It was in August of 2023, that I tried for the first time, to push my son’s stroller, while riding my 24” unicycle, but it was pretty much a one-off experiment, and I didn’t end up doing more of it.

One of my biggest unicycling wins in 2025 has been regaining my ability to freemount the 36-er. The low-point was in April, when I did an outdoor ride in which I spent a total of 52 minutes trying to mount, and got in all of 11 minutes of riding time for my efforts!

One thing that came up while I was discussing my 36-er freemounting issues on a Facebook group was a running/walking mount; a walking mount requires lesser energy, as the jump doesn’t need to be as intense as with a static mount. The problem for me though, was working through my anxiety, as the idea of walking/running and hopping onto the ginormous wheel made me squeamish. Here’s a video by Jim Thode which helped me visualize it better.

The weather yesterday was rather gloomy and it seemed to be drizzling intermittently, but I thought my family and I could head over to the canal locks at Berg (Bergs slussar) and probably grab a coffee/ice-cream at the cafe by the canal. Having driven and parked, I took with me my 24” unicycle, to try and get in some little riding as Shruti and Pranav stretched their legs for a bit. When we arrived there though, we realized that it was both windy and drizzling, so Shruti actually wanted to head right back into the car, but Pranav seemed rather keen on seeing the water. Since the water wasn’t at all far, we decided to head there and then turn back.

Today was the second day where I was trying to relearn to freemount my KH-36 unicycle. After my experience with regaining confidence while freemounting the 29-er, I knew that I had to take it one step at a time. Day 1’s drill started by practicing safe-aborts; jump up, try and hit the pedal, and then go over the uni and allow it to drop behind, catching it from behind the back, as a bonus. I was able to get the safe-abort to work from the first time, and the fact that I seemed to be hitting the left pedal nicely gave me a lot of confidence. I then tried the jumps while standing close to a wall, where I could use support from the wall, to position myself on the uni and then performing a launch. I noted a bit of hesitation with the launches, but this is because I’d never really learned to launch from the wall/pole in the past! Once launched though, I found that I was able to ride quite well.