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Who is your favorite rider? (Including style and ability)

I personally like Ryan Atkins lazy style and amazing precision.

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Tom Pec's my favorite rider from what I've seen of him.

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I used to be able to up 60cm with a sidehop, but now I can't even do
four pallets(54cm) properly. I can rolling hop up the four pallets very
consistently now(if I get the guts) which I couldn't do before at all.
Isn't this funny. Comes with lack of practice, I suppose, but I should
have much more free time soon.

Ryan Atkins is great. I also really like Zack Baldwin, but he doesn't
ride anymore. And I loved Nicolaj(spl?) from Fluck, he's insane.

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Its hard to say who my favorite is. Ryan is up there, as with Tom Pec. I
have seen way more of Ryan though. Id like to see a full trials video
of Tom.

Hmm, I cant really say much more, because I havent rode for almost a
month now. Waiting for my torn ligaments to bond back together before I
can do any jumping and wrecking again.

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Who's Tom Pec, if you don't mind me asking? I'd like to see some videos.

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Ive only seen him at the ends of some Koxx videos. There is one they
made called 'Koxx <3 Fluck' or something like that, and he has a few
moments in there.

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Danni said:

I love trials, but I fear that street is starting to become more
popular.

Don't worry about that. Just do what you love doing.

The sport's very young, and there are many directions you can take each
discipline in. Look how Zack integrated street into his trials. Or,
what about Keaton Miller? What do you call his riding style, strials?

MUni was the first 'extreme' side of unicycling to be popular, and then
with Kris Holm, Universe 1, and Profile cranks Trials gained more
popularity because it was something new. Suddenly a new field of
possibilities cropped up for unicyclists. And of course people like
Heaton were laying down the law with street back in 2000, but it took
people until Universe 2 to really catch up, and the amount of street
riders started growing. The second and third wave of riders to come
along since those movies have really revolutionized the sport. They
made it new and exciting. Also, there are a large number of prominent
street riders who possess unique styles all to their own. I don't know
how many riders have their own styles anymore since street's starting
to have trends just like any other street sport.

Who knows. Maybe something else, or someone else will come along and
do something new that a lot of people will get excited about and want
to join in on, too.

I will commend anyone that's proudly doing their own thing, regardless
of what's popular. Make up your own style, your own hybrid of
unicycling. Take what's out there and view it in a different context,
a different way, and go for it.

Even if trials were seen as completely stupid I would still be riding
it, because that's what I love. I love that competition with balance,
gravity, and my own mental/physical abilities.

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Even though "street" is seen as the new, cool side of unicycling, I
prefer and always have, trials.
I see trials as going back to the roots of extreme unicycling. Some of
the really influential riders from the early days I bet alot of the new
"street" kids have never even heard of! Ben Plotkin-Swing, Ben Turley,
Joey Cohn, Carl Hoyer and James Cowan, all complete legends and the
pioneers of unicycle trials.
My favorite video is still spaced out, by far!

Trials is not dead, and never will be!

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People only judge from this forum and from videos they see. At fluck I
noticed that in europe street and trials is nearly same popular. This
is crazy because trial is much harder to practise because you always
need new spots not like street where a flat space can be enough.
Also street rider have much more to discus in a forum. As a trials
rider you basicly do only rails, gaps, ups and drops.

My favourite rider if you judge from style is Zack Baldwin and in skill
Ryan Atkins and Kris Holm.

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saying trials is ____ and street is bad because its _____ or the other
way around is on a small scale how skaters and inline kids are these
days. I'd say that street and trials unicycling are VERY similar as
they embrace the same balance and principles. Trials riders should
play off of street riders they know and the same to street riders for
trials cyclists.

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How about some trials pics?

It's hard to guage just how high the hop is, but it's about 3 feet.

(I'm posting this for any beginners wondering what the apex of a good
side-hop looks like. This is an example of good tucking).

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When I get into bigger (pre-hop) SIF hops I like to keep my seat away
from my head and body. I've bumped my seat into my chin before, as
well as my collar bone, chest, etc. Not the most fun. Keeping the
seat away from me on the bigger hops helps me to angle my unicycle
better, if I need to tilt my unicycle to get an extra cm or so.

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What do you people do to combat the rubbing on the front/inside of your
leg from were the back of the seat rubs when ever you hop or jump? I
wear cyling shorts but they dont quite go down that far and I normaly
wear cut off jeans but it still rubs realy bad.

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sp4rky-m4rky said:

Moving on from the argument.....

What do you people do to combat the rubbing on the front/inside of your
leg from were the back of the seat rubs when ever you hop or jump? I
wear cyling shorts but they dont quite go down that far and I normaly
wear cut off jeans but it still rubs realy bad.

that only seems to bother me after very long rides... it used to alot i
guess i've gotten used to it. My shorts tend to wear down in that area
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I wear board shorts, or dickies black pants. When you ride SIF you
don't want to have the back of the seat pressing on your pants. You do
have it close, but try not to have the back of the seat pushing into
your legs.

The more you practice, the better you get at it. And your legs get
used to it, the more you ride SIF. One way to practice is what I call
the "Baldwin Squats." To warm up for a trials ride, I take my seat out
in front of me, and squat with my unicycle, trying to get down really
far while pushing my seat way out in front of me. Then, I ride 100 or
so feat seat out, all the while trying to relax my arm and legs into
letting me put the seat really far out in front of me, and I also squat
down and ride the last half of that 100 feet in this way. It should
get to the point, in your riding, that you don't consciously 'feel'
your arm holding on to the seat. You'll be more focused on what you're
riding, what you're doing, your lines.

It's the same with hopping. The first time I tried hopping, my fingers
hurt the next day from holding on to the seat. The pain didn't go away
until I let things heal, and take hopping one step at a time, until my
body was used to it. Now, even wearing gloves, I have callouses on my
fingers in the joint areas, where I hold onto my seat.

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Yeah I love trials. Tis' why I started you know. I am not very good yet,
but that comes with time. I have that problem with my shorts wearing
out and the better at sif you get the less it happens/not as bad.

What is you dream trials unicycle? What crankset do you prefer? I got
moment 150's for the trials I am building up.

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TrialsUni said:

How about some trials pics?

It's hard to guage just how high the hop is, but it's about 3 feet.

(I'm posting this for any beginners wondering what the apex of a good
side-hop looks like. This is an example of good tucking).

Good tucking. But a good hop will not come from just tucking the uni
all the way to your butt.For example, I can tuck all the way to my
butt, but my heigest hop is around 28". You have to learn a few things
to work with your tuck to get your maximum hop height. 1) tuck with
your legs, don't bring your upper body down 2)time the tuck with the
compression 3) stand up immidiately after landing on the obeject, if
you stay tucked you will lose balance pretty easily.

an accomplishment for me? about a week ago (a little over 1 year of
trials riding for me) I landed a 27" up static no-prehop. I figure
after a couple of rides learning effective prehops i should be able to
manage around 30".

and finally, how many people are running 150's on their trials set up?
I have a DX hub, and the 125's are way to short. I've got 150's from my
muni on there right now as an experiement, and i think I'm gonna order
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usually always

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I run 145mm profiles which are actually 147s. I love the length, it
gives great control for rails.

If I really try, I can turn and hit my pedal on the cement. It isn't a
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Well profiles are really close to 150's only 5mm off. 150's seem like a
good length for all trials riding. I shall talk about it when I get
mine all built up. It would be if it wasn't for those damn defective kh
hubs. I really hope I can get a replacement.

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