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Wed, 26 Apr 2006

[11:03] Unicycling...not as easy as it looks
Here's me and my beautiful unicycle, post-practice:

I've been out practising in the local playground which seems to have been designed with beginning unicyclers in mind. It's got that cool recycled rubber ground so you don't rip bits off yourself when you stack, a fence with handily spaced railings that you can grab if your balance fails whilst riding along next to it and various be-handled pieces of play equipment, handy to grab as you flailingly crash to the ground.
The sport is particularly unkind to those pieces of the male anatomy with a predilection towards dangling. As portrayed in this unicycling safety diagram:
I've worked out that if you keep your weight on the seat (don't try to stand on the pedals) and keep your eyes on the horizon (don't look down) then things are a lot easier. I can ride for a meter or two before crashing and mounting the damn thing is still a bit of an issue, but I think I'm getting better.

[Posted at 26/04/2006 19:03]

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