracks an a Muni, hills are still very difficult… But I will persist !!!
Its 6 weeks since I first laid hands on a unicycle. How long has it taken you to get to where you are now. I am so looking forward to bouncing up gutters.
mbalmer, that is great advice but I needed a less visible place so I could concentrate without distraction and I also wanted an wide open area with multiple supports to help with mounting.
I found it and today I…
ended my practice session with a slow steady ride of over 250 ft.
It felt good.
Lots of new names appearing here… I LIKE IT!
This year I decided to just ride out in public near my house, I suffered from lack of concentration with all the cars and people out on walks going by. Now my skills have progressed beyond what normal people think is possible on a Unicycle and I get a lot of positive comments from my neighbors and total strangers walking and driving by who have watched me progress over the months, it’s pretty cool.
Now to combat the concentration factor I plug in my headphones and can tune it all out with music.
today I couldn’t ride because I’ve injured my right hand, left wrist and knee. I usually get in about 2 hours a day so I feel awful lazy right now 
Another new guy here.
I’ve got about five or six hours on my unicycle - torker dx 20". Which I learned is not a MUni! :o
I can ride in a straight line for about 50’, can turn left (not right, when I try, I’ll do a upd) and can now freemount it.
I was having trouble with freemounting so I got out my camera & made a video to see what I was doing wrong. Turns out I wasn’t leaning far enough forward once I got up. So I went back out & magically could do it almost every time after seeing my mistake.
I have a question though - my quads are getting quite the workout learning how to ride this thing. Is this normal? I’m learning on my driveway which, where I’m riding, has about a foot of incline. To put it in perspective, I put about 5K miles on my road bike every year & my quads don’t feel like this on that bike & I ride a lot of hills.
Joe
You may want to check your seat height, the lower it is the harder it’s going to be on your legs. It’s totally normal in the beginning to get blasted by riding just a short distance. You want to make sure your putting as much weight on the saddle as you can, it’s hard in the beginning but will get easier and easier as you progress, which makes it easier and easier on your legs. Also as you get more comfortable on the uni, you will relax your whole body more and it will get much easier. It does use different muscles than riding a b*ke, you’ll need to get the new ones in shape too 
Thanks for the info anton005 - guess I need more practice.
Here’s a vid
I just put out on the tube. It just snowed, but thankfully melted.
Joe
Awesome free mount! Definitely experiment with raising the seat a bit. For regular riding you probably want as high as you can get with just a slight bend at full extension so your knees don’t lock. Speaking as someone with virtually no cartilage, it’s also much easier on the knees!
Thanks waaalrus!
My rule of thumb is that if my quads are hurting after a short to medium ride, then I don’t have my BOTS (Butt On The Seat). When I settle onto the saddle correctly and take the weight off my legs, the ride is a lot smoother with less quad ache.
BTW–saw the video of your freemount. I’m very jealous. Hope to mount like that soon!
Today I made several mounts directly to backward riding. My backward riding is getting better little by little, whereas my hopping skills still are on a beginner level.
Best regards,
Sanne
Today I practiced static freemounts (no rollbacks). Mounted and rode away 3 times out of about 50 tries.
Stay tuned.
today I
today I got my leg wraps consistent and learned how to 180 jump mount. I also jumped off of a drop about 3 feet high. I’m worried if I drop from any higher I might hurt the unicycle.
Today I:
Rode 1 footed 7 revolutions (left)
Idled hands behind back 8 times (both right and left)
Wheelwalked about 5 revolutions
Nice work waaalrus, wheelwalking is currently my favourite activity on the unicycle Do you find it easier to transition from riding to wheelwalking or going for it straight out of a mount like in your video?
Today I mounted on a park bench, jumped down onto the seat and off. I also performed my very first pedalgrab, It’s opened up so many possibilities!
Thanks! It was fun to learn and it’s fun to do. It was actually perfect because I hurt my leg playing basketball which would have made regular riding difficult but was OK with wheelwalking. Also, it rained in California all last week and I could practice in my garage pretty well. I can only start from a mount right now. I tried to transition from riding for the first time today and that will take a lot more practice! It seemed slightly easier to transition from 1 footed riding to wheelwalking but that may be an unnecessary step. I was hoping that my wheelwalking practice would carry over into coasting but that didn’t seem to be the case. 1 foot wheelwalking seems like it might be a good bridge to coasting so I’ll need to work on that. And 1 footed backwards. And backwards wheelwalking eventually, but I’d like to see a video of that to see what it looks like. Going to keep me busy a while!
I was like you in hoping wheel walking practice would lead to gliding. It just looks like so much fun! It’s a step in the right direction but I still have a long way to go until I can do that. I only asked because I found it really hard to wheelwalk from a mount and can get a good 10-20 meters now if I do it rolling.
I wasn’t able to transition from 1 foot riding exactly but the motion in which you push down your opposite leg to lift your other one up at the start of a one foot ride is the exact same skill needed to go into into a wheelwalk it seems.
As a follow-up, after a little practice I could transition from riding to wheelwalking. It’s a little easier. Maybe slightly less strenuous. Today I:
Rode 1 footed 20 revolutions (left)
Made parallettes out of PVC pipe
Ate a 2.5 pound cheeseburger