Swinging your arms

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you will swing your arms when you are learning...especially
trying to negociate turns and corners.

As you become more experienced, you will swing less and
less.

When you are comfortable with riding, focus on using your
arms less and less. A good technique to practice is to put
both hands on the front of your seat, or holding your hands
behind your back.

This causes you to have to steer with your shoulders
instead of your arms (and moreso having your core, the
hips, do the steering)

This is a good technique because once you start off roading
and begin to hold your seat with one hand...you have one
less arm for flapping.

If you ever notice yourself 'just riding' concentrate on not
using your arms...it does not take too much practice to get
it in your routine.

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sofa is absolutely right about clasping your hands behind
your back; this helped me a lot in my early stages. it was
really frustrating at first, but after i learned to ride
w/out my arms it was great. Once you unclasp your hands you
feel like you have SO much control, its amazing. Im trying
to think of an analogy...in basketball people practice
dribbling with big winter gloves on so that when they take
them off, dribbling is really easy...anyways try it, tell me
how it works.

-grant

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Who knows where the link is to the story about the guy who
unicycled across the U.S. with handlebar things and a side-to-
side sling seat between them who steered with his head. It
was good reading!

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elmer said:

*Who knows where the link is to the story about the guy
who unicycled across the U.S. with handlebar things and a
side-to-side sling seat between them who steered with his
head. It was good reading! *

I'm guessing you're looking for this:
unicycling.orgkcash.htmlOpen ↗

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Yup, that's the one! Thanks, Duaner. Read it, Vinmacd if
you haven't already. When I got to the part about him
steering with his head, I was really laughing. The dude was
tough, for sure!

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Once your know you're not swinging your arms around much,
you can (for instance) hold a bottle in your hand and take
a drink as you ride forwards. You may UPD the first time
you do it, but it doesn't take long before you can drink
on the move.

Throughtout the winter I arrived at juggling club, took off
my jacket and pullover (to reveal the T-shirt underneath)
and then rode around the hall. I recently got into the habit
of mounting the unicycle and then taking off the jacket and
pullover while riding around. It's the most ambitious thing
I do with my hands while riding (so far) and again it takes
a few goes before you get the hang of that.

When you can do those, you'll know you have really overcome
the problem of swinging arms.

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I think the most complex thing I have done while riding was
remove my camel back, open it, remove the cd walkman,
change cd's, replace the walkman, replace the camel back
and keep going.

What was the best part? Me not falling off the Coker with a
CD in my mouth!

I've also carried a 29" uni while riding the Coker...not
one comment from anyone...I figured I would have been
bombarded that day.

The toughest had to be the 3km ride with a 12 pack of
beer (bottles) after an 85 km ride, then 5km to the beer
store. It doesn't take your elbows long to lock into
place doing that!

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I once reloaded the film in my camera *during* a unicycle
race. I think that's about as extreme as I've gotten. I
think that race ended in a (planned) tie between me, Dustin
Kelm and Andy Cotter. It was a 9-mile race in Iowa in '96.

None more of that. Now I'm all digital, with at least 512MB
in the camera!

I sometimes swing my arms on purpose. When riding up long,
hills on my MUni, I found a swinging rhythm that helps me go
straighter, using less leg energy to get me up the hill. One
of my hands generally holds the seat, while the other one
swings forward and back to counteract the "wobbling" action
of my pedal strokes.

But that's on purpose. Good advice above on learning to ride
without the help of your arms. You could also practice
juggling while riding, though it helps a lot to get the
riding down without the arm movements first...

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i find when im using my hands to do simple things, like
eating a banana im not concentrating on my riding and it
becomes really smooth, the hardest thing ive ever managed
(once) removing my hoody and putting it into my bag and
replacing my bag, it usually just ends up with me on the
pavement with a hoody over my head and peole laughing tho...

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