How do you do it?

About 2 weeks ago, when I was in the earlier stages of learning, I would
first learn to spin the cranks, while keeping the seat in front of me.

I just did this by providing a little bit of flick with my front foot
on the pedal, as well as slightly lifting the unicycle to make the
cranks spin faster.. Of course I wouldn't land it, but that just gave
me a general idea as to how to do them.

After that, I learned footplants on small objects like curbs. It
helped me more when I planted my front foot, so I could controll the
back pedal from spinning, when I only wanted to learn the footplant.

Now, I am learning footplant crankflips. Flipping the cranks while on
a curb really seems to be helping me with landing back on. At first it
allowed me to give the cranks time to spin, and gave me time to jump
whenever I want, but as I am improving with footplant crankflips, I am
starting to gain more flow with them..

Soon enough, I am going to try to just do it, but as for now, im gonna
take it one step at a time.

Also, it may be different for you, but don't flip the cranks with your
heel. I learned it about a month ago this way, and my toe kept hitting
curbs and other obsticles that I tried to crankflip up. In addition to
this, I bailed beyond belief, so I'm back to square... well.. 3.. but I
hope to have them consistantly soon.

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Jkohse said:

you teach me and ill teach you

Danni said:

POKEMOOOOOOOON!
Gotta catch em all.

hah, that made me laugh 🙄
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well I have a box so I'll practice on that.

btw, sry for the delayed response I have no computer (I'm on my iPod)

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skrobo said:

yeah drilled koxx scare me

torkerdx said:

your funny
but you might get lucky

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yeah im having troubl getting the "flick" also. I can push but i think
my back foot always slows the rotation and if i dont keep my back foot
on long enough i go sideways. i got half flips a few times but still
cant get fulls.:o

good help beep:p . thanks for that

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The UniSLAB said:

Go big or go home, don worry about those little clown tricks called
flips and wrap arounds. We don't dance with our uni's, we jump em

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this is more a reply to ask a new question than to answer the first, but
instead of starting a new thread i figured i would just use this one.
(sorry about the thread title, i know it's a little vague).

i ride with my left foot forward on the unicycle, but i've never been
able to do a rev with my left foot forward, i can only do rev's with my
right foor forward (ie. switch). i've been trying to learn crankflips
for a while now and i've gotten all the motions down, but i just can't
seem to kick the cranks hard enough with my left foot. but when i try
it switch, i sin the cranks like lightning but i'm haven't gotten the
movements down so i dont come close to even landing it. my question is,
do you think it would be easier/better for me to start over in the
learning process and try and learn switchflips first, or should i just
stick with regular crankflips, since i've already come this far?

also any advice on kicking the cranks faster would be great.

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