cathwood said:Is it 'normal' to take a while to do regular freemounting?
It's not uncommon. I consider myself a slow learner, at least as far
as unicycling goes. It took me about 20 hours of practicing, spread
over about five weeks, to be able to ride 50 metres. From then on, it
took me about five MONTHS to be able to freemount reliably enough to
get my level 1. Of course not all of that time was spent practicing
the freemount but a lot of it was.
If you say kickback mount, do you mean (what many people call)
rollback mount? You might want to try the static mount. If you put
something behind the wheel (brick, curb) it is not yet a freemount but
maybe a stepping stone. Some more freemounting help is included in the
Word document "Learning to Unicycle" , downloadable from
<http://www.xs4all.nl/~klaasbil/uni_beginners.htm>.
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