Stand up glide?

I've been working on stand up wheel walk as a precursor to
stand up glide.

I find that I place my left foot on the frame and then use
my right hand on the front of the seat. With most (all?) of
my weight on the left foot I quickly stand up.

Then I usually quickly fall back down.

On some of my better attempts I've gone perhaps twenty feet.
With that distance there are occasional short "glides" that
are mostly unintentional.

I think that once I get the hang of it I won't use my hands
at all to get into position. I think that going from seated
to stand up riding is much easier that going from stand up
back to seated. I find it's much easier to go from stand up
to sprawled out.

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unicycleboy said:

*who exactly doesnt use there hands to get into stand
up glide?*

All the riders in the Japanese video I have. Not to say
Japanese riders are the only ones doing it, but there are
quite a few of them on this tape (from the Toyoda Unicycle
Club). This is a tape of a big stage show they did. Not a
commercial tape, at least not sold over here.

Unfortunately I can't help much with the "how" until I learn
it myself... :p

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Sorry John

What i meant to say was riding and going to stand up glide
rather than gliding then stading up. I might try and learn
this way but its pretty difficult

Trev

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Most of what I see seems to go straight from pedaling to
standing up. Once you get used to it, this way is probably
easier than trying to raise yourself up from a glide. Easier
on the legs, you know.

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Here's a link to a Japanese video with some stand-up gliding.
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Ive seen them videos, they all to go from glide into it,
only a few times do they not use this method and go straight
into stand up glide.

Im going to learn the glide way 🙂

Trev

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