Rail Riding/Stillstand

practice practice practice. not like i can ride uber small rails but i
can hold my own with the group i ride with.

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though I'm not good at this either, I think it's very important to make
use of your hands a lot.

Use your hands like a balance stick (if that's the right word for the
stick that guys on the ropes in the circus use), and don't hold your
hands as if you were 'just' riding.

that's just what came to my mind.

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I think it's probably worth having a closer look at how your whole body
is moving. Maybe experiment with having both hands out wide, or one on
the seat, or arms up high, or low.

I made a little video tutorial on rail riding which can be found at
www.unicycle.2ya.com . It may help a little.

I would absolutely love to see Dustin Kelm rail riding. With a 5 minute
stillstand he'd be a machine on rails! I can only stillstand 5 seconds
or so on average with the odd 10 or 15 second run, but when I'm up on
rails I seem to be able ot do a little better, and the wheel isn't
moving all that much side to side (it can't afford to on the narrow
round ones).

There's about 2min20sec or rail riding in my movie (see my signature) if
you're interested.

I found some beautiful rails to try out around my area...one with a 90
degree turn (2" wide flat rail) and then down a steep bit - I can't wait
to try it! There's another couple of really nice ones too...a couple
with nice corners and another round one.

Andrew

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Thanks markf and wogri.

Andrew, I've seen the tips on your (_and_ Peter van Boekhout's) site..
and have watched/stared in awe at your big movie. I can't figure out how
you mount a rail like that.. I've tried it a bunch of times and
immediately fell off... its a lot easier holding on to
something/someone, getting my feet on, and then going.. thats how I can
get a few feet on a 2x4... but getting better at mounting just requires
practice.

As to actually riding the rail, I'll try holding my arms differently,
rather than just straight out.

There are a lot of great rails I would love to ride around my area
too... the 'cart corrals' at Tops have a high 1.5" flat rail around
them. There is a really long (probably 75 feet) parking lot divider
thats about 2 inches wide that looks awesome... I wish I could go try
them.

Dave

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andrew_carter said:

*...I would absolutely love to see Dustin Kelm rail riding...

Andrew *

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one thing that helped my skinny riding recently was dumpster diving for
wood. my roommate and i went out at semester break time in the college
we used to attend(graduated) and grabbed all the lumber from lofts and
other furnature. We layed some donw/nailed some together and made a
20-ish foot long skinny. its only about 4 inches high, but we built a
little ramp up to it out of a random 2x4. that helps a ton. no mounting
on a skinny, no hopping and riding transfer to worry about, just get
set, ride a slight incline go.

my advice is build some skinnies, some ramps, and then practice practice
practice

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Thanks Dustin, that's a huge crowd!

Andrew

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I'm also in the ongoing process of developing this skill, and I've found
the most helpful thing to be substituting idles for still stands. Every
time I'm out riding and have to wait for a street light for example,
I'll try to hit a still stand. It's all about adjusting the weight of
your body over the uni rather than moving the uni under your body. It's
very delicate and takes awile to get the hang of, but when you can
maintain that balance point it feels really good.

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