Scarfy96 wrote:...no problems then "miss" the pedal with the 2nd foot (ie come down on it not quite right and slide off or tap it with my toe and spin it etc)
Probably everyone has a problem with that second foot, myself included. So, for what it'sworth, my journey is as follows.
I used to try and put the left foot on top which required me to always have the pedal set at right angles to the crank but I still found consistency problems. I stuck with this for, maybe, more than 5000kms so I think I gave it a good go.
Eventually I settled on aiming to moving the left fool in FRONT of the pedal and bring it back onto it. I have found it to be amazingly consistent and now stick with it. And with time I could do it regardless of how the pedal happened to aligned.
With that sorted all Ineeded to do was improve the ease and speed at which I could then slide that left foot to be correctly centred on the minority of cases where it is does not go on ccentred. No drills, that came simply with experience.
btw I ride in crocs for reasons unrelated to unicycling. However it does make it really easy to adjust and centre. Also less inclination for the foot to stay stuck to the cycle when I do a UPD (unplanned dismount). From a twitter search it seems that a hell of a lot of other unicyclists choose to ride in crocs too. Of course, if you do use crocs then you will be so un-cool that you can say goodbye to the support from your eleven year old as well.