Re: Team Insania Uni Directory

dr.melon said:

Well I firstly I said that it wasn't finished. Also Team Insania doesn't
do muniing, and what did the third one have anything to do with
anything?!

If you have a site that says 'the 3 styles of unicycling' then it's not
surprising that people will moan about you missing out the other 3 or 4
obvious styles of unicycling.

You missed out muni, distance riding, commuting/getting around riding
and plain old circus style riding whilst juggling.

Also you say 'not only is freestyle a well known term in bmx'. Which is
true. But doesn't it mean something different? I think flatland in bmx
is the same as freestyle unicycling. Freestyle bmxing is done on ramps
too.

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dr.melon said:

Yes I know there are a bajillion small types such as unicycling while
eating icecream covered bananas, but I wanted to cover the 3 mainstream
types.

Also, I didn't write it 🙂 Go to "source" and complain to them.

They aren't the 3 main types. They're just 3 types that you guys happen
to ride.

The main types of riding are for sure just riding around (by far), then
muni (amongst adults) & trials (amongst mainly kids and a few adults) ,
hockey, and maybe freestyle in some countries. Street is just a cool
name for riding trials fast and with flow, it's kind of hard to see why
it needs to be called something different.

It seems rather dumb of you to post on here seeking comments and then
to moan at anyone who posts constructive advice.

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You know, I think the site covering just those aspects is perfect. You
don't need anything else. I gurantee Muni, and juggle won't spread
unicycling anything like street and trials will. I disagree a bit with
teh freestyle part, but if it's right in the most then it's fine. I
would like to see street's definition containing the fact that one
should not hop, and it should be all movement (flow), once movement
stops (hops) it becomes trials, or freestyle. Good street riders don't
hop.

-Shaun Johanneson

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I feel discriminated haha, the three main styles? Shaun, you're totally
missing the point, street and trials might convince more people to ride
but firstly I know plenty of people who got into riding just to do MUni
or commuting so that's a pretty [censored] argument. It's not about
convincing other people to ride, it says here as a fact that the *three
main styles* are Trials, Street and Freestyle. How about road? There
were 126 registered participants at the Marathon in Unicon I don't call
that a small group... Look at all the people who ride MUni, without
Kris pushing MUni to its limits we might even not have had splined
unicycles!

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street might have more appeal to skaters and bmxers, but i know that
more bikers appreciate muni. when i tell people i've ridden X trail on
a unicycle, they freak out because it's hard on a bike. if i told the
same folks i did a 180 down a 7 stair set. they'd be like "oh that's
nice". it all depends on who you're dealing with.

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Nothing wrong with a site for specific styles.

I just have a problem with the site calling those styles the 3 main
types.

It's misinformation.

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Muni isn't attractive to the largest group of potention people. Teens,
yes adults may want to learn, and be attracted to the Muni part, but
open minded teens to unicycling out number adults crazy like,
(population increase helps too). Met this guy yesterday at my
skatepark, he came from Minn. He said he has seen unicyclists before
but not doing anything like i'm doing. I called them gym riders, he
thought the style was lame. I laughed. One person doesn't really man
anything, but in that group most people would rather see trials/street
over freestyle. (8 set jump looks more appealing than backwards
coasting to a person with NO knowledge, at least they know the 8 set
has a danger factor. We're talking about the person doing either case
succeeding.)

I think the unicycling world is a little bit weak. I like a lot of the
people that ride (whether they like me, know not) but I wish people
would have alittle more attitude and not be so nicey-nice fake like.

-Shaun Johanneson

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I know you love me Shaun, and I love you too, but this isn't about what
style teens prefer, it's about main styles of riding. I completely
agree with you that street and trials looks more impressive than the
other styles named above, a 6 foot gap will impress more than most
freestyle tricks. Point is that there's more than 3 main styles of
riding.

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unifreak7 said:

Muni isn't attractive to the largest group of potention people. Teens,
yes adults may want to learn, and be attracted to the Muni part, but
open minded teens to unicycling out number adults crazy like,
(population increase helps too).

I think that may be debatable. I do agree that most teens would want
to learn about street, but for first getting a person's attention to
become interested in the sport I think would most likely be Muni.
Anything that involves tricks might still have that "circusy" aspect to
it in the eyes of the untrained.

Seeing professional videos of Kris Holm was the way that I became
interested in the sport, and I think that's the way you did too, right?
Obviously our main interests don't involve Muni at all, and I know
that I personally find it hard to find current Muni as fresh and
exciting to watch.

As for the internet site's moderator, I seriosuly doubt that it will be
that hard to write two sentences for three different style, or even
simply add "we do" at the end of "The 3 styles of unicycling."

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Quoted message said:

As for the internet site's moderator, I seriosuly doubt that it will be
that hard to write two sentences for three different style, or even
simply add "we do" at the end of "The 3 styles of unicycling."

Agreed

Quoted message said:

Seeing professional videos of Kris Holm was the way that I became
interested in the sport, and I think that's the way you did too, right?

True, but nothing else was really out there 6 years ago for me.

Quoted message said:

Anything that involves tricks might still have that "circusy" aspect to
it in the eyes of the untrained.

Rails? Just got to do the right trick, in the right area. lol

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Haha I love how you're being an ass and still changed the content 'The 3
styles of unicycling' instead of 'The 3 main styles of unicycling' no
one ever mentioned trick riding so stop making a fool out of yourself
man...

Now *start* being politically correct if you want people to actually
visit your website. If I put 'Street is done on 36" unicycles and the
street hour record is 27.18km by Patrick Schmid' then people are going
to argue about it too, you're giving misinformation and people thought
it good to mention it so you can change it. Don't ask for people's
opinions if you only want to hear good stuff.

-'Feel free to email us with any suggestions for content.'- Yeah
right...

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I'm not a big fan of misinformation.

For your types of unicycling maybe you should actually link to the page
you are sourcing. I actually don't even see "street" in wikipedias list
of Main Types of Unicycling
http://tinyurl.com/2teb97

I'm not saying that you need to include MUni or distance riding but
don't claim that there are only 3 types of riding.

For more proper refrence siting maybe try
http://www.unicycling.org/iuf/levels/ for your unicycling levels as
this is the official website.

Just some constructive criticism, overall not a bad website.

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i agree with dustin.

i think you should change it to something like "the 3 styles of
unicycling that we cover" or something similar.

that's just my opinion, please dont go nuts and have an arguement over
what i said.

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unifreak7 said:

True, but nothing else was really out there 6 years ago for me.

Good point.

unifreak7 said:

Rails? Just got to do the right trick, in the right area. lol

I think that rails are one of the more impressive things for a new
person to see too. The problem is that there are people out there who
may not appreciate the more tech stuff done. You might have to to do
the right trick, in the right place, to the right person as well,
unfortunately. I hate all the haters.

I think that one of the more powerful things about the sport is that it
is very diverse in terms of what area is more interesting to the
individual person. There might be a lot of downhill biker junkies and
would only become interested in the sport if they saw Muni.

I wish I could figure out the exact formula needed to make an online
video that would get a lot of non-unicyclists excited about unicycling,
rather than hating on it. So far I have a good idea as to what is
needed, but is very hard to execute. Hopefully I'll be able to use my
"formula" for my next vid.

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generaly

people on 36" wheels or bigger REALLY impress people who dont know much
about unicycling, as do people on giraffes. its also really impressive
to see somebody do like a 2m+ drop, the crowd loves that. while i'd
rather see a 1m hop up than a 2m drop down the general public would
probably rather see a drop down.

thats what i think anyway.

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dr.melon said:

4. I asked for advice that didn't involve going "waaah stop moaning
waaaah. I'm trying to give advice here waaah." I wanted advice from
trick riders, not once-a-month-down-at-the-park riders.

Aaah, where you went wrong was on saying 'feel free to email us with
suggestions' and 'complete guide to all aspects'

What you should have said was, hi, I'm a kid, I've made a badly edited
site with some text I ripped off a bunch of other sites, please tell us
how wonderful our site is, (complete with wobbly cam videos of us
riding massive one sets on trials unicycles, and not even managing to
get air off them).

To be honest though, most of the 'once-a-month-down-at-the-park' riders
who gave you advice could ride most of the stuff you're riding in those
videos on a coker, that's not trick riding, that's just getting around
town riding, what you want to be doing is practicing riding, so you get
some unique content to put on websites!

Joe

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