When learning to ride, chest height fences are definitely your friend. You can use it to mount and get your feet positioned correctly way easier then free mounting. Other useful trick is if you feel very twitchy, move your feet out more on the pedals so there is a bit of gap between your leg and the side of the wheel. That lets you lean into the wheel with your calve to brace in longer slower turns. The wider stance also makes carving via alternating toe raises easier. Other useful practice is circling a pole with one hand on it and go slowly around it, then practice doing hip pivots which help far more with low speed balance.
I recommend following one of old Kujirolls videos, where he suggests starting doing circles, with one leg on the euc, and the other leg on the floor as the center of your circle. Do it with both legs, frontwards and backwards. It helped me a lot at the beginning doing this drill to get used to hold the euc with one leg. Also, as I was living in a big city, I practiced at the -3 level parking on my building. I would go between columns doing figure out 8 path: it was good because the distance between columns was short, and I trained turning left and right on each turn. And just keep practicing, keep trying new drills, fast, slow, quick braking, wide turns, super tight turns, use the slalom markers and practice with them. Go on paved paths, grass, dirt roads, flat terrain, uphill and downhill, etc. Even on surfaces that you know you can't ride, like thick mud and thick gravel layers, you have to approach them very slowly and cautious, as you know you'll fall, but you need to do it few times to understand the feeling. And try going on a slope surface, across the slope (higher on your right and then higher on your left). First time I tried this (5 days in) immediately fell 😅. Once you start riding often, you'll see that the wheel wants to train track (follow the surfaces, lines, etc. on the floor), you have to get used to these. Also be prepared for wobbles, eventually you'll correct all of that automatically. It'll take around 500km to get really good enough that you're confident in most situations, you'll have the tools and the muscle memory to quickly react. Of course you'll be already commuting, but be mindful about that, even though you feel you "know", you don't, you have to go through the entire learning process to really know, as you don't know what you doing know. Yeah, it's not easy, that's why there are not so many of us, but its so freeing and rewarding.
I think you are doing great. I would focus more on the mounting and dismounting than the riding aspect. It is the hardest part to get smooth and is one of the main reasons people feel uncomfortable. Mount, go 10 feet, dismount, repeat. One leg riding is also very beneficial to making mounts and dismounts smooth. You will also want to start bending your knees more once you get more comfortable. You will need that knee bend to act like suspension or it will be very easy to just get booted off the wheel when you hit a bump at speed.
You're doing good, just keep practicing every day and it will come. Once you get a few hundred km into it, things will click. For me, it took about 1000 km before I felt I could rip around on mine with confidence. I started off with a veteran patton, not a beginner wheel, but I'm glad I did. Biggest thing you'll have to learn to handle are the wobbles. Carving is the key, don't ride in a straight line all the time, do some light carving at least and it will balance out the wobbles. Relax your stance, don't squeeze the wheel between your legs, but when you carve, you will use your legs to put pressure on the wheel (on one side) when you lean into it and that will help control it. If you're worried about dumping and scratching up your wheel, just buy some foam and 3M tape it to your contact points. You can always remove it later on. Definitely get a good set of power pads, it helps a lot to lock your feet in and adds control to your wheel. Just do a search on youtube and you'll see a BIG selection. Good luck! EUC's are amazingly fun and you won't regret entering this world :) One Wheels are cool, but EUC's are on another level. Oh yeah, you probably know already, but put that trolley handle down, it's only meant for pushing the wheel around :)
@@semperfi4309 It will come. I was the same way, you're just unsure of yourself at the moment. Once you get more comfortable doing small little turns like navigating paths/sidewalks and stopping/starting/mounting, you'll feel much more confident navigating on roads with traffic. One other skill that really helps with riding on roads (that will come later) is curb hopping (on and off) as sometimes you'll need to get off the road quickly. Just keep riding! More experience is the answer!
Think of an EUC as a bicycle with a mechanical front wheel. If you hop on a bike and try to stand still you'll probably fall over, the same is true for an EUC. As soon as you decide to get on the wheel, you also need to decide to go forward. People ride bikes all of the time without holding the handlebars, it's really the same concept. For keeping balance or stability, instead of using the trolley handle (which could lead to it breaking and will mess with your overall balance) bend your knees and learn to keep your hips moving by swaying a bit left and right while riding. This will give you better control than trying to force the wheel to aways stay upright. As for practice, if there is a basketball court, use circles as figure 8 guide lines, start with big turns on the outside, and once you're comfortable go to the inside of the circle for tight turns. Once you're more comfortable riding, start at one hoop, and ride away from it in a straight line, but keep looking at it over both of your shoulders, trying to stay as straight as possible. This is great practice for riding around other traffic. I really hope you like the change up. Onewheels are great for just hopping on and going, which I use for festivals and things simple errands, but my EUC has been a car replacement for my normal work commute, and with the new Sherman L will probably be able to replace my car for longer range weekend adventures too.
Youll get it! If you practice every day for a few hours youll be rolling everywhere in a week, seriously dont worry about the wheel, if you try and save it you may hurt yourself.
@RichieValentine different ways to do it, but the easiest way I found is just lifting the back of your opposite footage lifting that knee a little. Then alternate. If you want to go left, lift your right foot and knee up slightly while maintaining weight on that left side.
Regarding your comment about the upright stance, I think you still need to bend your knees in an EUC as well like in the Onewheel. It makes it safer just in case you encounter unexpected potholes or rocks.
I used to ride stiff on my legs, and once in a while my wheel would turn into a rocket engine with me flying ! Should I put a parachute on then!? Now I bend my knees and that human suspension takes all the potholes not too badly ..
My advice for keeping your euc nice is dont. In order to learn skills your gonna dump that wheel about 300 times before you learn to ride, mount, ride seated, go backwards, curb hopping. Etc. All these skills will require dumping the wheel. Buy new pedal brackets and pedals if you like and save them for after all the skills practice you wanna do. I must have dumped my v12 HT like a thousand times. Eventually i replaced the scratched up pedals and brackets with nice new ones after several monthes of skills practice because i knew practicing these skills involves a good amount of dumping myself and the wheel. Your doing great, folks are right, just get some practice everyday and things will start clicking. Repetition and dumping the wheel are part of the process. Gear up. Once your body learns to relax you will learn to control this thing 🤙😎 Eureka day is coming mate, keep practicing !
Coming from a onewheel with over 5000 miles of riding, welcome. I don’t know how your progress is going, but a tennis court helped me a lot because I always had fence to grab on to. Practicing figure 8’s both direction is helpful. You will turn better in one direction, but spend like 30 mins just practicing your weakest turn. Don’t worry about having both feet being even on the pedals cuz 99% of riders will have a staggered foot position. Also when you get good enough try accelerating with one foot. Ustride has a great tutorial on it. I could link the video, but I don’t want to advertise another channel w/o permission. Anyways keep going bro. It’s hard the first few weeks, but after a month of continuous riding you should be riding without thinking. For wobbles keep your hips over the center of the wheel. You can wobble if you have too much pressure on the heel/toe. I just wanted to add that your riding is good for being new.
Honestly youre looking pretty good so far. Just keep riding, and try and relax a little, you seem kinda tense while youre riding, I found just telling myself to relax would kind of force my legs and feet to adjust to the natural balance point. when youre cruising around and taking turns, pay close attention to what parts of your feet are actually applying force to the pedals. youll notice you use specific sections of your foot to perform different actions. Once you understand how your feet are working with the wheel, youll begin to have a better fundamental understanding of how the controls work. If you just keep riding youll be a pro in no time. You get a little better every time you ride even after 2k miles
By keeping trolley handle extended when riding, you risk breaking it when push comes to shove and you lose the wheel. Running off a wheel is kinda a standard procedure in my mind 😀
@@monowheeling thanks and I agree! After reading the comments I immediately tucked away the trolly handle and accepted that the EUC was gonna take some spills
Just a tip: If you responded to your comments it would create more engagement and help your channel grow faster. Side note: Now that you’ve gotten used to the EUC, which is more fun, an EUC or a OneWheel?
@@EliteAtlantaHomes that's a great tip! I've gotten better yesterday, still not super confident but more so than this video. My startign from stop still needs work!
You could try learning on grassy terrain, too. That may take a little of the fear out of it, knowing you won't get scraped up so much. And I say "as much" because you will inevitably get scraped up. But, limber up, it's not a suspension wheel so you will need your knees to act as your shock absorbers. The more you become more used to it, the less tense you'll become. That's probably where it will start to really be fun for you. By then you will be more one with it, rather than trying to fight it.
Yeah put the handle down. Practice your mounts switching your feet, over and over. Strengthen your legs n ankles. It's a light wheel, you'll outgrow it fast with your prior experience. When you go fast you'll want the full helmet, no handle bar between you n the ground. Practice on sidewalks really builds skills.
Tout d'abord il faut apprendre les mouvements de base, toi tu commences déjà à monter dessus sans avoir les premières étapes. Je donne des cours d'euc et je commence toujours pas apprendre à mes élèves à poser le pied droit(si tu es droitier)sur la pédale(de droite)appuyer légèrement sur la pointe du pied ce qui fait avancer la roue doucement et ramener son pied gauche qui est légèrement sur le coté de la roue(parallèle à la pédale de gauche) en avant en faisant un très léger saut et ainsi de suite, un apprentissage du départ trottinette. Tu peux t'aider d'un poteau, d'un mur, un grillage pour te tenir au début mais il faut apprendre naturellement et pas en se tenant au trolley comme tu le fais. Le mouvement doit se faire au fur et à mesure tu t'entraines avec le départ trottinette pas à pas et quand tu te sens à l'aise tu poses le pied gauche sur la pédale de gauche pendant une seconde et tu reposes sur le sol. Quand tu es à l'aise avec ce mouvement à ce moment-là, tu peux laisser ton pied gauche plus longtemps sur la pédale de gauche et du coup tu pourras rouler librement. Et vu que tu as l'air d'être relativement à l'aise pour te tenir sur la roue et rouler tu auras bien avancer dans ton apprentissage. Bon courage, tu vas kiffer l'euc. 🤟
When learning to ride, chest height fences are definitely your friend. You can use it to mount and get your feet positioned correctly way easier then free mounting. Other useful trick is if you feel very twitchy, move your feet out more on the pedals so there is a bit of gap between your leg and the side of the wheel. That lets you lean into the wheel with your calve to brace in longer slower turns. The wider stance also makes carving via alternating toe raises easier. Other useful practice is circling a pole with one hand on it and go slowly around it, then practice doing hip pivots which help far more with low speed balance.
I read this after having a bit more experience and your tips actually makes sense to me now!
I don't have any pointer but from someone who wants to get into EUC, looks good to me. Keep up the good work.
I recommend following one of old Kujirolls videos, where he suggests starting doing circles, with one leg on the euc, and the other leg on the floor as the center of your circle.
Do it with both legs, frontwards and backwards.
It helped me a lot at the beginning doing this drill to get used to hold the euc with one leg.
Also, as I was living in a big city, I practiced at the -3 level parking on my building. I would go between columns doing figure out 8 path: it was good because the distance between columns was short, and I trained turning left and right on each turn.
And just keep practicing, keep trying new drills, fast, slow, quick braking, wide turns, super tight turns, use the slalom markers and practice with them.
Go on paved paths, grass, dirt roads, flat terrain, uphill and downhill, etc.
Even on surfaces that you know you can't ride, like thick mud and thick gravel layers, you have to approach them very slowly and cautious, as you know you'll fall, but you need to do it few times to understand the feeling.
And try going on a slope surface, across the slope (higher on your right and then higher on your left). First time I tried this (5 days in) immediately fell 😅.
Once you start riding often, you'll see that the wheel wants to train track (follow the surfaces, lines, etc. on the floor), you have to get used to these. Also be prepared for wobbles, eventually you'll correct all of that automatically.
It'll take around 500km to get really good enough that you're confident in most situations, you'll have the tools and the muscle memory to quickly react. Of course you'll be already commuting, but be mindful about that, even though you feel you "know", you don't, you have to go through the entire learning process to really know, as you don't know what you doing know.
Yeah, it's not easy, that's why there are not so many of us, but its so freeing and rewarding.
Autocorrect: you don't know what you don't know
Welcome to euc life. It'll bewitch your soul.
@@whatswheelygood thank you 🙏🏼
I think you are doing great. I would focus more on the mounting and dismounting than the riding aspect. It is the hardest part to get smooth and is one of the main reasons people feel uncomfortable. Mount, go 10 feet, dismount, repeat.
One leg riding is also very beneficial to making mounts and dismounts smooth. You will also want to start bending your knees more once you get more comfortable. You will need that knee bend to act like suspension or it will be very easy to just get booted off the wheel when you hit a bump at speed.
You're doing good, just keep practicing every day and it will come. Once you get a few hundred km into it, things will click. For me, it took about 1000 km before I felt I could rip around on mine with confidence. I started off with a veteran patton, not a beginner wheel, but I'm glad I did. Biggest thing you'll have to learn to handle are the wobbles. Carving is the key, don't ride in a straight line all the time, do some light carving at least and it will balance out the wobbles. Relax your stance, don't squeeze the wheel between your legs, but when you carve, you will use your legs to put pressure on the wheel (on one side) when you lean into it and that will help control it. If you're worried about dumping and scratching up your wheel, just buy some foam and 3M tape it to your contact points. You can always remove it later on. Definitely get a good set of power pads, it helps a lot to lock your feet in and adds control to your wheel. Just do a search on youtube and you'll see a BIG selection. Good luck! EUC's are amazingly fun and you won't regret entering this world :) One Wheels are cool, but EUC's are on another level. Oh yeah, you probably know already, but put that trolley handle down, it's only meant for pushing the wheel around :)
I've been riding 250km so far , I'm gaining confidence day after day but still fear to go on roads and streets with cars traffic
@@semperfi4309 It will come. I was the same way, you're just unsure of yourself at the moment. Once you get more comfortable doing small little turns like navigating paths/sidewalks and stopping/starting/mounting, you'll feel much more confident navigating on roads with traffic. One other skill that really helps with riding on roads (that will come later) is curb hopping (on and off) as sometimes you'll need to get off the road quickly. Just keep riding! More experience is the answer!
@@kaijjukaijju2080 Thanks a lot.
Think of an EUC as a bicycle with a mechanical front wheel.
If you hop on a bike and try to stand still you'll probably fall over, the same is true for an EUC. As soon as you decide to get on the wheel, you also need to decide to go forward.
People ride bikes all of the time without holding the handlebars, it's really the same concept.
For keeping balance or stability, instead of using the trolley handle (which could lead to it breaking and will mess with your overall balance) bend your knees and learn to keep your hips moving by swaying a bit left and right while riding. This will give you better control than trying to force the wheel to aways stay upright.
As for practice, if there is a basketball court, use circles as figure 8 guide lines, start with big turns on the outside, and once you're comfortable go to the inside of the circle for tight turns.
Once you're more comfortable riding, start at one hoop, and ride away from it in a straight line, but keep looking at it over both of your shoulders, trying to stay as straight as possible. This is great practice for riding around other traffic.
I really hope you like the change up. Onewheels are great for just hopping on and going, which I use for festivals and things simple errands, but my EUC has been a car replacement for my normal work commute, and with the new Sherman L will probably be able to replace my car for longer range weekend adventures too.
Car replacement here too with my Begode Blitz that will arrive soon
That was my first wheel!! Great to learn on!!❤
Welcome to the club ;)
@@Planet-ICELAND thank ya!
Youll get it! If you practice every day for a few hours youll be rolling everywhere in a week, seriously dont worry about the wheel, if you try and save it you may hurt yourself.
Same here! Been riding one wheels for years, now I’m starting to ride euc but its not as easy as I thought. Cheers from Palm Springs!
@@mlopez2aol it will be a while before I feel comfortable taking it to the streets or around a lot of people or narrow spaces.
PRACTICE ON CARVING! this will help with everything, accleration,braking, and turns! Also helps with reducing wobbles as well!
@@KTU-Rides any tips on how to carve? How should my body lean and how should my feet maneuver?
@RichieValentine different ways to do it, but the easiest way I found is just lifting the back of your opposite footage lifting that knee a little. Then alternate. If you want to go left, lift your right foot and knee up slightly while maintaining weight on that left side.
Regarding your comment about the upright stance, I think you still need to bend your knees in an EUC as well like in the Onewheel. It makes it safer just in case you encounter unexpected potholes or rocks.
I used to ride stiff on my legs, and once in a while my wheel would turn into a rocket engine with me flying ! Should I put a parachute on then!? Now I bend my knees and that human suspension takes all the potholes not too badly ..
My advice for keeping your euc nice is dont.
In order to learn skills your gonna dump that wheel about 300 times before you learn to ride, mount, ride seated, go backwards, curb hopping. Etc.
All these skills will require dumping the wheel.
Buy new pedal brackets and pedals if you like and save them for after all the skills practice you wanna do.
I must have dumped my v12 HT like a thousand times. Eventually i replaced the scratched up pedals and brackets with nice new ones after several monthes of skills practice because i knew practicing these skills involves a good amount of dumping myself and the wheel.
Your doing great, folks are right, just get some practice everyday and things will start clicking. Repetition and dumping the wheel are part of the process. Gear up. Once your body learns to relax you will learn to control this thing 🤙😎
Eureka day is coming mate, keep practicing !
you got it ;)
Coming from a onewheel with over 5000 miles of riding, welcome. I don’t know how your progress is going, but a tennis court helped me a lot because I always had fence to grab on to. Practicing figure 8’s both direction is helpful. You will turn better in one direction, but spend like 30 mins just practicing your weakest turn. Don’t worry about having both feet being even on the pedals cuz 99% of riders will have a staggered foot position. Also when you get good enough try accelerating with one foot. Ustride has a great tutorial on it. I could link the video, but I don’t want to advertise another channel w/o permission. Anyways keep going bro. It’s hard the first few weeks, but after a month of continuous riding you should be riding without thinking. For wobbles keep your hips over the center of the wheel. You can wobble if you have too much pressure on the heel/toe. I just wanted to add that your riding is good for being new.
Honestly youre looking pretty good so far. Just keep riding, and try and relax a little, you seem kinda tense while youre riding, I found just telling myself to relax would kind of force my legs and feet to adjust to the natural balance point. when youre cruising around and taking turns, pay close attention to what parts of your feet are actually applying force to the pedals. youll notice you use specific sections of your foot to perform different actions. Once you understand how your feet are working with the wheel, youll begin to have a better fundamental understanding of how the controls work. If you just keep riding youll be a pro in no time. You get a little better every time you ride even after 2k miles
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By keeping trolley handle extended when riding, you risk breaking it when push comes to shove and you lose the wheel. Running off a wheel is kinda a standard procedure in my mind 😀
@@monowheeling thanks and I agree! After reading the comments I immediately tucked away the trolly handle and accepted that the EUC was gonna take some spills
EUC is kind of magic thing , so you've to become a wizard 😅
Just a tip: If you responded to your comments it would create more engagement and help your channel grow faster.
Side note: Now that you’ve gotten used to the EUC, which is more fun, an EUC or a OneWheel?
@@EliteAtlantaHomes that's a great tip! I've gotten better yesterday, still not super confident but more so than this video. My startign from stop still needs work!
@ Awesome! 👏
Hold a shopping cart or stroller first! Helps a lot! 加油😂
Good idea!!
US shopping carts, apparently EU carts have free spin wheels in the back
When I learned how to ride a unicycle I would balance against something then start peddling. How do you find the range on the gts
You could try learning on grassy terrain, too. That may take a little of the fear out of it, knowing you won't get scraped up so much. And I say "as much" because you will inevitably get scraped up. But, limber up, it's not a suspension wheel so you will need your knees to act as your shock absorbers. The more you become more used to it, the less tense you'll become. That's probably where it will start to really be fun for you. By then you will be more one with it, rather than trying to fight it.
Welcome to the dark side!
Kuji pads!!
@@DonovanWert is that the pads your legs wrap against?
@@RichieValentine you bet
@@RichieValentine Kuji pads are one you make yourself out of yoga mat and double sided tape.
Yeah put the handle down.
Practice your mounts switching your feet, over and over. Strengthen your legs n ankles.
It's a light wheel, you'll outgrow it fast with your prior experience.
When you go fast you'll want the full helmet, no handle bar between you n the ground.
Practice on sidewalks really builds skills.
ur doing a bad habit on using trolley to balance.
I don't rely it any more
Tout d'abord il faut apprendre les mouvements de base, toi tu commences déjà à monter dessus sans avoir les premières étapes.
Je donne des cours d'euc et je commence toujours pas apprendre à mes élèves à poser le pied droit(si tu es droitier)sur la pédale(de droite)appuyer légèrement sur la pointe du pied ce qui fait avancer la roue doucement et ramener son pied gauche qui est légèrement sur le coté de la roue(parallèle à la pédale de gauche) en avant en faisant un très léger saut et ainsi de suite, un apprentissage du départ trottinette.
Tu peux t'aider d'un poteau, d'un mur, un grillage pour te tenir au début mais il faut apprendre naturellement et pas en se tenant au trolley comme tu le fais.
Le mouvement doit se faire au fur et à mesure tu t'entraines avec le départ trottinette pas à pas et quand tu te sens à l'aise tu poses le pied gauche sur la pédale de gauche pendant une seconde et tu reposes sur le sol.
Quand tu es à l'aise avec ce mouvement à ce moment-là, tu peux laisser ton pied gauche plus longtemps sur la pédale de gauche et du coup tu pourras rouler librement.
Et vu que tu as l'air d'être relativement à l'aise pour te tenir sur la roue et rouler tu auras bien avancer dans ton apprentissage.
Bon courage, tu vas kiffer l'euc. 🤟
Gotta Wear Helmet bro
👍👍👍