Help!

just go out in the open and start prcticing. try to not use the rail
unless you have to

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I just learned. the best thing I did was... Practice!
I rode down our hallway fine... when i took it to a corner of our
building i made it about half a pedal rotation and fell off. I just
kept bringing it back to the corner and tried it for an hour. an hour
later I was making it 30 feet reasonably consistantly (every fourth
time or so)

Advice:
FLAIL your arms and the unicycle as much as possible. the aim is to
make the wheel turn like 45 degrees every half turn or so. Itll look to
someone else like you have no control over it. . . don't worry. Just
be willing to whip the unicycle... as SOON as you feel yourself
starting to fall in one direction, overcorrect in that direction.

another mistake i made was in grabbing the seat before i fall... do
your best to catch the seat when you fall, but dont catch it BEFORE you
fall... I'd feel a fall coming on and instead of trying to correct it
I'd catch my precious seat, losing one arm and thus, half of my
balance, guaranteeing a UPD. Tie a sock onto the seat and let it fall.

Best of luck to you, dude. let us know when you succeed.

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Basically, what they said. Practice, and practice more. That's pretty
much the bulk of what is needed for all unicycling skills - the other
portion of it is getting past the metal block.

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trials_uni said:

Ha Quebec...Is that place still there?

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oh yeah, and pay attention to where you're looking. some people do
better if they're staring at the horizon, my best runs were when i
picked a leaf on the ground twenty feet away and fixated on it til it
was three feet away. then on to the next leaf. relax, and let the
unicycle do the work. try thinking about something other than
unicycling while you're practicing, in an effort to make unicycling a
subconcious deal. it helps. try riding a bicycle and paying careful
attention to which way you turn the handlebars and how you lean, it
will be harder than riding it subconciously.

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Sgaterboy said:

Advice:
FLAIL your arms and the unicycle as much as possible. the aim is to
make the wheel turn like 45 degrees every half turn or so. Itll look to
someone else like you have no control over it. . . don't worry. Just
be willing to whip the unicycle... as SOON as you feel yourself
starting to fall in one direction, overcorrect in that direction.

Reiterate:
Arm flailing will let your body's intuitive balance mechanisms correct
up top and then just follow the wheel where it wants to go. The one
thing you can't do is go static, you have to keep correcting with the
wheel and keep your arms out.

(But then I look like a jackass when I ride)

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rather a condition of it." -Nietzsche
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benjaug said:

I can ride holding on to the deck fine,
but as soon as I try to ride on my own I fall or bail. Any suggestions?

I had the same thing when I learned. Except that I also could sort of
ride alongside a railing not touching it. But I fell as soon as I rode
in the open, as there was no 'mental support'.

The key for me, at the time (after 35 days of practicing), was to ride
hand in hand with a good rider (this was actually Yuri Abrahams, the
brother of Sem), holding his hand for as long as I wanted, and
loosening the grip as much as possible. Within a minute or two I
reached the breakthrough of riding alone.

Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict
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