Transition Move

[LittleMoosey]

hm, always good to hear from people that are working on the same things as you are!
I am also practicing getting into forkglides, and am going to try to keep your advices in mind when I go practice again tomorrow. I'm sure it will help!
I got good at forkglides, but realized too late that I learned it with the wrong foot, haha... Stupid beginners mistake I guess. To start halfhydrants I stand on the left side of my bike, and when I forkglide, I do it with my right foot on the peg... so I'm learning to forkglide with my other foot now, which feel like I am two months back in time, haha... But eventually it will be an advantage to be able to do thing left as well as right I guess.

Anyway, good luck to all you other 'forkgliders'! Keep it up!

Yo Lieve! 

Hey!  Sounds like you're making great progress!   Heh...I was trying the fork glide with my right foot fowards a few times not realizing that that more of a set up for the Cyclone.

Hmm...I wonder if it may be easier for me to go for the cyclone....I dunno.

I just got done with a 2 hour session, and I made VERY little progress.  I just keep coming off the bike when trying to turn the fw.  Then, I leaned TOO far forward, and fell frontwards.  HAHAH!   

This little maneuver, is going to apparently take me many days or weeks!

Good luck to you too!!!    

[Stubbleduck43]

Well guys and girls, the one thing that helped me starting out is an un-bike.  That will help you learn the "sweet-spot" on any forward or backward rolling tricks I PROMISE!  I built one in 1987 and it helped me tremendously on steamrollers, hang 5's, squeekers, and even mc-circles.  That was 21 years ago people!!!!  All you do is build one and learn to push off and find that balance point and just glide your a$$ off.  Put brakes on it and it will help you learn brake control/hand to eye coordination.  If you learn squeekers on one, then you can do them all freakin day on a bike. 

[Budz]

hm, always good to hear from people that are working on the same things as you are!
I am also practicing getting into forkglides, and am going to try to keep your advices in mind when I go practice again tomorrow. I'm sure it will help!
I got good at forkglides, but realized too late that I learned it with the wrong foot, haha... Stupid beginners mistake I guess. To start halfhydrants I stand on the left side of my bike, and when I forkglide, I do it with my right foot on the peg... so I'm learning to forkglide with my other foot now, which feel like I am two months back in time, haha... But eventually it will be an advantage to be able to do thing left as well as right I guess.

Anyway, good luck to all you other 'forkgliders'! Keep it up!

Yo Lieve! 

Hey!  Sounds like you're making great progress!   Heh...I was trying the fork glide with my right foot fowards a few times not realizing that that more of a set up for the Cyclone.

Hmm...I wonder if it may be easier for me to go for the cyclone....I dunno.

I just got done with a 2 hour session, and I made VERY little progress.  I just keep coming off the bike when trying to turn the fw.  Then, I leaned TOO far forward, and fell frontwards.  HAHAH!   

This little maneuver, is going to apparently take me many days or weeks!

Good luck to you too!!!    

just dont get discouraged...flatland is hard and takes alot of practice.
it will come...u just gotta stay positive.
all the best to u!

[LittleMoosey]

just dont get discouraged...flatland is hard and takes alot of practice.
it will come...u just gotta stay positive.
all the best to u!

Heh...thank you Budz!  Sounds like you have certainly been there.   

Keeping a POSITIVE ATTITUDE really is a key, huh?  Matt W makes this seemingly easy and insignificant maneuver look SO easy, that even a one armed uncoordinated monkey can do it!

LOTS of practice for sure...listening to tunes help and keeping my body fluid helps.   I just need to focus on my progress rather than getting the move perfect.  It will come with TONS of practice.  Just getting outside is 90% of the fun, too.

THANKS again, my fellow Flatlander!  You're awesome!

[lieve]

hm, always good to hear from people that are working on the same things as you are!
I am also practicing getting into forkglides, and am going to try to keep your advices in mind when I go practice again tomorrow. I'm sure it will help!
I got good at forkglides, but realized too late that I learned it with the wrong foot, haha... Stupid beginners mistake I guess. To start halfhydrants I stand on the left side of my bike, and when I forkglide, I do it with my right foot on the peg... so I'm learning to forkglide with my other foot now, which feel like I am two months back in time, haha... But eventually it will be an advantage to be able to do thing left as well as right I guess.

Anyway, good luck to all you other 'forkgliders'! Keep it up!

Yo Lieve! 

Hey!  Sounds like you're making great progress!   Heh...I was trying the fork glide with my right foot fowards a few times not realizing that that more of a set up for the Cyclone.

Hmm...I wonder if it may be easier for me to go for the cyclone....I dunno.

I just got done with a 2 hour session, and I made VERY little progress.  I just keep coming off the bike when trying to turn the fw.  Then, I leaned TOO far forward, and fell frontwards.  HAHAH!   

This little maneuver, is going to apparently take me many days or weeks!

Good luck to you too!!!    

Then tomorrow it will probably go better! For me, anyway, it always seems like I never have two good riding days in a row, it's always one 'progress day' and the next day it's 'throwing your bike in frustration-day', haha.

Woke up this morning and my first thoughts were about forkglides and how to do that cyclone-thing... So I can't wait to get out and practice! The weather is nice for the first time in weeks, so that must make it a 'progress day' today!

Haha, and suddenly this thread turned into some kind of beginners-progression-thread... 

[LittleMoosey]

Then tomorrow it will probably go better! For me, anyway, it always seems like I never have two good riding days in a row, it's always one 'progress day' and the next day it's 'throwing your bike in frustration-day', haha.

Woke up this morning and my first thoughts were about forkglides and how to do that cyclone-thing... So I can't wait to get out and practice! The weather is nice for the first time in weeks, so that must make it a 'progress day' today!

Haha, and suddenly this thread turned into some kind of beginners-progression-thread... 

Yo Lieve!

Hahahah!  Me, too....the first thing I thought about was my right foot on the front peg getting ready to do a cyclone!  I LOVE IT!

I like your statement:

it always seems like I never have two good riding days in a row, it's always one 'progress day' and the next day it's 'throwing your bike in frustration-day', haha.

LOL!  Totally!  I got close to that point yesterday.... I am just going to have to practice that turn around A LOT...but it's all good!   Once I get it, I'm going to feel like I just split the atom!!

Glad you have some good weather where you live.  It's snowing here in Alaska...we already have an few inches this morning.     No flatland today, but I also snow mt bike on the mushing trails, so that's OK, I reckon....

I hope you have a good day, Lieve!  I want a full report of your session!!  LOL!   GO GET IT!

BTW, nice play list too from that music thread.   

[lieve]

Well, it was a good session today indeed!
Not that I really got the hang of anything new, but I was just slowly progressing with lots of small things. Been doing forkglides with both feet over and over again, trying halfhydrants, perfecting trackstands, trying some more footjam endos (seems like a hole lot easier than regular endos to me), and even making a beginning with footjam tailwhips and such...
Now my muscles are are sore of course, but I kinda like that feeling...

Couldn't figure out the cyclones yet, though... For that you have to have your right foot on your left peg, so, with your two feet on the same side of your bike, right? I can't do that yet, but the thought of it opens new possibilities...

Whoa, how I have fallen in love with flatland!!!

[Budz]

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  Sounds like you have certainly been there.   




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we have ALL been there. so im sure just about eveybody on GF can testify to that.
keep up the hard work, and keep it FUN.