Unicycle progression

ooooh my.........ooooooh my, unicycling is soooo damn fun when you can actually do it

gave up in the summer after a few days of annoyance, but i've been back on it recently and in about two days i could just about ride it, i'm now going around the exeter city centre with mostly no trouble apart from the odd prick saying where's the other half etc lol

ooh and nearly getting free mounts solid aswell with about 1 or 2 out of 5ish with me actually going somewhere after getting on it

oooooh whats next.....rocking backwards and forwards....i think so lol


how's everybody else getting on?

Im just at the beginning of level 4

I can
ride backward for 10 meters
idle with right foot down 25 times

Written by: pk_

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Level 1
mount unicycle unassisted
ride 50 meters
dismount gracefully with unicycle in front

Level 2
mount with left foot
mount with right foot
ride 10 meters between two parallel lines 30 cm apart
ride a figure eight with circle diameters smaller than 3 meters
ride down a 15 cm vertical drop
make a 90 degree turn to the left inside a 1 meter circle
make a 90 degree turn to the right inside a 1 meter circle

Level 3
demonstrate 3 types of mounts
ride a figure eight with circle diameters smaller than 1.5 meters
come to a stop, pedal half a revolution backward and continue forward
ride with the stomach on the seat for 10 meters
make a 180 degree turn to the left within a 1 meter circle
make a 180 degree turn to the right within a 1 meter circle
hop 5 times
ride or hop over a 10 x 10 cm. obstacle

Level 4
demonstrate 4 types of mounts
ride backward for 10 meters
ride one footed for 10 meters
idle with left foot down 25 times
idle with right foot down 25 times
ride with seat out in front for 10 meters
ride with the seat out in back for 10 meters
make a 360 degree turn to the left inside a 1 meter circle
make a 360 degree turn to the right inside a 1 meter circle

Level 5
demonstrate 5 types of mounts
ride backward in a circle
ride one footed in a figure eight
idle one footed with the left foot 25 times
idle one footed with the right foot 25 times
ride with seat out in front in a circle
ride with the seat out in back in a circle
ride with the seat on the side in a circle
hop-twist 90 degrees to the left
hop-twist 90 degrees to the right
walk the wheel for 10 meters

Level 6
demonstrate 6 types of mounts
ride backward in a figure eight
ride with the seat out in front in a figure eight
ride with the seat out in back in a figure eight
ride backward with the seat out in front for 10 meters
hop standing on wheel 5 times
ride with the seat on the side in a circle to the left
ride with the seat on the side in a circle to the right
ride one footed with the left foot for 10 meters
ride one footed with the right foot for 10 meters
backspin
frontspin
spin

Level 7
demonstrate 7 types of mounts
ride backward with the seat out in front in a circle
ride one footed with the left foot in a circle
ride one footed with the right foot in a circle
walk the wheel in a circle
walk the wheel one footed for 10 meters
hop-twist 180 degrees to the left
hop-twist 180 degrees to the right
ride backward with the seat out in back for 10 meters
spin to the left
spin to the right

Level 8
demonstrate 8 types of mounts
ride one footed with the left foot in a figure eight
ride one footed with the right foot in a figure eight
walk the wheel in a figure eight
walk the wheel one footed in a circle
ride backward one footed for 10 meters
glide for 10 meters
hand wheel walk for 10 meters
pirouette
backward spin

Level 9
demonstrate 9 types of mounts
walk the wheel one footed in a figure eight
ride backward one footed in a circle
ride backward with the seat out in front in a figure eight
ride backward with the seat out in back in a circle
walk the wheel one footed with the left foot for 10 meters
walk the wheel one footed with the right foot for 10 meters
walk the wheel backward for 10 meters
drag seat in front for 10 meters
drag seat in back for 10 meters
ride backward one footed with the left foot for 10 meters
ride backward one footed with the right foot for 10 meters
one footed with the seat out in front for 10 meters
backward pirouette

Level 10
demonstrate 10 types of mounts
ride backward with the seat out in back in a figure eight
ride backward one footed in a figure eight
walk the wheel one footed with the left foot in a circle
walk the wheel one footed with the right foot in a circle
walk the wheel backward in a circle
180 uni spin
sideways wheel walk for 10 meters
coast for 10 meters
side ride for 10 meters
walk the wheel one footed backward for 10 meters

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thats awsome, you've got that far......and you can do all the leve 3 stufff?? bloody hell, you know how to make someone feel rubbish lol

just come back from a ride with a friend of mine and i reckon i can just pass level one, with free mounts being quite sketchy still though

there's no way that i could do any of that figure of eight stuff yet though

wooo level 2, i can juggle on it tho do i get a pass?

I just managed to finally control the unicycle yesterday, i was falling off all the time, but after months of trying, i got it sorted at last night's juggling society meeting.
It took the right height seat (the guy helping me said it's best to have the seat at a height so that when the pedal is down, your leg is straight).
Lots and lots of practice, lots of falling too.
When i enjoy something have strange perseverence, so i persevered and eventually i got my balance, then a few tries later i was mastering the free-mount (I had been mostly starting from leaning off a wall).
Perseverence is all you really need.

i learnt to idle a bit!

thoes german 16yo's are a bit much!

T

I'm getting there with my unicycling....gradually. Haven't really hurt myself in a while, last time I fell off I managed to dislocate my thumb, didn't hurt anything else....just dislocated my thumb. How I managed to do this I'm not quite sure. But that was a long time ago and there have been no more injuries since then

Been doing laps of the local tennis court....apart from getting strange looks and sometimes slightly offensive comments (you have to remember I live in a town which is un-touched by the hippy/hippie society, nor the alternative society) it's been all good

i've been riding mine to college every day for about 5 days now and thats about 1-2 miles, yesturday me and a friend whent for a few rides around torquay racked up around 10-12ish miles, now i'm ffooken knackered lol

OMG!!! Unicycles are fun! I've done it a few times, but not mastered. Can't offer any help. Lol. TEACH ME!

anyone got anything cool, new and exciting to tell?

this thread has died lol

Yes well, since my son was born, I'm hardly even riding to work any more like I used to.

Latest skill I've learned, is to hang off pax (ie on their shoulder) when performing oustide on the unicyle and talk and joke with people for most of the time.

It turns a 2 hour unicycle gig into great fun for all involved, and ends up with me not being so hot and exhausted that I have to change my clothes all the time...

iv lent mine to peat

i mis her

how could you do such a thing??.....tut tut tut, i mean really, lending your uni

you're far too nice to this peat fellow lol

i reckon i'm level three now, can do all of level two but my mounting with right foot still rubbish, i can demonstrate three types of mounts easily, i can hop, do all the turning things..i think

its quite hard to know what some of this means

i just cant wait till falmouth 6 now, or any other spinny type event

Well I love my new uni, I can't do much yet without walls, I wish it would stop raining out side................................ I have a rain coat, what am I talking about !

still havent got mine back yet

I juts brought myself a unicycle, and I love it!!. Just learning to balance on it at the moment but im getting the hang of it Its so much fun

Just got myself a unicycle!! woo! so much fun (and its yellow!!) but its so hard!! can ride it so long as i don't let go of the fence!!

All this stuff in this thread sounds very impressive and, for me, totally imposible!!

its just practice, something which i really should do more of!

I started giving unicycle lessons, adn I've loaned out my uni to my student for the week...i'm kind of anxietous about it.

I miss my unicycle ;_;

just got my unicycle fixed!! I can start practicing again! Weee!

hehe Its fushia pink