Finding Natural Stance

ivan said:

I've been unicycling for one and a half years now. My preferred stance
for trials used to be left foot forward, right hand on the saddle, SIF,
hop to the left. A few weeks ago I tried right foot forward, right hand
on the saddle, hop to the left and I liked it quite a lot!

I can do stillstands more easily now and in four days of practice I got
my sidehop distance and height to almost the same as my stance before.
And the good thing is, with my previous stance I used to feel like
something is limiting me. I used to practice and see no progress. Now I
feel like my limit is much farther out and I can practice and get a lot
of improvement before I reach it.

Anyone else had a similar experience?

From that I would conclude, You are kindu weird.

Is the prefered technique not something like: jump towards your forward
foot and hold the saddle with the oposite hand so your free hand is on
your jumping side and you jump towards your forward facing foot.

I have only ever heard that jumping towards your back foot it worse
than jumping towards your front foot.

I dont know, what ever works for you.

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I don't think it matters which foot you hop towards, front or back, cos
you still have to put relatively even pressure on both feet. Unless you
are doing pedal grabs or crank grabs in which case I don't know which
is better cos I don't do them. It is the hand on the seat which makes a
difference in my opinion, you want to hop towards the hand which is
free, cos it allows you to wave your arm to displace your weight and
move you some more through the air. Hopping towards your seat holding
arm seems harder.

My favourite is right foot back, right hand on handle, and hop to the
left. I haven't done much hopping for a while and haven't tested many
of the different ways lately. I wouldn't say you are weird. Good on you
for finding a better way for yourself. I did a poll on Sidehop
preference- people have very varied preferences although there is a
trend.

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Thats basicaly my stance, I can see why you like it.

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I think the change may have something to do with the fact that I used to
ride a 24" until recently.

The new stance feels more dynamic.

And yes, I hop to the left with my right foot holding the saddle.
Having your left foot back when hopping to the left also gives greater
visibility.

And my crankgrabs were probably affected the least of all. It's pretty
much the same, whatever foot you have forward.

The most difference is in skinnies, precision hops, high hops and
general confidence.

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ivan said:

And yes, I hop to the left with my* right foot holding the saddle.*

Thats somthing I would advise changing.

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I have left foot forward, left hand grabbing the seat and hop to the
right. I used to hop to the left with the same stance and I pretty much
sucked. I still suck, but that's the mental blocks' fault, not the
stance's😠

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Seat in, I hop to the right, left foot back, left hand on handle.

Somewhere I read that SIF was harder if you hop towards your back foot,
which it is because I tried it. The uni leans over more, and if you're
holding the seat with the same hand as the foot that is forward, it
makes it even harder because that leg gets in the way.

Therefore, I have learnt to SIF hop to my left, left foot back, right
hand on seat.

It's strange, as this is the complete opposite to SI hopping, and I
can't hop SI the way I do SIF -

oh and one more thing, i can only do crank grab to rubber SIF.

I think everybody has their own natural way, but sometimes it's
possible to change. Watching the Fluck high jump competition, I see
that some of the finalists are hopping seat out, towards their back
foot :eek: - so that dismisses my comments earlier!

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I thought -this- was your natural stance...

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A big reason to hop in the direction of the foot that is forward is
because it's easier to save yourself if you are forced to bail. With
practice you can hop in any direction, but the "other" direction
requires more confidence. The more I do trials, the less I have a
"preferred" stance. Really, my preferred stance is to be stably
balanced on top of the unicycle. 😉

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yeah, from what ive tried to see in videos and on here, im not too
normal in stances and stuff. i have left hand on handle, left foot
forward, i hope to right. (i hop towards back foot) Yeah... I cant hop
right foot forward, or right hand on handle. I love to do trials lol. I
also cant really hop left. Yeah... w00t

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Because there is 2 halves of the body , controlled by two separate sides
in your brain, we are a compromise illusion of where we think we're
going. So try to learn skills on each half of your body.

As a long time juggler, on the spot guy, I noticed that I never screwed
up stuff on my "good" side, that I was really good at on my left out
side. If you can only do it on one side, you will lack confidence in
that move.

Ambidexterity is kinda the smooth magic key to the next level, as much
as there is one I have found.😉

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I hop with my right foot forward and to the right usually. It's just
like being left or right handed when writing.

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I SI and SIF side-hop/crank grab left foot back, right hand on the seat
and to the left. I know it's weird but I "naturally" arrived at this
configuration because it "seems" to match the way I used to skateboard;
left foot back (i.e. goofy footed) and I naturally turned easier to the
left, to the right was more difficult. So by the same token I can
side-hop much better to the left than to the right and just like in
skiing I seem to be able to turn better to the left than to the right!
Not that I can't turn/hop to the right but it is a bit more difficult.

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Blue: that's not natural, I was posing for it.

Today I started practicing seat in high hops with my new stance. After
a few hours of practice I was able to stick the height that was pretty
much my limit for the other stance SIF(4 pallets, around 60cm).

I definitely like this new stance. It makes my riding more agressive
and dynamic. And forces me to have more confidence. The only problem is
UPDs. I had at least five UPDs today where I fell off the pallets
towards my back, headfirst. I was able to roll out of all of them
unharmed. I only bumped my elbow a little bit. I think it's because my
left foot likes to go infront of the pedal, which is back and when I
push on the right pedal, the left pedal trips me. I'll have to work on
my UPD technique with this stance.

But I still like it a lot!

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Hi Ivan,

I jump to the left with my left foot back and my righ hand holding the
saddle cup. Joe Hodges also jumps this way. The only drawback is that
it is harder to balance on your rear foot than on your front foot when
doing pedal grabs.

Unicorn

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