But, as we all know, and have often discussed, certain skills
in the "higher levels" are much more easily learned than other skills
in those levels. I believe that skill rankings are subjective in the
absence of a significant statistical analysis.
In my distant youth, I achieved some combinations of riding 1)
one-footed, 2) forward or backward, 3) while lying on the seat or
holding the seat in front of or behind my body. I cannot perform
these combinations today. Wheel walking I didn't achieve then, but am
still hoping to acquire. Coasting, gliding, and hopping I didn't even
know about then!
>Want a really, really mad unicycling skill? Trying coasting
>backwards, standing on the seat in a figure 8! Is it even
>theoretically possible?
I'll assume you mean "coasting backwards in a figure 8" rather
than "standing on the seat in a figure 8" (sounds painful!). After
seeing the artistic bicycling demonstration last summer, I'm not
prepared to deny the theoretical possibility of almost any stance. :-)
Craig Milo Rogers