What works for me:
Put one pedal at the 6:00 position, all the way down.
Lean the unicycle over as required to position the seat.
Step/hop onto the other pedal. Sometimes you overshoot, sometimes you
undershoot, sometimes you do just right but can't get going.
Repeat 8,000,000 times until it works.
More specifically:
-Learn how to hop on just so-so
-Learn how to balance, recover, flail your arms about, etc. when you
don't hop on just so-so
-Learn to push forward on that second pedal instead of down
-Learn to ride when your 2nd foot isn't in the right position
-Learn to reposition your feet while riding
-Do this where it's level or just a bit of a downslope, not an upslope
-High seat position makes the unicycle easier to ride but harder to
freemount, it seems to me.
-Do it when no one's around. If someone is watching, it'll take a
dozen tries to get on.
When I first started, I had the seat up higher, and I would always
mount up holding onto the car, and set the pedals so pressure on the
first pedal rolled the unicycle BACK under me. When freemounting, you
don't want that, you want things going the other way, so that's why I
start at the "dead" position and avoid a backslope.
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StephenH
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