Girrafes?

I think giraffes are easier to ride than standard 20" or 24" unicycles.
They are unusual at first because they are different and you feel like
you're way up in the air. They're also harder to freemount. But the
nature of the tall structure makes correction easier and control
tighter. It's like the difference between trying to balance a ruler on
your palm and a broom on your palm.

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Buy one that u can alter the height of dramatically, cos it will be
frickin dangerous to start off on a 10-ft one, but suck when u got
better and only had a midget size,
they wouldn't be too much harder, after u adapt to the change in
momentum, but apart from that

GOD SPEED!

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In the summer I saw a busker who used his normal 20" to jump onto his
6fter and then used that to jump onto his 9fter. How hard is this?

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sorry he jumps from a 9' to a 12'

here is a picture of him doing it
[image: http://www.sparksstreetmall.com/images/busker4.jpg]

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unifiend454 said:

okay how hard are they to ride? and how do you start out.. I am thinking
about buying one

Using the roof of my car to mount one, I was able to ride it perfectly
fine on my first try after unicycling only since the fall. As long as
you aren't afraid of heights you will be just fine. On the third day I
had it, and after 20 minutes of attempts I was able to freemount it
twice. It definitely is difficult to mount but riding it is easier than
a normal unicycle. Unless you can get a really nice deal on one or plan
to use it in performances I wouldnt spend the money as after a few
weeks it wont be getting much use.

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yeah i have a giraffe.. i dont ever really use it, just for show, if u
want u can check out my gallery i some footage of me free mounting my
5'er. it is fun.

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ntappin said:

sorry he jumps from a 9' to a 12'

here is a picture of him doing it
[image: http://www.sparksstreetmall.com/images/busker4.jpg]

Wow, I wonder how he would practice that... The 12' looks like its
bending too.

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well when I saw him, I dont remember it being that tall so I think he
practiced originaly with a smaller giraffe. I was standing on a low
street lamp and he wasn't much taller than me.

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litldude2 said:

Wow, I wonder how he would practice that... The 12' looks like its
bending too.

Yes, the frame is either bending a lot (which makes for a very dramatic
photo), or it's already bent. I hope the frame can take it, or at some
point he's going to get a big surprise!

I used to do the mount from the 20" to the 6' in shows. That's just a
variation on the freemount. The downside is sometimes the 20" falls
where you don't want it to, and you might need to rock into it during
your mount. But that happened fairly rarely when I did it.

Going from a higher one to an even higher one would be very hard on the
giraffe that gets dropped, and could be much worse in the way I
described above. If you have an assistant to catch it, problem solved.

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Yeah he had audience members come up to catch it and when he got off of
the 20" he rode straight forward instead of idling before going
forward. Other than stuff getting in the way, how hard of a trick is
it?

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ntappin said:

Other than stuff getting in the way, how hard of a trick is it?

"About that hard" he said, holding his hands approximately 30 cm
apart.

For more detail, a frame of reference might be handy. How much giraffe
freemount experience do you have? How comfortable are you on giraffes?

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Ok, so it's pretty relative then. I have non I was asking a more general
question, like is it as easy as say a 180 on a normal uni or something
along the lines of that. But I guess its not as easy as that

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