I need help with some tricks

for unispin, i concentrated on getting my feet clear of the wheel then
just getting them back towards the pedals, landing on the cranks is
fine.

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well i dont think seat drops should be too hard. how long have you been
at em? and for unispins wear shin guards if ya got em. theyll really
protect you cuz yur shins will take a beating. once you get em
both-combo it into a unispin to seat drop.

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yea, thanks. I havent tryed them too long. But when i was learning
seat out in front and behind I learnt them in about 2-3 days. So i
suppose i should keep at it for longer but it is just frustrating. Do
you ever feel that way????

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the transition to standup ww has got me feeling like that right now. I'm
playing with this 6' giraffe someone lent me just yesterday to take the
edge off though 😄

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In the time of about 20 min i have landed 2 very shoddy seat drops.
makin' progress, i just need to learn how to get my foot off the
cranks to finish. cheers for the help

mike

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Seat drop is miss miss and hit for me i have more truble geing my feet
on the cranks than off

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To get out of seat drop. I kinda hop in place....then while im jumping I
jump but don't bring the unicycle with me...kinda like a no footer i
guess and land on the pedals. Guess Im not much help.

KH

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How do you seat drop? I thought it is when the seat dropped down infront
of you, then bounces back up. :P

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you hop on cranks, pinch tight with yur feet and drop the seat and
frame, then you can either bend down slightly and get it (which is what
i do) or ive heard u can give it a light kick up with the foot holding
it in place to return it.

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I'm learning Uni spins at the moment. I'm being taught by Tony, he said
the easiest way to learn is to start by doing a 90 degree jump mount,
then once you get that, to do a 180 jump mount. Once you have both of
those down solid, you get on the uni and try it there. I don't know if
it's normal, but I got both the jump mounts first time I tried them, so
I'm just working on the jumping on the uni. You have to be able t jump
seat out front quite well (obviously :p). Also, you have to jump quite
high off the pedals when you do it. Id on't know, maybe that will help
you.

Edit: It's also good to try them on a freestyle uni with nice friendly
plastic pedals too.

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I dont entirely know what trick to go onto now. I tried seatdrops and
unispins but have only been riding bout 3 weeks so bit to early. What
to do, What to do. deep breath, sigh.
Any pointers

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swarbrim said:

What to do, What to do.

Stillstands. Hop-twists. Side-hops. Rolling hops. Rolling 180s.
360s? Ride up/down stairs. Ride railings & ledges with kinks & bends.
Stillstands. Stillstands! My opinion is that one cannot practice
"the basics" enough!

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dont practice stuff like backwards, idles, and still stands in my
opinion. backwards and idles just came to me and they arent that hard
when youve been at it a while. and stillstands are really hard to
perfect and too advanced. id say just practice 1 fters and then move to
ww's.

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chosen said:

dont practice stuff ... blah blah ... really hard to perfect and too
advanced. id say just practice 1 fters and then move to ww's.

I don't agree with your advice... if you don't practice backwards, you
will have a hard time "setting up" for a big rolling hop or stair set.
Practicing still stands (I'm not talking 1 minute stands, just a few
seconds) isn't that hard and allows you to ride on smaller skinnies and
hop with more precision and less effort. Why pass something up because
it's "really hard"? If that's your advice, then no one would
unicycle!

In my opinion, wheel walking is a tough skill, and even harder to learn
without being good at backwards, idling and one-foot riding. Keep in
mind that backwards riding and idling doesn't "just come" to some
people. The fact that these skills are considered "basics" doesn't
mean one should neglect them, instead, I feel they should be mastered
as they will enable one to learn many more "advanced" skills with less
time and effort.

As the saying goes... you must learn to crawl before you wheel walk.

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when practicing seat drops it helps alot if you can hop on your cranks.
i learned to hop by hopping on my cranks so it wasnt that hard. i can
now even how seat out with no hands (almsot a hopping seat drop).
practice a transition between hopping on cranks and riding and once you
have the transition it should help you alot.

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no comment.

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