maxisback said:that's where you lose me.. you unicycle to be special ?.. in france
unicycling is as comon as skateboarding..
That would be so cool... if it were true. What made you think this was
the case?
Or maybe skateboarding is really obscure in France; I suppose that
could be possible.
Anyway, a lot of us want unicycling to grow into a "respectable" sport.
Unicon 12 got probably more TV coverage than any previous one, though
this was mostly in Japan. The sport is much better known (and
understood) there. And there was an ESPN thing that was shown in the
U.S., mostly covering Trials and the 10k.
But to build sporting events into larger, more media-attractive things
it takes a combination of stuff. What we perhaps need the most are
business people who want to run it. The IUF and USA, for example, are
run by hobbyists. We are not necessarily good promoters and in fact we
may be counter-productive to that sometimes. Japan's national
organization, the JUA, is run by two entrepreneurs. Their goals were
more business oriented, and their success shows in the size of the
meets they have over there (and the unicycles in the majority of
schools, funding supported by the national lottery, etc.). And
sponsorships, from the kinds of companies that can sponsor whatever
they want. For example Coca-Cola, who have been sponsoring JUA stuff
since at least 1987 and Unicon III.
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