How to ride a unicycle - 10 tips

Growing up, my sister had a unicycle. She didn’t know how to ride it and neither did I. As far as we knew, it was completely impossible to ride. Fast forward about 20 years, and i now know how to ride a unicycle. I learned in about an hour. Maybe I’m more coordinated now, or maybe I have an easier time wrapping my head around the concept. Maybe I just have a longer attention span. Whatever the reason, I only learned to ride recently, so the learning process is still fresh in my mind. Here are the ten key things that I learned. First of all, forget free mounting. That’s when you try to start riding without holding on to something. This is for after you learn how to balance on a unicycle, so save it for later. Wasting your time on free mounting before you can ride will only hold you back. Second, forget about idling. That’s when you kinda rock back and forth to stand in place. I still haven’t learned how to do this, but I couldn’t imagine it being the first thing I learned. Riding
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