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Young new rider learns fast
Two weeks ago, Brad invited one of his schoolmates, 11-year-old Logan, to club. Logan is a natural athlete and very gifted in many things. At club that night, he was up and riding across the gym within 15 minutes. Then he rented unicycle and took it home for the week. Last week, Logan brought the unicycle back and was riding as if he had been riding for years. He officially joined the club that night and passed Level 1. This week, Brad brought his Coker for Logan to try. It wasn't five minutes before he had the mount down and was zipping round the gym. After that, Mary and I banned him from the club. We've seen two other boys learn quickly at camp a couple years ago. When we go camping, we always take the unicycle trailer and the kids of the campground have a blast trying to ride them. Two years ago, it took two boys into day two before they were riding down the road. But we've never seen anything like Logan. We might have to rename him Smiley II. Bruce -- yoopers - Bruce & Mary Edwards Ode to Bugman: "I love vegetarians. Everything I eat is a vegetarian." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ yoopers's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/31 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/38982 |
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There seem to be a lot of people like that out there. A freind of mine learned in maybe 2-3 days. I thought that was good. He has a uni now, too. Another convert! There are now 8 people who can ride in my town, when there were maybe 0 before we started! -- Fuego - Unicycle Ninja "Unicycling is more about the center of concentration than the center of balance." 'OneWheelNinjaSquad' (http://gallery.unicyclist.com/OneWheelNinjaSquad) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fuego's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/6983 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/38982 |
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woa i learned it in 30 min!! I thought it took me awhile!! But guess not! -- musketman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ musketman's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/9214 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/38982 |
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I think it depends on how active the person is before they start unicycling. a lot of my friends who are now unicyclists rode bikes a lot before, and they learned quickly, as in a few days. But I barely ever ride bikes, now or before I learned to uni, and it took me weeks before I could ride well. and skaters learn fast too. I think you need a good sense of balance to be able to skateboard well. -- James_Potter - betcha can't stick it! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ James_Potter's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/3807 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/38982 |
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A while back a random mountain biker stopped by at our juggling club and asked if he could try to unicycle as he had seen me on the trail a few times and was interested. I showed him the normal way we teach beginers and he just laughted and started to try to free mount on his own with horrible failure. He frantically continued and with a few tips was able to freemount a little while later but then was only able to get a few inches of riding. This guy keept pushing himself to get it and in under 15 min he was freemounting and riding 500 feet unassisted. In another half hour of pratice he was already better than some people in the club who had been riding for 3 months. Some people just are amazing learners. -- Checkernuts - Breakdancer Extraordinar No one said it was gonna be easy and I'm not afraid to try, with the odds stacked up against me I will have to fight, One Life One Wheel got to do it right. H20 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Checkernuts's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/801 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/38982 |
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Dang, it took me 2 weeks to be level one and I did mountain bikeing and bmx a lot. NOt far. -- caw89 - Cody http://gallery.unicyclist.com/Codys-Gallery New vids, Uni-vid: Yard Riding AIM: unicaw89 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ caw89's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/8228 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/38982 |
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I met a BMX biker who wanted to try my uni. He freemounted successfully on the second try, and made it about 20'. Then he used a pole and did a figbure eight. Within 15 minutes he was making it down curbs. All of this was done on my ONza with mad low air pressure and a very short seat. Mike Middletonlearned in a few hours. -- gerblefranklin - Trials Unicyclist http://gallery.unicyclist.com/Trials-Muni Nick's main man. "Democracy is just a word when the people are starving"-Immortal Technique * I need a profile hub, any condition, as long as the splines work! (PM me) * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gerblefranklin's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/4295 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/38982 |
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my friend wanted to learn to uni so i went over yesterday with my old uni. He had the free-mount down within minutes and was going about 10 meters, i couldn't believe it he did what took my a week in about 10 min. then we went out on to the road for some more practise and he free mounted and went all the way around a roundabout. after 5 hours he is now level 3, that took me like a month, he will probably become better then me soon but i don't care -- saam - One Wheel Short of a Bike (add me) Quotes - You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. - Dare to be yourself (Andre Gide) -If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying? (Shantideva) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ saam's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/9168 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/38982 |
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My mate learnt in a couple of days, and learnt by doing a running mount which certainly takes some guts. It also resulted in him getting a fair few cuts on his legs from my metal pedals! -- ur - Unicycling Revolution ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ur's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/4199 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/38982 |
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Having some to 'show' you is a big factor. I learned on my own, in about 2 weeks I was going up and down a high grade hill I lived on. When I was in college, the gurls tutored did rather well. -- DigitalDave - Ðîgï†å||¥ ËñhÂÑ€èÐ 'nf7-s ~ xp2400mobile' (http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?rigid=21988) '20,124 3dm01' (http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=8399731) my will to live was stronger than my will to die. - iggy pop that which does not kill me, makes me stronger. - friedrich nietzsche 1899 if it's popular, then what's it got to do with us? - mens room wall ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DigitalDave's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/8003 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/38982 |
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