Re: Learning no-footers

I learned set in, seat out no footers are a lot harder. just hop in one
spot, jump up and take your feet off, then land with them back on.

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This is an old pic back when i just got it down.

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I can do them okay,the way I do them is just lift your feet up high.You
have to jump -up- and not forward.

The thing is I cant do it off of things.I need to work on that o lot.

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Its one of those things you just gotta go for and hope for the best, try
on grass first and do it static. Here's a pic of me seat out, if you
wear shinpads you won't really get hurt unless you twist your ankle on a
bad landing or something like that. The pic is really blurry cause it
was cropped out of a bigger pic to get it that size and then I had to
resize it to fit it in the post.

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darchibald said:

* if you wear shinpads you won't really get hurt unless you twist your
ankle on a bad landing or something like that. *

I beg to differ. Trying any trick where the feet leave the pedals has
major potential for a nasty pedal bite. Whenever you try to get back on
the pedals, you can miss or slip off and those pedals go straight for
your shin or calf. This is what happened to me when attempting a similar
no-footer stunt. I don't think pads are ever a bad idea.

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BoojiBoy said:

*I beg to differ. Trying any trick where the feet leave the pedals has
major potential for a nasty pedal bite. Whenever you try to get back
on the pedals, you can miss or slip off and those pedals go straight
for your shin or calf. This is what happened to me when attempting a
similar no-footer stunt. I don't think pads are ever a bad idea. *

Were you wearing pads? Did they have calf protection? I wasn't saying
they were a bad idea I said if you wear them you have basically nothing
else to worry about. I have numerous similar scars that I got from my
days before using shinpads. I just use soccer ones cause I'm cheap and I
find they are ok. I ride with Snafu's with pins and I generally don't
worry about my calfs, but I am strongly opposed to my pedal's making
contact with the bone of my shin. Some day I might get full leg pads I
don't know we'll see.

David

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DOnt forget balls-you could hurt them too.

And doing seat out no-footers,you could smash your ribs on the seat if
you miss the pedals,I did somthing like that.

But,they're not that dangerous really.

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You could do that walking down the street.

David

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ok, I worked on these for a while. I was just having trouble gettng my
feet to come off the pedals, I'm too used to static hopping and tucking
the uni up.

However, I managed to do it better than before by just pressing down on
the handle. On some, my uni didn't even com off the ground. That helped.
I can actually get my feet off now, that's good. It's just an issue of
psyching myself up.

What do I do about my pedals spinning? I don't want to land on one
that's vertical... Maybe land crank hopping?

Thinking about this, has anybody done a body varial (Body spins, uni
doesn't) on a uni? That would be awesome. It's what I thought jacinto's
giant 180 no footer was in universe 2, but I guess not.

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Fuego said:

*ok, I worked on these for a while. I was just having trouble gettng
my feet to come off the pedals, I'm too used to static hopping and
tucking the uni up.

However, I managed to do it better than before by just pressing down
on the handle. On some, my uni didn't even com off the ground. That
helped. I can actually get my feet off now, that's good. It's just an
issue of psyching myself up.

What do I do about my pedals spinning? I don't want to land on one
that's vertical... Maybe land crank hopping?

Thinking about this, has anybody done a body varial (Body spins, uni
doesn't) on a uni? That would be awesome. It's what I thought
jacinto's giant 180 no footer was in universe 2, but I guess not. *

Yeah they've been done,at least one person I know of is
unicycle98966/tuna98966(somthing like thaT)I know other people can do it
too.

I have a problem with the pedals spinng too,but I usaly land them
anyway,somtimes I end up doing a pedal flip(crankflip,with pedals)🙂

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as long as you have platform pedals, i.e. the pedals that are slanted,
not completely rectangle, then pedals will spin back to their original
position when you land on them. if you have rectangular ones.... get
platform pedals.

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When i do anything where i leave the pedals, i lower my seat so i can
sit on it and be able to have both feet on the ground so if i miss the
pedals and land on the seat i wont die.
Heres a pic me doing a no footer (i had to resize it in paint so it
might be a little distorted and my arm is at a really weird angle, it
doesnt usually look like that)😄

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Okay well heres my nofooter pic.A little late

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