Re: Seat out front problems

There is another way to approach your issue:

TWO FEET!!!!

ATTA BOY!!!!!!

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Klaas Bil said:

Shouldn't matter. Messages to one also go out to the other because
of
the 2-way 'gateway', that isn't 100% reliable though.

No, that's quite apparant. The original message I posted doesn't appear
on the forums, but does appear on the newsgroups. Might be because of
the attached file though.

Anyway, back to the topic. I shot some foto's today, with me jumping
normally, without jumping onto something. And miracle, miracle, I tuck!
Quite well actually, the wheel almost leaves a black mark on my ass. So,
new problem, how to transfer this skill to sidehopping (However slight
the 'side' part of the hopping may be). Also, the tucking is not
concious, I just... do it... Well, practice makes perfect!

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The hop in that video looks good to me. I think theoretically you can
get more height by folding yourself up and getting the wheel out in
front of you than if you pull it inside so it's hitting your butt.

You're right though, just practice a lot. That's what I should be doing

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Luckily this is enough to do some simple trials lines, now on to learn
how to pedalgrab, this should increase my jumping height by at least 10
inches. I'm struggling with learning this though, because as you can see
in the video, my jump is to my left. What you might not be able to see
in the video is that my left pedal is the pedal behind, so if I want to
go from pedal to rubber, my 'loose' pedal (my right one) would have to
be in front. Now I know it's possible to do it either way, but I'm
having major difficulties controlling my weight distribution like this,
as I tend to tip over forward. Any tips on doing this? (Also, just to be
sure, going from pedal to rubber is basically just jumping off your
pedal, and then quickly pulling up your unicycle under you again,
right?)

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Just a picture to illustrate the difference between my 'free' jump (Not
jumping onto anything), and my jump onto something. Pity I can't
practice right now (Gotta love dutch weather...)

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Erant said:

The original message I posted doesn't appear on the forums, but does
appear on the newsgroups. Might be because of the attached file
though.

Well, sort of. Your original message may appear on your local news
server, but it didn't propagate to Unicycling.com, Supernews, or
Google. It looks like your server (or one "upstream" from it) dropped
the ball and failed to send the message. I doubt a problem with the
unicyclist.com gateway had anything to to with the matter.

Erant said:

(Gotta love dutch weather...)

The Dutch weather hasn't been too bad off late. Where are you?

Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict
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Klaas Bil said:

*On Fri said:

(Gotta love dutch weather...)

The Dutch weather hasn't been too bad off late. Where are you?

Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict
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Noord-Holland, Alkmaar, has been raining off and on. But even a small
amount of rain will make everything just slippery enough for me to think
"Imagine what will happen if you slipped, you could crack your skull
open", and leave me standing there, hopping. Also one of the main
reasons I'm going to get a helmet and shinguards ASAP. (I've only really
being doing trials and street since about three weeks)

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Ken Cline said:

*'Erant said:

The original message I posted doesn't appear on the forums, but

does

Quoted message said:

appear on the newsgroups. Might be because of the attached file
though.

Well, sort of. Your original message may appear on your local news
server, but it didn't propagate to Unicycling.com, Supernews, or
Google. It looks like your server (or one "upstream" from it)
dropped
the ball and failed to send the message. I doubt a problem with the
unicyclist.com gateway had anything to to with the matter. *

How weird, the message did get picked up by my binaries newsserver,
newshosting... Ah well, shows that nothing is perfect 😉

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