Daiki glide/wheel walk

Hey,

This is a pretty old video of mine, but I have a stand up ww and a Seat
on Side stand up ww (daiki walk) in it.
http://tinyurl.com/2njkkq

For the Daiki Walk, you really want hold the seat very tight up against
your leg and kind of lean over the uni. It takes some time to figure
out the balance but other than that its not too bad. The learning
progression is similar to any other ww trick. I'd recommend just
mounting into the ww at first and then when you can comfortably do it
for a few revs, try transistioning in and out. I usually go into it
from seat on side idle or a crank idle, and pretty much always just
drop back down to seat on side to transistion out of it.

For the Stand up ww, make sure you stand up as straight as possible
(hold on to a wall/ledge/pole/whatever and practice standing as
straight up as you can). Maybe even lean a little bit back and grip the
seat tight between your legs.

If you can get a video of you doing it, I could give you some more
tips.

Hope that all that made sense and that it helps.

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Thanks man, it was actualy your video that I first saw it, then months
later (now) I have started to try it and its not as hard as I thought,
probably in a few weeks I might have it consistantly at least.

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I have a hard time believing seat-on-side wheel walk could be easier to
learn than stand-up wheel walk for anyone, although it's true that
everyone progresses differently. I worked on this trick for a while,
but I never really got it down, though I did manage a few reasonably
long runs. Connie Cotter gave me a few tips on this trick which you
might find useful. If I recall correctly, it is important to stand up
as straight as possible, and to hold the front of the saddle, not the
back or the side.

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I would definitely learn stand-up ww before Daiki-walk (or seat on side
stand up wheel walk). I agree with what both skate4flip & jsm have
said - stand up as tall as possible.

One additional tip once you get this trick down a little and you want
to try freehanded:
Make sure the back knee is touching the seat and you lean over a little
more than when you are doing the trick and holding the seat.

Little history on the naming of this trick as "Daiki walk":
In the late 90s, Jamey Mossengren decided to learn this trick as he had
seen it done at a Unicon. We didn't want to call it the boring name of
"seat on side stand up wheel walk", so it was named after the person we
thought had invented it - Daiki Izumida. For years, TCUC members have
used it in their group, individual & pairs routines, and I've taught it
to a few other people as well during my travels. When teaching people,
I've used the name Daiki-walk. Recently, we found out from Daiki that
he didn't invent the trick, but the name has stuck. (I think I remember
Daiki saying that he copied it from another Japanese unicyclist, but
cannot remember the name.)

Connie

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