Teams

My teams:

Team J'ville Cycles- the bike shop that sponsors me- I'm the only
unicyclist

Team Unicycle.com- they supported me in my 24hr ride, and they usually
sponsor a team or two at the 12hr/24hr Mountainbike events

Team NZUNI- NZ riders riding overseas seem to have attached themselves
to this name

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zach_jucha said:

* And remember, technically Hell On Wheel came up with the idea before
anyone. BAM! *

YOUR WRONG!!!! they were like a year after *Muni Militia*

PS. even i never start a sentence with And.

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I NEVER MISTAKE "YOUR" (POSSESSIVE) WITH "YOU'RE" (CONTRACTION OF "YOU"
AND "ARE"😉!!!

MUAAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

i thought i was probably mistaken since i would assume there are a lot
of old freestyle teams and stuff. john foss could probably enlighten
us...

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As far as I'm concerned, I'm part of a "team" sponsored by a
jugglery/kite/unicycle/mountainboard... shop. I'm the only unicyclist,
others are mountain boarders.
this allows me to scratch my Tshirts and get some new ones, get some
free parts for my unis and even test some protos (like the Koxx One
Devil)...
The least I can do is mentionning my team when talking to the unicyclist
community (even if I very few english-speaking people know this french
shop).

It's certainly pure self-satisfaction but I like beeing part of a team
(and claming it 😉 )

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I am not part of a team, and I am not sponsored.

But I think being part of a team (I know some HOW members, and the
founder very well) gives the feeling of 'beloging together'. Also I'm
sure it pushes the people's limits and they develop regular habits like
'team meetings' and stuff like that.

I'm not against the idea of teams. I don't like the slogans they
sometimes use (we are the best, don't even think of competing with us
bla bla) [No offense to anybody, especially not HOW, where I've never
ever seen such a slogan].

wogri

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zach_jucha said:

*I NEVER MISTAKE "YOUR" (POSSESSIVE) WITH "YOU'RE" (CONTRACTION OF
"YOU" AND "ARE"😉!!! *

In fact 'wrong' can be used as a noun so 'your wrong' is not in itself
wrong therefore is the mistake with the reader or the writer? 😕

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zach_jucha said:

*I NEVER MISTAKE "YOUR" (POSSESSIVE) WITH "YOU'RE" (CONTRACTION OF
"YOU" AND "ARE"😉!!!

DOUBLE BAM!!!!!

i thought i was probably mistaken since i would assume there are a lot
of old freestyle teams and stuff. john foss could probably enlighten
us... *

Capital letters should be used for the personal pronoun "I" and initial
letters of proper nouns.

*At this point, s7ev0 eats shoots and leaves...*

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zach_jucha said:

*i thought i was probably mistaken since i would assume there are a
lot of old freestyle teams and stuff. john foss could probably
enlighten us... *

Hmmm. Not much in the way of teams. When we go to Unicon we have
national teams, even if we don't train or organize as a team. When we
get there, all the people from one country are on that "team."

We have Group Freestyle, so the people in each group can think of
themselves as teams, but it's not a word we really use. I think most
people think of themselves as groups.

Then there are unicycle clubs, who think of themselves as clubs. Even if
they're disorganized clubs, like the Gold Country Unicyclists, who don't
do much as a group.

To have a team, implies you have a sport or other place where your team
represents itself against other teams. We have basketball and hockey
teams. There are no teams in traditional unicycle racing, except
national teams.

But there have been teams of unicyclists who entered bicycle events. I
am honored to have been a member of Team Cyclops, who ride in the 24
Hours of Adrenaline at Laguna Seca every year. I love my Team Cyclops
jersey. But outside of a team competition event, I don't see the point
of being a team.

This includes being sponsored, to a point. If you are a member of a bike
(or other) team with a common sponsor, that's a fully legit team, even
if you never do any kind of competition with the rest of your team. But
just saying you have a team, for no apparent reason, seems to have no
apparent reason.

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Quoted message said:

In fact 'wrong' can be used as a noun so 'your wrong' is not in itself
wrong therefore is the mistake with the reader or the writer?

Quoted message said:

Capital letters should be used for the personal pronoun "I" and
initial letters of proper nouns.

....

*eats a can of paint*

it's interesting that so many people are actually sponsored. i'm
thinking of trying to get sponsored by someone since i desperately need
a new street/trials/flatland uni and don't have the money to buy one,
but i doubt anyone local would be able to supply me with that. any
ideas..? i plan on making a short video soon and i was thinking to use
it like a sponsor video.

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'Team Unicycle PA from Lansdale, PA. Check out some videos. And yes we
are newbies' (http://www.unicyclePA.com)
Leave us some feedback..
Later

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Team Primitive (sorry about spelling)
Dan, Brian, Jess, Mike, Saban, and another. Some of the most known
riders out there.
Team "Hell oh wheel"
No nothing about them, except for the hell on wheel vids. Don't know
their people though.
Team Hazard
Keaton Miller, Dallas Miller, Matt Markel, And Myself. Just the local
riders around here. We've got some skill. Ha.

-Shaun Johanneson

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Im on team M.U.N.I(montana unicycling nutcase
institoution:rolleyes🙂.consiting of me,my brother,my friend,and his
friend.

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johnfoss said:

To have a team, implies you have a sport or other place where your
team represents itself against other teams.

I think that sums it up in a nutshell. In the context of sport teams
are usually understood to be involved in competition. If you don't
compete then you basically have a club, group , gang or whatever you
want to call it.

That being said, the general definition of a team is a group of
individuals organized to work together to accomplish a specific
objective. That objective may be to compete in events, to promote
unicycling (Demo teams) or simply to get better at riding.

I've been invovled with the following teams on a unicycle:

Team J'ville Cycles- competing at a 12hr mountain bike race against
other teams of cyclists.

Team Unicycle.com- competing at various 12hr/24hr Mountainbike events
against other teams of cyclists, also long distance racing as part of a
relay team.

Team NZUNI- competing at Unicon (although for hockey and basketball we
usually end up combining with Australia).

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i have also been thinking about trying to get 'sponsored'. How exactly
did those of you who are 'sponsored' go about getting 'sponsored'?

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I tend to say I'm "in" a unicycle team when I'm taling to non riders who
want to know what i do on a uni. Then I will claim to being in the UK
unicycle team and goalie for the Uk Unicycle Hockey team, at some point
in the past I have belonged to the Thames valley Uni Hockey team and
team muni and the unicycle.com factory team ( for the Mountain mayhem).
Now i will lay claim to the South West Uni hockey team, even tho that
team only exsised at BUC last year for the duration of the hockey comp.
It helps people understand that this sport is real and gives an idea of
the numbers taking part.

Sarah

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Teams, huh? Well, the OneWheelNinjaSquad, which is incredibly cheesy,
began with me, my brother, and a couple friends deciding we needed a
name for our group of uni people, so that when somebody asks where are
our other wheels, we can gang beat them with swords. You need a gang to
gang beat somebody, and ninjas have swords, besides being completely
awesome. It's a cheesy "team", and doesn't really count. We have no
truly awesome skills, except for my brother's ability of riding straight
up 6 stairs...

I think teams are a good idea, it gives people who ride together a
reason to do so, recruit more people, etc. etc.

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balance."

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Hey Mike what happened to your website? I would check it out
occasionally but now there is something that is not by you guys. I
have learned to ride too. I wore out my first unicycle and have gotten
a better one. Vaughn is starting to learn as well. If you start a new
site let me know. My E-mail is [email hidden]

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zach_jucha said:

So, please discuss teams/your team/goats here

our team has a pet goat. his name is Billy, and he eats lots of grass.
the lawn kind, not the psychedelic kind.

no, seriously. anyway, anyone in the Most Replys Inner Scrotum is part
of the MR Unicycling Team, and that doesn't actually mean anything, we
just did it because everyone else was doing the team thing, and the
Most Replys gang is like a team.

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