Am I wrong?

While a useful skill for a lot of things, I think just basic riding and
staying on is the core skill.

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still stand is an important skill for trials I think.. because if you
can sitll stand you wont need to pre-hopbefore your big hop and the
longer you can still stand the more blanace on skinny thing you will
have.. wel thats what i think

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I don't think there's one core skill.. but a still stand is definetly
one of the most important. After developing my still stand to over 30
seconds or so, MANY things are a lot easier. Freestyle stuff, trials
stuff, even muni stuff, and obviously skinnies. It's one of those
things that when you improve it, you improve in every other aspect of
unicycling.

Dave

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I have thought about this. It seems to be the only skill that almost
all the top riders, regardless of riding style, are good at.

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yeah but you can be one of the worlds top rider without having the
greatest still stand.. I mean it is a really good skill ot have but
let's say in trials id prefer to ahve a really high-side hop then a
good still stand..

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i don't know, the still stand is imperative but i think fluently idling
is the root of maneuverability and control on a uni.

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trials fundemental would be hopping... you would be useless if you could
still stand awesome and not be able to hop. wouldn't you?
it is a really good thing to practice though. if you practice nothing
else practice this one. like fcwegnm0b (wierd name dude) said,
everything gets easier if you got a good stillstand

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maxisback said:

yid prefer to ahve a really high-side hop then a good still stand..

In my experience big sidehops are essentially useless, unlewss I feel
like jumping up gigantic, flat, square surfaces. I rarely encounter
interesting trials lines with hops bigger than 30", and even then a
pedalgrab can, with some effort, replace a big hop.

Hopping for trials is definitely more useful than stillstands, however
once you can hop 24-30", a stillstand is the next thing to develop.
It's one thing to get your tire onto a rail, it's another thing to keep
it there.

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