15 turns into 45

So even though I was beat up from my backwards riding practice on Sunday I headed back into the driveway last night to work on it some more.  I had a number of things I wanted to do differently after watching the video from Sunday.  I pulled the Tacoma down toward the entrance of the driveway.  I wanted to use the rear of it as my launch point.  Instead of going along a fence I wanted to just push backwards and have it with no safety crutch on either side of me, hopefully forcing me to adapt to the physics of backwards riding quicker. I also saw a lot of technique things I was doing wrong which I needed to work on.  It’s been a long time since I have had to consciously think about riding the EUC but in a way it was cool to have another mountain to climb.

So I definitely had some improvement and I had no major wipeouts.  My best backward ride was approximately 15 feet.  I had an unexpected treat when Cindy came out on her wheel to ride around as well.  She is really good at getting on and off the wheel as well as adept at going straight.  Her next hurdle is getting the hang of turning which she made some progress on, being able to do a 180 degree turn within the boundaries of the driveway for the first time.

The 15 minutes I had planned to allocate to riding turned out to be more like 45 minutes.  It felt good to be making some small progress and it was better doing it with Cindy out there as well.  You can see from the video(s) we had fun.  I shot a lot of footage, enough for two full videos.