ezas wrote:
> I am also teaching my 45 year old fiancee to ride and she is practicing
> riding now using a railing and can get a whole pedal revolution in
> without holding on. Her form looks good so I know she is close to going
> longer with less reliance on the railing.
That's how I learned. It took me 40 hrs over 8 weeks.
BillyTheMountain wrote:
> Out with it!!
It's called Jin Sin Jitsu.
Take either hand and place it on top of your head.
W/ the middle three fingers of your other hand put them alternately on
each of your 7 chakras (I often switch hands after each position):
1-between your eyebrows
2-tip of your nose
3-between your collar bones
4-middle of your sternum
5-a couple of inches below your belly button
6-your pelvic bone
7-tip of your tail bone.
(may not want to do those last two in public)
Hold each position for 1-3 min. Usually I do 3 each, taking a total of
21 min, but if I need a quick pick me up, doing one minute each often
helps a lot.
To keep track of time setting the countdown timer on my watch works
best.
Before I started doing this (talked into by my heath-nut Mom), I lied
waiting to fall asleep often for 30 min, and an hour at least once a
week. After a few nights of doing this I started falling asleep right
away, sometimes before I even got passed the first position.
I noticed when I went through the whole sequence I was waking up fully
rested ~1 hr before my alarm. To keep myself from falling asleep too
soon, I started doing them sitting up. If I'm not tired yet, sometimes
I repeat the poses or use other points (like, on my spine at the base of
my neck, lower back, or tail bone) until I fall asleep.
I found it boring waiting for the timer (but not as bad as before JSJ)
so I decided to meditate while I waited, which I hadn't really done
before. I tried to think of nothing, which was impossible, so I
visualized my breath. Fresh, clean light blue air coming in and the
blue oxygen traveling in my blood throughout my entire body. Then
blood pulling all the toxic junk out, as dark red, to my heart, lungs,
and out my mouth.
I would also breath as slowly and deeply as I comfortably could through
my diaphragm (after a while I got down to about 20 breaths per 3 min
position). This way I think I've gotten to about 20 sec w/o _any_
impeding thoughts. The breathing has helped my cardio for riding and
consequently my consistency, especially for Muni.
Sometimes if I had something big and im****tant the next day, like a
test in one of my cl***** at the JC, I visualized every scenario I
could imagine, how I reacted to it and it working out positively. This
has gotten me at least a full grade above what I likely would have
gotten otherwise.
Doing this while visualizing my riding has helped too. I'd ride at my
max skill consistently. If I UPD'd and it was a nasty fall, I'd repeat
that part w/ a couple of different safe falls, and again and again until
I rode the section cleanly.
My reduced stress the following day I think is do to a combination of
the JSJ and the meditation. I've recently done the JSJ a couple of
times w/o the meditation and I was more relaxed and focused than not
doing it at all, but not as much as if I'd done the meditation.
--
skilewis74
Ride everywhere and never just ride anywhere. If you can ride where you
are going within a hour, do it, and if you can do a trick 50-75% of the
time do it along the way.- Bob Burnquist
What next? 'IUF skill levels'
(http://www.unicycling.org/iuf/levels/)*'
Street'
(http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Unicyclopedia/Street)*'unicycletips.com'
(http://unicycletips.com/)*'Trials
class system'
(http://tinyurl.com/yqpvxk)*'Trials
Building'
(http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=64235)
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