Gliding and backflips...

unicycleboy <unicycleboy@NoEmail.Message.Poster.at.Unicyclist.com> wrote:

>oh yeh heres a video of one of my almost 50metre coasts. This is how i
>do it
>http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery/albur74

This video appears to be in a Microsoft specific format. I'm guessing
it is only playable on a Microsoft operating system and thus probably
not available for Linux. Please provide videos in a platform and
operating system agnostic format like MPEG.

Sincerely,

Ken Fuchs <kfuchs@winternet.com>

[unicycleboy]

I am sorry Ken, i am about 350 miles from home and have no editing kit here. Ill try next time to use a mpeg encoder. I use Wmv because its the smallest that i have found.

Trev

[Mandell]

Ken,

I watch the WMV movies using gxine on my linux workstation.

>I believe there is a trick called the nothing. which is no contact
>between legs and hands.

Do you mean no contact between the legs and the uni, nor between the
hands and the uni? John Foss calls this "Coasting with no feet on the
frame", and he has a picture of Sem Abrahams doing this trick on
<http://www.unicycling.com/things/index.htm> (third photo). It is
related to "unintentional coasting" where both your feet unwanted get
off the pedals.

Hey I like that name! The nothing! :laughs and shakes head:

Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict
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[unicycleboy]

Yeh thats the trick, Yeh i say nothing. It comes from bmx where they do the same thing in the air! not as hard though.

It aint unitentionel either, its just the longest distances are always the falling off

Trev

unicycleboy <unicycleboy@NoEmail.Message.Poster.at.Unicyclist.com> wrote:

>I am sorry Ken, i am about 350 miles from home and have no editing kit
>here. Ill try next time to use a mpeg encoder. I use Wmv because its the
>smallest that i have found.

Thank you, Trev!

Sincerely,

Ken Fuchs <kfuchs@winternet.com>

[Klaas Bil]

Originally posted by unicycleboy
It aint unitentionel either, its just the longest distances are always the falling off

I didn't mean you say that yours are unintentional. The unintentional ones sometimes happen e.g. during MUni when you do a halfhearted bailout, or just get pogoed off of your pedals.

Klaas Bil

[napalm]

i'm in a high school circus troope and part of my routine is jumping on the trampoline on my trials unicycle- pretty soon we will have a harnes set up so i will try do a back somersault with the unicycle. The reason for the full somersault is so you dont have to use you arms- therefore you can leave your seat holding hand on the seat.
Mark

[joona]

Originally posted by napalm
i'm in a high school circus troope and part of my routine is jumping on the trampoline on my trials unicycle- pretty soon we will have a harnes set up so i will try do a back somersault with the unicycle. The reason for the full somersault is so you dont have to use you arms- therefore you can leave your seat holding hand on the seat.
Mark

Well now that you say it like that it seems that I was a bit misunderstood. What i really meant was a back somersault. I've just been around some bikers too much. They call it a back flip.

[unicycleboy]

i'm in a high school circus troope and part of my routine is jumping on the trampoline on my trials unicycle- pretty soon we will have a harnes set up so i will try do a back somersault with the unicycle. The reason for the full somersault is so you dont have to use you arms- therefore you can leave your seat holding hand on the seat.

but if your harnessed in whats the point holding onto the seat, u tried doing a backsummersault with 1 hand, u go to the side.

How are your plans to be strapped to the uni? or are you doing it another way? my plans where to drill sum sort of holes in the seat bace, place hooks i can put a harness into.

Yes Joona. Backsummersault. = 0 hands backflip is only a little flip. plus the hands are usually used

Trev

[Borges]

Originally posted by Klaas Bil
>I believe there is a trick called the nothing. which is no contact
>between legs and hands.

Do you mean no contact between the legs and the uni, nor between the
hands and the uni? John Foss calls this "Coasting with no feet on the
frame", and he has a picture of Sem Abrahams doing this trick on
<http://www.unicycling.com/things/index.htm> (third photo). It is
related to "unintentional coasting" where both your feet unwanted get
off the pedals.

Hey I like that name! The nothing! :laughs and shakes head:

Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict
--
Grizzly bear droppings have bells in them and smell like pepper spray. - UniBrier

Hmmm...

I bet it would be possible to do something similar. You could jump off the pedals, and let the wheel roll half a revolution on the ground before landing back on the pedals.
If you did it seat out, holding the seat with one hand it would be sort of like a rolling jump mount. It wouldn't be "nothing", but kinda "next to nothing", and still a cool move.

[napalm]

unicycle boy- the harnes will only be attached to me, the unicycle is attached to me purely in the matter of me pulling up on the seat so much that the pedals are forced against my feet thus holding it in place.

[Beener]

Has anyone gone back to the harness thread to see my answer to the problem. Just hold the seat with one hand like hopping and do your somersault or backflip while your freinds hold you airborne. Or am I crazy? Check thread and let me know.

[unicycleboy]

Lol yes holding the seat doesnt work! have you actually tried it without a trapoline?

thats why i asked about the harness, ill probobly have to develope sum sort of harness when i get around to it. I dont want to have people spotting me on stage...

Trev

[Beener]

lol if you will, but we've taught plenty of people to do backflips on ice with this method and to this date, I know of no other way to do it on skates. I still see no reason for it not to work with a unicycle. Sorry for my obvious and blatent stupidity, I am quite abviously the biggest dolt in here. Regards, Ben, NCCP Level III figure skating coach