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What did I do?

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  1. I am an unofficial level 2 rider putting the brass tacks on levels 3 and
    4 skills, I've never actually been tested.

    I have been working on reducing my turning radius all summer.

    Today I did something that felt completely different and really changed
    the way things worked.

    I would go into one of my usual choppy turns that looks more like some
    kind of polygon with rounded corners. Today I concentrated on keeping my
    pedaling smoother as I lean. While coming out of one of these really
    choppy tight circles I lessened my lean but kept pedaling smoothly and
    the unicycle just went around and around and around and around almost on
    the spot while I pedaled smoothly and slowly with little lean at all.

    I did this all afternoon 'til I did a nice UPD/roll. Ummmph! Time to
    rest. I looked at the blacktop and it was covered with all these great
    tight curly spirals in the dust from my new found skill.

    So was I spinning? Is that what it was? It was really a cool feeling.

    Thanks!
    Blake

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  2. If it felt toltally different from a normal tight circle, then it was
    spinning. I agree it is a really cool feeling. I learned it a while
    ago, and then I forgot how to do it, and now I am just re-learning it.
    Now you can try to do it in the other direction🙂

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  3. It did feel completely different. I could do it to the left quite
    predictably with fewer preparatory regular turning style circles. I
    managed to do it to the right a few times, then I bit it.

    I'll keep at it so it sticks. It is a really cool feeling.

    Thanks!

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