mounts

[d.kathrens@genie.geis.com]

Andy Arhelger (Andya5@aol.com) writes:

> The other one where you start with the seat under you and the unicycle behind
> you is called the reverse mount. I have tried this a few times and I think it
> just needs some more practice to get. Seems pretty akward right now.

It may help to visualize this mount as a process of jumping straight up and
rolling the unicycle under you rather than one of jumping up and back onto
the unicycle.

There is also a trick I learned which makes any mount easier. If there is a
name for this someone please tell me:

All the mounts I know begin with one foot on a pedal pointed down and
slightly towards the rider. When I step up on this pedal, the wheel rolls
toward me while I move up and over the unicycle. What happens is that my
center of gravity actually goes a little past directly over the wheel, which
makes the wheel keep going and try to roll out from under me. That brings
the down pedal on around to a point where I can push down hard on it and
make the wheel reverse direction and come back under my center of gravity.

Before I learned to do that (basically before I learned to idle) I missed
free mounts about half the time. If I didn't hit the saddle directly over
the wheel and get my foot on the other pedal in time to push it forward, I
fell off. This idling action gives me more time to get my other foot on the
pedal and get control.

Anyone who can front mount (mount with unicycle in front of the rider) and
immediately begin idling knows what I am trying to describe here.

Dennis Kathrens

[Peter Bier]

Matthew Macauley <mmacauley@nospam.hmc.edu> wrote: Does anyone know where there
are descriptions of these mounts? I can do a kick-up mount, but never realized
that there were so many easier mounts.

I'm working on an illustrated guide to 20 or so mounts. It'll be a while off yet
as I've got a fair bit on my plate. I'll let everyone know when its finished.

In the mean time I'll continue the list of mounts (as I would rank them)

>
> Here's how I would rank the mounts in order of easiest to hardest: standard
> mount side mount rolling mount side mount reverse spin mount jump mount side
> jump mount back mount (reverse) kick-up mount frog mount
> --

Followed by

suicide mount rolling side jump mount 180 uni spin jump mount side mount leg
around kick up mount to wheel walk Swedish flying jump mount jump mout to wheel
walk jump mount to stand up wheel walk 360 uni spin jump mount rolling side jump
mount to gliding rolling jump mount to stand up coasting (haven't had any
success with that:-)


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[Jack Halpern]

Greetings

In message "Re: [Re: mounts]", Peter Bier wrote...
>Matthew Macauley <mmacauley@nospam.hmc.edu> wrote: Does anyone know where
>there are descriptions of these mounts? I can do a kick-up mount, but never
>realized that there were so many easier mounts.
>
>I'm working on an illustrated guide to 20 or so mounts. It'll be a while off
>yet as I've got a fair bit on my plate. I'll let everyone know when its
>finished.
>
>In the mean time I'll continue the list of mounts (as I would rank them)

Some years back teh answer to the question "how many mounts are there?" was 108.
I think it was Ken Fuchs. He once made a matrix for the possible numberf of
skills (I dabbled with this too) and reached the conclusion that it's in the
huindreds of thousands. I wouldn't be surprised if the number of possible mounts
is close to 1000, even limiting to the combinations of skills know today. It
would be interesting if someone could build a matrix to calculate this.

>>
>> Here's how I would rank the mounts in order of easiest to hardest: standard
>> mount side mount rolling mount side mount reverse spin mount jump mount side
>> jump mount back mount (reverse) kick-up mount frog mount
>> --
>
>Followed by
>
>suicide mount rolling side jump mount 180 uni spin jump mount side mount leg
>around kick up mount to wheel walk Swedish flying jump mount jump mout to
>wheel walk jump mount to stand up wheel walk 360 uni spin jump mount rolling
>side jump mount to gliding rolling jump mount to stand up coasting (haven't
>had any success with that:-)
>
>
>
>
> o o Peter Bier o O o Juggler, unicyclist and mathematician.
>o/|\o peter_bier@usa.net
>
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>

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