Wondering about mounts need help!

Practice. A lot. Every time you go to mount. Also practice just
mounting, over time easing the amount of force you put on whatever it
is you use to mount.

Try to do rollback mounts, some people say they are easier to learn.

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Freemounting is hard. Keep practicing.

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just practise at it. the way i free mount i do it differently to how its
suppose to be, my pedals are in a different position. just experiment
with pedals in different positions until you find one your comfotable
with

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I was lucky enough that I didnt have any walls to hold while learning to
ride.
So I could freemount befroe I could ride😄

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freeride before mounting wow....

well basically practice 😄

I find it much easier now to just jump on it... but u need quite abit
of guts to do it at first.... but its REALLY easy when u finally jump
on.

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my little sister is 9 and she learned how to free mount at 7, took her a
week, but she couldnt ride untill just a week ago because she never
practiced.

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It is different for everyone. I could freemount before I could really
ride too.

Just practice everytime you have to mount and eventually you will be
doing it without even thinking.

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i also could mount before i could ride, i would just take liittle breaks
off of learnign to ride and practice freemounting, except when i
finally got it, it was like... ok, what now? But, if you want a
suggestion, i would say the rolling mount is the easiest, as you
already have momentum when you get up there

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what actually is a freemount, because i thought i was doing one but from
the sound of it im roll mounting. i stand behind my uni then put a fott
on a pedal kick up put to other foot down and ride

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^
a freemount is when you don't use anything to help you mount the uni.
like a wall, pole etc.

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the first mount I ever learned was a Jump-mount. Hold the handle, jump
up and land on both pedals at the same time. you will get it on pretty
much your first try, you just have to go for it. It's also very helpful
to learn the standard freemount later on.

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Hi,

I was stuck for a long time with the "standard" free mount involving
stepping on the pedal to bring the uni backwards under you, then doing
a back pedal with the other foot to get them off the "dead position"
before leaning forward and riding off. The explanation above shows
just how much is going on in the space of a fraction of a second.

In the book "Unicycling" by Andreas Anders-Wilkens & Robert Mager

http://tinyurl.com/ycqcxy

there is an alternative, which got me freemounting almost immediately,
although not yet 100% reliably.

As you are technically minded, as am I, the book explained the
mechanics.

Basically...

Stand with your first foot on the lower pedal (between 4 to 5 o'clock
as it suits [experience tells you here]).

Nestle the uni seat quite tightly. Prepare the other pedal - make it
approximately horizontal - to receive the other foot. Straighten uni
and align yourself up.

As you launch yourself onto the uni, and OVER the axle, add some force
on the seat to counteract the backwards movement of the uni. A balance
of forces will keep the uni and pedal in place enabling the other foot
to land on its pedal.

As the second foot lands on the pedal, it will already be out of the
dead zone. A brief pause as your body carries on over the axle to lean
forward, and you're away.

Hope this helps. I've almost got my 8 year old free mounting like
this.

Oh, another little aid is to have a little stone or stick behind the
wheel to stop it going backwards as well. As you improve, you will be
able to dispense with this, possibly instages by using progressively
smaller ones.

Good luck.

Jerry Attrick

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'This' (http://tinyurl.com/rq8ay) and 'this' (http://tinyurl.com/j7z23).

http://unicycletips.com/ Rul3z!

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I personally put the left pedal all the way down so I can put weight on
it so the wheel doesn't role while beneathe me. Then I step up putting
weight on the right pedal. That usually gets everything going for me. I
agree with everyone else though it is definentely more about practicing
than anything.

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hmm
I put the pedal at 4 o clock and 11 o clock... 4 o clock in back, put
my less dominant foot on ... kick off the ground, its more of a launch,
and catch the pedal, transferring my centripital motion to forward
motion 🙂

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The only freemount I know is the rolling mount. It's uncoventional for
a first/only freemount but it seemed most intuitive to me. I just push
the unicycle forward holding the front of the seat low and then as the
right pedel is swinging around past 6 oclock I jump forward and up, and
tuck the seat in as put my feet on the pedels. The great thing about
this mount is that you don't need back pedel. Once you land it you
momentarily get your balance and then sart pedeling forward.

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Triball said:

I was lucky enough that I didnt have any walls to hold while learning to
ride.

yeah, walls are bad. if you have any walls around, get rid of them.
tear them down. like the berlin wall.

its too late to think.

😕

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pdxdan said:

The only freemount I know is the rolling mount. It's uncoventional for
a first/only freemount but it seemed most intuitive to me. I just push
the unicycle forward holding the front of the seat low and then as the
right pedel is swinging around past 6 oclock I jump forward and up, and
tuck the seat in as put my feet on the pedels. The great thing about
this mount is that you don't need back pedel. Once you land it you
momentarily get your balance and then sart pedeling forward.

Do your feet go on the pedals at the same time?
Sounds like it by the description, which would actually mean that what
you're doing is kind of a rolling jump mount, which is very impressive
for being the only freemount you know....

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