ColinOldnCranky wrote:Congrats. Keep working on the freemounts and throw in some short 1 second stalls before moving forward again.
What are your plans now? Street riding? Tricks? Other skills?
Ahhh here is a key that slipped by me.
Had another play this morning and was again struggling so I just grabbed a pole and did some riding again. Then when riding I stalled and recovered and thought "that was just like a freemount". So then I started practicing stalling and recovering over and over again with each ride.
Ride, stall, recover, ride, stall, recover, ride, stall, recover.
Instead of getting one in ten or one in twenty freemounts I was effectively getting 2, 3 or 4 with every ride. On the unicycle, balanced, stalled and starting.
Tried freemounting again after 10 minutes of this. 3 in a row! OK then I missed the next 6 or 8 but then got a couple more and it definitely felt easier. Went back to riding and stalling for a while but noticed myself tiring so called it quits. Probably 25-30 minutes all up. Noticed definite improvement in that time.
So plan from here is a couple more hours riding with stalling and recovering and some freemount practice thrown in.
Once I am free mounting consistently next plan is just to bank km's on a range of terrain to build up all aspects of riding before trying to move to anything else. Will most likely be on a "shared path" or similar where I can trundle along for however long and have some easy undulations etc and moving obstacles (other people using the path). No real plans after that than just having some fun with it - although my 10yo daughter is VERY keen for me to combine my juggling skills with unicycling. I think she wants to paint my face as well ....