{"id":356,"date":"2012-02-28T21:14:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T21:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nobugs.org\/lejog\/?p=356"},"modified":"2012-02-28T21:15:57","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T21:15:57","slug":"hopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"Hopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sweet, tonight I watched one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zNV0DkypSPg&#038;feature=player_embedded\">Voodoo Unicycle tutorials<\/a> (Edinburgh folks can play spot the location).  Now, 360 unispins are a bit beyond me right now, but it gave me the idea to try hopping on the spot.  Ten minutes later, and I&#8217;ve totally nailed it, woot!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried hopping before without success, but this time I a) lowered tyre pressures waay down, b) lowered the seat waay down, and c) tried to hop in a four-corners-of-a-square pattern rather than on-the-spot.  The last thing is what made all the difference.  Trying to hop on the spot was just a dumb idea.  The whole point of hopping is to ensure that you land with the wheel under where your centre of gravity is going to be.  So, if you tilt a bit to the side, you need to be jumping to the side.  By forcing myself to jump around in a square pattern, it made me do a side-to-side pattern which is what led to my breakthrough.  Four hops led to ten hops, then thirty, then fifty, then a spectacular crash before I finally managed to do a hundred.  I love numerically quantifiable progress. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I also tried cycling backwards tonight in my corridor (lots of walls to hang onto).  Strangely, it doesn&#8217;t feel too different to cycling forward.  When unicycling your sense of balance is primary and your eyes are kinda secondary.  Someday I&#8217;m going to have to try it out for real without a wall.  Given that I still haven&#8217;t nailed idling, I&#8217;ll try cycling backwards for a while and see if that helps me grok idling.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I finally changed the title of this blog to be a bit more accurate.  Can&#8217;t remember who told me I should do this, but I&#8217;ve finally done it!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweet, tonight I watched one of the Voodoo Unicycle tutorials (Edinburgh folks can play spot the location). Now, 360 unispins are a bit beyond me right now, but it gave me the idea to try hopping on the spot. Ten minutes later, and I&#8217;ve totally nailed it, woot! I&#8217;ve tried hopping before without success, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}