-1 ft ww
-gliding
-seat out hops
-learned how not to do seat out drops by seriously spraining my ankle
-grinding
-improved my still stands
-still stand, drop frame catch with toe (whatever that trick is called)
-improved crankgrabs/rubbers
-conquered initial fear of rolling hops down stairs (most thus far is only 4 set)
-conquered gunis (der Uber Coker and the giraffe guni)
In this, my first year, I have learned to:
Ride
Free Mount
Turn
Still stand
Rolling Hop
Ride Seat out in front
Mount to seat out in front from sitting down
Wrap Around Mount
MUNI
Drop
Ride 1 Footed (almost)
I’ve had few personal unicycling accomplishments this year. I managed to ride 90 miles in one go on my Schlumpf guni a few months ago, but I haven’t learned any new tricks, stagnating at level 7 for a couple years now.
But I did see my club, the NYUC, expand in membership, and that’s been my proudest achievement. We now get about 25-35 members out twice a month (depending on weather, mainly). Lots of them come from afar, and all of them have made wonderful progress themselves. I guess I’ve mainly improved vicariously this year, and that’s good enough for me.
For 2006, I’d like to master hand-wheelwalk and some other cool stuff like uni spins.
what I’m proudest of that I can think of right now, is doing a 21 mile coker ride, which is my longest to date. which I realize isn’t all that far for some of you guys, but like l said, l’m quite proud (:
went to unicycle convention. Met some nice and intresting people, Learnt some tricks.
A year is an awfully long time. I remember around this time last year I was happy to be landing 30" and wouldn’t even touch a rail.
I’ve landed 36" hops (rolling and SIF), started using a brake, and landed a couple rail grinds. In general, my muni and trials skills have multiplied.
If we are counting engineering, I invented these;
I’ve related this:
-Learned to ride
-Glide
-Jump four pallets
-Standup wheelwalk
-Buy things from unicycle.se and .com
-And some more. 
did u learn a ww or a 1ft’ed ww before the stand up ww and glide? those seem kinda crucial for those skills…but whatever.
I’ve ridden lots.
Got a bit better at hockey.
Cokered loads, 100 miles in 10 hours, ridden to BUC, 140 miles in two days and then taken part in the next two days of hockey, muni, etc.
Organized several trips away to muni with other people and have got quite fast on the muni.
Joe
Big achievements:
- switched to 20" trials uni
- learned to glide
- overall technique got better which has gone hand in hand with overcoming some mental blocks like committing to (and landing) 65cm+ rolling hops.
- 180 unispins
- riding skinnys at possible death altitude
- seat wraps
- 360 jump mount
- foot-plant 180s
- Talked my dad into committing to learn… he’s almost 60 yrs old and has slight cerebral palsy (muscle coordination impairment) so it’ll be interesting to see how long he takes to master the beast.
Goals for 2006…
- 360 unispins
- crankflips
- grinding
- coasting
- stand up ww
- over 30sec stillstands
- riding round rails
- more riding
- dad to pass level1
I’ve learnt to ride backwards, idle, ride down small stair sets and kick-up mount.
Looking at what everyone else has done it seems like I need to practice more next year. I don’t mind though, as long as I’m enjoying myself it’s all good!
As of Feb. or 06 I’ll have been riding (I learned as a kid) for two years and in that time I’ve seen our group (Santa Barbara Muni Club) go from trying to survive the long rides to blasting down and cleaning everything. Tunnel Trail once seemed impossible and now it’s just another ride (but a great one). Though it’s hard to quantify Muni riding, advanced levels are in the cross hairs. I look forward to '06–to exploring new trails in SB, and more of the downhill/dirtjumper trails scattered around Souther Cal.
Technique wise, I see for the new year an effort to master using the brake on super steep and sketchy terrain, developing a riding style based less on pausing and more on flying rolling drops, more high speed bombing, increased awareness and use of transitions, and switching over to 150 mm cranks instead of the clunky, crank clanking 165s and 170s. Everyone’s already pretty good at rolling and tractoring down rocky ground, but I expect to see improvement in that area as well. A combination of Super G and mogul skiing is the style I see emerging for '06 Muni riding.
We got a big energy boost from Cal. Muni Weekend (thanks to Eyal and Hans’ super efforts), finding G-Spot and watching Kris ride, from cleaning Tunnel, and from another trail in Point Magu that Hans used to run and which we thought was to steep to ride–but wasn’t.
This is gonna be a great year for So Cal Muni. I hope Mango and Jake can make it up more often, I hope Hans keeps pushing everyone, I hope Eyal keeps his “smooth on” and leads the way, that Jess can break free from his 25 girlfriends and make a few more rides, and that Josh keeps going for it like a maniac.
JL
I’ll agree with John L. that it’s tough to quantify muni riding skill… I definitely feel more solid on technical terrain, and am not as afraid of steep and technical descents as I was last year. I’ve been learning to relax, even on the bumpy stuff, so that I can ride longer with less effort.
My trials and street practice have added to my “muni toolkit”, giving me the ability to rolling hop more precisely, ride skinnies with more control, and it has added to my overall balance and control. I don’t worry about sliding around (in loose turns or in muddy ruts) as it doesn’t affect me very much anymore… I’ve harnessed the power of forward momentum, I guess!
After a few months of playing with street tricks I’ve seen in all the uber-cool videos on this forum, I’ve managed to do some rail and ledge grinds, footplants, 180 crankflips and unispins… although I’m a trials man at heart.
My trials practice has lead to better and longer stillstands, fewer pre- and post-hops, and now rolling hops that actually get me up onto things! Last year, a rolling hop was something that I used to get up a curb, now it’ll actually get me onto benches and ledges.
I’ve started working on seat-out trials and although I’m not nearly as solid as I am seat-in, I can actually clean some lines seat-out. I’ve also landed some decent pedal grabs seat-out, now I gotta work on going to rubber more consistently…
I learned to:
-ride a uni.
-hop off curbs
-hop onto curbs
-go down stairs
-muni
ps I don’t really know the names of any tricks. Where can I learn some?
Accomplishments i made:
Hop on wheel
hop up 4 palletes
got alot better at wheel walking
suicide mount
1 foot wheel walk
unknown mount
another unknown mount
crank grab to rubber
BC wheel pretty far
somewhat standup wheel walk
still stands
man made trials lines
got my friend to ride to level 4
ride backwards
whole lot of other stuff i don’t know what it’s called…
Check out the Links here on Unicyclist.com. Look at “Skills - Learning Skill Levels” and “Skills - Learning Skills”.
Some good sites to start with:http://marsht.tripod.com/
USA Skill Levels
There’s more in the links section.
learning to ride one at all, thats my accomplishment
I dont think everyone here is telling the truth unless they rode like 4 hours everyday!!! cuz i one year it is very hard to learn to ride, ww, glide, and ww standing up. but if u did that is pritty SWEET DUDE!!! and again i live in canada so i only have like 5 good months to uni. i guess in other places it never snows so they can practice everyday… so maybe u arnt lieing… good job guys!!!
i have learned to:
-wheel walk
-ww 1 foot
-180 unispin
-and other things that are sweet but cant remember!
- oh yeah i unicycled in a talent show
lol
i need to learn to ww standing up NOW!! tips??
I have learned to: (can do all tricks left and right footed)
-master riding with seat in front and back
-master 1 footed
-master riding backwards
-master 180 uni spins
-master ww
-master ww 1 footed
-glide
-taught my friend to unicycle (he is level 4 now)
I NEED TO LEAN TO WW STANDING UP!!! any help send me a message… or if u have a movie of it send me a link to ur gallery…