Does anyone else go through those "phases"?

Yep, but i see it as a good thing though. Because it makes learning new
tricks easier so that way when your friends come over. All they can do
is :eek: and would want to learn what you learn. 😄

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Oh my goodness! Im at a high point of uni bordness right now! I mean
right now! Ive never been off my uni for so long. Its been almost 4
weeks. :eek: I partly havn't been riding because of tennis practive
and no time after school, but I still have zero motivation. Im scared.
This has never happend like this before. I have been still going on the
forum though which is good. I dont know what to do either. the other
day I watched a uni video and got some motivation, but when I go out
and get on, Im just like..."well this is fun"...."NOT". I have nowhere
to ride, and nobody to ride with. I still dont think I could ever give
it up completely, but its narrowing down much more now. I rode it the
other day a little, and Iam still operating my uni at 100% effeciency,
but the motivation is just lost.

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Trials riding is kind of advanced and technical. Competitive types may
feel bad if they (as they must ), suck for a while.😠
As an old fart, I can use the exercise, and have no ambition to show
the young riders anything. Fun is everything, so I have a 20, 24 and
36. The change up perhaps sets back my trials training. Time spent on
the 36 is time not spent learning to hop. I just don't care at all🙂 ,
how good I get or how fast.:p
Practicing beyond fun is maybe counter productive. Practice doesn't
make perfect. Great skill requires joy to highten the awareness. Unless
there is big cash there, it is pointless to "practice " playing.
So maybe try other kinds of uni. The best riders in my neighborhood
have been skate boarding lately.
It's worth forcing yourself to be active. The couch must not win !😄
But other then that, focus on having a good time. 🙂

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yeah, im training for ragbrai and getting bored with riding alone (my
teammates are all away training solo too since we go to purdue but are
home for summer). It's a pain, but ive found that for distance and
endurance training, if you have a bike you can always find people to
ride with, which helps. If they're slow people you can even uni with
them as they bike :p

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most of my friends have unicycles so its pretty easy for me to go out
riding but if im really out of it I normally youtube some cool uni
videos and believe it or not, it gets me motivated!

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It happens to me every now and then. When it does I just stop. I am not
going to ride if its not fun. For me it usually goes away in a few days
though.
Now I noticed if I am always working on new stuff then I don't get
bored with it. Most of my riding is in front of my house by myself and
that can get boring sometimes.

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Spencer Hochberg said:

It happens to me every now and then. When it does I just stop. I am not
going to ride if its not fun. For me it usually goes away in a few days
though.
Now I noticed if I am always working on new stuff then I don't get
bored with it. Most of my riding is in front of my house by myself and
that can get boring sometimes.

That must be really hard, having nowhere to go to. I'm really really
lucky in that I pretty much always have somewhere to go. I have a
skatepark within crawling distance (if I wreck hard), and I have a
buspass, access to a car, and I work downtown anyways so I'm always
around good places to ride.

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I'm actually in that phase right now. I'm alone i my town, so it's not
that interesting anymore....It'll get better, I guess

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I had decided to take part in a 58mile bikeathon.

I was finding it really difficult to fit the training in - with my work
and study schedule and with the weather being rubbish. I was getting
stressed and not enjoying unicycling - just thinking about it as a
means to an end.

Last weekend (rubbish weather again) I did a bit of Muni instead. I
thorougly enjoyed it and found lots of new places to ride. I've decided
to give up on the idea of training for the Bikeathon and I'm going back
to enjoying uni just for the sake of uni.

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im not riding as hard as i did a month or so ago, but thats just cause
my uni is starting to die and it needs to last a few more weeks

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Sure, of course I do. In the last few months of school (another few days
before summer) I was just so stressed and constantly tired that I
lacked the motivation to really do anything. It wasn't depression by
any means, but I just didn't want to go ride. So, I didn't force myself
to. It's supposed to be fun and relaxing to ride - if it's not, just
don't ride. No one's gonna be mad at you.

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Yea that happened to me the first 5 ot 6 months of unicycling, but I
always want to go outside now.
With being able to learn a whole bunch of new tricks get you really
exited, and when you at a stuck point when you arnt learning anything
new at the time, I do some trials!

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dudewithasock said:

Sure, of course I do. In the last few months of school (another few days
before summer) I was just so stressed and constantly tired that I
lacked the motivation to really do anything. It wasn't depression by
any means, but I just didn't want to go ride. So, I didn't force myself
to. It's supposed to be fun and relaxing to ride - if it's not, just
don't ride. No one's gonna be mad at you.

That's kinda where Im at. It's not quite depression..lol, but I just
dont have the power to not just unicycle, but do anything. That's why
It feels wierd, this has never happend to me ever before. School is
winding down and each day seems more stressfull with end of the years
tests, tennis closing up, and exams starting.

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I experience this with nearly everyone of my hobbies. I seem to go
through phases with wildlife photography, playing banjo, longboarding
and competitive handgun shooting. My first uni is on its way and I
don't expect it to be any different. I have a lot of potential in all
of these areas, but I just have too many different passions. I'm sort
of a jack of all trades and a king of none.

John

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I went through a big phase like that until my friend learned. Now we
ride every day.

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banjo_gun_snake_wheels said:

I experience this with nearly everyone of my hobbies. I seem to go
through phases with wildlife photography, playing banjo, longboarding
and competitive handgun shooting. My first uni is on its way and I
don't expect it to be any different. I have a lot of potential in all
of these areas, but I just have too many different passions. I'm sort
of a jack of all trades and a king of none.

John

Handgun shooting you say? Ah...that's my other main hobby. Not
competitive, but I go out shooting alot. Iam actually looking to buy a
.44 Colt Walker at the moment. I like black powder shooting (see my
name). Well hello, It's nice to see another "shooter" on the forum.

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I have the same problem of lack of motivation. I have not ridden in
about 8 days but that is due partialy to being sort of sick and having
a sick girl friend to tend to, but when I go through a lull like this I
like to drive around my town and find new stuff to ride. But my town
is flat so for trials there is very little in the way of stairs and
concrete any thing, thanks to the city wanting things to look
"natural". I have one friend who rides at the same skill as me so that
helps alot. The last time that I rode was in a new city I had never
ridden in, but I was alone so the area lost its luster and I didn't
push my self too much.

I agree that watching videos seems to help a bit, I also get my uni out
and do some maintainence on it. That gets me going a bit more.
Another thing that seems to work is go out, at least in my town, and
watch the trials bikers at night if you can find them. I usualy just
cruise around the normal places they hang out and try to find them. It
is amazing how much motivation it is to show up the bikers. I hope
that you get motivation, and if nothing works go target shooting. As
you can see I am from Montana so I understand the theraputic value of
shooting for fun🙂.

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I've gone through loss of motivation type stuff..... I have plenty of
places to ride around at most of them I can get to by bus and such, but
I broke my '06 DX so i can't ride trials luckily I bought a Nimbus
36'er and now I'm riding distance more until my DX gets fixed or I have
enough money for a new frame, that an distance is really fun right now.
I wish my friend would actually learn to ride like he said he wanted to
(I lent him my CX so he could learn) but he tries for about 15 minutes
gets frustrated and then he gives up and it sits in his basement
unused..... it's sad.... I wish more people lived around me and
rode....

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I real realy demotivated to go and a ride, but I went for my fist uni
ride in a while and realy enjoyed it. I gona push myself to learn to
glide over the week so that'll be fun 🙂

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