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  1. Original post
    Andrew_carter
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    Peter (munimanpete) is currently building me a beautiful
    website for an assignment of his which will eventually be
    home to what will hopefully be a great range of unicycling
    tips and tutorials. The address will be
    tutorials.unicyclist.comtutorials.unicyclist.com but it's not finished yet.
    You can see the form it's going to take if you visit
    www.freewebs.com/andrewcarter/template1.htm . I think it's
    looking fantastic and very professional. It'll hopefully be
    really easy to navigate and fast to load for all you 56k
    people out there.

    If you follow that link you can see basically what content
    it will have. I've made a few video tutorials already and am
    going to make a whole bunch of them covering all the things
    I can think of (well all the helpful things I can think of)
    but for this site to really be helpful to lots of
    unicyclists it'd be great to have a range of opinions and
    contributions. I'm going to add Klaas' and my 'Leanring to
    Unicycle' document and track down some important tips that
    have been mentioned in threads here.

    I'd really like to use the photos and captions found at
    tinyurl.com3dzna in the maintenance section with
    Bruce's permission. Would you mind Bruce? I'd also really
    like to add the Miyata handle fix but couldn't find the
    original instructions. Any suggestions? The closest I could
    find was this - gallery.unicyclist.comalbuo49 . If I
    can't find the original, would you mind if I use this Dave?

    I'd also love to use Ryan's video tutorial on high hopping
    but couldn't find it. Anyone have a link? Do you mind Ryan?

    *If I've missed something important or any of you have
    anything you'd be willing to contribute, please let me
    know.* I think this site's got a lot of potential. I'd
    really love some muni and freestyle tutorials to fill in
    some empty spots.

    Thanks, Andrew

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  2. John_childs
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    andrew_carter said:

    *I'd also love to use Ryan's video tutorial on high
    hopping but couldn't find it. Anyone have a link? Do you
    mind Ryan? *

    gallery.unicyclist.comalbus24

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  3. Klaas Bil
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    Andrew and Peter,

    The site is looking great and could become a very good and
    much used platform for learning tips. Thanks for going
    through the effort! Kudos to both of you!

    (See also my comment in the FREE freemount thread.)

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  4. Munimanpete
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    Yeah the site is coming along really nicely. Me and Andrew
    have decided on a final design for it (click on the link
    Andrew provided above to see
    it) and now just need to add the content. I think its going
    to be a great site and everyone has to support it!

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  5. Daino149
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    The site looks great! And it's a really good idea. Thumbs up
    to the two of you.

    Daniel

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  6. U-Turn
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    andrew_carter said:

    *I'd also really like to add the Miyata handle fix but
    couldn't find the original instructions. Any suggestions?
    The closest I could find was this -
    gallery.unicyclist.comalbuo49 . If I can't find
    the original, would you mind if I use this Dave? *


    No I don't mind at all. I'll rework it a bit in light of
    recent learning. I'm not sure it's online right now, but
    I'll find out. If I forget just PM me because things are
    busy right now.

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  7. Teachndad
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    Andrew,

    You go guy!! This is a really great idea and one that has
    been needed. Thanks for all the hard work you and your
    buddies are doing to support unicycling.

    YOU ROCK DUDE!!

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  8. Munimanpete
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    I have now made all the pages for the site. Only 'Guestbook'
    'Requests' and 'Obstacle building' have content on them (and
    not all of it). Just though i'd let you know.

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  9. Andrew_carter
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    Thanks a lot guys. Just remember that we can never have too
    many opinions on how to do something, so if you've got some
    advice, please donate it.

    It's looking great Peter.

    Thanks, Andrew

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  10. Andrew_carter
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    Can anyone please tell me where I can find that analysis of
    Dan Heaton's (was it his?) hop onto the car at Unicon? I
    mean the one with the series of frames analysed. Who
    created it?

    Thanks, Andrew

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  11. Theamazingmolio
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    I don't know whether he'd let you use them, but Dave Mariner
    has some programs which analysed the pressure placed on
    pedals by beginner, intermediate, and advanced riders. I
    think they did more. The upshot of it all was that better
    riders place much less weight on the pedals, and ride
    smoother etc.

    I couldn't find a direct link on the site. but the address
    is unicycle.co.ukresearch.htm

    The jump2 program is quite interesting, it shows why we bend
    unicycles so often!

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  12. Andrew_carter
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    Thanks a lot for the link, I don't see the harm in linking
    to that page, but I will get permission first.

    Andrew

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  13. John_childs
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    andrew_carter said:

    *Can anyone please tell me where I can find that analysis
    of Dan Heaton's (was it his?) hop onto the car at Unicon?
    I mean the one with the series of frames analysed. Who
    created it?

    Thanks, Andrew *

    It's in my 'Miscellaneous Stuff gallery'
    (gallery.unicyclist.comjohn childs misc). The text
    in the gallery gives info on rhysling and a link to the
    thread where he originally posted the frame by frame
    analysis of the jump.

    The one thing missing, though, is that the analysis doesn't
    mention the need to drop your heel of your rear foot just
    before springing up for the take-off. Once I started
    dropping my heel I started getting more height from my
    rolling hops. I think that's the big secret to the rolling
    hop. Drop your heel.

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  14. Andrew_carter
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    Thanks a lot John, I'll put it up there along with your heel
    dropping comment and give the appropriate credits. Do you
    have an email for Christopher that he uses regularly?

    Thanks a lot, Andrew

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  15. Andrew_carter
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    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

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  16. John_childs
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    andrew_carter said:

    *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.

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  17. Andrew_carter
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    Thanks.

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  18. Andrew_carter
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    gallery.unicyclist.comalbum123

    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

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  19. Reject_monkey
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    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

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  20. Andrew_carter
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    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

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