pedal grab tips

I guess unicycle.2ya.com offers some tutorial videos and other tips but
the site seems not to be working.

When I grab the pedal on an obstacle, I lift the uni so the cranks are
horizontal. Then I pull up the seat and push my back foot down so I end
up on an obstacle with cranks still horizontal. This can be done also
as one movement but I prefer doing it in two pieces. With one movement,
I mean swinging the uni back and forth on the pedal and then with help
of this going "to rubber".* Lean towards the obstacle!

This takes some practice though, as everything. Better just start
learning it gradually: first hop on the obstacle and then later start
practicing "to rubber" separately. Guess you know this because you can
do crank grab. 🙂

I'm hopping seat in and seat very low. I've heard pedal grab would be
easier while hopping seat out, but it's ultimately about how you get
used to do it. Balance is the key, as in everything on uni... 🙂

*this means up to the obstacle. 😄

Hope this helps.

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This 'video' (http://tinyurl.com/adtuu) by Joe Baxter shows very well
what I call the 'British' or 'European' way of doing it, as a small
flick rapidly after landing combined with a pull up on the seat,
launching the uni & rider up and onto the obstacle very quickly. Works
best seat-in but can be done seat out too. Yoggi pedalgrabs this way,
and Joe learnt from him at BUC05.

Loose.

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You can also do it the swing. I found this way not quite as hard to
learn as the no swing way. Once you get it the swing way its nothing to
learn the othher way.

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