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  1. Original post
    Andrew_carter
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    Sorry to make a new thread about this but I really want to
    get lots of content up at tutorials.unicyclist.com nice and
    early and I thought more people would read this this way.

    I'm going to continue making lots of video tutorials for the
    site, but it'll take many months to get through everything I
    want to cover on my own. I'd really like people to
    contribute tips or tutorials on the following skills/topics.
    They don't have to be anything fancy, just text is fine
    (although photos and videos are more than more than welcome
    🙂). Here's what I'd love to get tips on, I'm not
    :saying you're
    restricted to these ones though...

    FREESTYLE SKILLS
    - Riding seat in front
    - Riding seat out back
    - One foot riding
    - One foot idling
    - Backwards riding
    - Wheel walking
    - One foot wheel walking
    - Gliding
    - Coasting
    - Spins
    - Piroutettes
    - Seat drags front and back
    - Standup wheel walking
    - Side on side
    - Unispins
    - Kickup mount
    - Other fancy mounts
    - Anything else I've missed

    STREET SKILLS We'll add a section for street stuff I think
    if we get some contributions...
    - Grinding
    - Shifties
    - Foot plants?
    - No footers (I only know of one person doing these)

    TRIALS SKILLS
    - Effective use of the pre-hop
    - Crank grabs
    - Pedal grabs
    - High hopping seat out
    - High hopping seat in
    - Gapping seat out
    - Gapping seat in
    - Maybe something on motivating yourself to do
    something scary?
    - High rolling hops

    MUNI SKILLS
    - Picking a good line
    - Rolling out of drops
    - Hopping with any pedal orientation
    - Cross country muni training, motivation, etc.
    - Riding in snow?
    - Northshore riding
    - Effective braking

    OBSTACLE BUILDING
    - Anything at all

    MISCELLANEOUS
    - Anything miscellaneous

    MAINTENANCE
    - General unicycle maintenance
    - Splined hub maintenance
    - Wheel truing
    - Bearing holder tightness
    - Application of anti-seize/locktite (there you go John 🙂)
    - Cleaning out a water-logged unicycle
    - Seat upgrades, fixes, etc.
    - What tools to pack when out riding?
    - Washing your unicycle
    - Pedal servicing

    That's all I can think of for the most important things.
    As you can imagine the site's got a lot of potential but
    the more content it has from a range of sources, the
    better it will be.

    I know I'm asking a lot, but it has the chance to be really
    helpful to a lot of unicyclists and I really want to see
    that happen.

    If you've got anything to contribute the easiest way is
    probably just to post it in this thread...or you can email
    it to me at andrew_carter (at) mail (dot) com .

    Thanks a lot, Andrew

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  2. Robbie
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    I'd love to but I'm not really a great unicyclist. But if
    I get my grindplates working I'll show how I made them
    and stuff.

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  3. Danny Colyer
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    an drew_carter said:

    If you've got anything to contribute the easiest way is
    probably just to post it in this thread...

    Questions about how the law relates to unicyclists in
    different countries are quite common. I wonder if it might
    be worth "Law" having its own section, rather than sticking
    it in miscellaneous.

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  4. Andrew_carter
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    Yeh, that'd be ideal Robbie. But if you're willing to give
    some tips, they'd be more than welcome. Since you haven't
    been unicycling for as long as some others (although it has
    been a while now) the learning process for some of the
    skills will be fresher in your mind. Use that to your
    advantage if, you'd like to help.

    Thanks.

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  5. Mike.Hinson
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    Could we use something like this to bring it all together?

    wikibooks.orgUnicycling

    I am no expert in this area but it looks like a good way to
    share the development of documentation about unicycling.

    /\/\

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  6. Andrew_carter
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    Danny, I'll talk to Peter about that, but I'm not sure it's
    neccessary. Law related information seems to me to fit well
    in miscellaneous given that the site is mainly about tips
    and tutorials. I have absolutely no doubt that law info is a
    really helpful addition to the site though. I'll talk to
    Peter about it.

    Mike, This site is being created for an assignment that
    Peter is doing for school. I don't see any major difference
    between that layout and Peter's...am I missing something?
    Peter's site will also be able to be formatted exactly how
    we want it to be and we'll probably have headings in there
    and that sort of thing to group together video tutorials,
    photo analyses, and text, and that sort of thing.

    Just a general question, do you think it's okay to quote
    what people have posted in r.s.u, etc (and give them full
    credit) without asking permission first? Because it will
    require a lot of work otherwise.

    Thanks, Andrew

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  7. Joemarshall
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    andrew_carter said:

    *Mike, This site is being created for an assignment that
    Peter is doing for school. I don't see any major
    difference between that layout and Peter's...am I missing
    something? Peter's site will also be able to be formatted
    exactly how we want it to be and we'll probably have
    headings in there and that sort of thing to group together
    video tutorials, photo analyses, and text, and that sort
    of thing. *

    The big difference is that a wiki, like what mike is
    pointing at, can be edited by anyone, rather than needing to
    be maintained all the time. Maintaining sites is great when
    you're enthusiastic and starting off on a site, but not so
    when you've had it for a couple of years and need to update
    something.

    They don't need to be bare and nasty, you can use
    stylesheets to make your wiki look nice, like this -
    unu.nottingham.ac.uk~pineapple and they support
    things like headings and formatting.

    We use one at work to track hard to document information,
    useful tips etc. and it's really useful for that, because
    it's so quick to update.

    To put in videos or images, once they're in the gallery you
    can put them into wiki pages. The combination of a gallery
    and a well setup wiki is pretty similar in power as a full
    html website and much much easier to add updates to.

    The difficult thing about a wiki is that it requires some
    cgi scripts, so on unicyclist.com would require you to get
    gilby to install them.

    Joe

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  8. Andrew_carter
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    Thanks Joe, I didn't notice that. They do seem very useful,
    but like I said, the design of an original website is part
    of Peter's assignment. I know I wouldn't mind updating the
    site for many years if Peter can tell me how to do it (once
    it's all finished).

    John Glazer sent me some great tips on a few different
    areas. I'm sure they didn't take him very long to do and
    they will most likely really help somebody trying to learn
    those skills. Is nobody else willing to spend two minutes to
    write tips on something? There are lots to choose from. 🙂

    Thanks, Andrew

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  9. Tassilo
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    Check your PM's. 😉.

    greets, Tassilo

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  10. Joemarshall
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    andrew_carter said:

    *Thanks Joe, I didn't notice that. They do seem very
    useful, but like I said, the design of an original website
    is part of Peter's assignment. I know I wouldn't mind
    updating the site for many years if Peter can tell me how
    to do it (once it's all finished). *

    A wiki is an original website, just one that happens to be
    editable once it is done. It would be more of a technical
    challenge to do though, because he'd have to learn a bit
    about server side stuff and learn what a wiki is and how to
    integrate one into a website effectively.

    unicycling.org is a perfect example of a site that would be
    better off as a wiki. It's something like ten years old,
    it's got loads of data on there, but pretty much any part of
    it that can be is a bit out of date, for example the airseat
    instructions are only for miyata seats, there are no videos
    of anything, the equipment suggestions are way out of date,
    there's practically nothing relating to muni/trials etc.
    I've got some mounting videos in my gallery, if it was a
    wiki, I could just click on edit this page on the mounting
    page and then add a link to them. If anyone finds a
    description that isn't clear, they can quickly fix it.

    The other cool thing about wikis is that things get
    automatically linked around, for example if you've got a
    page called "Standard Mount" and you put standard mount into
    your list of freestyle skills, it automatically links it to
    that page.

    Joe

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  11. Mike.Hinson
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    joemarshall said:

    *

    A wiki is an original website, just one that happens to be
    editable once it is done. It would be more of a technical
    challenge to do though, because he'd have to learn a bit
    about server side stuff and learn what a wiki is and how
    to integrate one into a website effectively.

    unicycling.org is a perfect example of a site that would
    be better off as a wiki. It's something like ten years
    old, it's got loads of data on there, but pretty much any
    part of it that can be is a bit out of date, for example
    the airseat instructions are only for miyata seats, there
    are no videos of anything, the equipment suggestions are
    way out of date, there's practically nothing relating to
    muni/trials etc. I've got some mounting videos in my
    gallery, if it was a wiki, I could just click on edit this
    page on the mounting page and then add a link to them. If
    anyone finds a description that isn't clear, they can
    quickly fix it.

    The other cool thing about wikis is that things get
    automatically linked around, for example if you've got a
    page called "Standard Mount" and you put standard mount
    into your list of freestyle skills, it automatically links
    it to that page.

    Joe *

    I think there is something very compelling about being able
    to instantly correct any errors you find on a web site..
    However I do understand that in Andrew's case he is trying
    to assist Peter with a school poject of creating a web site
    so this thread is more concentrated on helping provide new
    content for that project (fair enough). I do hope however
    that a wiki Unicycling book (or what ever it should be
    called) could grow out of this project.

    I also think that the Wiki structure might lend its self to
    gathering some of the information for Andrew & Peter to use.

    Anyone fance giving it a go? Then we can all see what has
    been contributed & be encouraged to help... Please give it a
    try anyway here: wikibooks.orgUnicycling

    Thanks, /\/\

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  12. Andrew_carter
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    I also think that the Wiki structure might lend its
    self to gathering some of the information for Andrew &
    Peter to use.


    Sounds like a great idea to me.

    Andrew

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  13. Andrew_carter
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    Wow, whoever has written those tips that are up at
    wikibooks.orgUnicycling , thanks a lot.

    Andrew

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  14. Danny Colyer
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    andrew_carter wondered:

    Quoted message said:

    Just a general question, do you think it's okay to quote
    what people have posted in r.s.u, etc (and give them full
    credit) without asking permission first? Because it will
    require a lot of work otherwise.

    If someone doesn't set their headers to prevent their posts
    being cached by Google then I think it's fair to assume that
    their posts are intended to provide a permanent source of
    information to others. So yes, I think it's OK to quote what
    people have posted, with credit.

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