hey any suggestions for skills to learn prior to learning to coast on uni, i ride one-footed down the road, pick up some speed, slowly apply less and less pressure on my pedal, then put my right foot on the crown and almost immediatly fall off… 
I would learn to at least wheel walk first. I can’t glide but most people are going to tell you that you need to glide first. You don’t but it will help. Also remember that you need to put pressure down on the frame with your feet, and that you need to balance ontop of the uni. I also find it helps to just straight up put your foot onto the frame, don’t make it a slow thing. Just pedal a couple times one footed then pop the foot onto the frame.
Apart from that, practice, practice, practice some more.
yea i can wheelwalk short distances, but its really annoying cause my shoes are too slippery
also, i do belive that the balance mechanisms for gliding and coasting are VERY different…
well, off to go practice, post some suggestions while im gone!
argh i went out and i tried wheelwalking, and i found that i can wheelwalk about 1/3rd the distance i could go just yesterday!!!
ack!!!
I find I have good and bad ww days although recently I am getting more consistant. try ww up a slight slope I find it helps because it slows you down a bit so you dont end up going too fast and loosing control. I may try and coast tomorrow and tell you how I get on
hey hey, sp4rky-m4rky!! ive only been riding for 5 months as well!!
I can do everything exept the level 6 SPIN to pass as a level 6 rider (if only you were aloud to edit a film to pass the skill levels:D )and also posess many level 7 and 8 skills, and the most pathetic level 10 skill of all…backwards figure 8 with seat out in back…bleah…
never even tried a unispin…tell ya what…you try coasting and i try unispins…
hmm we both joined during the same month…
you sound quite far off, but I’m not to say. I soposoe if you just kept practicing it then you would get it.
once again, gliding and coasting have entirely different balance mechanisms…
if you get really good at gliding, and apply less and less presure then you may be almost coasting, but its really not the same… from what i can see you can aproach coasting either indirectly through gliding, and learn it more easily, or do it the hard way and just lift the riding foot up while riding one footed…
UPDATE: i have now coasted about 2 feet…:p…i think that was mostly luck though:D(even at what a short distance it was…)
ive learned everything i can do on the unicycle besides going forward and basic directional controll in the last 2 weeks. Im a fast learner…i suppose…I don’t really have somone to compare myself to…
Skrobo learned it the hard way, I think. It just takes time.
If you can glide then you will definatly find Coasting alot easier. I just could never glide and was pigheaded in my ways so I went straight to coasting.
I am working on coasting, I go to one footing then take my pedaling foot off. My best so far has only been 25 feet but I have only really done dedicated practice yesterday. I don’t see gliding helping too much other than just improving overall balance, they dont feel at all the same to me, but then again I have never tried to coast without being able to glide so I cant really tell if its really helped.
I dont think bc wheeling hasnt helped me either.
yea, i think ill get this (eventually) if i keep trying
Trying to coast has made me really good at 1 ft riding…i rode 1footed up a rather steep hill today…
spencer, i do think bc wheeling has helped you with coasting in a very indirect fashion…i think perhaps it taught you the basic motions required, although bc wheeling and coasting on a unicycle are verydifferent…on the bc wheel, you place your weight below the axel, (a bc wheel continues rolling after an UPD, but a unicycle just sorta bounces away…)but when you coast on a uni your entire body is above the wheel itself(exeption-during a 1-foot coast the lower leg may be hanging down by the wheel) making for rather different balance mechanisms
an indirect aproach to coasting on a uni that somone could try might be to raise the plate on a bc wheel higher and higher, until it was actually above the axel and the person trying this was standing somwhere around the upper part of the wheel(somone doing this may need a bar to hold to give them some controll of where the plate was in relation to their body, probably the reason for no one trying this before) and they were using the same balance mechanism required for coasting on a unicycle…
however, i think the best aproach is to just go for it
like with wheelwalking, i started out next to a wall just to learn the basic foot motions, then moved into the open and started wheelwalking from a freemount…eventualy i got it(sort of, after i can coast for a ways i’ll practice wheelwalking some more)
On an unrelated note:
If you were to create a machine that caused your center of gravity to actually be below the ground,( besides being rather weighed down by it, obviously) no balance would be required to do, well, anything at all!! you would need as much balance as somone hanging from a loose rope, compared to one standing on it…just a thought 
everything i can do on a unicycle(excluding basic directional controll and forwards pedaling 
)i learned in the last 2 weeks…
EDIT:whoops i already sayed that
feeling newbish
i tryed slack rope walking about a week ago(call me a slacker:D) and it seems to help with my effort at learning to hover on my uni…
schweet!! i just realized that im learning a new skill at the same time as a sponsored rider!!!
I can ride a bc wheel with the plates upside down so I am above the axle (and I have jumped off and landed back on them normally once they flipped) but at that time I would go nowhere when I tried to coast.
I have tried it a little here and there but never committed myself to learning it. Today I tried for like 5 minutes and I coasted in a half circle, so I’m getting there.
I will have to look up at the things from the skill levels I think I know quite a bit. I will try to coast but depending how it goes I may learn gliding first and I am also going to try and learn hickflips. you should learn 180 and 360 unispins, it would be intresting to know how long thy take you. I have made a tutorial (link in my sig) that will hopfuly help.
Im going to learn to coast first…
Yesterday i was having a lot of problems because i still had a little bit of trouble riding one-footed, but now i can ride one footed up a steep hill with my arms crossed behind my back, so im fairly confident that i can step up to coasting now…still will take a while, im thinking around a month, but who knows? if i learn it as fast as i learned the other stuff i can do…
ok, going to go put in 10 hours of practice lol
ok, ok, fine…maybie 8…
ARGH YOU GOT ME…no fewer than 5…
Maybe that’s because gliding and costing have essentially exactly the same balance mechanisms. At least that’s the way I see it after 26 years of doing both.
That’s good advice. Also practice your gliding on a slight downhill (not steep) and your coasting on as smooth a surface as you can find. As you get more proficient you’ll be able to coast over more irregularities on the ground, but it’ll never really be a MUni-type skill. 