Gliding pics...

Very cool Joe! Love the arty dutch tilt too 🙂

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one wheeled stallion said:

*arty dutch tilt*

Thanks James,
Actually, the camera was on a tripod, on a very low wall, and the only
way the camera was not going to fall off the wall was if i had it at an
angle. 🙂

Also, I took the pics (on the seafront) myself using self timer. Its
quite hard! You try setting your camera up, pressing the button, then
have 10 seconds to run and jump on ur uni, turn around and wheel walk,
glide or what ever!
I get some funny looks... haha

Joe,

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Well considering you did that you got some fantastic photos! Did it take
many attempts?

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joe said:

(http://gallery.unicyclist.com/joesfreestyle)

Anyone else got some gliding/wheel walking/coasting pics?

Nice. One of my favourite unicycling pictures is a gliding pic that I
took at Unicon in 1986:
<URL:http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/unicycling/gallery/glide01.jpg>

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Danny,

That's a *coasting* pic. I'm the guy in the white shirt, being blocked
by Diaki Izumeda in the red shirt. This was right after Yuichiro Kato
had set a huge world record in Track Coasting with a distance of 144
meters. That's all the way down the straightaway, and halfway around the
curve. If it had been a hard paved track, he would have gone even
farther!

I made it something like 72 meters, on a borrowed unicycle, for what I
think was 5th place. I should borrow unicycles more often!

Oh, and it was 1996. In 1986 we hadn't even invented the gliding and
coasting events yet (those debuted at Unicon IV in 1988).

I found a picture of the guy taking the picture. Is that Jonathan
Marshall? Anyway, this one puts me in the front. That was a rare
picture, because it's hard to get a group of people coasting all at the
same speed and same time. The picture shows Yuichiro Kato (still the
world record holder from that day), John Foss, Daiki Izumeda, Michael
Kirsch, and Julien Monney.

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Unfortunately I couldn't find any good (digital) pictures of gliding
competitions. Someday I'll scan more stuff.

But I did find an old classic. This is one of my favorite gliding
pictures. It's Shigero Koike, who was my side-by-side challenger in the
Guinness 100m race at Unicon III in 1987. He is also the younger brother
of Takayuke Koike, holder of the 100 mile record. I hope we will see
them in Tokyo in a few weeks!

This was taken at a unicycle meet in Japan, sometime in 1987 I believe.
He's making a real tight turn, and supposedly did not fall off! JUA
photo.

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johnfoss said:

*I found a picture of the guy taking the picture. Is that Jonathan
Marshall? Anyway, this one puts me in the front. *

Very cool to toggle back and forth between the two pictures, see the
same event at the same instant, each with the other photographer in the
background.

Thanks for supplying the alternate view John....

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johnfoss said:

That's a *coasting* pic.

Thanks, I stand corrected. I can never remember the difference.

Quoted message said:

Oh, and it was 1996. In 1986 we hadn't even invented the gliding and
coasting events yet (those debuted at Unicon IV in 1988).

You're quite right. Dunno where I got 1986 from. I'd never even
thought about riding a unicycle back then.

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That's a good picture. I always thought my picture taken from the back
had an appealingly surreal look about it - that's why I like it so much.

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Quoted message said:

Anyone else got some gliding/wheel walking/coasting pics?

These are some of my favourites.

[image: C:\nick\uni\22578699503_0_ALB.jpg]

[image: C:\nick\uni\11578699503_0_ALB.jpg]

[image: C:\nick\uni\coast1.jpg]

[image: C:\nick\uni\clip_image002.jpg]

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Thanks. Very cool pics!

I have put my coasting pics up now.
http://gallery.unicyclist.com/joesfreestyle
They are not good at all, as it was in the hall. Hopefully I will get
some good quality ones done outside some time...

James, the gliding pics done on self timer were the only onesI took. All
of them (all 4) turned out ok.

Cheers,

Joe,

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Nice coasting.

While we're on the subject, could someone answer a couple of questions
about this skill. I've been working on coasting for about a month now. I
ride forward one-footed with my right foot as smoothly as possible, than
take my right foot off and coast as far as I can. Although I usually
fall off after about a meter, I once went three meters. I seem to be
making some progress, but not much. So my questions are:
First; Is it important to put both feet on the fork or can I leave one
extended?
Second; Is it possible to learn coasting on a 24" uni?
Third; Any other general advice?

Your help would be appreciated.
Jon

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Quoted message said:

Is it important to put both feet on the fork or can I leave one
extended?

You can do either. According to the standard skills list their worth the
same points (with about 0.1 variation for some skills) so are therefore
about the same difficulty.

I usually coast both feet on frame but i am going to learn both well.

The advantage of both feet on frame is that you have a lot of
leverage.
The advantage of one foot out is that you can use it for balance. I
think (not too sure) that this way you can learn forwards and backwards
further because the leg counteracts you weight kinda thing.

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Is it possible to learn coasting on a 24" uni?

Don't see why not.

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joe said:

*
Anyone else got some gliding/wheel walking/coasting pics?
*

I shot a few.

Gliding on day one of using the Sem Longneck XLW:
<http://iunicycle.com/unilog/permalink/1066/>

Gliding 170 feet, weeeeee:

<http://tinyurl.com/3e36l>

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