hecklar said:*Unispin = uni spins, duh, but not body
Bodyspin = body spins, duh, but not uni
Hoptwist/Spin = body and uni spin together
Personally, i don't like the term Hoptwist, and prefer Spin*
I like the list. Here's a bit of background:
Hoptwist makes sense for static hops with twists. Since it's impossible
(so far) to do anything close to 360° without any kind of pre-winding
up, it's only a twist but not a spin.
But when you go off a drop, it's possible to rotate all the way around,
or farther.
Unispin is the name we coined for those things where you jump up and
spin the uni. Before Unispin, we called them 180s, 360s, etc. So there
is some old precedence on using those numbers for the Unispin.
Basically, as I've mentioned before, confusion will continue until
somebody starts compiling all these names and matching them up with
detailed descriptions of what the move looks like. Since we did this in
the 1980s for what is now the Standard Skill List, those tricks have
"official" names. An effort will have to be made to do the same thing
for the wider range of moves possible in Street riding before we'll have
a solid frame of reference.
When this happens, it would be fun to try to trace the more interesting
moves to their origins, to see if we can find a record of where they
were first seen, and who did them.
Example: Kick-up mount. Daniel Dumeng (Puerto Rico), 1982. First seen by
the larger unicycling community at the 1982 National Unicycle Meet in
Minnesota. Other performers probably used it 50 years earlier, but we
don't have any record of that. Even if they did, it was Daniel who
brought it to the "general unicycling public."
So I kind of like the name Hopt-wist for static twists. Hop-spin sounds
better to me for anything that's 360° or greater.
As to referring to any of these tricks with just the numbers, you will
always be at risk of requiring people to ask which kind you meant. Later
on, one type may become the more dominant, but for now I recommend being
specific.
Unless Hecklar meant "Spin" instead of Hop-spin. Since you and the uni
spin together, why not just call it a spin? "I spun a 360 off that
stairset!" If you imply you did it in the air, maybe all you have to say
is spin. Otherwise you'd need to add the hop or something to clarify it
wasn't just your tire grinding into the pavement (regular spin).
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