Unfortunately for me, I've never had any useful help. And yes, I've stopped using the Uni several times in disgust. That's one reason it's taken so long. Even at my age I'm a bit of a show-off and present a lot of self-depricating humor to make people laugh. So I always make fun of myself for trying to do this. I tell people, "One of these days I'll grow up." (or "become an adult.") You get the drift. But yes, I've put he Uni down several times for several months at a time. ... And when I pick it up again I find I'm not really starting over. Sure, just as bad as I was before,
but not regressed. -- and that's important: You're not worse than you were when you left off.
Ther's a fellow, Michael Thomas, who teaches something at Univ of Minnesota. He decided to take up the unicycle. Well, be wrote an almost-daily blog. A teacher, mind you, explaining what he learned from day-to-day what he felt, his feelings, his failings, etc. Read the blog, but do as I did, start at the beginning. Blogs are presented most recent first, so you have to go back to the beginning and go forward. He appears to be a modest person, and he has a sense of humor. Most of what he has felt, emotionally and physically, were similar to what I have felt. Give it a read, but don't try to read it all at once. Read a month's activities, and in a week or two read it again and then pick up the next month's progress. It has helped me a lot.
Here's the link to March 2010 of his blog. Print it out, save it and refer to it often. He's not teaching you how to unicycle. He's telling you of his progress, feelings, setback, solutions, etc. He's not trying to mold your mind - he's trying to tell you what he's experienced in learning to do it. Try to relate his experiences with yours, not just progress, but mental approach.
Now that I've finished this, I'm going into the garage and trying that mounting procedure where you hold the wheel with one hand as you (try to) mount. In a later message I'll give you a Youtube video I found on that.
But I'm old and there is an innate fear of falling associated with aging. So I'm not really convinced I'll ever do it. But I'm going to keep trying, no matter how disheartened I get.
Sorry this is so long. You're the only one I have to talk about this to.
Another thing -- my wife won't have anything to do with me unicycling. she won't watch, discuss, ask about progress, or anything. It's like she couldn't give a s**t about it. Not
that's discouraging!!
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