Am I Behind??

Ive been unicycling for about 3-4 months and i ride freestyle and
trials. For trials i can hop seat in about 12 inches and gap 38"
(sideways). With seat out and i can hop about 15" or so and gap about
33" (sideways). I practice freestyle alot more and i am a level 6 (minus
the spin) and i can do other stuff like gliding, coasting, seat drags
(cant get it back up yet), unispins, crank idling, seat drops, and 1
foot seat in front.

I practice alot though.🙂

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i was in pretty much the same situation unign, except i was level 4
after about 2 months
but my hop height was 8-12 inches
i'm more into muni now, but i've been riding 7 months now
i'm still level not quite level 5, but i don't care, i just enjoy
riding,
i can only hop 15 inches on my muni, if i had a trials of my own i could
prbly do 20" seat in, i can only do 5" seat out

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I've been riding 18 years and I am level 0. I can just about hop on the
spot.

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I've been riding 18 years and I am level 0. I can just about hop on the
spot.

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I've been riding about 1.5 months and i'm almost a level 3, figure 8's
are a bit shonky, and my uni is so short i nearly knee myself in the
head when i try to ride stomach on seat.

i can hop maybe 2inches:p

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At 50, my development is slow. This year I've learned to hop (seat in,
6 inches high, gap about 10 inches), ride backward (not much over 20
feet), and idle.

Riding up a small hill and turning sidway to hop up the last steep bit
is easy enough, but I don't have a practical skill for rock climbing
yet.

The skill I'm shooting for this year is to be able to ride up to a 6
inch curb and hop up it. I've just learned to hop up a 4" curb easily.
I'd like to be able to forward gap up a 6 inch curb, but am beginning to
see that as a tricky (dangerous) maneuver. Probably stick with improving
my side hop up technique since I feel I have better control.

It's been too hot in NY all summer. It hasn't stopped me from riding
daily, but I'm beginning to look forward to winter to get some good
riding in.

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I've been riding for about 6 years, I'm a level 3, and I can hop about
one foot seat in.
I don't practice freestyle much. If I did, I'm sure I'd be a lot higher
on the level list.
I just like riding, though. Just plain, basic, forward riding, about 10
miles a day. Doesn't help me get better at backwards one foot wheel
walking in a figure eight, but to me, it's more fun.
One of these days, I'll actually get a freestyle uni and learn some more
stuff.

Basically, I'm just saying, don't think of youself as behind. There is
no behind, unless you're actually competing against someone to reach
level 10. Have fun, and do what you find is fun. And, don't worry about
doing the levels in order, either. Just do what's fun and don't worry!🙂

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i dont do freestyle but i do street and trials i learned to hop about a
stairs hight in a day grind in a day and pretty soon i will be at about
2 stairs hight

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Dont evne worry about those lvls men they mean nothing to me anyways I
can 180 5's and stuff like taht but I think ima like lvl 6 so it dosnet
rlly mean how good you are

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I think 11 is the only *really* meaningful level. You ain't really
done it 'til you're an eleven.

Or did I get that backwards? :-0

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I have been riding for a year and 7 months. I do a little trials and
hardly any freestyle (just somethings i think are cool). I can hop seat
in about 21" and gap 5 feet. I have no idea what level i am and i dont
really care.

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we are all behind.

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At O.U.I. Trials comp:

Static seat in long jump: 62 inches
Seat in highjump: 56 Centimeters

Two years of riding (one year of riding trials.)

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I'm slow. Actually, according to Klaas Bill's learning calculator
thingy, that you'll find on his site, I am in the bottom 4% for speed of
learning.
I'm nearly 40 & I'm a chicken.
But I don't consider myself in competition with anyone else. I have no
sense of balance and am incredibly clumsy. It is almost a miracle that I
can unicycle at all.
I'm just enjoying it.

Cathy

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What was the month to month skills progression for Ryan "Smiley"
Woessner? He managed to get up to level ten in short order and flew
through the lower levels in almost no time. By Ryan's standard everyone
else in the world is behind. 😉

It took me more than 15 years before I learned to do more than just
freemount, ride around, and idle. 🙂

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A little late... but to answer John's question of when Ryan Woessner
passed each skill level:

1 - 12/06/99
2 - 12/15/99
3 - 01/10/00
4 - 02/21/00
5 - 03/13/00
6 - 04/24/00
7 - 05/08/00
8 - 11/28/00
9 - 04/24/01
10 - 11/13/01

Ryan started unicycling the week ending 12/3/99 (I think it was Friday,
12/3). As you can see, he passed over one level per month for the first
7. Then the next levels took about 6 months each. Amazing what can be
accomplished!

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john_childs said:

*It took me more than 15 years before I learned to do more than just
freemount, ride around, and idle. 🙂 *

Well I'm glad to hear I still have a 10 year cushion on that idling
thing... 🙂

Back to the original question, though. You get good at what you focus
on and decide to get good at. If your goal is to advance through the
levels, it seems like you're doing pretty well for the time you've been
riding. Level 6 after 3-4 months is impressive. I'm not even close to
that after 5 years, although learning the level skills has not been my
priority.

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yea lvls dont meananything really beside the factyou can tell some one
that will underdstand just have fun.
its not like you could tell some one on the street hey im a lvl 10 there
going to ask you if you smoke crack

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Hello,

I got the same level as you (3.5) in the first 6 months maybe. I didn't
have nor the one foot riding neither seat out ridings. I had been only
practicing normal and backward riding during maybe 3 years then, but
only once a month.
I came back to a regular practice 6 months ago and in 3 days i got the
one foot riding, this thing motivated me a lot! I started some
street/trials and i broke my freesyle uni : seat bumpers, seat post ,
spokes/rim, crank. I bought and brand new Qu-ax trial and improved a lot
my trial skills with that.
I have got levels 4, 5 and 6 so far and i am about to glide.

My progression has been quite unregular maybe because i was quite a
lonesome rider and i didn't look for any information on the internet
(but the list of levels!). I think this levels thing might have made me
loose my motivation to work freestyle. When i faced the "difficulty" of
level 4 tricks i have be discouraged. Hopefully, recently having found a
bunch of videos on the internet and read newsgroups showed me it was
possible, and i have so much fun now.

Thanks to the international unicyclist community.

Manuel

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