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    UnicycleJuggler
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    I'm going for a completely noob thread here.
    I have only been on a unicycle for about a month and I'm finding it
    really hard to learn any tricks. I don't often get the chance to ride
    with anybody else, so I'm trying to self motivate.
    How long did people take between learning to unicycle and doing
    tricks?
    Also are there any really good tricks to learn first that will build my
    confidence and be within my reaches? I'm trying to ride a certain
    distance everyday so that my general balance and strength builds up...
    anything else I should be doing?

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  2. skilewis74
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    What can you do now?

    Static mount, figure 8's w/ circles w/in 1.5 m. diameters, iddling,
    hopping, riding standing off the saddle, SIF, SIB, one foot (L & R),
    wheel walk, riding backwards.

    I was a VERY slow learner (I have parallysis in my lower legs, hips and
    glutes). It took me 2 mo to learn and 6 to ride off a curb. About 18
    mo. after getting my uni I started learning SIF, SIB, & backwards, then
    could do it w/ some consistency after 4 mo at 5 hrs/wk. Almost a year
    after I started to uni, I could ride some of my trails. I still can't
    freemount or hop🙁

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    Ride everywhere and never just ride anywhere. If you can ride where you
    are going within a hour, do it, and if you can do a trick 50-75% of the
    time do it along the way.- Bob Burnquist

    What next? 'IUF skill levels'
    (http://www.unicycling.org/iuf/levels/)*'
    Street'
    (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Unicyclopedia/Street)*'unicycletips.com'
    (http://unicycletips.com/)*'Trials class system'
    (http://tinyurl.com/yqpvxk)*'Trials Building'
    (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=64235)
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  3. UnicycleJuggler
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    Sorry, I should have given more details in the first post!

    I can freemount, jump mount, run mount, 180 mount, unicycle forward for
    a good distance before getting tired rather than falling off from lack
    of balance. I can't do figure 8's yet, been trying but i find turning
    quite hard. I can hop pretty well. Onto benches, sideways about a
    meter, up curbs forwards. I have ridden down some sets of stairs, about
    5 steps each. I can ride a little standing off the saddle, but no
    chance SIF or SIB, tried and failed! I have been trying crankflips, but
    finding them pretty hard. I have come reasonably close to 180 unispins.

    I think turning and idling need to be high on my list of things to
    learn.
    I think that's about it so far.

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  4. jamessd
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    Before unispins and crankflips, should come 1 footed riding,
    wheelwalking (1 foot and 2 foot) and especially riding backwards (and
    hopping...).

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    Kieron said:

    I tell u wat they would have to be a very commited pedo to learn to ride
    a unicycle in order to mingle with us, steel one of us and rape us in a
    bush.


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  5. dudewithasock
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    There's no real time-table for these things. Everyone is different, some
    more remarkably than others, when it comes to learning times.

    The biggest advice anyone could give you is to not go over your head.
    Get the basic, easier skills down first (i.e. one-footing, backwards
    riding, hopping (SIF and SI), etc.)) before trying more advanced
    things.

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    😎

    spazdude222 said:

    Doing good doesn't make you good any more than doing a girl makes you a
    girl.


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  6. poofengle
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    dudewithasock said:

    The biggest advice anyone could give you is to not go over your head.
    Get the basic, easier skills down first (i.e. one-footing, backwards
    riding, hopping (SIF and SI), etc.)) before trying more advanced
    things.

    I'd agree, just go slow until you can mount, hop, and ride
    consistently. Once you've got those down, you can start learning harder
    things like unispins and harder tricks

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  7. UnicycleJuggler
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    poofengle said:

    I'd agree, just go slow until you can mount, hop, and ride consistently.
    Once you've got those down, you can start learning harder things like
    unispins and harder tricks

    Well I sort of have. I can jump mount and rolling mount 19 times out of
    20 and I unicycled about 1.5miles today with only a couple of rests!
    I'd to be learning as I go. I'm planning to unicycle the 1.5-2miles
    each day.

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  8. UnicycleJuggler
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    I have been trying to learn crank flips, so I was out just playing about
    on the drive and I landed my first zero plant! I was so surprised that
    I didn't realise at first! I think I am going to try to follow the
    various tutorials and hopefully, with time, crankflips could be the
    first street/flat trick I learn🙂

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  9. harley on 1 wheel
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    uni jugs,
    do you have knee/shin armour and/or gloves?

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  10. UnicycleJuggler
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    harley on 1 wheel said:

    uni jugs,
    do you have knee/shin armour and/or gloves?

    Oh yes, all of the above!
    I BMX as well as unicycle, so I know all about pain from pedals and the
    floor!

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