I can only get on my unicycle with a wall or somthing to help me, I can't just hop on, in never realy matter but now I can go pretty long distances, and going a quarter mile then falling off realy sucks because i have to walk all the way back to where i started from. Does anyone have any tips to help me with mounting. Should it be easy?
try freemounting but place a 2x4 behind the wheel so that you dont move around alot, i did this for a bit and later that same day i was able to free mount
stop riding. Just practice mounting, continiously until you can do it. I had the same problem when learning. After I could go about 500feet, I decided I needed to devote all my time to mounting. After a few days I had it. Once you can freemount 50% of the time, then start riding and enjoy.
One of the best motivators to pick up a freemount really quickly is UniHoki. You'll get so sick of running to the side of the rink to remount, you'll pick up the free mount in no time. You also get a truckload of practise freemounting when you start playing.
Do you kow if there's a regular game somewhere close to you?
The quickest way to learn the freemount is to never let yourself mount any other way, make yourself try the dozen times it might take to mount on your own rather than grabbing hold of something to mount, youll have it in a few days.
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I am still only able to static mount on about 60-80% of attempts with my right foot first, but I learned (am learning) by forcing myself to try to freemount at least twice even when there is a handy wall around.
You may initially find your self pointing in the wrong direction, but this will improve.
BTW - practice - if you can ride then you will be able to static mount eventually.
Now I just need to get on using my left foot - which feels like it belongs to someone else! I'd better start taking my own advice and practice some more!
Everybody's learns differently. I tried the curb mount and the 2x4 mount when I was learning and found it messed me up more than just trying to freemount. One thing I still do when practicing a new skill is to practice it hard but not all the time. I devote every other day to working on the stuff I'm crappy at. Then on the other days, I just go out and ride. Works for me. One bit of advice that helped me on the freemount was to think of putting pressure on the rear pedal (right one in my case) very lightly like if you were going to fake taking a step on a friends stomach while he's laying down.
