Coasting, crankflips & 360unispins poll

Interesting poll, I like it!

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Where's the option for me - 'I can't do any of those, but I can 180 off
a kerb'?

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ivan said:

Where's the option for me - 'I can't do any of those, but I can 180 off
a kerb'?

Yeah I probably should've added an "I suck" option :p j/k

They're all pretty advanced tricks so I'd guess that most people can't
do any of them, or maybe something like 50%?

I'm working on coasting (can get about 3-4 revs but not back to pedals)
and sideways ww at the moment, wrist is still healing from a 2 month
old skiing injury so unispins have been too painful to practice. I've
just ordered some Twisted Odysseys so it'll be good to see how they
compare to my sealed JimCs for learning new stuff.

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i can do the 360 unispin..
still praticing the crankflip and coasting.

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pete66 said:

Yeah I probably should've added an "I suck" option :p j/k

They're all pretty advanced tricks so I'd guess that most people can't
do any of them, or maybe something like 50%?

I'm working on coasting (can get about 3-4 revs but not back to pedals)
and sideways ww at the moment, wrist is still healing from a 2 month
old skiing injury so unispins have been too painful to practice. I've
just ordered some Twisted Odysseys so it'll be good to see how they
compare to my sealed JimCs for learning new stuff.

I'm also practicing sideways ww and coasting. And 180 unispin. I've
only been riding for 5 months, so that's an excuse. But I can rolling
hop 1.60 meters. And sif hop 1.20m. Beat that!

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ivan said:

180 unispin.

I was hitting 180s years before you could ride.

ivan said:

I've only been riding for 5 months

14 years

ivan said:

I can rolling hop 1.60 meters.

2.1ish

ivan said:

And sif hop 1.20m.

1.9ish

ivan said:

Beat that!

TOO easy :p

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pete66 said:

I was hitting 180s years before you could ride.

14 years

2.1ish

1.9ish

TOO easy :p

14 years? Very impressive!

Also, consider this.
14 years = 168 months
2.1m/168months = 0.0125m/month

Me: 1.6m/5months = 0.32m/month

Very impressive, indeed! With your sub-turtle speeds you'll be coasting
in less than 20 years of hard sweat and practice.

Too bad. 🙁

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lol your making him look bad ivan :P

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I can coast for a rev but i dont touch the frame with my feet.

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ivan said:

sub-turtle

Haha yeah except my learning rate is exponential! I could only hop
about 10cm after about 11 years of riding (I just learned how to ride
and left it at that), then (with hare-like speed), within about 5
months I was able to hop about 1.8m 😉

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pete66 said:

Haha yeah except my learning rate is exponential! I could only hop about
10cm after about 11 years of riding (I just learned how to ride and
left it at that), then (with hare-like speed), within about 5 months I
was able to hop about 1.8m 😉

Uhh, where to begin...

First of all, your 'learning rate' cannot be exponential. Learning rate
is a variable, not a function. You could say that it makes an
exponential curve when plotted on an xy axis against time. But even
that would be wrong, if I understand your description correctly.
Exponential change of learning rate would mean that you started out
learning with a high learning rate which was constantly decreasing and
eventually became asimptotic(tending to zero). That would mean you'll
never learn to coast. Probably not even if you went to infinity.

Second, it took you 5 months to learn to hop 1.8m after 11 years of
riding. It took me about 4 months to learn to hop 1.6m after 3 weeks of
riding.

So, yeah. Tough luck. 😄

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pete66 said:

I was hitting 180s years before you could ride.

I was coasting beforfe you were born. 😄

Never progressed to 360s after I realized an audience can't tell the
difference.

Haven't tried any flips yet.

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Uhh, where to begin...

ivan said:

Uhh, where to begin...
<snip>
you'll never learn to coast.

I can coast about 3 times further than you can hop.

ivan said:

it took you 5 months to learn to hop 1.8m after 11 years of riding.

Or in other words, it took me 5 months to learn to hop 1.8ish (lol,
complete guess)... having learned how to ride 11 years previously,
remembering that 11 years of not riding is long enough for most people
to get a bit rusty.

Keep at it, grasshopper 🙂

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man you guys are fighting because one can do a trick and the other
cant?

oh my god!

get a life guys!

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johnfoss said:

I was coasting beforfe you were born. 😄

Thanks! I feel young again.

johnfoss said:

Never progressed to 360s after I realized an audience can't tell the
difference.

I'm not so sure about that... when unispins and flips are your main
tricks, I think the audience catches onto the differences pretty fast.

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picado said:

you guys are fighting

err, fighting? Is this what a fight looks like?

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pete66 said:

Uhh, where to begin...

Begin from the beginning, go to the end, then stop.

pete66 said:

I can coast about 3 times further than you can hop.

And then fall on your [censored].

pete66 said:

Or in other words, it took me 5 months to learn to hop 1.8ish (lol,
complete guess)... having learned how to ride 11 years previously,
remembering that 11 years of not riding is long enough for most people
to get a bit rusty.

Very unconvincing. I'll disregard this.

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picado said:

man you guys are fighting because one can do a trick and the other
cant?

I'm not fighting, I'm trying to get a point across(the point being that
I pwn). I have no idea what he's on about.

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ivan said:

Very unconvincing. I'll disregard this.

It's true, I was about 10 or 11 years old, at a summer BBQ in England
and some guy had a unicycle there, I got pretty good at it (that day)
and asked if I could borrow it for a while. Didn't keep at it, didn't
know any tricks existed until I saw a news article featuring an
"offroad unicyclist" (Ken Looi), so I looked it up on the net. Bought
myself a KH24 in December 2003, and then upgraded/switched to a trials
uni in 2005.

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