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I'm a little backward

Elmer · 2004-04-02T11:55:27+00:00

After three years I was beginning to think I might never be able to do it. My kids could do it, but every time I tried to ride backwards, I would just accelerate until I fell off. Plus I was chicken, basically. Three days ago I decided I would try it 100 times per day until I could do it. I expected that with luck in three more years or so I MIGHT be able to get it. My very first night, after fifty or so tries I went about 20'. Two nights later after another fifty or so attempts I caught myself making a riding mid-course correction and got really excited. Within a half an hour I made a successful 100' backwards ride. I screamed and beat my chest like when Tom Hanks made fire in the Castaway movie. I am just totally stoked! Plus!....Plus!...Plus!... I'm idling, hopping 10" and riding increasingly difficult terrain. People stop to watch us instead of just looking as they drive by! It keeps getting more fun! I can hardly wait for each day's ride, and the kids love it too!🙂 -- elmer - uniimpaired "Oh, really? How many hours does it have in it?" (My 8 yr. old sons response to my stating that this was the shortest day of the year.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ elmer's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/5193 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/29892

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Elmer
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2 April 2004, 11:55 UTC #1

After three years I was beginning to think I might never be
able to do
it. My kids could do it, but every time I tried to ride
backwards, I would just accelerate until I fell off.
Plus I was chicken, basically. Three days ago I decided
I would try it 100 times per day until I could do it. I
expected that with luck in three more years or so I
MIGHT be able to get it. My very first night, after
fifty or so tries I went about 20'. Two nights later
after another fifty or so attempts I caught myself
making a riding mid-course correction and got really
excited. Within a half an hour I made a successful 100'
backwards ride. I screamed and beat my chest like when
Tom Hanks made fire in the Castaway movie. I am just
totally stoked! Plus!....Plus!...Plus!... I'm idling,
hopping 10" and riding increasingly difficult terrain.
People stop to watch us instead of just looking as they
drive by! It keeps getting more fun! I can hardly wait
for each day's ride, and the kids love it too!🙂
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elmer - uniimpaired
"Oh, really? How many hours does it have in it?" (My 8 yr. old sons
response to my stating that this was the shortest day of the year.)
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Gild
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2 April 2004, 11:55 UTC #2

elmer said:
*...try it 100 times per day until I could do it... *

elmer said:
*...with luck ...*
those two phrases have no bussiness being in the same
paragraph. well done!! collect your persistence badge and
move to the front of the FUN-CLASS
(and remember, riding backward is all in the hips, keep them
relaxed and u're kewl)
((ps. what's the next skill u're learning?😉 ))
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GILD - Waffle-[censored]
SPACESHIP EARTH
Namaste!
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Elmer
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2 April 2004, 11:56 UTC #3

confused: You mean there's something else? I guess I thought I was
done; that I had reached the pinnacle! O.K. well then, since you've
challenged me, I'm thinking maybe....No hands!? Perhaps after we go to
Moab this March I'll have some better ideas🙄
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Elmer
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2 April 2004, 11:57 UTC #4

And anyways, haven't you ever heard of "Trying your luck"
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Gild
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2 April 2004, 11:57 UTC #5

elmer said:
[B O.K. well then, since you've challenged me, I'm
thinking maybe....No hands!? [/B]
😉 shortly after i got backwards i started on the one foot
stuff i got one foot idling (foot on crown) relatively
easily but one foot riding is still proving to be a bridge
further than i'd like it to be
u fancy a challenge to one-foot riding?
btw, while working toward one foot idling (foot extended), i
seem to have gotten stuck at what i like to call CAN-CAN
IDLING where the UP-foot flies off the pedal or crown,
extends and at the end of the stroke returns to the pedal or
crown when u have a couple of unicyclists in a line doing
this, the effect his hillarious is this a recognised
something or just a place where everybody gets stuck on the
way to one foot extended?
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Namaste!
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James_potter
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2 April 2004, 11:57 UTC #6

Congratulations! Go to unicycling.org for more ideas of
skills to learn.
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Rayden
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2 April 2004, 11:58 UTC #7

GILD said:
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😉 shortly after i got backwards i started on the one foot
stuff i got one foot idling (foot on crown) relatively
easily but one foot riding is still proving to be a bridge
further than i'd like it to be
u fancy a challenge to one-foot riding?
btw, while working toward one foot idling (foot extended),
i seem to have gotten stuck at what i like to call CAN-CAN
IDLING where the UP-foot flies off the pedal or crown,
extends and at the end of the stroke returns to the pedal
or crown when u have a couple of unicyclists in a line
doing this, the effect his hillarious is this a recognised
something or just a place where everybody gets stuck on
the way to one foot extended? *
We need to see a video of that...
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Johnfoss
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2 April 2004, 11:58 UTC #8

GILD said:
*is this a recognised something or just a place where
everybody gets stuck on the way to one foot extended? *

I hate to say it, but it's a fairly easy move (if you can
one-foot, of course), so it was probalby overlooked in the
creation of the Standard Skill List. If you come to a
convention like NAUCC that has a lot of Freestyle
competition, you may see a lot of kids using this move...
Meanwhile, the original post brings me back to the days of
learning the first moves:
*I.....HAVE RIDDEN.....BACKWARDS!!!*
Those were the days. When all that practice starts
paying off!
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Zod
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2 April 2004, 11:58 UTC #9

congrats, backwards is a huge step......so far it has been
the hardest and most time consuming thing to learn, for me
personally. it's great to get over those BIG road blocks,
it proves that just like simply learning to ride, all
things can be done on one wheel through persistant and
consistant practice!
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