Anybody Ever Try This?!?

Jerrick said:

well, i was just thinking of something, and i think its pretty probable
to do, but a backflip, or a front flip on a unicycle o.0

just think about it, ride seat-in-front, be up on a ledge thats a few
feet high, do a little bounce then fling off the ledge, tuck your legs
and bring up your seat to be as croched as possable, get the roation,
land it and ride of as everyone around you stands there like :eek:

anywyas thats how i invisioned it, be really kool to see, maybe ill
learn how to do it by jumping into a foam pit or the ball pit at chucky
cheeses once i get good at trials 😎

you mean once you get amazing at trials.

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nah, i dont think you would have to be all to amazing to pull it off,
basic princaples of it consist of getting good height and getting
rotation of the flip, pretty much it

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On paper it seems simple. so does a backflip on a motoX bike. A
backflip takes, more than anything, balls. You also would need to do a
rolling hop, get lots of air, and land a large drop. All I'm saying is
I haven't seen anyone do it, and there's a reason.

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lol, i know how hard it is for backflips, well, actually getting over
the fear going backwards and upside down was the harder part for me,
but having a friend spot me helped =p but i think it can be done, maybe
ill be the first, but for that to happen i gotta get practicing! lol
anyone wanna give me enough money to buy a good trials uni?!? lol

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itz been done before...

http://www.unicyclist.org/cont/freestyle.cfm

tis under dismounts 🙄

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GizmoDuck said:

I yanked on my foot and straigtened it and stuck the bone back into
the skin.

🙄
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giraffe said:

itz been done before...

http://www.unicyclist.org/cont/freestyle.cfm

tis under dismounts 🙄

That's a backflip OFF a unicycle...

Not a backflip whilst ON a unicycle, like Jerrick posted....😕

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giraffe said:

itz been done before...

http://www.unicyclist.org/cont/freestyle.cfm

tis under dismounts 🙄

Those are flips OFF the unicycle, but this thread is about flips ON
the unicycle. Meaning that after the backflip or frontflip you
continue riding. I haven't seen it being done, but I've seen the
question before.

still very impressive tho 😎

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GizmoDuck said:

I yanked on my foot and straigtened it and stuck the bone back into
the skin.

🙄
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Surely it's only a matter of time?

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Hey Gild, you didn't moan about the thread title 😉 :p

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I was leaving one for John Foss.

In it's defence, 'Anybody ever try this?" must be one of the most
impossible-to-resist thread titles on a uni-forum.

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Nothing is impossible, just very, very improbable,
did i mention it was very improbable??:p
good luck

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Its all very well saying that all you have to do is tuck the unicycle in
and rotate :P Ive already tried it and i think i could do it if i had
the time aswell. My first attempt didnt go very well but ive tried it
on lunge using a trampette for spring and ive got all the way round
fine. The other thing is for a summersault you use the arms for a push,
you need your arms to keep the seat inbetween your legs so your feet
dont fall off the pedals, so what I came u with was wearing a climbing
harness and strapping that to the seat so I could use one arm and it
worked ok.

Hope that has helped you :P
Trev

Edit, if you think any summersaults are that easy just try them on your
feet, see where your momentum comes from, it comes from your Feet, Add
the unicycle and it takes all that lift you get from your feet out of
the question making it rather difficult :P

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even if you could make the flip the unicycle would just roll out from
under you when you tried to land.

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GILD said:

I was leaving one for John Foss.

In it's defence, 'Anybody ever try this?" must be one of the most
impossible-to-resist thread titles on a uni-forum.

Sorry, I didn't even read this thread because the subject line sucked
so bad.

Quite resistible.

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johnfoss said:

Sorry, I didn't even read this thread because the subject line sucked so
bad.

Quite resistible.

sad...

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kristine said:

great minds think alike....
orrrrr... great minds get naked and unicycle?

Kristine said:

pssssshhhhh, whos been on top longest?

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I have done it. I kept failing until one day I figured out this one
thing that makes them easy.

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TheObieOne3226 said:

I have done it. I kept failing until one day I figured out this one
thing that makes them easy.

You make everyone blink at the same time, then tell them they just
missed it?

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its def possible ... ill try it soon ... when i feel like getting hurt,
but ill get it recorded so that you will KNOW if I land it

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