Gliding Queries

Good question.
Hopefully this is a good answer:

I'm sure it IS possible to learn to glide without being able to ww
1ft'ed.
But, for gliding you need to be able to dose the braking force of your
foot.
This deserves some muscular power plus most important
control/experience.
The way you train yourself to get this control does'nt matter.

Usually each unicycle skill you can control your speed.
Coasting is the only skill where you do not control your speed at all
(you only manipulate the direction of your constant fall, by constantly
changing the position of the unicycle under your body).
At gliding the only control you have is braking, but no accelleration.

Learning ww 1ft will benefit your gliding as it will practice your foot
and mind.
Or see it this way: what are you doing if you skip the proppeling part
of a ww 1ft? And so a good archievement of ww1ft will benefit, but
certainly is no requirement.

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Thanks lots. I'm still quite unsure of the mechanics of gliding so that
helped a lot.

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I'm having tons of problems trying to go from 1 foot riding to gliding🙁
does crank length make a difference for that?

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that was neat, now i only have to put it to use.
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i waz jus wondering if it would be easier to learn to glide by holding
onto a rope and being towed by a car or person, rather than going down
a hill or slope. ive seen some people do it this way.eg xavier collos
and yoggi.

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gabetheunicycleman said:

i waz jus wondering if it would be easier to learn to glide by holding
onto a rope and being towed by a car or person, rather than going down
a hill or slope. ive seen some people do it this way.eg xavier collos
and yoggi.

get your mate to ride or walk backwards and tow you with his hands at
first and then a stick or something, that way you can get the feel of
the gliding without concetrating on all the ballance stuff too. it can
help the learning process but you will quickly need to get used to
doing it yourself, find a small slopeing hill to practise

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