http://tutorials.unicyclist.com

[john_childs]

Originally posted by andrew_carter
John,
Should I copy the video and photos into my tutorials.unicyclist.com album or will it stay in your miscellaneous folder permanently? It would lose some quality in the transfer to another album wouldn't it? (that's not really that important, I'm just generally curious)

Thanks,
Andrew

Copy it to your site. That's the safest way to make sure you have it. I don't plan on moving it, or changing the file name, or anything like that, but you never know. If you have it on your server you have control over it. Just make sure Chris LeFay gets credit. I no idea how to contact Chris now that he's no longer frequenting the forums (unless he's quietly lurking).

It won't loose any quality by copying it. It will only loose quality if you decide to re-encode it.

The bummer is that the video is not the best quality. It would be cool if someone did a higher quality video of a big rolling hop and then redid the frame by frame out takes showing what is going on. But that would be a lot of work.

[andrew_carter]

Thanks.

[andrew_carter]

http://gallery.unicyclist.com/album123

More videos tutorials are now up in the storage album (which I just realised has an easy to remember name). Tonight I did tutorials on roll back mounts, rolling mounts, and rail riding.

Peter said that when he downloads and plays the 640x480 versions of the tutorials they seem much worse in quality than the 320x240 ones. This doesn't happen on my computer. What's going on? Has anybody else noticed this?

Anyway, enjoy the tutorials.

Andrew

[reject_monkey]

if your falling to thr right swing your body to the right, am i being thick or does that sound as if it ll make u fall faster

[andrew_carter]

Watch it again...it says swing your upper body to the right. This pushes your hips left and keeps your centre of gravity over the rail. The lower half of the body has a big effect on where your centre of gravity is. I think I'll have to make a few notes in greater detail to go along with the video. The problem is I couldn't make the video too long so I could only put so much text in there. Thanks.

Andrew

[Robbie]

Then put the text on the site, not in the video.

I should do the stretching thing to imrpove your ankles soon.

I've finished making the grindplates. Although my cranks are so bent it's impossible to crank grab, the whole uni tips over to the side. When I get the beautiful new one I will put the pedals on that and grind away. I may do the tutorial before then though on how to make them.

[andrew_carter]

Thanks Robbie, yeh written tutorials don't take very long to do really. Here's an analysis of Tony's time lapse shots...

http://gallery.unicyclist.com/album1..._to_Flat_Image

Andrew

[reject_monkey]

thanks, i understand now

On Sun, 23 May 2004 05:46:47 -0500, "andrew_carter" wrote:

>Watch it again...it says swing your upper body to the right. This
>pushes your hips left and keeps your centre of gravity over the rail.
>The lower half of the body has a big effect on where your centre of
>gravity is.

Andrew, your advice is right but the explanation is somewhat spotty.
Last year or so, there was a great thread on Stillstanding in which we
explored the physics of it in greater detail.Trying to summarise: if
you rotate your upper body to the right, your lower body (including
the uni) 'wants' to rotate to the left to conserve rotational moment.
However, friction at the tyre contact patch prevents most of the lower
body rotation. Therefore, a force to the right is exerted by the tyre
on the support, which in turn generates a force to the left on the
unicyclist + uni, keeping them upright.

Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict
--
be sure to remove the saddle and simply sit on the seat post. this is far more comfortable - tennisgh22 on the comfort of Savage unis

[andrew_carter]

Yeh, I realise it's a bit of a poor explanation but I couldn't make it any clearer without adding more text and I really didn't want too many seconds of text since it's a video tutorial. I'll probably add some of these explanations (like yours) later on as text beside the link to the video. I don't really have time to change the video for now, but maybe I will in a few weeks or months.

On a slightly different topic, I don't know if this is the same problem that other people have been having but I was unable to redirect http://tutorials.unicyclist.com to http://www.freewebs.com/andrewcarter/template1.htm . I followed all the steps and it seems like it should be possible. Do I have to use an account to do it called 'tutorials' or can I do it through andrew_carter? It seemed like I could do it through my account (andrew_carter) but I got an error. Hopefully we'll be able to have tutorials.unicyclist.com as the address because that's nice and easy to remember.

By the way, check out http://www.freewebs.com/andrewcarter/template1.htm for an updated version of the site. It's getting there now. Peter hasn't yet transferred any of the info over from the 'wikibooks' page so there's quite a bit missing that has been written up.

Andrew

[nickvb123]

ive just been checking out the site.... looks pretty sweet, keep it up.

One pointer...i noticed that hoptwists are in the trials section.
I think hoptwists are more of a street thing than a trials thing...

[andrew_carter]

Yeh, I wasn't sure about that. I guess maybe, but these are done on the spot rather than rolling. I can't see any street applications for on the sport hop twists. I also considered putting it in the freestyle section but once again, they're usually done from a rolling start. The way I've been using these ones is to do gaps while spinning in the air which I consider trials. What do you think?

Andrew

[theamazingmolio]

Originally posted by andrew_carter
I was unable to redirect http://tutorials.unicyclist.com to http://www.freewebs.com/andrewcarter/template1.htm .

I think that's one of the problems with the accounts, I tried to get it to redirect mine and had the same problem. Gilby?

You could get a .TK address. It's free and it will redirect in the same way as tutorials.unicyclist.com would. You could have an easy to remember name like UnicycleTutorials.tk or something similar.

[Robbie]

I think Nick is right. Hop twists are more of a street thing. Even though it is from a still position it forms the basis for a rolling hop twist (that's the right term for it?). And even then it could sort of go under the freestyle category, although it's probably used more in street unicycling videos. But as Dan Heaton says Freestyle + Trials = Street. So going by this things fit under freestyle and trials and then there's things that would only fit street for example grinding.

[EDIT]

Under the trials section there's Dan Heaton's rolling hop. I can't view the video... do I need to download something to watch it?

[Robbie]

Oh yeah... you gonna add a section of like where to buy unicycles. You could have a link to the site and say where they're located.

For example
www.unicycle.[com/uk.com/co.nz/se]
www.bedfordunicycles.ca
www.unicycles.com.au

And lots I'm sure I've missed.