rec.sport.unicycling · Public discussion

My first demo

Radical Reed · 2006-07-22T02:23:18+00:00

today I did my first demo at the midnight madness in Huntsville, and it was awsomely fun, most people were impressed when I could ride then I got a huge reply when I started on the trials course that I brought. it included 2 skids, 2 boxes, 3 hopping posts and a 1 1/2 inch skinny, I rode for about 2 1/2 hours and some of my friends were nice enough to sneak up on me while I was on a post making me fall🙄 but I convinsed 1 of them to let me jump over them and it went succsesfull but I didn't want to risk jumping 2 at once. My mom and grandma came and said I probally had the biggest crowd the whole street! some of the comments I got were: your sick!, your my idol, does that hurt you nuts?, etc. one guy asked to try it and actually knew how he could hop alright but he was was all over the place with his riding, any ways out of the deal I got a norco jersey, water bottle and 30 bucks which is pretty good considering I thought I was doing it for free. P.S. I might be in the news paper cause somone was asking asking questions/taking notes on me/ taking pictures -- Radical Reed sorry cheese lovers your outa my sig 'sixsixone' (http://www.sixsixone.com/) ' .' (http://nickciske.com/tools/binary.php) 'LBS' (http://www.mbps.ca/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Radical Reed's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/10427 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/51364

Started by Radical Reed · 22 July 2006 · Last activity 18 April 2008 · 15 posts · 451 views

← Back to rec.sport.unicycling

Thread navigation

Jump through the discussion

Go to the original post, the replies on this page, or the latest preserved contribution.

01 / Original postMy first demoRadical Reed · 22 Jul 2006 02 / This pagePosts 1–15Page 1 of 1 · chronological order 03 / Latest replyPost #15CoreTechs · 18 Apr 2008

Thread details

What we know about this thread

Original section: rec.sport.unicycling
Published: 22 July 2006
Last activity: 18 April 2008
Original author: Radical Reed
Posts: 15
Discussion status: Public discussion
Total views: 451
Views / 30 days: 0
Topics: Norco

The navigation and discussion metadata provide context. Posts remain in their original chronological order.

Original post
Radical Reed
Archived post

22 July 2006, 02:23 UTC #1

today I did my first demo at the midnight madness in Huntsville, and it
was awsomely fun, most people were impressed when I could ride then I
got a huge reply when I started on the trials course that I brought. it
included 2 skids, 2 boxes, 3 hopping posts and a 1 1/2 inch skinny, I
rode for about 2 1/2 hours and some of my friends were nice enough to
sneak up on me while I was on a post making me fall🙄 but I
convinsed 1 of them to let me jump over them and it went succsesfull
but I didn't want to risk jumping 2 at once.
My mom and grandma came and said I probally had the biggest crowd the
whole street! some of the comments I got were: your sick!, your my
idol, does that hurt you nuts?, etc. one guy asked to try it and
actually knew how he could hop alright but he was was all over the
place with his riding, any ways out of the deal I got a norco jersey,
water bottle and 30 bucks which is pretty good considering I thought I
was doing it for free.
P.S. I might be in the news paper cause somone was asking asking
questions/taking notes on me/ taking pictures
--
Radical Reed
sorry cheese lovers your outa my sig
'sixsixone' (http://www.sixsixone.com/)
' .' (http://nickciske.com/tools/binary.php)
'LBS' (http://www.mbps.ca/)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Radical Reed's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/10427
View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/51364

Report
ntappin
Archived post

22 July 2006, 03:33 UTC #2

How did you get hooked up with this? Was this arranged by norco? Are you
sponsored by Norco?
Sounds quite cool, congrats man.
--
ntappin
------------------------------------------------------------------------
ntappin's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/10800
View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/51364

Report
kapoute
Archived post

22 July 2006, 03:38 UTC #3

thread jack
were you at OUI 06 (talking to radical reed )
thread jack
congratulations !
--
kapoute
I don't really speak english 🙁
Julien Renaud
------------------------------------------------------------------------
kapoute's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/8060
View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/51364

Report
Radical Reed
Archived post

22 July 2006, 13:22 UTC #4

ntappin said:
How did you get hooked up with this? Was this arranged by norco? Are you
sponsored by Norco?
Sounds quite cool, congrats man.
I was walking down the street and a guy who I know who runs a bike shop
asked me if I wanted to do a unicycle demo at this street sale. I said
sure, he just gave me the norco jersey though so I would look "cooler".
he just happens to deal norco bikes so that why. so it wasn't arranged
by norco🙁 and I'm deffinetly not sponsored by them. but it was my
first public event where I went for people to watch me, and I might do
another one in august!
kapoute said:
were you at OUI 06 (talking to radical reed )
no, but I would have loved to go, maby next year
--
Radical Reed
sorry cheese lovers your outa my sig
'sixsixone' (http://www.sixsixone.com/)
' .' (http://nickciske.com/tools/binary.php)
'LBS' (http://www.mbps.ca/)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Radical Reed's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/10427
View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/51364

Report
Ducttape
Archived post

18 April 2008, 00:14 UTC #5

yeah, yeah... I know... old thread, but I was going to use the same
title so why not just bump this thread.
I did my first ever unicycle demo last night('got it on video too'
(
)) and had a lot of fun, I
wasn't expecting anything out of the deal at all but I ended up getting
a $10 gift card to 'Target' (http://www.target.com/) which was pretty
cool, I was really tired by the end of it but I had a lot of fun and
the crowd reacted pretty well. My demo was part of a Talent
Extravaganza thing that a youth group for a church was doing and before
I did my demo I ran a "station" where I taught people to unicycle. I
had heard about it through an email from a family friend and called up
the organizer to let her know that I had a talent I could teach/demo
and I was told the date, time , and location and just showed up with a
few small props and some unicycles. I just hope I get another chance to
do a demo like that, even for no money it would be really cool. Just
thought I would share my first experience doing a demo with all of you.
--
Ducttape
'-*buy my shirts*-'
(www.zazzle.com/ducttapesunicycle*)
'*watch my videos*'
(http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ducttapesunicycle)
'*uniman comics*'
(http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53444)
'*original thread for uniman*'
(http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49862)
*'sigged quotes' (http://tinyurl.com/29b744)*
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ducttape's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12006
View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/51364
Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services
----------------------------------------------------------
http://www.usenet.com

Report
lpounds
Archived post

18 April 2008, 00:21 UTC #6

Are you from Ontario Canada or California? If Canada, where was the
demo?
--
lpounds
'Levi' (http://tinyurl.com/6l5fmr)
'Photos'
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/25192939@N06/)
'Unicycle' (
)
'Juggle'
(
)
'EGG'
(
)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
lpounds's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/15958
View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/51364
Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services
----------------------------------------------------------
http://www.usenet.com

Report
Tyler_N
Archived post

18 April 2008, 00:21 UTC #7

I've done a few un-professional demos for like kids at my school after
school was over or for kids at the skate park.
--
Tyler_N
'My latest video!' (
)
vanpaun said:
It's all for the ladies....they like the clean shaven look on your uni's
lower parts
'*MYSPACE*' (myspace.com/munirider)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tyler_N's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/16366
View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/51364
Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services
----------------------------------------------------------
http://www.usenet.com

Report
skilewis74
Archived post

18 April 2008, 03:56 UTC #8

Ducttape said:
I did my first ever unicycle demo last night('got it on video too'
(
)) and had a lot of fun, I
wasn't expecting anything out of the deal at all but I ended up getting
a $10 gift card to 'Target' (http://www.target.com/) which was pretty
cool, I was really tired by the end of it but I had a lot of fun and
the crowd reacted pretty well. My demo was part of a Talent
Extravaganza thing that a youth group for a church was doing and before
I did my demo I ran a "station" where I taught people to unicycle. I
had heard about it through an email from a family friend and called up
the organizer to let her know that I had a talent I could teach/demo
and I was told the date, time , and location and just showed up with a
few small props and some unicycles. I just hope I get another chance to
do a demo like that, even for no money it would be really cool. Just
thought I would share my first experience doing a demo with all of you.
It's stuff like this that sponsors like their riders to do.
Ryan Leach does hundreds of demos a year and talks a bit about how the
skills he has developed apply to the world for regular people.
--
skilewis74
Ride everywhere and never just ride anywhere. If you can ride where you
are going within a hour, do it, and if you can do a trick 50-75% of the
time do it along the way.- Bob Burnquist
What next? 'IUF skill levels'
(http://www.unicycling.org/iuf/levels/)*'
Street'
(http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Unicyclopedia/Street)*'unicycletips.com'
(http://unicycletips.com/)*'Trials class system'
(http://tinyurl.com/yqpvxk)*'Trials Building'
(http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=64235)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
skilewis74's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12404
View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/51364
Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services
----------------------------------------------------------
http://www.usenet.com

Report
pedrotejada
Archived post

18 April 2008, 04:10 UTC #9

I did some professional demos!
I was in 3 editions of the Salão das Duas Rodas, The biggest event of
the bike/motrcycles segment in Brazil and in South America!
I was in a BIG event here called GAS. It was promoted by a big companie
in the soft drinks segment called Antartica. Some big names of radical
sports like Bob Burnquist, Sandro Diaz was there too 😄😄😄
My team (trial team) worked in other big events around here... I
travelled a lot around the country!
Maybe i will ride next week in X-Game here in São Paulo! 😄😄😄
I have a big curriculum.. but i still without a sponsor! 🙁
Bye 😄
--
pedrotejada
Unicycle in Brazil!
São Paulo-SP 😄
Sorry about the terrible english!
------------------------------------------------------------------------
pedrotejada's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/14471
View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/51364
Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services
----------------------------------------------------------
http://www.usenet.com

Report
skilewis74
Archived post

18 April 2008, 04:17 UTC #10

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I sure hope they let you do some stuff in front of the audience. Bring
some other good riders w/ you and maybee you can get an exhibition
event.
This could lead to them having an official category for us in the
future and some major possitive exposure for the sport😄 😎 :o
--
skilewis74
Ride everywhere and never just ride anywhere. If you can ride where you
are going within a hour, do it, and if you can do a trick 50-75% of the
time do it along the way.- Bob Burnquist
What next? 'IUF skill levels'
(http://www.unicycling.org/iuf/levels/)*'
Street'
(http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Unicyclopedia/Street)*'unicycletips.com'
(http://unicycletips.com/)*'Trials class system'
(http://tinyurl.com/yqpvxk)*'Trials Building'
(http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=64235)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
skilewis74's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12404
View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/51364
Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services
----------------------------------------------------------
http://www.usenet.com

Report
Ducttape
Archived post

18 April 2008, 04:18 UTC #11

skilewis74 said:
It's stuff like this that sponsors like their riders to do.
Ryan Leach does hundreds of demos a year and talks a bit about how the
skills he has developed apply to the world for regular people.
Yeah, I definitely have developed some useful skills from my summer
job(camp counselor at a cub scout camp) that made my demo a whole lot
less stressful, and I can see how doing lots of demos can develop a lot
of skills as far as promoting oneself, the sport, and just in general
being a good presenter. I'm hoping to get the word out there more that
I am willing to do more demos because I really enjoy it.
--
Ducttape
'-*buy my shirts*-'
(www.zazzle.com/ducttapesunicycle*)
'*watch my videos*'
(http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ducttapesunicycle)
'*uniman comics*'
(http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53444)
'*original thread for uniman*'
(http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49862)
*'sigged quotes' (http://tinyurl.com/29b744)*
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ducttape's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12006
View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/51364
Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services
----------------------------------------------------------
http://www.usenet.com

Report
Ducttape
Archived post

18 April 2008, 04:20 UTC #12

pedrotejada said:
I did some professional demos!
I was in 3 editions of the Salão das Duas Rodas, The biggest event of
the bike/motrcycles segment in Brazil and in South America!
I was in a BIG event here called GAS. It was promoted by a big companie
in the soft drinks segment called Antartica. Some big names of radical
sports like Bob Burnquist, Sandro Diaz was there too 😄😄😄
My team (trial team) worked in other big events around here... I
travelled a lot around the country!
Maybe i will ride next week in X-Game here in São Paulo! 😄😄😄
I have a big curriculum.. but i still without a sponsor! 🙁
Bye 😄
I hope you do some riding at the XGames, Good luck it should give great
exposure to the sport.
--
Ducttape
'-*buy my shirts*-'
(www.zazzle.com/ducttapesunicycle*)
'*watch my videos*'
(http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ducttapesunicycle)
'*uniman comics*'
(http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53444)
'*original thread for uniman*'
(http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49862)
*'sigged quotes' (http://tinyurl.com/29b744)*
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ducttape's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12006
View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/51364
Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services
----------------------------------------------------------
http://www.usenet.com

Report
hungry4uni
Archived post

18 April 2008, 04:21 UTC #13

I have a school talent show where all 800 kids at my school will be
watching. I made up a routine including the basics, 40-45cm. hop,
unispin, hoptwist, shifty, one-wheel ride, hopefully backwards if I can
learn it. IT'S SO FREAKING HARD!
How did you guys learn it so easily
--
hungry4uni
If only all bikes were cut in two
'1st
VIDEO'
(
)
'2nd
VIDEO'
(
)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
hungry4uni's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/16147
View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/51364
Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services
----------------------------------------------------------
http://www.usenet.com

Report
Ducttape
Archived post

18 April 2008, 04:34 UTC #14

hungry4uni said:
I have a school talent show where all 800 kids at my school will be
watching. I made up a routine including the basics, 40-45cm. hop,
unispin, hoptwist, shifty, one-wheel ride, hopefully backwards if I can
learn it. IT'S SO FREAKING HARD!
How did you guys learn it so easily
learn what? backwards riding? if that's what you're asking I just
pushed backwards away from a wall and pedaled to keep up with my body.
then I learned to control it and reverse directions... If you mean how
did we learn our routines, then I just practiced everyday after I
thought up the routine from the day I agreed to do the demo, by the
time the demo came around I had the routine down fairly well.
--
Ducttape
'-*buy my shirts*-'
(www.zazzle.com/ducttapesunicycle*)
'*watch my videos*'
(http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ducttapesunicycle)
'*uniman comics*'
(http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53444)
'*original thread for uniman*'
(http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49862)
*'sigged quotes' (http://tinyurl.com/29b744)*
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ducttape's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12006
View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/51364
Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services
----------------------------------------------------------
http://www.usenet.com

Report
CoreTechs
Archived post

18 April 2008, 04:39 UTC #15

Congrats on your demo! I may be doing one in the summer for my town's
Community Week, so that should be pretty cool.
--
CoreTechs
Quoted message said:
<> UNICYCLE FOR CHRIST<><

In nomine patris et filii et spiritus sancti
Mikefule said:
As an alternative hypothesis of equal validity, God did not design us to
ride unicycles.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
CoreTechs's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/15629
View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/51364
Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services
----------------------------------------------------------
http://www.usenet.com

Report