Before I saw this video I knew Kris is an amazing unicyclist, but I didn't realize that his amazing ability to perform daring stunts is due to more than just practicing and a lot of experience.
Click 'here' (
) to watch the video of the quantifiers testing and recording Kris Holm's balance. The video is 7 min 6 seconds long. You have to watch for 1 min 12 seconds before the quantifying begins.
thanks you so much for showing this. before i was involved with the sport, i remember seeing this on TV and saying "wow thats really neat". than my friend started unicycling and i looked up stuff about it on the internet and i was hooked. ive been trying to find this but couldn't remember where i saw it.
Very interesting, it would have been cool to see how his balance has changed and adapted over the years as he has progressed and how much increase in balance and stabilty unicyclists have because of doing the sport.
-- bungalistic
A COMMON MISTAKE THAT PEOPLE MAKE WHEN TRYING TO DESIGN SOMETHING COMPLETELY FOOLPROOF IS TO UNDERESTIMATE THE INGENUITY OF THE COMPLETE FOOLS
the subtitles are in Romanian: I am surprised by the fact I can read and understand them (the sound is switched off on my computer). Those latin languages do look like each other!
They said at the end his ballance is so good from constantly challenging himself on a unicycle over the past 17 years.
IMO a person is partly can be born w/ good or bad ballance, but it is mostly determined by experience.
I bet those people who learned to unicycle fairly quickly have had lots of experience and gotten quite good at other ballance activities.
The main thing I thnk is Kris started early, kept at it and never stoped challenging himself. When parts failed, luckily for us he did whatever he had to to find or make parts that would last.
-- skilewis74
Ride everywhere and never just ride anywhere. If you can ride where you are going within a hour, do it, and if you can do a trick 50-75% of the time do it along the way. Parafrasing a pro skater when asked for advise to kids who wanted to get much better and maybee turn pro one day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ skilewis74's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12404 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/65694
Well, skilewis74, I wasn't a user of this website until 1.5 weeks ago, so I didn't know there were similar threads. I was just cruising through unicycle videos on youtube.com and this is one of the videos I found.
Don't feel criticized. It's common for people here to be reminded to use the search feature to reduce the number of redundent threads. This is a good thing.
Of course it's also good for old things to be recycled sometimes for people who didn't catch them the first time around.
aquaman said:
Well, skilewis74, I wasn't a user of this website until 1.5 weeks ago, so I didn't know there were similar threads. I was just cruising through unicycle videos on youtube.com and this is one of the videos I found.
The gallery links in the 2004 thread no longer work. Here's an updated link to the 'Monster gallery' (http://tinyurl.com/yrvoas). It's called the Monster gallery because the first video there was the Monster.com commercial.
Sorry I didn't notice you were a newb and prob didn't know better.🙄
mscalisi said:
Don't feel criticized. It's common for people here to be reminded to use the search feature to reduce the number of redundent threads. This is a good thing.
Of course it's also good for old things to be recycled sometimes for people who didn't catch them the first time around.
+1 On both points.
-- skilewis74
Ride everywhere and never just ride anywhere. If you can ride where you are going within a hour, do it, and if you can do a trick 50-75% of the time do it along the way. Parafrasing a pro skater when asked for advise to kids who wanted to get much better and maybee turn pro one day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ skilewis74's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12404 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/65694
