suckin at muni

just go who cares if you upd.. can you just walk up the trials and let
the more experienced riders ride up them.. all thats important is that
you have fun

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Yeah, on the second day of Northstar I was totally dead and couldn't
ride properly. I walked more than I would have liked to, but still had
lots of fun.

Just ride and you'll get better.

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The others are right, however it's also good practice to try riding your
unicycle offroad for the first time EARLIER than a week before a major
offroad unicycle event. it's too late to "get ready" for CMW (ironic
coming from me, being as I haven't trained at all and will surely be
complaining about soreness within a mile of the first ride)

Nothing anyone says is going to make you a drastically better muni
rider in a week. Just practice and have fun. CMW is not a competition.
All that I've noticed asked is that when on singletrack trails, let
people pass you if they need to. Nobody's going to mind you falling,
and even the best riders walk, especially on uphills.

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1. Make sure you have safety gear for those UPDs (we all do those).

2. Notice (as seen on the web site) the main rides are generally
downhill. They are shuttle rides, where you don't have to ride up.

3. As long as you can walk the trails, you'll have a great time and
learn a lot!

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alright thanks for the advise everyone, see you at cmw

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That sounds like what happened the first time me & my friends tried to
ride down snowdon... It was only a year after we'd started to learn and
we missed out massive sections, walked and rested most of the time, but
still had a great time. If you do something really hard but put loads
of effort into it, you'll learn a lot more.

Wish I could go to CMW, sounds ace... Maybe in a few years.

Loose.

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First, don't despair!

At first, MUni is tiring. No doubt about it. Every UPD is a break in
your rhythm, and forces a mount. If your freemounting is still weak,
it will rapidly tire you out. Then you get angry and frustrated and
think you'll never manage it,a nd want to throw the unicycle in the
hedge.

The best practice for MUni is to ride stretches of fairly easy but
rough ground with occasional forays int something more difficult. This
way, you get saddle time in, and you never end up miles from base,
tired out, and unable to ride. Gradually, the definition of "fairly
easy but rough ground" develops until you are regularly riding the
stuff you used to find challenging.

Riding anything downhill is 10 times easier physically and technically
than riding the same section uphill.

Don't aim too high too soon. Stretch yourself a bit at a time, and
enjoy the ride.

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I have never muni'd in my life, so i wouldn't know how hard it is, but
it sounds pretty difficult. it also sounds fun, and i live by a couple
of mountains, so i might think about going there with my older brother
and his friend to try it out. 🙂

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When I went on the East Coast Muni event at Kent Hills NY last year, I
ran along with those Muni experts, didn't even bring my uni. Learned
more than I realized, and met some great guys.

Warning, some things they do will appear easier than real life.

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Mikefule said:

Riding anything downhill is 10 times easier physically and technically
than riding the same section uphill.

Well, to nit pick: Many trials lines are easer going up than down.
There are a few ravines near trails by my house that I can hop up
higher than I can ride down from.

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Not to nit pick, but he DID say riding ;-P

gerblefranklin said:

Well, to nit pick: Many trials lines are easer going up than down. There
are a few ravines near trails by my house that I can hop up higher than
I can ride down from.

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Well, i have only seen people MUni, i haven't really done it myself. but
as i say, maybe i can get my brother motivated and we can both go to
the mountains by our city and MUni along a trail or something.
I do know that mountain unicycling is the fastest growing popular way
to unicycle in the unicycle worlld (more and more people are MUni-ing)

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