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1 foot wheel walk. need tips
i start going on one foot and get my balance sorted out i go kinda slow so i can move my feet fast enough to match the wheel's speed. -- gordito8me ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gordito8me's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/13641 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/51150 |
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1 foot wheel walk. need tips
is it easier to do one foot wheel walking up a hill down hill or on flat? i ask this because wheel walking with 2 feet is easier up hill -- vuniw _List_of_Cool_Words_ - funkitated-skrobo - gruegel-dan de man - gib-JJtheunicycle - skruviest-benjaug (still adding) BluntRM wrote: My junk bike popped a chain link as I sped across an intersection: one flip and a head plant later and I'm a unicycle purist. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ vuniw's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12772 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/51150 |
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1 foot wheel walk. need tips
vuniw wrote: is it easier to do one foot wheel walking up a hill down hill or on flat? i ask this because wheel walking with 2 feet is easier up hill Flat. If you try going uphill you start rolling backwards when you drag your foot back to start the next push. If you try going downhill you are getting in to gliding territory. Practice on a nice flat area with a smooth and clean surface. An underinflated tire might make it easier to learn with, but I'm not sure about that. Dust and dirt on the surface will also make it more difficult because your shoes and tire will pick up the dust making the friction between your shoe and the tire different. That changes things a lot. -- john_childs john_childs (att) hotmail (dott) com Team Dirty Muni Gallery: http://gallery.unicyclist.com/john_childs 'Unicycling Bookmark List' (http://backcountry.unicyclist.com/) :: 'World Clock' (http://tinyurl.com/a99y3) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ john_childs's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/449 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/51150 |
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1 foot wheel walk. need tips
the other day i did my first glide. I was going one foot and i just stuck my other foot on the crown. I didn't do the thing where you drag your foot. (i will try next time) but i got about 5 meters -- gordito8me ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gordito8me's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/13641 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/51150 |
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1 foot wheel walk. need tips
I'd definitely work on gliding at the same time if I were you, and experiment with different speeds. It's much easier to balance and to go longer distances and turn when you're going quite fast and gliding quite a lot of the time, rather than 1ft wwing slowly, which takes much more effort to balance. And if you're doing it on a trials, have you raised your seat quite a bit? If you can borrow a freestyle you'll probably progress a bit faster, although it's not too hard with a trials tyre. Also for anyone who has trouble getting into it I think it's actually quite tricky to go from 2ft to 1ft wwing when you're learning it, it's much easier to start with 1ft straight away, either from holding a wall or maybe 1ft idling. -- Beth ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beth's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12979 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/51150 |
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1 foot wheel walk. need tips
I think my furthest is about 40 metres, at which point my leg starts to get tired, and I'd suggest - start from a wall; transitioning from one-foot-on-frame idling isn't difficult once you've got the hang of it. (This seems the reverse of 2ft ww, where starting from idling was helpful). - go at a decent speed. not so fast you're trying to kick the wheel forwards as fast as you can before you fall off the front, but I reckon I go at least as fast as when I 2ft ww. At first I was trying to balance going really slowly, with the wheel basically not moving when I was moving my foot back, and didn't get anywhere (that's way harder, have seen it done tho), but when I started going faster (dragging your foot back along the tyre a bit) it suddenly got a lot easier. - I'd imagine a freestyle tyre (I've got a Primo Wall) will be easier than a muni tyre 'coz it'll be easier to twist and steer sideways. - Flat is easiest. Slightly downhill might be ok but I've not found a gradient shallow enough that I'm not gonna be gliding down it, and that's a different story... Think I'm basically agreeing with others here . What I would say is that it's all about the *momentum* of the wheel - this is the biggest difference vs 2ft ww (which is just about moving your feet in the reverse direction to pedalling, and balancing using your arms). A 20" wheel may not have much compared to a coker (?!) but it still has quite a significant amount. -- acl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ acl's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12048 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/51150 |
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1 foot wheel walk. need tips
Once I learned to 2-foot WW -slowly-, 1-foot WW seemed almost trivial. I suggest that you practice 2-foot WW more slowly. -- phlegm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ phlegm's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/8382 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/51150 |
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1 foot wheel walk. need tips
phlegm wrote: Once I learned to 2-foot WW -slowly-, 1-foot WW seemed almost trivial. I suggest that you practice 2-foot WW more slowly. what do you mean by trivial -- vuniw _List_of_Cool_Words_ - funkitated-skrobo - gruegel-dan de man - gib-JJtheunicycle - skruviest-benjaug (still adding) BluntRM wrote: My junk bike popped a chain link as I sped across an intersection: one flip and a head plant later and I'm a unicycle purist. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ vuniw's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12772 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/51150 |
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1 foot wheel walk. need tips
I mean that it followed naturally without much extra effort. It took me several months to learn 2-foot WW, but it only took me a week at most after that to pick up 1-foot WW. -- phlegm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ phlegm's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/8382 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/51150 |
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1 foot wheel walk. need tips
Im learning now! I can almost do it consistently. Im sort of working on gliding at the same time by kicking harder and sliding my foot on the tire to slow myself down. If you can call that gliding. Im pretty close but one question: how do you go straight from riding to gliding? do you put your foot on teh frame first or on the tire to slow yourself? -- timbob1907 Cheers, ___Tim Post 110110 on MR 'My 777th post that got me into MRIS' (http://tinyurl.com/ylckes) forrestunifreak wrote: I'm addicted to placebo's. I should stop taking them, but it wouldn't matter anyway. Ducttape wrote: A cx? yeah..... the seat isn't really a seat it's a brick in disguise..... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ timbob1907's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/13425 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/51150 |
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