Just learning to wheel-walk

Hi again everybody

I have been into MUni for about six months now, and am finally learning
some freestyle and trial goodies. I have spent about three good
exhausting hours trying to learn to wheelwalk but cannot get the
lightbulb in my brain to kick in. Any tips for tomorrow's attempt?


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Try to lean back, but dont allow the saddle to slip out from under you.


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lean back as in like 11 o'clock or more?


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Toe-Heel, Toe-Heel, Toe-Heel. Just think about that.


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Yes! That's the problem I had, thank you poseidon.


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so now you got it?


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Three tips
-take long strokes
-lean backwards slightly (relative to normal riding)
-start off going slow.

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Tips for doing it? sit tall.

Tips for learning?


- Patience. I reckon learning to WW (from being able to e.g. one-foot
idle) took as long as learning to ride the uni in the first place
- Get your footing right first, i.e. so you don't have to look at
the wheel, before you start trying to balance as well
- A corridor or something where you can put one hand on each wall at
the same time helps *a lot*. Then you can learn the
forwards-backwards balance first.
- A lot of people say practising riding normally but really really
slowly helps too, 'coz the fastest speed you can WW is pretty slow in
comparison to normal riding. I didn't find that helped me much
tho...
- Some form of protection from the painful
falling-straight-onto-your-tailbone impact con be a good idea too -
especially if practicing on concrete...




HTH and good luck!


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acl wrote:

Patience. I reckon learning to WW (from being able to e.g. one-foot
idle) took as long as learning to ride the uni in the first place



hahahahaha...yeah. well, for me it took like two weeks spread out to
learn to ride, and like 3 months to learn to wheelwalk. so yeah,
patience. it might take a little more than three hours .


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The Only tip that I dont see here is that you need to look forward;
where you are going. It is so hard not to look at the wheel or your
feet as you are doing it, But when I was learning I was told to sit
straight up and look forward. I fouind it helped me lots!


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