Hate watching other styles?

yea i pretty much only enjoy watching street and freestyle with vids.
trials and muni are passe. youve seen one youve seen em all. trials is
cool in real life though, but there is no place for muni. it should be
outlawed. straight up. anyone doing it should be fined....1000 dollars.
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i'll be happy when i see a cokering video.

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I only watch Trials, freestyle, and street. The others are really
boring to me, but for that matter I don't watch roadbiking, marathon
running, or swimming. I think it might be that we just don't
appreciate it, because we don't do it.

Or Muni is boring.

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Hey

I dont think hate would be the right word, i enjoy watching all styles
of uni, some can get boring after a while, but i always enjoy watching
it,

Trials can get boring to watch but when your no where near as good as
the people in the videos, then you cant help but watch and be amazed, i
always watch videos many times over, trying to figure out exactly what
the person is doing,

I think Muni is one of the hardest uni styles to get on video, as what
may look easy on a video is bloody hard in real life, as KH sez "Wet
slippery logs look exactly zero harder than wonderfuly dry grippy
logs"

Street i enjoy watching as its a new sport and growing and expanding
heaps, but yes it can get boring,

Freestlye i enjoy watching as well, mainly because its not talked about
ery often on RSU and also it just looks so damn cool, plus its so
freckin hard,

I have a lot of respect for people who put videos on the net,

Keep it up, a video that some people may find boring will be a must
watch for many others,

Until someone puts out a video combining every style in one move, such
as a Stand up 1 foot glide of a 5 foot muni drop onto a skinny with a
crankflip i will continue to be amazed by everything that i see

Danny

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I think strictly trials is boring to watch in a vid but cool in person
like Jonny said.

Muni is usually horrible to watch since in a movie you can't tell how
difficult stuff is and it gets boring (unless filmed really well like
in U2/defect). Actually riding muni is a lot of fun though.

I like watching street,flatland and freestyle vids because the riders
are actually doing different things with the uni instead of just making
their way over or through a line. I actually do like watching some
trials, but not a whole movie of it. If there is some street mixed in
then it is fun to watch (like Owen's movies).

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some trials vids are boring, but the ones that ryan atkins puts out are
AWESOME

i can't stop watching those
and i like shaun's stuff too
but honestly his flippy stuff gets a bit boring because I can't
appreciate how hard a tripple flip or varial flip is, especially when i
can't even do a crankflip.

shaun, my favorite vid was the one you put out recently w/ the 180
shifty and the other more flowy stuff, that was very entertaining

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i ride both so im never disapointed

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i think ryan adktins can really make a trials vid intersting.

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I hate most trials videos other than Ryan Atkins. Its just not my bag.
Im definitely into street, watching vids to see how complex street is
getting.

KH.

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i'll watch anything as long as the quality of riding is high and the
editing is well done. Otherwise videos often fall back into being
boring and unappealing i find.

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I dig watching trials, street, and bc wheel movies the most. But, I
enjoy any video if the riding and editing is of a decent quality,
especially since I enjoy the fact that unicycling is so diverse. I
appreciate when a video displays the hard work, dedication, and
creative energy of a rider. I also like the fact that many try to
develope their own personal style, or approach to unicycling.

I think the most important aspect of what makes a video good to me is:
flow. Is there lyricism to the riding and filming/editing? Is the
movie paced in a way that will maintain viewers' attention spans?

Since a lot of emphasis (and my personal viewing preferences as well)
has been placed on street and trials here, I think that both EQUALLY
become BORING to watch in a movie, just in different ways:

1) Trials vids become boring through repetition of obstacles.

2) Street vids become boring through repetition of tricks.

BUT, what it really boils down to is personal preference. So, it is
indeed inevitable that this thread is greatly biased, and it will
continue to be.

Defect will never get boring to me, for example, because the
editing/filming is so great. I love the camera work, and how well the
personality/character of the riders is displayed. Those things
combined, the editing breaks up the action in such an aesthetically
pleasing way to me, that though the riding might age in years to come,
the movie will still have it's replay charm.

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The only thing I can't stand watching is freestyle competitions (in
movies, nothing is bad watching live for very long) Sure, I like
watching freestyle tricks, but in competitions it gets so repetetive
some how.

Most muni is pretty boring to watch in videos. but it's FUN TO RIDE. I
pretty much am the same way as what nickvb123 said.

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Yeah i dont like watching freestyle comps... but i LOVE watching street
and trials... but for the trials to look good it has to be better than
what i can do.. but i dont mind watch street that is the same level as
me cuz i see new combos and what looks good together and new tricks...

but i definitly dont hate watching trials but i like watching street
more.... i am actually getting bord of all the different flip tricks
that look the exact same... i like xav, and dans style of street the
most. cuz they have flip tricks but it isnt like every other trick...
but if i was better at flip tricks i might like shaun style more...

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S'all good.

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I find that most Muni videos tend to be pretty boring. Especialy when
filmed from a tripod. I think I watched one with Zack Baldwin that was
actualy pretty good because the camera followed them and they talked
and made the video interesting. The biggest reason why I dislike most
Muni videos is not only because the movies aren't very intense they
also just aren't spiced up at all. I also find that most trials videos
I don't tend to like as they seem to do the same things all the time. I
like videos where they do different styles of objects. Sometimes a gap
there, sometimes a drop to a skinny, sometimes this sometimes that.
Aslong as they spice it up then I enjoy it. I love watching some
freestyle videos, to this day one of my favourite videos is still the
Koxx freestyle video. It is just so enjoyable to watch, sooo many
tricks, such style, and such great production levels.

The things I dislike watching the most are usualy competitions. At most
you get to see different riders, but since it is such a controlled
setting and always the same backgrounds it just gets soooooo boring.

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I can't stand watching sport of any kind- and to a large extent that
goes for unicycling too :eek: I'd rather be out there doing it, than
watching other people have fun.

But I can see where you're coming from- if I do watch Unicycling vids-
the ones that I've enjoyed the most have been the
adventure/travelling/MUni type ones that tell a story, because that's
what I do most of. Into the Thunder Dragon rates as my favourite, and
Unizaba was pretty cool too.

Freestyle- I don't mind watching that (for a while)- the performances
are short and designed to entertain. MUni and Road- it's no point
filming them unless you are capturing the excitement of racing- in
which case you would need multiple cameras on the course, and maybe a
running commentary as the race develops. There is also potential to
make MUni quite interesting just by the sorts of locations you can get
to. I don't mind watching a well put together street video, but
watching people trying to land tricks over and over in real life can
get pretty monotonous for me. Again, all I'm saying is watching sport
is not really my thing....why not just get out there and have fun for
yourself?

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chosen said:

yea i pretty much only enjoy watching street and freestyle with vids.
trials and muni are passe. youve seen one youve seen em all. trials is
cool in real life though, but there is no place for muni. it should be
outlawed. straight up. anyone doing it should be fined....1000 dollars.
cash. holla.

jonny

No place for muni as a sport or just the videos? 🙂

I agree 97% of muni vids are boring as hell, but I think someone doing
absolutely crazy [censored] on a muni video is pretty entertaining...

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primus said:

i ride both so im never disapointed

You ride both of the at least 5 different uni sports? That's good.

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I'd like to see more Muni videos.
Someone with a yellow frame (Andrew Carter?) had good stuff.
I agree that weird settings would be nice.

Hopefully, street will get better.
Seems like there's Dan Heaton, and then a bunch of guys doing
crankflips.

Road is actually pretty great (but it's best done in stillshots)
Consider Aspen Mike, Ken Loi, GB4 guni vid, Nathan & Beau Hoover, etc.

Freestyle
Should be shown as filmed highlights of non-US riders.

FREE RIDING
I would really love to see riders go 5 miles over mixed terrain, with
lots of rolling hops, static hops and tricks.
I think the most interesting vids would combine ALL of the styles:

5 miles distance (road)
static trials lines (trials)
rolling hops, and gaps (Muni / Street)
tricks and such for style (Street)
gliding, 1foot, coasting near traffic (danger's always good)
(Freestyle)
off-road through grass, etc. (Muni)
HIGH speed like UMX and road (Muni & road)

The closest I've see to this is the stuff Yogi & Xavier(FR),
Tomsey(AUS), and Justin Koshe(US) put out.
Seems like a lot of stuff like that comes from France (like Precinct
B-13 which I see as "freeriding with no uni"😉.

Anyway, I really believe "ALL" would be the most interesting to watch
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