idle and such

One good way to learn to idle, is to ride forward, stop, pedal halv a
revolution back, and go along forward.. try this a few times till you
get the hang of it.. and then, try to pedal back-front-back, and proseed
as you learn. 🙂
This is the way i learned, but takes a whole lot of practice!

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Hopping is much easier than idling. According to John Foss, it is the
easiest thing to do, even easier than riding. All that you have to do is
ride, allign your cranks up horizontally, and bounce up and down
(flexing your ankles not your knees). Many people would probably suggest
both these for further instruction: 'unicycle2ya'
(http://www.unicycle.2ya.com) and 'The Unicyclopedia'
(http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Unicyclopedia).😉

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universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the former.

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The Torker CX, if that's what you have, is an acceptable beginner's
unicycle, but it's not meant for anything very rough.

I suggest you try to learn idling and backward riding at the same time,
by stopping and reversing direction as lleberg explained. One of the two
will probably come easier, and you can use it to learn the other. Also,
try idling while holding onto something, in order to get a feel for the
motion. It takes a lot of patient practice, but if you ever want to
learn more advanced freestyle skills, it's a must.

Hopping is similar to idling in one respect; in order to get into from
riding, you must learn to stop the pedals. For going into idling, you
usually concentrate on stopping the pedal that is forward and down,
while for hopping, you want to concentrate on the pedal coming up in the
back. So ride along, then try to rest your weight on the back pedal and
bring the unicycle to a stop. Now stand up on the pedals with the pedals
level, and try to hop. This is actually fairly easy, and it's not much
different from hopping on a pogo stick. Give it a few tries, and you'll
certainly get it.

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