Stand up glide?

I was just wondering, who exactly doesnt use there hands to get into
stand up glide? Ive just about learnt it.

What is easyiest way to get into stand up glide?

Thnx
Trev


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I've been working on stand up wheel walk as a precursor to stand up
glide.

I find that I place my left foot on the frame and then use my right hand
on the front of the seat. With most (all?) of my weight on the left foot
I quickly stand up.

Then I usually quickly fall back down.

On some of my better attempts I've gone perhaps twenty feet. With that
distance there are occasional short "glides" that are mostly
unintentional.

I think that once I get the hang of it I won't use my hands at all to
get into position. I think that going from seated to stand up riding is
much easier that going from stand up back to seated. I find it's much
easier to go from stand up to sprawled out.

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unicycleboy wrote:
*who exactly doesnt use there hands to get into stand up glide?*
All the riders in the Japanese video I have. Not to say Japanese riders
are the only ones doing it, but there are quite a few of them on this
tape (from the Toyoda Unicycle Club). This is a tape of a big stage show
they did. Not a commercial tape, at least not sold over here.

Unfortunately I can't help much with the "how" until I learn it
myself...


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Sorry John

What i meant to say was riding and going to stand up glide rather than
gliding then stading up. I might try and learn this way but its pretty
difficult

Trev


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Most of what I see seems to go straight from pedaling to standing up.
Once you get used to it, this way is probably easier than trying to
raise yourself up from a glide. Easier on the legs, you know.


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Here's a link to a Japanese video with some stand-up gliding.
http://www.ichirin.ne.jp/video/sin03/


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Ive seen them videos, they all to go from glide into it, only a few
times do they not use this method and go straight into stand up glide.

Im going to learn the glide way

Trev


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