Idling or Ride Backwards?

definatly try idlying, most people that i know idle first then suddenly
can go backwards.

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Try whichever you find easier. I've been able to ride backwards for
several months, but I still haven't nailed idling. Make sure you wear a
helmet when learning backwards - I smashed mine to bits when I was
learning.

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i found riding backwards a lot easier than idling when i was learning.

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amanda_and_matt said:

*i found riding backwards a lot easier than idling when i was
learning. *

This should read "we found riding..." or at least be gender specific so
we know who to insult.

I also learned to ride backwards first. It's just what I wanted to do.
Backwards falls are much more brutal than forward falls and riding
protection advice given so far in other posts should be heeded.

I think I learned to ride when I was 11, to ride backwards when I was
20, and to idle when I was 48, but the choice of which to do first is up
to you. I think it took about ten hours of practice to learn to ride
backwards. After learning that, it probably took 30 minutes of practice
to learn how to idle. The reverse may well be true for others.

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why would i say who i am? if you are confused to whether i am amanda or
matt all the better cos then you can't insult me. why would you
anyway?😄

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e39m5 said:

*Which should I try first? Im still working on nfree mounting, is
that important for these skills?

e39m5 *

Idling and riding backwards are both fairly complicated skills for a
beginner. I would work on freemounting first; that makes a huge
difference in your ability to get around. Backwards is probably a
little easier than idling, but idling is much more useful.

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amanda_and_matt said:

*why would i say who i am? if you are confused to whether i am amanda
or matt all the better cos then you can't insult me. why would you
anyway?😄 *

I thought that was why people posted on Internet fora... to be insulted
by people whom they'll never have the pleasure of meeting! Read on...

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tholub said:

*Idling and riding backwards are both fairly complicated skills for a
beginner. I would work on freemounting first; that makes a huge
difference in your ability to get around. Backwards is probably a
little easier than idling, but idling is much more useful. *

...but it seems riding a high horse is an easy skill for a hack such as
yourself... since when did people take up unicyling to do something
useful? I would work on tact first, that makes a huge difference in
your ability to avoid acting like a moron! :p

...see amanda_and_matt, it's that easy! 😄

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amanda_and_matt is one person, with a split personality. s/he found it
easier to have a single logon than to have to keep switching. Don't make
fun of her/him.

If you can't freemount, learning that will help you on your way to the
idling/backwards thing. One piece of advice for freemounting (after "use
the search"😉: try not to be in the dead spot.

Once you can mount, your skills at getting out of a near-stationary
position will be improved. Also you won't have to keep going back to the
wall/fence/car every time you need to start over. Much less
frustrating.

Then work on idling and backwards at the same time. Start by stopping.
Learn to stop, then keep going. Then stop and make half a rev. backwards
and keep going. It's a little bit of backwards and a little bit of
idling!

Report again when you've done those...

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I practiced them both at the same time. I learned to freemont
beforehand. Then I practiced backwards and idling but learned idling
before learning to ride backwards, but that just happened.

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ICP8456 said:

*definatly try idlying, most people that i know idle first then
suddenly can go backwards. *

I was the exact opposite, as soon as i could go backwards for about
15-20 revs i could idle almost instantly for about 40 back and fourths..

Chase

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amanda_and_matt said:

why would i say who i am? if you are confused to whether i am amanda or
matt all the better cos then you can't insult me. why would you
anyway?😄

Continuing this threadjack: I don't see why harper wants to insult
you. It's probably some kind of joke, harper seems rarely 100%
serious. :-)

But I, too, find your habit of posting under a double name confusing.
While I read this group I build a mental image of its inhabitants. Not
very consciously, it just happens. Every time when "amanda_and_matt"
say(s) something like "I did", this process is disturbed and calls for
conscious attention, an orange light blinks and a little beep sounds.
Disturbing indeed.

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e39m5 said:

Which should I try first? Im still working on nfree mounting, is that
important for these skills?

Work on what you like to work on. Freemounting is the most useful
skill of the three you mention, but it's often not easily learned.

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Klaas Bil said:

*On Wed said:

why would i say who i am? if you are confused to whether i am amanda

or

Quoted message said:

matt all the better cos then you can't insult me. why would you
anyway?😄

But I, too, find your habit of posting under a double name
confusing.
While I read this group I build a mental image of its inhabitants.
Not
very consciously, it just happens. Every time when "amanda_and_matt"
say(s) something like "I did", this process is disturbed and calls
for
conscious attention, an orange light blinks and a little beep
sounds.
Disturbing indeed.

Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict
*

Though I didn't actually speak to Amanda and Matt at BUC (sorry about
that, I'll do my best to speak to more people next year!), I'm pretty
certain I know who they are, and if you really want a mental image of
them, they appear in a photo taken by Joe of a unicycle hockey match.
I'm not giving the whole game away though - they're in a picture with
two members of the Twin Cities Unicycle club and two others...

Happy hunting!

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(Klaas Bil) said:

On Wed, 18 May 2005 14:15:20 -0500, "e39m5" wrote:

Work on what you like to work on. Freemounting is the most useful
skill of the three you mention, but it's often not easily learned.

For me, freemounting was several orders of magnitude easier to learn
than idling or backwards riding. Are there riders that learn these
other skills before freemounting?

Ken

S7ev0 is right, we are in a hockey picture from the BUC. It is quite
scary how he knows who we are because we don't know who he is.😕
:eek: 😕

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Your cover is blown.😎

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at least now you all know that we are two people and not just one like
what john said.🙂

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amanda_and_matt said:

*S7ev0 is right, we are in a hockey picture from the BUC. It is quite
scary how he knows who we are because we don't know who he
is.😕 :eek: 😕 *

OK, fair's fair, I was the middle-aged bloke at BUC with two long-haired
sons who were learning to unicycle. I actually wore a t-shirt with
s7ev0 on the front on the Saturday. No photos of me lurking in the
background as yet though!

Sorry e39m5, no more threadjacking - promise!

Back on track:
I learned to freemount first, and am still perfecting idling, but apart
from the odd accidental backwards pedal I have yet to build up the
courage to take it past the first dead point (I remember the feeling
from learning to ride forward).

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