Re: how young is too young?

Id say around 7 but for that u would need a 16'' unicycle dont try to
teach a 7 year old on a 20'' ur gonna ahve a hard time

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Wasn't there something about an 18 month old riding. I havne't seen that
but I have seen a couple of 3 year olds on 12" unicycles

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A handfull of kid have learned to unicycle as soon as they could walk.
I'd say 2 years is a good age to start, and see if they take to it. If
not wait a while. Who knows, you could have a unicycling baby prodigy!

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One of my daughters learned fairly quickly and easily on a 20" at the
age of 5. My other kids have all been somewhat slower, but we are all
individuals so I don't think you could say there is an average earliest
or even an optimum age to start learning. They will learn when they
want to and when they are mentally prepared for it, if at all. No child
is average.

I wish I'd had the opportunity to learn at age 5, but I might not have
wanted to then.

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Deja Vu,

http://tinyurl.com/dplxn

I think that 12 months is too young. But by 18 months I think a child
has the necessary coordination and balance to learn to uni.

I meant to test that theory on my son (now 5) but I didn't. My daughter
just turned 1 so I guess the scientist in me still has a chance.

I honestly believe that learning to walk is more difficult than learning
to ride a unicycle.

-mg

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critter said:

*I know some kids can learn at a early age. Want is the average age
that a child is too young to ride?
Just for an idea for what I'm working with. *

I think if you have the ballance skills necessary to walk you have
developed enough ballance to begin learning to ride.

That said maybe a better question is what age is the BEST age to learn
to ride. Best could mean a number of things (or even a combination of
the following)

BEST = easiest
BEST = safest
BEST = quickest
BEST = most enjoyable
BEST = most likely to continue riding

This will vary from person to person but I think if I child shows an
interest and wants to learn to ride they should be given an opportunity.
From my observations students around the age of 10-13 seem to pick up
unicycling faster than adults or younger children but that is a VERY
general rule to which there are many exceptions.

The fact that the youngest unicyclist to reach level 10 was 9 years old
shows that it is possible to get extremely good at unicycling at a
relatively young age.

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Tony Torchia from universe2 (my brother) learned to ride when he was 4.

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i have decided to learn, I'm twelve, is it hard to learn?
also I think that children that young should start on two wheels.

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peter.bier said:

From my observations students around the age of 10-13 seem to pick up
unicycling faster than adults or younger children but that is a VERY
general rule to which there are many exceptions.

From my statistics study
<http://www.xs4all.nl/~klaasbil/agelearn_short.htm> this is not really
true.

I have seen the claim about an 18 months old riding before. Does
anyone know where to find any proof for it?

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happy_4_u said:

*i have decided to learn, I'm twelve, is it hard to learn?
also I think that children that young should start on two wheels. *

One of my daughters learned to ride her 16" Torker when she was 5, and
before she knew how to ride a bike. We got her a bike for her 6th
birthday (she had one with training wheels before) and now she knows how
to ride both. I think she took to learning the unicycle more quickly
than the bicycle because of the speed of the machine when she was
learning. She was definitely uncomfortable with the concept of building
speed to become more stable on a bike, and very comfortable with
balancing on a uni at relatively low speeds.

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If I recall correctly, the youngest member of TCUC to learn to ride was
a 3 and 1/2 year old girl.

My 10 month old has his own unicycle, but right now all he can is drool
on it.

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Give them a bike and a uni, let them decide, and if htey choose hte bike
slap them, continue till they get it right!

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Jethro said:

My 10 month old has his own unicycle, but right now all he can is drool
on it.

Please keep us posted.

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