Well, they installed the new cranks, and they are a success! I feel so awsome, yet so terrible, because of my awful skills. I am practicing more at 1ft WW, and I still haven't perfected it yet. I'm worried that I'll be treated like a newbie at the uni meet this saturday because I suck so bad at unicycling. Am I as bad as I think I am or is it just me? 🙁 Of course Evan is always kind enough to tell me that I am lame and I learn slow and I only know the easiest skills and stuff. He says everyone here just says I'm good to make me feel better. What do you think? 🙁
I know you're probably looking for more encouragement.....but if everyone is better than you, then learn from them and try harder...If you're the better one help the others out...One thing I've learnt about unicyclists is that most are always willing to help others by showing them skills and giving a few pointers etc...There's no way anyone will consider you a newbie as long as you can ride and most people here know you can......
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He says everyone here just says I'm good to make me feel better.
I don't know about that but even if thats at all true...practise and people will respect you for what you can do...
*About 2 years. Jeeze, I'll bet everyone there will be better than me. Of course, evan has already assured me of this. Do you think I will be considered a newbie? *
Probably not. People are always super nice at unicycle conventions. No matter how good someone is. Evan is probably just jealous that you are better than he is.
This is more of a uni meet than a convention. The Panther Pride cub is hosting the meet. The club is a school unicycling program at an elementary school. The vast majority of the riders there will be elementary age kids from North Bend Elementary. There will be riders there of all skill levels but most of the kids are at the lower end of the skill levels. There is nothing to be worried about and the uni meet is not a competition. It's about having fun and learning more about riding from other unicyclists.
So other than elementry school kids who just learned uniing in school, how do I rank in the way of other unicycling eleven year olds? What about your kids, Bruce and Steve? Sorry if it sounds like I'm totally concerned about ego, but I'm kind of curious after everthing that Evan said.
*... how do I rank in the way of other unicycling eleven year olds?...*
You'll know tomorrow!
Besides, unicycling isn't all about ranking among other riders. If it were I'd have quit out of frustration when Andrea passed level 5 and I may be stuck at 4 forever. Its having fun and always improving.
I think I just need some real-life unicyclists to give me some tips like at the unicycle meet. So Andrea is level 5? Maybe she can give me some tips?! Maybe, I'm non-official level 5, too, though, so maybe we're like equal, I dunno.
It's in North Bend Washington which is about 30 minutes east of Seattle. If you left really early in the morning you could make it. It'd be about a 5 hour drive from Eugene/Springfield.
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I don't think you've got anything to worry about Tyler. I'd be very happy to learn as fast (or as slowly if that's what you think) as you have 🙁 ... although I don't put in as much practise time as some people.
Rob (riding for over a year, still trying to learn to idle)
