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Tricks to learn after basic
Well as you see i just subscribed to the forum. I can ride the unicycle well forward (and to the left/right :P), and have tried to learn idling and riding backwards. Now I have some questions. I have seen these amazing unitrial videos. What I wonder is: firstly, do u often get hurt? i mean like broken arms or legs or a tooth falling out? Well, the falls look terrible ... secondly, what tricks should I start with? That is if the whole thing isnt too dangerous. I don't have a trial unicycle (i have a normal 24 "), but i know there are tricks that aren't ( or don't look ) that dangerous, I saw the video of the Japanese woman doing some amazing stuff in some sort of a competition. That doesnt look as dangerous as jumping up on 1 meter high stairs or rocks. Or even worse - grind them down . Well, I hope I get some advice from you (the forum users seem very nice) ps. and wow. now I have 20 mbs of free webspace -- noclowns ------------------------------------------------------------------------ noclowns's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/6359 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/32105 |
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I would say, learn all the stuff up to level 3 or 4, if you do trials or freestyle. If you like stuff like jumping off picnic tables and grinding go with trials. If you like more artsy stuff like figure skating style go with freestyle. I perfer jumping off stuff and hopping on stairs. -- gpickett00 - Level 3.7 Bicycle is just a short way of saying unicycle with a training wheel. 'Our unicycling videos' (http://gallery.unicyclist.com/Moiv) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gpickett00's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/5654 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/32105 |
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the trials unicycling is not as dangerous as it looks. in fact, extreme unicycling (trails/muni) is very safe as far as extreme sports go. you almost always land on your feet. The bad falls in the videos are rare, and *usually* not as bad as they look. they only included those crashing clips cuz they impress the viewers. they're not everyday things. i have yet to know of anyone that broke an arm or leg or lost a tooth unicycling. im sure there are -some- , but its not a reason to never try trials or muni. if you can backwards and idle, i'd suggest to go the route of trials or muni instead of freestyle. many will disagree, but i find freestyle not as instense/fun/satisfying as muni or trials. its really your personal preference, but try all of them. first learn to hop in place, then once you feel comfortable with that learn to hop up a curb, then hope up a set of 3 or 4 steps, then just use your imagination. the sky is the limit. beware, its pretty easy to get hooked. however, if you choose the freestyle route, i would suggest learning a kickup mount or wheel walking or one foot riding if you already idle and go backwards. -grant -- tennisgh22 The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tennisgh22's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/5771 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/32105 |
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I personally like learning new mounts as; they are some fairly easy ones which look wicked they hide the fact that you previously just screwed up when you were showing off Riding with the seat outfront/riding on your stomach/riding backwards are all fairly easy once you get the hang of it and quite a few tricks progress of those... running stairs is also fun and you get some cool looks have fun trying! -- special_liz - Speshial Member ------------------------------------------------------------------------ special_liz's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/6254 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/32105 |
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idling is really, really, really important. riding backwards is a fun show-off skill, and one-foot riding is useful for training to become a more efficient all-around rider. if you'd like to focus on MUni/trials, learn to hope in place, up curbs, ride/hop seat in front and master those skills. if you'd rather do freestyle just work your way up the skill level chart- focusing on wheelwalking and new mounts. if you don't know what you want to specalize in, work on everything. i like to use the skill level chart as a guide to figgure out what to do next. your call. -- TheBadger587 - Level 4 Well i Guess not the retarded ones... but how could you even say something like that? jeez cleveland, there's edgy and then theres offensive. Good day sir! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TheBadger587's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/5576 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/32105 |
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i ride freestyle and do very little trials (i don't wanna screw up my uni plus freestyle rocks). After you've learnt to ride there are a couple of tricks that can be learnt relatively quickly (after these tricks become much harder and take a lot more time to learn eg wheel walking). here is a list of tricks i think everyone should learn regardless of type of unicycling they do idling idling 1 ft backwards riding 1ft riding stomach on seat (most pointless trick in the world but learn it anyway...helps for seat out front i guess.) seat out front seat out back seat on side work on some basic trials as well eg. hopping up/down curbs build this up to stairs hoping small "gaps" From here choose what you enjoy most and branch into that i guess. should be enough 2 keep you busy for while....enjoy -- nickvb123 - Freestyle Freak I think i'm going to kill the next person who mentions the word circus. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ nickvb123's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/5926 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/32105 |
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noclowns wrote:
Well as you see i just subscribed to the forum. I can ride the unicycle well forward (and to the left/right :P), and have tried to learn idling and riding backwards. Now I have some questions. I have seen these amazing unitrial videos. What I wonder is: firstly, do u often get hurt? i mean like broken arms or legs or a tooth falling out? Well, the falls look terrible ... secondly, what tricks should I start with? That is if the whole thing isn't too dangerous. I don't have a trial unicycle (i have a normal 24 "), but i know there are tricks that aren't ( or don't look ) that dangerous, I saw the video of the Japanese woman doing some amazing stuff in some sort of a competition. That doesn't look as dangerous as jumping up on 1 meter high stairs or rocks. Or even worse - grind them down . Hop variedly. |
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tennisgh22 wrote:
the trials unicycling is not as dangerous as it looks. in fact, extreme unicycling (trails/muni) is very safe as far as extreme sports go. you almost always land on your feet. The bad falls in the videos are rare, and *usually* not as bad as they look. they only included those crashing clips cuz they impress the viewers. they're not everyday things. i have yet to know of anyone that broke an arm or leg or lost a tooth unicycling. im sure there are -some- , but its not a reason to never try trials or muni. Didn't Dustin Kelm (?) break himself going down stairs? |
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Scott Kurland, RMT wrote: Didn't Dustin Kelm (?) break himself going down stairs? [/b] yes -- dustin - feeling good about myself & others 'dustin kelm' (http://www.dustin.kelm.com) isa40:30.31 "You are only limited by your imagination." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dustin's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/920 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/32105 |
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Thank you for the help! -- noclowns ------------------------------------------------------------------------ noclowns's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/6359 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/32105 |
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