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My New Freestyle Video

jsm · 2005-01-09T01:07:02+00:00

First of all, a big thank you to Danio149 for hosting my video. I have been compiling some freestyle footage for a couple of months now, and in the grand unicyclist.com tradition of showing off, I decided to post it here. I'm sorry about the poor quality of some of the clips, especially the coasting and hand wheel walk ones, but I think the video should be interesting anyway. Here's the link.http://gallery.unicyclist.com/JSM A few notes on the clips; The backward wheel walk was my best ever at over 50 steps. I was thrilled to capture it on film. The trick near the end is seat in front one-footed leg extended. Because of the filming angle it is hard to see that I have the seat out. There is no gliding in the video; its all coasting except where I transition out of coasting. Hope you enjoy it and thanks for watching. Jonathan Miersma -- jsm - Freestyle below Freezing! Why ride with your feet when you could just as well use your hands? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jsm's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/6911 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/37425

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jsm
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9 January 2005, 01:07 UTC #1

First of all, a big thank you to Danio149 for hosting my video. I have
been compiling some freestyle footage for a couple of months now, and in
the grand unicyclist.com tradition of showing off, I decided to post it
here. I'm sorry about the poor quality of some of the clips, especially
the coasting and hand wheel walk ones, but I think the video should be
interesting anyway. Here's the link.http://gallery.unicyclist.com/JSM
A few notes on the clips;
The backward wheel walk was my best ever at over 50 steps. I was
thrilled to capture it on film.
The trick near the end is seat in front one-footed leg extended. Because
of the filming angle it is hard to see that I have the seat out.
There is no gliding in the video; its all coasting except where I
transition out of coasting.
Hope you enjoy it and thanks for watching.
Jonathan Miersma
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DigitalDave
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9 January 2005, 01:28 UTC #2

Nice maneuvering in that room.
(I see no holes in the walls 😄 )
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unitrialser
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9 January 2005, 01:48 UTC #3

Wow, awesome video. That was some *really* great riding. I couldn't
see alot of the clips though, but all those backward walk the wheels
were so good. Good video!
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Catboy
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9 January 2005, 01:53 UTC #4

Pretty amazing stuff you do. I reely like the feet in back forwards
wheelwalking, and the dog...😄
Very nice work.
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jsm
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9 January 2005, 02:06 UTC #5

I forgot to say, the reason the poor quality is that all the clips were
taken on my family's digital camera's video setting. Also my brother set
the camera at the wrong resolution for some of the clips.
I haven't put any holes in the wall yet, although I did slightly damage
a speaker once. By this time I'm pretty experienced with maneuvering
down there.
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andrew_carter
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9 January 2005, 07:26 UTC #6

*Wow!* Amazing riding. It's great to finally see a freestyle video pop
up here at unicyclist.com. My favourite clip was the wheel walking of
sorts where you had your toes in the spokes behind the
frame...brilliant!
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Erin
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9 January 2005, 19:16 UTC #7

Wow, good work JSM! I was so impressed with what you could do in such a
small space! So those of us dealing with snowy streets and icy trails
have no excuse for not working on uni skills. Hey, all it looks like we
need is a small bedroom or the corner of a living room. 😄
Great ending with you juggling the three clubs while idling....very
controlled start and finish. Well done.
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lleberg
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9 January 2005, 19:44 UTC #8

Really nice.
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jsm
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10 January 2005, 07:24 UTC #9

I'm glad you liked it. It was a lot of fun to make.
I thought I should make a note on the forward wheel walk, with the feet
in back. Although I try to be original in my unicycling, I did not
invent that one, and I don't want to create that impression. I believe
it was invented by Dustin Kelm. At least, he's the only person I know of
who has done it. I saw him do it in a video on unicyclist.org. When I
saw the video, I thought it would be cool to try to learn it, but I
didn't get around to working on it until a few weeks ago. I'm not that
good at it, and I can only do it barefoot.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the technical term for this one is
forward spoke walk. I know it's backward spoke walk if you put your feet
in back on the sides of the tire, (it's on the IUF skills list) so since
this is just the same trick except forward, it should be called forward
spoke walk.
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Klaas Bil
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10 January 2005, 08:08 UTC #10

jsm said:
Hope you enjoy it and thanks for watching.
I enjoyed it. Amazing wheel walk varieties. Some of the outside clips
were too far away. Did I see a one-handed handride about halfway?
Couldn't discern quite well.
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jsm
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10 January 2005, 18:59 UTC #11

It's standard two-handed backward handride. As far as I know, the only
person who does one-handed handride on a standard unicycle is Guy Hansen
(from Utah?), who is insanely good at handride. I even saw a picture of
him handriding a UW. I, on the other hand, rarely get beyond ten cycles
of the wheel with "normal" handride.
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mgrant
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10 January 2005, 20:53 UTC #12

jsm said:
*It's standard two-handed backward handride. As far as I know, the
only person who does one-handed handride on a standard unicycle is Guy
Hansen (from Utah?), who is insanely good at handride. I even saw a
picture of him handriding a UW. I, on the other hand, rarely get
beyond ten cycles of the wheel with "normal" handride. *
I don't think that Guy has done one-handed riding on a standard uni. He
has a modified uni with a peg on one side where the crank would be.
With this he only cranks with one-hand but the other hand is still
supporting some of his weight.
As for the handriding of an UW I also don't think that he's done this.
I took a picture of him trying though. The picture ended up looking
like he was actually riding but it was actually "falling with style".
-mg
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jsm
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10 January 2005, 23:33 UTC #13

I guess I found 'this' (http://tinyurl.com/65nbs) thread confusing. In
any case though, anyone who could handride 0.3 miles is still amazingly
good at it.
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Klaas Bil
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11 January 2005, 08:03 UTC #14

mgrant said:
As for the handriding of an UW I also don't think that he's done this.
I took a picture of him trying though. The picture ended up looking
like he was actually riding but it was actually "falling with style".
It has been done though, by Reino from Sweden. Not only that, but it
was on a slackrope! <http://www.xs4all.nl/~klaasbil/stamps.htm>
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unicycle6869
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11 January 2005, 15:18 UTC #15

Nice tricks! Glad to finally see a freestyle video for once. I
especially like the spoke walk forward and backward, but you only can do
it barefooted, huh? I think that'll be one of the tricks I learn this
year. And I'm not sure Dustin Kelm does spoke walk forward, I think he
does wheel walk feet behind frame forward and backward (so his feet are
ontop the wheel vs. to the side of the wheel by the spokes). Keep up the
good work.
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DigitalDave
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11 January 2005, 17:54 UTC #16

Klaas Bil said:
*On Mon said:
As for the handriding of an UW I also don't think that he's done

this.
Quoted message said:
I took a picture of him trying though. The picture ended up

looking
Quoted message said:
like he was actually riding but it was actually "falling with

style".
It has been done though, by Reino from Sweden. Not only that, but it
was on a slackrope! <http://www.xs4all.nl/~klaasbil/stamps.htm>
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mgrant
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11 January 2005, 18:10 UTC #17

mgrant said:
*As for the handriding of an UW I also don't think that he's done
this. I took a picture of him trying though. The picture ended up
looking like he was actually riding but it was actually "falling with
style".
-mg *
I made a mistake in the above statement. I don't know for sure if Guy
can or cannot hand ride an ultimate weel. I've never seen him do it but
I would not be surprised if he can.
The picture I was thinking of was actually an impossible wheel
handstand. Guy did not immediately fall and actually made it further on
his hands than I can on my feet. The impossible wheel (or BC wheel) had
BMX style round pegs fastened to the axle.
Sorry to add to the confusion. I wish Guy would get with the times and
join us here. :-)
Next time I talk to him I'll have to get a full update on the
specifics.
BTW, I'd bet that many of you are unaware that Guy Hansen is very likely
the first person to use a Coker wheel for a unicycle and is probably the
person responsible for ushering in the era of commercially available 36"
wheel unicycles.
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jsm
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11 January 2005, 19:34 UTC #18

Quoted message said:
And I'm not sure Dustin Kelm does spoke walk forward, I think he does
wheel walk feet behind frame forward and backward (so his feet are
ontop the wheel vs. to the side of the wheel by the spokes).
Right. In the video I saw he did what is sometimes called "lace walk"
forward and backward. Personally, I think it looks a lot better than
spoke walk, but since spoke walk is so much easier, that's the way I
learned it. Mostly I just wanted to give him credit for the trick, since
I would never have thought of learning it if I hadn't seen him do the
other variation.
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forrestunifreak
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11 January 2005, 20:39 UTC #19

Great stuff!
But is there some way to make that little window it plays on any
bigger?it was so small i couldnt see most of the out side stuff.But what
i did see was great!
I dont know how you can do that barefooted like that, i try and smash up
my toes.
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11 January 2005, 21:12 UTC #20

forrestunifreak said:
*Great stuff!
But is there some way to make that little window it plays on any
bigger?it was so small i couldnt see most of the out side stuff.But
what i did see was great!
I dont know how you can do that barefooted like that, i try and smash
up my toes. *
If you right click and "Save Link As" you can download the video; then
you can watch it any size you like in you standard media player.
Great video; up until now I was wondering if I was the only person who
rode in the house! I found that the ceiling is to low for trials
riding; however for freestyle indoors works well.
As for riding bare footed; my trials uni is equipped with Snafu's.
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