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Backwards wheelwalk & Standup wheelwalk

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  1. Recently I've been practicing 1 ft wheel walk once I learned to wheel
    walk. Soon I am going to try gliding once i can transition from 1 ft
    wwing to riding. I found out more about stand-up wheel walk and
    backwards wheelwalk during the learning stage. I've kinda found an
    order like this- wheel walk, 1 ft wheel walk, gliding then coasting.

    So...

    Where abouts whould stand up wheel walk and backwards wheel walk fit
    in? or would just do that when you having nothing else to do?

    Also with backwards wheel walk I don't know if you put your feet in
    front of the frame on the tire and push backwards OR use one foot
    behind the frame and push backwards on the wheel.

    Any tips for gliding, standup wheel walk and bacwards wheel walk or any
    other tips would be aprrectiated

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  2. I think the sort of backwards WW you're talking about is called koosh
    koosh or something. And I think you have the toe of your non-pushing
    foot touching the wheel but it seems like a strange trick to me. I
    can't seem to push the backwards unless I have the seat really high.

    Stand up 1 foot wheel walk and gliding come after 1 foot wheel walk
    obviously. There's no need to be able to go back to pedals from 1 foot
    WW to learn gliding. The main thing is that when you 1 foot wheel walk
    you do small glides instead of always pushing and never gliding. Once
    you can do small glides just 1 foot WW down a gentle hill and try to
    glide as far as possible before pushing again. Then go to a steeper
    hill and glide, only pushing the wheel to get started, gliding the rest
    of the way.

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  3. there are a lot of ways you can do backwards wheel walk.

    by convention, backwards wheel walk refers to doing it from a seated
    position with both feet in front of the frame - exactly the reverse of
    the standard wheel walk. Heres an old thread:

    http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17798

    in regards to stand-up, well theres been threads of that too just have
    a search.
    #1 - start from a wall 😄

    And no, there is not set order in which you -have- to learn skills. I
    would recommend getting really solid at wheel walk, one foot wheel walk
    and gliding.
    Also riding one footed with each foot and backwards riding.

    Once you've got a bit of control and balance you can start working on
    coasting (which will take a long time to develop) and looking at the
    backwards and stand-up ww, which are fairly achievable skills given a
    bit of practise.

    Quoted message said:

    or would just do that when you having nothing else to do?

    You can start learning when ever you want really. Whether or not it is
    effective is another matter. If you are working on 1 ft ww at the
    moment its probably a good idea (me judging your abilities from one
    sentence) to work really hard at your base riding skills before you
    even bother to attempt harder things. Forwards, backwards, one foot,
    seat out tricks, idling (1ft, seat out), smooth and graceful turning,
    getting wheel walk solid with full transitioning in and out.

    If you can get those fully under control (not just doing them, but
    doing them with full confidence and ease) then you will be in a good
    position to tackle gliding, coasting and harder wheel walks. You will
    also probably learn them quicker as well. Another side effect is that
    your riding will be a lot smoother and everything will look nicer.

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  4. thanks.

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