Turning

This is more like a rant post. =/

Annoys me that I can only turn left but I can't turn right. It seems
instinctive to swing my right leg (main leg) to the left. But I cannot
generate enough power from my left leg to swing to the right.

I guess I need to practice more.


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Pembar wrote:
This is more like a rant post. =/

Annoys me that I can only turn left but I can't turn right. It seems
instinctive to swing my right leg (main leg) to the left. But I cannot
generate enough power from my left leg to swing to the right.

I guess I need to practice more.


thats interesting, as soon as i could ride i could turn...


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We should ride together. Turning left has been my challenge, we'd equal
out.

Actually, I could always turn left, just not sharply. Meanwhile, my
son, much lighter than me, could fairly easily make a 90 degree corner
on the same unicycle. I don't know if the weight has anything to do
with it or not, though.

But yeat, just keep at it and it'll get better. I can make my left
turns good enough for most purposes now, still would have trouble
staying on a narrow sidewalk at a corner, but I don't do that anyway.


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I could only turn left for almost a month of off an on riding, It is
fairly normal.

One day you will realize that you just turned right and it was easy.
Until then it is fairly annoying but part of the learning process for
some of us lucky lopsided people.


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Yeah, I was talking about 90 degree turns. Those where the "tyres
scratch the floor" as opposed to slanting to one side.

Are you right-legged or left-legged?


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I am all round right side dominant.


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Pembar wrote:
to swing my right leg (main leg) to the left



Maybe that's the problem?

You should be learning to turn by twisting your arms towards where you
want to turn (therefore facing your shoulders there), which in turn
twists your hips. Is this what you meant, or are you actually trying to
turn with your legs? If you have most of your weight on the saddle,
then the way I just described is how you're meant to do it. (swing
arms/twist shoulders/hips/in turn the uni).


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jamessd wrote:
Maybe that's the problem?

You should be learning to turn by twisting your arms towards where you
want to turn (therefore facing your shoulders there), which in turn
twists your hips. Is this what you meant, or are you actually trying to
turn with your legs? If you have most of your weight on the saddle,
then the way I just described is how you're meant to do it. (swing
arms/twist shoulders/hips/in turn the uni).



Oh.

I shall try this when I get home tonight. Somehow the swinging the
right leg to the left was instinctive, I play a lot of soccer, and it's
how I usually throw my weight when I swing the leg.

Thanks for the tip.


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Watch the movie Zoolander. If he can figure out how to turn left, you
can figure out how to turn right.


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damn you beat me to the zoolander joke!


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