Learning to ride electric unicycle, day 2.

This was my third session with my electric unicycle, an Inmotion V8F. The video was helpful to me, because I was hunched over a bit, which I corrected by standing up straight after this video was taken. I'm using yaw steering | arm flailing for balance and to steer, flail left to steer right and vice versa. On day 1 session 1, I spent about 20 minutes using a rail and getting advice, mostly to constantly steer left and right rather than trying to ride straight. On day 1 session 2, I spent about 5 minutes doing some short runs using the tennis court fence for assistance. After that I veered away from the fence, not expecting to get very far, but I somehow managed to keep balance and steer well enough to do 1 lap at a time, at 3 to 5 mph, later 2 laps at a time. On day 2, I increased this to 4 laps at a time. I realized that a larger location would be better to continue learning, so I moved to a long outdoor parking lot, allowing me to ride at about 8+ mph for 40+ seconds at a time, where my V8F became self-balancing: I no longer had to make balance corrections, and I could relax my arms and essentially stand still if riding in a straight line. I was aware that nothing had "clicked", but instead I was just riding fast enough for my V8F to become stable. I didn't have any issues with leaning forwards | backwards to accelerate | decelerate. I then learned how to tilt the EUC to steer: at first small tilts to see how V8F would respond, then weaving side to side, and then large radius turns. My wife took another video on my tenth session: • Learning to ride elect... .

[@eucfamily]

Well done! What a great location to learn!

[@huxieuc4642]

You are wonderful!

[@rcgldr]

I added a comment with a link to day 10, where I'm riding stable without all the arm flaling.

[@EUC_Senior]

Kind of looks like me when I first started.

[@rcgldr]

This was just a stop-gap method that I used because it is similar to riding a bicycle at slow speed, and over 50 years ago, a friend lent me his pedaled unicycle for about 2 hours, and I used the same method back then. Although I never rode a pedal unicycle again, I still remembered the experience. As noted in the description, moving to the outdoor parking lot allowed me to ride faster where my V8F became stable, and that 's when I started to learn how to steer by tilting an EUC.

[@EUC_Senior]

I kind of meant with the arms waving over the place is how I used to do it too. Now of course my arms are to my side. What’s interesting is I tried to put my arms out the way I used to do it in the beginning and I can’t do it anymore because I actually loose my balance. Weird?

[@rcgldr]

@@EUC_Senior - waving (flailing) extended arms is mostly used to twist an EUC at low speed. I see videos of riders doing this when off-road more than on pavement.