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Mounting into glide in the middle of the road

I've been cheating: using my car as a place to mount and get ready to push off and try to glide. I always do this with a new skill. I just try to focus on the skill, not getting into and out of it. Distance is a major indicator of progress.

But today my car was in the shop. At first I used a telephone pole, but this proved to be a bad location. It was too near the edge of the road, which has a side slope. Getting out of the edge wasn't easy, so I was only getting a few feet.

So it was time to move to the middle of the road and mount up and glide[300K .mov]. The first problem was imbalance in getting on the unicycle. Finally I started to focus on a single one foot wheel walk push and then a glide out of that. The starting point was more level than yesterday's practice. Further up the road the slope is even less. The 1-ft ww start helped much and I started getting some distance: 50-75 feet at times.

Then I made a slight mistake with my foot. Up 'til now I have placed my right foot on the crown. Specifically the crease between the ball of my foot, the big joint behind the big toe, and the big toe on the front corner of the crown of the frame. I do this for every skill. But today my foot slipped. The arch of my foot went onto the top of the crown, so my foot was 1-2 inches further forward. Suddenly I had much more control over the unicycle, and less pain. My stance was more secure. I immediately started going further and reached 125 feet.

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Posted Wednesday, May 19, 2004 (PermaLink)