Unicycle Lessons (Dublin, Ireland)

[Kimgdoran]

Hi, I’m looking for lessons (if there is such a thing) for my 10 year old son who has just gotten his first unicycle. We are in Dublin, Ireland. Would appreciate any pointers. Thanks.

[fugsworth]

You could try YouTube tutorials.

[kingknutr]

I am from Dublin. I am learning the ride unicycle from online tutorials and posts on this site. I started by using a railing to help me balance. Any of the how to unicycle tutorials should be enough to get your son started. You could assist him by holding his hands…

If you want to get lessons for your son, I would suggest contacting some of the circus groups. A google search for ‘Circus Lessons in Dublin Ireland’ should yield some results. I would make contact with somebody in those organizations and see if they can point you in the right direction.

[Setonix]

@Kimgdoran

Hi, I’m looking for lessons (if there is such a thing) for my 10 year old son who has just gotten his first unicycle. We are in Dublin, Ireland. Would appreciate any pointers. Thanks.

In Denmark and The Netherlands there are several Unicycle clubs. They are for both kids and adults, but you see mostly kids there. I could imagine there are also some in Ireland.

[kingknutr]

@Setonix

In Denmark and The Netherlands there are several Unicycle clubs. They are for both kids and adults, but you see mostly kids there. I could imagine there are also some in Ireland.

Unfortunately not. I looked for clubs when I started to learn, however I couldn’t find any. Unicycling is not very popular in Ireland. You rarely see anyone on one.

[UniMyra]

First your kid must learn how to get on. This is shown at 0:45 in this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks9yLrXjKgU

Explain that once he is on, if he puts all his weight on the pedal in the 6 O’clock position, the uni will not move and he will not fall off.

Then you hold his hand and walk beside him until he his comfortable with that. This phase can take a few days and requires some patience on your part, because he will probably get frustrated and yell at you at some point. You may find this phase a little boring also.

Then pull out a chair, a beer, and the garbage bin. The chair and the beer is for you, and the garbage bin is to support your kid so he can mount his unicycle by himself.

He has to get in the positon where he has the pedals parallell to the ground. Then lean forward, let go of the bin and just try to pedal away. This phase can take from a few hours up to a couple of weeks (or maybe more).

There are a few threads on this subject, for example:

Teaching Kids how to ride.

At my church there is a boy (4yrs old) and he has fallen in love with unicycling. But untill now its been almost impossible to teach him because we only have 24"ers with pinned pedals and the whole lot. Well due to the fact that a boy down the street got a uni for Christmas and is much too large for it (16"er with 100mm seatpost) he’s decided to sell it to us for 35 dollars. We havent showed Ross(the 4 yr old) the surprise yet but when we do we need to now how to teach such a small person to rid…

http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21020
http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21059

Starting little kids on unis

From another thread: So at what age did anybody get their little kids a uni? My oldest is just 5, and I don’t think yet old enough - he doesn’t have the dedication to keep going at something he doesn’t get instantly. Or will he learn quickly enough at that age for it to be a lot less of an issue? I’m sure from comments he made that he’d have been really excited to get one for his recent birthday, but he wasn’t so set on it that he’s disappointed not to. I should point out that he was riding a …