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  1. anybody got any advice on 1ft ww? I need help! ๐Ÿ™‚

    mark

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  2. Can you already wheel walk two-footed? If so, the transition is pretty
    easy. If not, I'd say back up and learn two-footed first.

    With only one foot on the wheel, you can't make as big of a push as you
    can with both feet. Therefore, you have to make smaller pushes, and they
    have to come in pretty quickly.

    When I was learning this trick, I would start just as a mount, with my
    dominant foot on the tire, pull up my non-dominant foot and put in
    FIRMLY on the crown, and start pushing.

    I always had a tendency to lean waaaay too far forward, and I would just
    accelerate until I fell. LEAN BACK! I know its scary, but to get it
    controlled you need to lean back a little bit.

    Throw your arms up high for balance. Most people will say look where
    you're going, not down... I have better luck looking at the tire. I did
    this with regular wheel walking, until I got it down. Now I can look
    where I'm going... I'll probably be able to look ahead whilst one-foot
    wheel walking once I get better at it.

    Also, read the tips on http://www.unicycle.2ya.com .. wheel walking is
    under the freestyle tips.

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  3. thanks!

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  4. Check out the advice on 'The Unicyclopedia's' (http://tinyurl.com/4y69y)
    freestyle page.

    For one-footed wheel walk, try to drag your foot along the tire as you
    go, so that it's more like gliding while propelling the wheel lightly
    when necessary.

    Try going to it right from wheel walk, but if you have trouble with
    that, try it with a wall or low ceiling. Also, try it barefoot.

    Generally, if you want advice on something you should try to explain
    exactly what you are doing and what your problems are so that we can
    help you better. You asked about stand-up wheel walk a while ago, but if
    you can't do one-footed wheel walk yet, you are a long ways from
    stand-up. Keep up the practicing, though and you'll get it
    eventually!๐Ÿ™‚

    Jonathan

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