Yesterday I did my first major public demonstration. It was at the anual
Motueka A&P Show (like a big carnival thing). At 11am, 12 noon, 1pm and
2pm I did a demo of around 10-15 minutes long each. There were two
motorbike-trials riders who rode after me, followed by some freestyle
Motor X rideres doing the crazy stuff they do. I just played around on
the Trials course they had setup, which consisted of lots of pallets,
boxes, and a truck with pallets on it, there was also a log which was
good to ride a long and hop off. As I rode there was a commentater
giving a bit of information about me and trying to let the crowd know
what I was doing, but he didn't know much about unicycling so he
basically just described what he saw. While I was nervous in the morning
all the shows went well, with a fairly decent crowd turing out for each,
and it was good having a course to ride on as I didn't have to rely on
my not-so-wide range of freestyle tricks. I just played around on the
course as I normally would and pretty much ignored the crowd, though it
was nice to here them cheer everyone now and then. It began to rain
before the third show, though it stopped as we began to ride, however
still making things slippery it slightly limiting what I could do.
Overall it was a good day, and despite my original fears I even had a
good time, the demos were fun, the course was good, and the crowd
responded well. And whats better I got paid $100 - money for having fun.
It also cool because I've put all this money into unicycling and now im
actually getting something back for it.
Peter
P.S - sorry no photos
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