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Is this only for the Six Flags near LA, or is it in other states too
(IL)?

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man, i wish i lived there...get paid to ride all day. man..
also it would help me get over my little fear of riding in front of
people..im not really afraid of it, i just never do as good when i know
people are watching me.

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skate4flip said:

Is this only for the Six Flags near LA, or is it in other states too
(IL)?

You know im not one hundred percent on that one. Il ask my department
manager and see...Or you can get a hold of the six flags in your area
and ask them if they are interested in hiring unicyclist ambassadors...

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Mark Wenzel (the guy that first emailed us about the job) told me on the
phone that the new fad in the theme parks is guest interaction. So now
they have unicyclists, jugglers and weird people walking around the
park entertaining people, its a really cool job🙂

In general if any on wants to work there you just have to have alot of
control on the uni incase they make you ride from the end of a packed
line through everyone to the other end. You can ask cody how much fun
that is 😉

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So, what things have you had to do with the whole guest interaction
thing?

If you can, see if there doing this at Six Flags Great America.

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They want us to talk to people. Our manager said that he wants us to use
the uni as a tool to start a conversation with people. Me and Cody both
think that they would be way more entertained watching someone do
tricks than talking to someone who is on a uni. When I think of fun
things to do I don't think about talking to people. I mean interaction
with the people is good but they will be alot more interested and more
willing to talk if you are doing cool things that they are interested
in.

If I can I will ask for you Jeff, I haven't started working yet so I
haven't talked to the entertainment people in a while.

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litldude2 said:

Mark Wenzel (the guy that first emailed us about the job) told me on the
phone that the new fad in the theme parks is guest interaction. So now
they have unicyclists, jugglers and weird people walking around the
park entertaining people, its a really cool job🙂

In general if any on wants to work there you just have to have alot of
control on the uni incase they make you ride from the end of a packed
line through everyone to the other end. You can ask cody how much fun
that is 😉

Having been a professional Ventriloquist on TV, cruise ships, comedy
clubs,etc, I wonder if they'd hire me to do "walk-arounds" and interact
with the crowd!? I used to do that sort of thing when I was hired to do
private parties and stuff..I just basically "improvised" conversation
with the crowd using my "little buddy", affectionately named, "Jack
Squat". 😄

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litldude2 said:

Me and Cody both think that they would be way more entertained watching
someone do tricks than talking to someone who is on a uni.

Step one: Realize that a park that spends $20 million on a single
roller coaster has done their homework. They know what works, and
they're trying to tell you. I'll come back to this.

I had a short conversation the other day with a very new-looking
strolling juggler at Six Flags Marine World (Vallejo). He looked to be
easily still in his first few days on the job. Actually, the same was
true of almost everyone I paid attention to, especially behind the
counters at the food places. Lame-o!

But anyway, I noticed this juggler, off juggling to himself in a corner
while 1000+ people waited to buy their tickets. He was juggling, but
not interacting. Boring. Then I saw him again inside the park, juggling
and talking to a group of girls who appeard to be there as part of a
band or something. They were making requests and he was showing them
stuff. Much more interesting to watch, especially if you're one of
those girls.

So after that, I asked if this was his first juggling job (that was
obvious to me but he wouldn't know). He said yes. I told him (without
knowing what his official instructions were) to work up little
mini-shows, so he'd have a beginning, middle and end to do quickly for
any group of people that's watching. Then talk to the people and get
them involved. I told him the hours would pass a lot quicker once he'd
gotten some of that worked out.

Walkaround entertaining can be really boring. And if you don't do it
right, you aren't leaving a positive impression on your audience, which
might see you as someone in their way rather than someone entertaining
them. The people who hire you will be aware of this. But as soon as you
start interacting with the people and maybe drawing some of them into
your little shows it gets a lot more interesting. If I have an
attentive audience that *wants* to watch me I can go all day. But if
I'm just riding around and doing tricks without engaging anyone, the
time drags like crazy. I know this from my own experience at parties,
festivals and other big events.

So it's not that they want you to stand with a unicycle and talk to
people. People will see you ride. But if you only ride, you won't hold
most peoples' attention for more than a minute or two. Treat them like
an interactive audience, and before you know it you'll have a big crowd
around you and a full-on show environment. They actually probably don't
want *big* crowds around you, as these can block theme park traffic.
But small audiences, who get to watch someone do cool skills and then
get to talk to them, are probably just what they're looking for.

BTW, aside from meeting lots of girls, this can also be a great way to
spread unicycling. After people are impressed you can mention that
anyone can learn this and it's really fun.

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Wow, sounds like a fancy deal :p
How often will you guys do this?

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To Forrest I only do it on the weekends so its pretty fun for me and I
get to crash at Spencers house, its pretty fun down there! And to John,
Yeah I know what you mean, the first day I was just riding around doing
my own thing, 180 down stairs all my big tricks just draining my energy
for few people too watch. Toward the end of the day I was starting to
talk to the crouds and do tricks that progressed from simple tricks in
the beggining to more difficult tricks toward the end. People love when
you go down stairs though, especially the way I do them(Moab) But then
you get some who jsut want to see some street, thats when I
accedentally get the larger crouds
:-D ...Its great to once in a while do a street run for groups of
geusts instead of jsut riding around doing lil tricks and joking with
the geusts, its fun and fun for them, but someitmes you just gotta
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for the most crowds and tips, do street porformer stuff, and juggling
and lighting yourself on fire.

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I think Il pass on the fire part...But throwing lil people...

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you litterally have a dream job

Chase

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forrestunifreak said:

How often will you guys do this?

I will do it more often than Cody because I am 10 minutes away and he
is 75(?) miles away.

Oh, and John, I get what you are saying too. I guess I will just have
to find a balance between tricks and talking. Doing tricks and cool
lines is a good conversation starter🙂 They asked us at the audition if
we could hop up the planters and ride across them and stuff so they
aren't just expecting talking and normal riding.

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Yeah im about 80 miles away, Spencer is just around the corner. But yeah
they actually asked us to jump on the fontains :-D! People love that
they also love seeing you eat [censored] down a flieght of stairs I got a tip
for doing that lol!

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Grr! I would give anything!, well, not anything, but I would give
something to have that type of job! Closest I got is riding at the
renaissance fair, but all they want you to do is ride and juggle. =(

Boss: "I need to talk to you!"
You: "What is it?"
Boss: "See that fountain over there?"
You: "Yeah, what about it?"
Boss: "Think you can jump onto it?"

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Lol kinda like that...
see those stairs....

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hmm... do you think they would let me do it for a few days?
...if they do it @ sixflags fiesta texas
i want to try it for a few days, but i would get bored after that
and unicycling might become a chore :/

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skrobo said:

hmm... do you think they would let me do it for a few days?
...if they do it @ sixflags fiesta texas
i want to try it for a few days, but i would get bored after that
and unicycling might become a chore :/

Heh, it doesnt work like that. You have to go through a bunch of stuff
before you can even start working and I really doubt they would hire
you know it was only for a couple days.
I dont even know if other 6 flags are doing it, you should ask and find
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