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Old October 7th 05, 11:28 PM
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It struck me recently that a still stand may be the core skill of
unicycling!


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Old October 7th 05, 11:56 PM
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While a useful skill for a lot of things, I think just basic riding and
staying on is the core skill.


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Old October 8th 05, 01:19 AM
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still stand is an important skill for trials I think.. because if you
can sitll stand you wont need to pre-hopbefore your big hop and the
longer you can still stand the more blanace on skinny thing you will
have.. wel thats what i think


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Old October 8th 05, 02:18 AM
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I don't think there's one core skill.. but a still stand is definetly
one of the most important. After developing my still stand to over 30
seconds or so, MANY things are a lot easier. Freestyle stuff, trials
stuff, even muni stuff, and obviously skinnies. It's one of those
things that when you improve it, you improve in every other aspect of
unicycling.

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Old October 8th 05, 02:20 AM
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I have thought about this. It seems to be the only skill that almost
all the top riders, regardless of riding style, are good at.


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Old October 8th 05, 02:43 AM
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yeah but you can be one of the worlds top rider without having the
greatest still stand.. I mean it is a really good skill ot have but
let's say in trials id prefer to ahve a really high-side hop then a
good still stand..


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Old October 8th 05, 05:14 AM
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i don't know, the still stand is imperative but i think fluently idling
is the root of maneuverability and control on a uni.


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Old October 8th 05, 05:26 AM
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trials fundemental would be hopping... you would be useless if you could
still stand awesome and not be able to hop. wouldn't you?
it is a really good thing to practice though. if you practice nothing
else practice this one. like fcwegnm0b (wierd name dude) said,
everything gets easier if you got a good stillstand


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Old October 8th 05, 05:59 AM
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maxisback wrote:
yid prefer to ahve a really high-side hop then a good still stand..




In my experience big sidehops are essentially useless, unlewss I feel
like jumping up gigantic, flat, square surfaces. I rarely encounter
interesting trials lines with hops bigger than 30", and even then a
pedalgrab can, with some effort, replace a big hop.

Hopping for trials is definitely more useful than stillstands, however
once you can hop 24-30", a stillstand is the next thing to develop.
It's one thing to get your tire onto a rail, it's another thing to keep
it there.


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