how do you do a wheel walk

[votson]

ive tryed everything i can think of but i just cant figure out how to do a wheel
walk.:confused: can anyone give me some advice to help me learn?

[Victory]

toe heel toe heel...
I found the best way to learn was in a hallway holding the walls until you get used to it. The problem many ppl do is that they don't lean far enough back and end up going faster and faster and lose all control.
here's a vid I made last year to show someone the foot placement.

http://www.unicyclist.com/index.php?page=gallery&g2_itemId=196316

[SAVAGE]

yeah, all u do is lean back, if u think you'll fall, just jump off... that's all. also, learn to keep your balence going very slow, it helped me

[unicycle-Boz]

yeah, just wheel walk extremly slow or else you go too fast and fall. once you can ww slow you will eventually get it

[kobold]

you all make it sound like its a piece of cake!!!! arg!

[CKCrowe]

Yea wheel walking is hard to learn, i personally learned on a 20 inch, make the seat very very high for just learning, then make sure your arms are straight out for balance not at your side. I personally liked grippy shoes, or a grippy wheel for wheel walking, take you anywhere from 5 days to a month i would guess, took me about 2 weeks, then my friend a month, just depending how much you practice on it.

[1wheelwonder]

I have found the solution to my ww delema! Wear Water shoes, they are so flexible that it's like normal walking!

If you're not sure what water shoes are here is a pic.

[aden00]

water shoes aye, good against rockfish, god i hate them, i can never catch a normal fish. i alwasy catch a stingray or a rockfish, its really annoying but funny.

soz for off topic. Im also trying to wheel walk, would converse shoes be apropriate footwear or something more like skate shoes?

[Ducttape]

water shoes aye, good against rockfish, god i hate them, i can never catch a normal fish. i alwasy catch a stingray or a rockfish, its really annoying but funny.

soz for off topic. Im also trying to wheel walk, would converse shoes be apropriate footwear or something more like skate shoes?
anything with a good flat tread on it would work pretty good, Converse style shoes are what a lot of freestyle riders wear so yes they'll be good for wheelwalking. Skate shoes work well too. I'm working on a few instructional type videos right now I'll try to do one for wheelwalking too.

[aden00]

cant wait for it, should help a bit :D

[Ducttape]

cant wait for it, should help a bit :D
lol Just don't let me forget! Friday is supposed to be good riding weather I'll film for the video then, so PM me every time you remember that way I don't forget :)

[Ducttape]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNKZvleF-og

[Ducttape]

video now on vimeo as well

Wheel walk tutorial on Vimeo

[1wheelwonder]

Thanks ducttape

[Ducttape]

Thanks ducttape
no problem lol it was kinda fun to make.

[Victory]

Ducttape, great vid, I like how you explain it and put the camera nice and close for foot placement. (music is neat too... sounds like music from a movie where someone is overcomming an giant opstacle)
btw- I think in the vid you meant toe-heel-toe-heel (unless it's a backwards ww)

[Ducttape]

Ducttape, great vid, I like how you explain it and put the camera nice and close for foot placement. (music is neat too... sounds like music from a movie where someone is overcomming an giant opstacle)
btw- I think in the vid you meant toe-heel-toe-heel (unless it's a backwards ww)
haha oh yeah... I can't ww backwards yet. you're right I said it backwards.

[wrapmaster]

the threads on your unicycle make a difference to if you have a street or flatland unicycle it more grip then a muni or trials unicyclei couldnt wheel walk @ all before with my old trials wheel now i can wheelwalk fine with my street tire

[kahunacohen]

Hm, that's interesting about the tire. I am having a hell of a time learning to ww. I have tried for months, and can only get max 5-8 kicks. I am on a trials uni though. But most flatland riders ride trials unis right, and they wheel walk all the time don't they?

[muni123]

Hm, that's interesting about the tire. I am having a hell of a time learning to ww. I have tried for months, and can only get max 5-8 kicks. I am on a trials uni though. But most flatland riders ride trials unis right, and they wheel walk all the time don't they?

Flatland riders don't usually WW but freestylers do.

[kahunacohen]

About the tire..so do a lot of people learn to ww on a trials tire? Is it easier on a freestyle uni? I mean flatlanders do things like sideways wheel walk...though when you are learning, any advantage you can get helps.

I find myself always veering off the left after a few kicks. I wonder why that is. I am right-footed, so I suspect I am kicking harder with my right foot off to the right side of the tire, thus pushing the uni to the left. Is that likely? Maybe I need to work on more even kicks on each foot.

[blueharmony]

In my experience it's easier on a freestyle uni with the seat as high as you can stand it. I sometimes have the kids I teach wheel walk with my freestyle even when they can't use the pedals because their legs aren't long enough.

I can wheel walk with my trials uni but it's a lot more work keeping the wheel at the correct balance point.

[kahunacohen]

Interesting. I didn't realize it. So maybe I am making it harder on myself...is this because of the treads?

[blueharmony]

Interesting. I didn't realize it. So maybe I am making it harder on myself...is this because of the treads?

The treads can be a complication but you learn to adjust to that. The bigger issue is having the low seat on a trials uni will put your knees in your ears while wheel walking. The result being more difficulty in positioning the wheel right under your center of gravity. I know people who ride trials/street/flat unis almost exclusively and can wheel walk them, but they all learned on a longer necked freestyle uni. The same is true of one foot idling.

A word of advice on wheel position: you should be able to look straight down over your front handle and just see your hub. That will put you over your center of gravity. If you are always falling off forward your wheel is too far back. If falling off backward your wheel is too far in front. Look down to see your hub and use that as a guideline. You will eventually feel it instead of having to look.

[muni123]

Personally, I don't see a difference between a tire with or without treads. It all seems the same to me.

[Darth Elevator]

video...Great video. Thank you for posting!