Progression

i got my unicycle about 2 and a half weeks ago

first two days the furtherest (doesnt sound right?) i got was about 3m
(10 feet).

next day the furtherest i got was about 14m.
for the next 2 or so days i managed to ride on flat for as far as i
want, but couldnt turn.
next day i could go up and down some small hills.
next day i could make some dodgey turns.
next 3 days improve slightly
next 2 days i could go up and down any hill pretty much
next 2 days learn how to turn (whilst flapping arms from left to right
to turn)
next day learn to turn not arms so much but leaning into turn
next 2 days i could do some drops - biggest about 8 inches
next 2 days learn to ride, stop, do 2 little hops then keep going

The uni i've got is just a nimbus 24" muni with a 24x2.7 knobby tyre
and 125mm cranks.
about 5 days ago i got the cranks on and put on two left hand bicycle
cranks that were 170mm. riding was soooo soo much easier with the
longer cranks. i pretty much learnt how to turn and go up hills on the
longer cranks. although the right pedal came loose a few times. Then
yesterday i put the 125's back on cause dad wanted the crank back on
his bike. The first few rides felt like i had no control over the uni
at allc ause of the shorter cranks. But i could go much faster and has
much ebtter turning after using the 170's. I feel i'm progressing along
a nice and steady pace now. Although i still dont gather much how to
stop, start hopping, hop over something then keep riding, i can hop
about one inch high for a few times but thats it. first few times
trying to land the 8 inch drop i got a decent whack in the gonads.

well thats pretty much my life story

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Well, in the first week of learning, it wen smoothly for me, even though
i had about 5 feet of concrete to ride on, then would go into a gravel
parking lot. Learning to ride on gravel made it somewhat harder to ride
on Pavement, but i managed to learn in about a week.

After being able to ride for good long distances, that's all i did,
never knew about jumping or any of the other stuff you could do on a
uni.

Within the 2-3ish years of just commuting every once in a while, i
couldn't ride much cause my uni was broke, i learned to ride one
footed, and pogo around.

So technically the progress from back then was very small, but all i
did was just ride, so it was good to me.

Just for the past 4 months, i think, is when i finally got seriously
into unicycling, seeing what you could do on them reignited the flame.
The main thing is was trials.

Starting with trials was fun =p at first i learned to hop up and down
curbs, after that i tried going up stairs, I actually had a hard time
to be able to get up one stair at a time, but after about 3 days of
practicing i was able to jump up 10 of them one by one like nothing.
Then i learned how to ride one footed with my other foot in a few
hours, idling took me at least 1 day to get, i learned one-footed
idling about 5mins, i didn't think it would be so easy. All that
happened in about a week.

Once i got my Torker Dx, everything just flew, instead of hopping up 1
stair, i hop up 2 or 3, i can now jump about 2 feet with a static or
rolling hop, my SIF hops are about 2.5feet. Learning that took about a
day, but to progress it to where i am now, maybe a month or two.

I can do a lot more but i just don't remember the timeline it took to
learn them, so i guess i progress rather well, except on unispins, i
have a hard time landing them, but i practice them like crazy until i
get them =p

I haven't really hit a wall yet, well, technically i have hit a wall,
but that was from wrecking or landing wrong, but nothing that stopped
me form learning, I just stay confident i can get something, and set
reachable goals, i make them, and it makes me feel better, so i go and
set higher goals. As long as i am in a good mood while riding, then
things are great, even the wrecking parts are fun =p

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I've been riding for about four years now, the first two years I didn't
know there were any other riders out there. I just rode around on my
uni for transportation. Then one day I was surfing around on the
internet and typed in "unicycle" just to see what came up. Lo and
behold, there were whole communities of us! I started trying the skill
levels in my spare time (I'm level 4-5), took up Muni, and I'm now
starting trials. The only thing I've had any trouble with so far is
learning wheel walking, and I'm pretty sure my only trouble with it is
that I don't try often enough to learn it.

I think that's my longest post yet on this forum.

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wellll my sisters and older brother had unicycles and i wanted to learn
so i got on it and taught myself, but i let my sister have credit for
it cuz its her uni and all, but anyways i learned over a few days and
could turn after i went about 50 yds ... lean and correct turns... but
I rode in a parade after that and it made me a lot better but anyways i
knew nothing about unicycle tricks so i just rode until i got bored of
it a few months later. then i rode it to school when my bike broke ...
got called a [censored]... all that stuff then i started to hop... then i
learned to spin off of stuff and eventually hop-180
then i did that for 6 months or so until i learned to ride backwards
about a year ago... started to riding it to school again... this time
got positive feedback... so i just did that for a few months, until my
friend learned to ride w/ his seat in front so i got a little jealous
and learned it too ... then i would learn tricks after him
then we decided to do a talent show... so i started hopping higher and
higher and eventually could hop 20" ... ride one-footed and the day of
the talent show i learned to crankstall and jump on stuff so it was all
good ... and we won so i was all happy, but my unicycle had broken 2
hours before the show and i had to ride someone else's unicycle (which
had to be returned afterwards) so i quit riding for 2 weeks until i got
my new unicycle (a 2005 torker DX) and since then (2 weeks) I have
learned to unispin(i am still having trouble riding off)ride w/ seat on
side, ride one footed long distances and do 360's (which i can't do
anymore for some reason)

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Everyone progresses at a different rate. Two brothers I know started
unicycling at almost the same time, but the one who started a bit later
was able to hop higher and sooner. It varies depending on fitness, age,
balance, time, and motivation.

The only person you need to worry about being better than is yourself.
As long as you are enjoying the sport, and progressing, I would say you
are a good rider.

I have found I have come up against a wall for some tricks, but usally
all I need to do is wait for complimentary skill to catch up.

I could pedal grab a long time before I could crank climb. I needed to
develop my seat in front hopping, and in particular landing sif hops
that put me low to the wheel.

Keep riding.

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