Unicycling training montage

[geraldc]

Watch the vid and tell me you're not tempted to dig the Lidl unicycle out of storage and giving it another go


    YouTube
        - ‪Japanese Unicycle Dancing - Ayaka-san and Saki-san‬‏
 

[Basil]

Oh well.  That's two more people I hate. 

[DrMekon]

Yep - now I want a unicycle.

The movement reminds me of Phil Dolan's rolling flatland style.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/cpzACwiWcBM&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/cpzACwiWcBM&rel=1</a>

If it's 1/10th as hard as flatland, I'll never be able to do it.

Who's going to lend me a unicycle?

[Kim]

Yep - now I want a unicycle.

+1

Dammit!

[Arch]

For god's sake, why did that make me want to cry!

Hmm, hormone alert perhaps.

Anyway...

It didn't make me want to get one and try, because I just know how bad I'd be, and it's not worth the disappointment. Or scars.

[Basil]

Kim.  I'd have lent you mine, but it's now in Waleslandshire and since becoming unexpectedly car free, I don't fancy trying to ride it to Brum.

[unipaul]

Japanese freestyle is always soooo smooth and looks so effortless. I've seen the style emulated by a few, but never bettered. Not to say that unicyclists from other countries can't be better (they most definitely can) but they never seem to get that flow...

[geraldc]

Giving it one more go at learning. Just spent 20 mins in the garden, one hand against the wall rocking backwards and forwards. According to the youtube video I'm watching, in a few months I should be able to progress to moving forward. Perhaps I should look for a faster training program...


You never see a fat unicyclist. Interesting

[citoyen]

I've wanted a unicycle for about five years, ever since I had a go on one at a circus-themed party, but there were always other things above it on my wishlist. But Father Christmas very kindly left one in my stocking two days ago.

I had a little go yesterday morning and nearly broke my neck trying to work out how to mount the darn thing. Then, following a hint from my brother that it might be useful, I opened my birthday present early (it's not my birthday for another two days) and it turned out to be an instructional book. Hurrah!

I've just been outside practising for about an hour and I've got to the point where I can just about manage about three or four full pedal revolutions before having to bail out - I'm somewhere between the first two scenes in Gerald's video (that is an absolutely wonderful video, by the way, G - really heartwarming). And I am grinning from ear to ear. What huge amounts of fun. It's also quite a physical workout - it's a bit nippy today so I had two jumpers on when I went out, but I soon had to remove both of them as I was getting rather warm.

Possibly the most fun Christmas present I've had since I got the Millennium Falcon aged 8. 

Here's another aspirational short film for all budding unicyclists...
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/1uPznTbus3g&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/1uPznTbus3g&rel=1</a>

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[CamPhil]

Is this the n+½ thread?   

I think I'd better give unicycling a miss though, unless there's any such thing as a recumbent unicycle.

[Ashaman42]

Is this the n+½ thread?   

I think I'd better give unicycling a miss though, unless there's any such thing as a recumbent unicycle.

Well I don't know about anyone else but I find my normal unicycle transforms into a recumbent one rather easily. 

[unipaul]

Is this the n+½ thread?   

I think I'd better give unicycling a miss though, unless there's any such thing as a recumbent unicycle.

Ahem! http://www.corbinstreehouse.com/blog/2010/03/recumbent-unicycle/ 

[Kim]

Ahem! http://www.corbinstreehouse.com/blog/2010/03/recumbent-unicycle/ 

It's like Rule 34 but for bikes.   

[andygates]

There's a Lidl special gathering dust right here, if anyone wants it.  Go on, they're only scabs. 

[Kim]

It's times like this that I'm glad of the 'no fixies' rule...

[citoyen]

Is this the n+½ thread?   

Yes. Of course, I now need to get a trike to restore bike shed equilibrium.

d.

[CamPhil]

Anything less would be a cardinal sin