Standard skill questions

Borges said:

*I'm starting to put a routine together, but I think the rule book is
a little unclear on a few points.

1) Do I have to get in and out of a skill? (ride -> hop on wheel ->
ride or just step up and hop on the wheel ?)

2) Do the transitions between skills count? Is ride->hop on
wheel->ride 1 or 3 (4 if you count riding) separate skills ? *

No, you do not have to ride in and out of the skills. However, you can
list the transitions as separate skills. There is a whole section in the
list of skills that are transitions.

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Hi,

I also have a question concerning this....

Do I understand you right?
So it is possible to go directly from hopping seat out in front to crank
idle and from there to side hopping?

Hannah

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1. No. But if you use a dismount between skills, make sure it looks nice
and deliberate. If not, you could get a big ding for a UPD.

2. Only if you list them as skills on your sheet. In other words, many
transitions are skills worth points, but if you want to include other
things worth more, you don't have to list them and then they are not
judged as such.

Hannah K. said:

*So it is possible to go directly from hopping seat out in front to
crank idle and from there to side hopping?*

Yes. Unlike the skill levels, you do not have to ride "normal" between
skills. This does not necessarily apply to mounts and transitions. For
mounts, you must ride 1 rotation of the wheel in the end position,
whatever the mount says that is. For transitions, you have to do at
least 1 rotation in the "before" and "after" positions for the skill to
get full score. Make sure you allow for those spaces. See the front part
of the Standard Skills List for the full details:
http://www.unicycling.org/iuf/rulebook/

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Thank you!

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Hannah K. said:

*Thank you! *

Thank you from me too!

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For setting up standard routines I wrote a 'validator'
(http://unicyclist.org/cont/standard.cfm).
It does not answer (already anwered) questions like those from above,
but still you may find it usefull.

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leo said:

*For setting up standard routines I wrote a 'validator'
(http://unicyclist.org/cont/standard.cfm).
It does not answer (already anwered) questions like those from above,
but still you may find it usefull. *

What Leo could have said if he hadn't chosen to let his work speak for
itself:

Take a look at this! This is not only a great tool for people who are
putting together a standard skill routine, but also has a bunch of
instructive videoclips for those who want to learn new skills!
It looks cool and is really easy to use.
You get your skill list in a nice printable format.

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I like the 'sort on highest score' feature. Thanks Leo.

Andrew

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Thank you Leo,
I wish I'd known about this yesterday when I made my son HAND WRITE his
skills and routine. Now he'll be thrilled to do it over.

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leo said:

*For setting up standard routines I wrote a 'validator'
(http://unicyclist.org/cont/standard.cfm). *

Wow, Leo that is cool. I have been working on something similar, but it
doesn't yet order the skills. It does make sure you have no duplicate
numbered skills, no more than six transitions+mounts, etc., and you can
'save' a url that points to the routine. But half way through I decided
I wanted to be able to save the routine in the database for future
reference and refinement/cloning.

Is there any way for yours to work with the back button? When I wanted
to go back to add skills, I had to start over again.

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I improved the script using javascript. I use to hate making
javascripts. But it seems to work well. It now has some pre-validation,

and disabling of illegal choises.iunicycle said:

order the skills.

With some more javascript I could make it an easy 1 step, using drop
boxes in stead of checkboxes. But then it would become imposible for
browser without javascript enabled to access the next page. But I think

I will succeed fixing that later on.iunicycle said:

the back button?

Seems to be fixed. Well, that is in MSIE and Opera. Mozilla still has a
broken back button.

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