Riding with seat out in front, HELP!

cheers i found that website but lost it, its really dood for tutorials
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swarbrim said:

I cant get riding with seat out in front, and i want to do trials
riding.

You don't have to do a lot of seat-out riding when doing trials... but
it helps. Start by working on seat-in hops and gaps, then work on
seat-out hops and gaps, and concentrate on the transition between
seat-in and seat-out. On a trials course you won't be doing so much
riding, and the riding you'll do will be all (or most) seat-in, so
you'll need to learn how to do a seat-out hop then quickly ride off
seat-in. After awhile the seat-out riding skill will become much
easier to pick up.

The one trials skill that I feel is the most important (and others
might agree) is the stillstand. Try to hop less and stillstand more
when working on your trials line... it will improve your balance and
conserve your energy, and eventually allow you to land hops onto the
smallest obstacles (i.e. posts or rails). Even just hopping in place,
you can work on increasing the time inbetween hops. With little
practice you should be able to hop up and down staircases with no
"extra" hops on each stair.

Other skills that will be useful are hopping with either foot back,
rolling hops, riding skinnies (I started practicing this by riding on
the very edge of the sidewalk for as long as I could), and one-footed
riding for the cases when you lose contact with a pedal and want to
keep contact with your uni 🙂 Then work on crank grabs, pedal grabs,
etc.

What have you worked on so far? Let's see some video!

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I learned seat in front by leaning against a wall and then holding the
seat out in front of me and start riding. I fell off at first but then
I learned by doing belly on seat and slowly standing up and keep
riding. It took some time but I soon learned.

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Jason, I beg to differ. I would say most lines involving off camber
moves between skinnies or small objects (basically all trials that lack
pallettes) require seat out. There's simply no way to contort your body
for balance and prepping for the next move without going seat out.
There's simply soo much less attachment to the uni, it allows you to be
more versatile in where you keep your wheel.

Just get good at hopping seat in first. Then, once you can do 16-18",
practice seat out on smallish objects and work your way up. FOr about a
month it'll feel like you've regressed, but keep at it and you'll
notice lots of improvement.

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litldude2 said:

I got this from unicycle.2ya.com
As a general issue, you have more control of the pedals if the balls of
your feet are on the pedals. You can then do the fine adjustments with
your ankles, which are easier to control, rather than using your legs,
which is what happens when you put your heel on the pedal. There are
obviously some issues of degree here, but the farther the pedal is away
from the balls of your feet, the more flat footed you will ride and
control will be stiffer and more awkward.
Beirne Konarski

true. very true. i don't do ANY SORT of drops with the balls of my feet
on the pedals. I tweaked both my ankles at CMW by dropping with the
balls of my feet. It hurts if you land wrong, and you can rip/pull
muscles and tendons.

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