Re: Footplant tip needed!

I think to something, but i don't know if it's possible as i plant my
front foot.

When your back foot leaves the pedal, just touch the tire or the spokes
with your front foot in order to stop the wheel from spinning (or even
do an angle correction). It adds a movement to the trick so it's
something more to think at when you try it. But as everything like
that, you could soon forget it and let your foot do it alone.
You can try to wait a little more before taking off your back foot
too.

Hope it helps

Manuel

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The video in your other thread is one of my all time favourite
unicycling videos, and I never knew it was you :p... I hadn't met you
the last time I saw it tho, that might explain it.

I've tried footplants for a while, but I never seem to get them quite
right. I need to concentrate on about 3 things at once (1ft balance on
a suddenly non-moving object, pedal location, dropping jump remount)
and usually fail on 2 out of the 3. I might try slowing it down, and
doing what I've seen other riders on here do, which is play with the
uni a bit while you're on the obstacle. This allows you to show off a
bit, and you can use your hand on the tyre to steady the uni out a bit
before the 'big leap'.

My tip is try deconstructing it slightly. Do some dropping jump mounts
off the object you're trying to footplant onto, and get a feel for the
remount. Then its one less thing to worry about. Also consider an
intentional crankspin as your foot goes out. If you can't stop it
spinning then make it work for you, by crankspinning 360 degrees,
stopping with (in your case left) foot and then remounting. I'm not
sure how it would work in practice but it goes alright when I visualise
it in my head :p.

Loose.

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