Re: Progress!

tips:

-Persistance, persistance, persistance.

keep trying. as long as your patience will allow. or more.

- use walls less and less. let go for short bits, and gradually lenghten
the time you let go of the wall/rail. i learned by pushing offa wall in
my back yard for a week and a half, and then i tryed to turn.

-expect to learn in a long time. like 3-6 weeks is average. if yiou
learn or get better soon, it just helps your attitude if you expect to
learn in twice the time you originally thought it would take.

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Cheers,
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happy_4_u said:

*I'm doing pretty good so far, I can ride it, but I still have to hold
on to stuff sometimes. Any tips? *

make sure your seat is the correct height
when sitting with all your weight on the seat (we'll come back to this)
and your *heel* on the pedal (u'll never ride like this - this is just
to check the seat height), your leg should be straight, but not locked
your knee should -just- be able to bend

once u have the seat height correct, make sure that u keep your weight
on the seat at all times
as soon as u shift your weight off the seat and onto the pedals, u'll
find yourself in a Bottom Dead Center Stall and into a quick UPD
(UnPlanned Dismount)

and just practise, practise, practise
set yourself small goals with appropriate rewards
these may vary from playing with your barbie doll for 5 minutes to
pouring yourself a shot of bourbon
depending on age
mostly

and let us know how u go

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I learned at a local tennis court (when there weren't folks playing
tennis). I would hang on to the fence and just pedal along it. It
became a huge crutch and I just couldn't seem to let go of it for long.
I finally decided I needed to use the fence to get my initial balance,
turn completely away from the fence and let go. It was really
frustrating for a while. Sometimes I'd only get 2 revs of the pedals
before I'd crash and burn. But then I'd get 5 revs and then 10 and boy
did that feel good.

Personally, I've never used shin, knee or elbow pads. And I've only
gotten a skinned up knee a couple of times. I do however, use wrist
guards and a helmet religiously. Most UPDs I can run out of but when I
do hit the ground I instinctively put my hands out to stop my fall and
the first time I jammed my wrists hard I went out and bought the guards.
They've saved me a lot of pain.

Good luck and keep working at it. It took me an extraordinarily long
time to actually ride the thing but I stuck with it and now it's part of
my everyday life.

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