Unicycle training crashes

I've been teaching myself to ride a unicycle, from a book: http://ridetheunicycle.com/index.htm

It's been a great boon, as I doubt I would have gotten as far as I have. I learned that it's better to fall off than it is to fall down and crash. That said, this is a video compilation of all my crashes thus far, only a handful, compared to more than 300 rides I've had, from 2 seconds long to almost 700 feet down the road

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Sports

Tags:

• unicycle
• bike
• bicycle
• crash

[flovrec1]

simulate ;D

[freddotu]

too funny! Keep in mind that this is a compilation of multiple sessions. Go ahead and try to learn to ride a unicycle and you'll find the simulations are real.

[freddotu]

Daniel, since you are only 14, you are likely more able to take impact with the ground more easily than I am. I'm sure if I was 14 and trying to learn to ride a unicycle, I would have learned much faster, with fewer falls and possibly no sounds from the impact.

Write back when you turn fifty and have a few falls at that age, okay?

[freddotu]

little peter, I'm amused that you think those falls were faked. If you've ever tried to learn to ride a unicycle, you'd know that learning to fall properly is a big part of it. This video is of those falls in which I did not land properly, on my feet. No faking in any portion of the video.

[freddotu]

I've included in this video only the worst crashes. In a bit more than a month of practice sessions, I've had 535 rides or parts of rides and in all but the ones in the video, I've remained on my feet. It's a much better feeling to not plummet to the ground!

I can curb-start or platform-start easily enough, and managed two rock-starts (per the book noted in the description) but I'd love to learn other methods of starting, especially the freemount. I'm sure in time that will happen.

[CalicoatMaker]

1:27 Funny as hell hearing him yell in the distance. I cant stop laughing! hahaha

whoa, 1:49, WTF is that? Is that the machine that raped your tricycle and the unicycle was carried to full-term?

[CalicoatMaker]

Unifail, thanks for linking this from your own comment (also linked from Hackaday).

Really funny, thanks. "WWWWaaaooooAAAAaaoooo!" made it hilarious.

[dezau]

lol some of this stuff is America's Funniest Home Video worthy

[paintball3476]

holy crap a three wheeled car.

[Georgie2500]

Wonder what ur neighbors were thinking while u fell every 2 seconds for 24 hours straight, lol

[flovrec1]

Unicycle I won in two hours and after two moon is an excellent ride :D

[danielm53]

although i used to to mountain bike trials... just in the garden as a noob with no training but i gues it helped and i am onlii 14..