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    UNIquelyCanadian
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    What type of unicycling requires the most practice/time to get "good"?

    For example which is harder to learn: standup backwards one footed wheel
    walking or 90cm high jump, or backwards grinding, or navigating north
    shore?

    Basic riding takes * about * 15 hours practice to get good at. Suicide
    mount took 2 minutes of practice for me.

    I think freestyle takes the most time to get “good” at.

    By “good” I mean to become one of the top riders in that style of
    unicycling.

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  2. Smilymarco
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    Street

    Because you need to be good in freestyle and trial

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  3. forrestunifreak
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    Trials, definatly, because thats what Im the worst at, what I want to be
    the best at, and what I practice the most. (out of the four main ones,
    trials ,muni, street and freestyle)

    Im probally the best at freestyle, wich is what I like the least. Muni
    doesnt take as much practice either.

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  4. jsm
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    I would say freestyle. Freestyle has been around a lot longer than
    trials, street, or MUni, and so it's a lot more developed. Hence the
    level of the top riders is higher, and takes longer to reach. I have
    read, for instance, that for a while Julien Monney, currently one of the
    top freestylers, was practicing 6-8 hours daily.

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  5. maxisbackintown
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    id say street because its a mix of everything

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  6. johnfoss
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    Street is not as hard, because as an event it is so new it's kind of
    wide open as to what you can do to win. For Freestyle you have to not
    only do hard tricks, you have to have great presentation as well, which
    is, among many other things, polish. There is no polish in any of the
    other listed events except circus.

    Circus can't compete with Freestyle. The number of skills required for a
    "good" unicycling circus act is likely to be lower. You have to be very
    good at the skills you will do, with very good polish, but that's it.
    The standard of what makes a good act is a lot less "technical" than for
    Freestyle.

    Jumping 90cm over a bar is going to require a high level of technique,
    but your body may have built in genetic limits for how high you can get,
    regardless of practice.

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