so, i just learned to ride. I am getting better every time i go out and practice. and I was wondering, what is the easiest trick to do for begginners that can only ride?
1.) Look graceful (yes, this is a trick).
2.) Learn to freemount.
3.) Ride off of a curb (kerb in the UK).
4.) Hop in place.
5.) Find a source of free unicycling gear (VERY difficult trick).
I find that one to be hard myself. In order to hop, I have to be able to stop (assuming I want to be riding along and then start hopping; and assuming that we arent talking about rolling hops here).
After I manage dependable stops, I will move up to hops.
[ Actually, I find idling easier (maybe because my only freemount is a rollback mount), and in fact I can sometimes pedal up to 1 rev backwards. ]
Have fun!
Lewis
- Be able to ride and turn easily
- Be able to freemount
- Hop in place
- Idle and ride backwards
- Hopping off objects (and learning to do 180 hops)
- Jump mounts/suicide mounts
Re: tricks…
harper <harper.35ybm@timelimit.unicyclist.com> slipped me a tenner and said,
> 1.) Look graceful (yes, this is a trick).
Umm… not really…
> 2.) Learn to freemount.
Woohoo!
> 3.) Ride off of a curb (kerb in the UK).
Woohoo!
> 4.) Hop in place.
Woohoo!
Wow… does that make me an official Unicyclist?
:oP
Come to think of it a few days ago was the first time I’ve actually said a
definitive ‘yes’ to someone asking ‘can you actually ride that thing?’…
All I need now is to be able to go up kerbs and I’ll be sorted. Oh, and the
skill of doing something right when someone is actually watching would be
nice… I went to work on it last week; I’m quite confident at going off
kerbs now, but what do you know the first time I try to do it in front of
some friends, ‘CRASH!!!’…
Phil, just me
“Cattle Prods solve most of life’s little problems”
Re: tricks…
The skills for the official skill levels are roughly in order of
difficulty. Perceived difficulty varies from person to person, though.
http://www.unicycling.org/iuf/levels/
Klaas Bil
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 12:56:45 -0500, TRexSi
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>so, i just learned to ride. I am getting better every time i go out and
>practice. and I was wondering, what is the easiest trick to do for
>begginners that can only ride?
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Re: tricks…
“TRexSi” <TRexSi.35xmn@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote in message news:TRexSi.35xmn@timelimit.unicyclist.com…
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> so, i just learned to ride. I am getting better every time i go out and
> practice. and I was wondering, what is the easiest trick to do for
> begginners that can only ride?
>
Try a variety of tricks, and learn the one that you’re
making the most progress with. I started out trying
to ride backwards, but never got more than a few
revolutions, so I switched to idling and learned that
in several hours.
Re: tricks…
>
> so, i just learned to ride. I am getting better every time i go out and
> practice. and I was wondering, what is the easiest trick to do for
> begginners that can only ride?
>
Freemounting and idling are probably the easiest things to learn and the
most useful.
Other than that I think the most useful easyish trick to learn is a brief
stillstand, to learn this, practice riding along, stopping with the pedals
level for as long as you can and then ride off. You can extend this into
brief pause, 90 (or 180 or 360 if you get very good at it) degree turn then
ride off.
I was just thinking when riding in this morning about quite how useful a
trick this was, for those moments when you just need a quick pause to think
about not crashing into something, or if you want to do a right angle turn
to weave through traffic or avoid someone.
If you want to impress people, learn to ride down and up kerbs (curbs)
because it is really really easy
riding down smallish kerbs and looks quite impressive to a non unicyclist.
Riding up small kerbs is more tricky but basically there isn’t much more
than riding straight at it and holding on tight.
Joe
Kick Up Mount Impresses the Massess
After watching Jeff Lutkus’ (here after refered to as The Lutkus) demo flick in which he made a kick up mount look as easy as breathing, I decided to try my hand at it straight away. It is really nothing more than a fancey down crank mount, and I manged to pick it up in an afternoon- before I could idle well or hop worth mentioning.
Check The Lutkus’ stuff, here:
Lutkus Does It On Camera- with friends
It is a GREAT mount to follow a UPD- especialy to quell any heckling.
I took Medina to the monthly meeting of the local bicycling club for a brief demo. People were minorly amused by my hopping and riding backward and forward- but I could hear the air get sucked out of the room when without warning I did the kick up (for the first time ever on this cycle). Hands down the most bang you can get for the difficulty level, IMHO.
Christopher
Dislocating your jaw and swallowing a unicycle whole is always a crowd pleaser.
Harper: tried it already, didnt work out too well. i’ll work on it though
Re: tricks…
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 00:27:30 GMT, “Import Car Fan”
<dsholt@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Try a variety of tricks, and learn the one that you’re
>making the most progress with.
Just to add to that: I prefer to work on several skills at the same
time (well, alternating). I have found that there is synergy in many
skills. So you learn faster overall and besides it’s more fun to vary
what you do.
Klaas Bil
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