Free Mounting a Six Foot Unicycle

Video Transcript

"In this clip we're going to talk about free mounting the unicycle. There's a couple different ways to do this. My favorite way is putting my foot on the tire right here. And it's basically a two step process. You step up on the tire right here. You're left hand, if you're the same foot as I am; it's going to go on the top of the seat. I'm going to stand up on the tire, put my right foot on this pedal, stand up on that foot, and then swing my other foot around onto the other pedal. So it kind of looks like this and then I step up onto the other pedal. And I do it real quick, because the quicker you get up on the unicycle, the quicker you can start reacting to where you're going to fall. And you're not going to be, most of the times when you do this, you're not going to be perfectly straight up where you want to be, you have to start pedaling really quick to get the wheel under you and to get stabilized, so this takes a lot of practice but once you get it, it's a lot of fun. So I'm going to get the, I put my foot right in the fork of the unicycle on top of it. The pedal that you're going to step onto, you want it straight down so that the wheel doesn't go anywhere when you step on it. And actually, when you step on it, you put all your weight on it, it's really stable. So I'm going to go, step up one and two on this one, real quick and start pedaling. Just like that."