15 minute stillstand... is this for real?

General
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http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/pam/2004/08/17/oped/ding.cervantes.html

apparently a guy at unicon, Richam Almacera, won the forward slow with a time of 51 minutes, 43 seconds. AND stillstood for a record 15 minutes. AND took second in the DH, Uphill, and XC races. is this story truthful?

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I thought that you had to have foreward movement at all times in the foreward slow. Or did I read this wrong.

mike

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you read it wrong, read it again till you read it right, then memorize it in six different languages.

The slow race and still stand were seperate. : )

Andrew

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For real

I assure you, he did a 15 minute stillstand. I experienced it firsthand. Not only that, he had a controlled dismount when 15 minutes was annouced. I bet he could of gone longer if he wanted.

As for the slow race, and muni events, I’m not sure how “Jing” did.

You can check the official pdf results on the IUF website.

Later,

Jess

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thats absolutely mental

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Re: 15 minute stillstand… is this for real?

must be
i saw a photo of it
impressive skill

:wink:

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Yup, those stillstand photos.

Tell you this, a stillstand photo is a lot less boring than a stillstand video! :smiley:

I have some of that, but not the whole thing. The 15 minutes was absolutely for real, with a big crowd of witnesses. If the guys had been parked on 3" diameter pieces of wood, they would have stayed on them just fine.

But the article had some bad numbers in it:

  • Unicon did not have 3000 participants (about 1400)

  • Almacera did his slow race in 51.43, not 51:43 (a big difference). As is often the case, the slow race judges were trained in the am, then judged the world’s best slow racers. In other words, not the greatest judging, with a strong tendency toward being lenient*. But this is not uncommon in our unicycling world, and it’s clear Richam and Alrich were both very good at this type of balancing in any case!

  • The description of the “Stillstand event” including supposed rules of mounting, was fairly bogus. But there’s no telling what the Almaceras thought of things, as this was their first unicycle convention.

I liked this quote from the article: “Since their return from international victory, Almacera and other members of the Philippine team have yet to get any contratulatory note from anyone.” – Anyone else have a similar experience? :frowning:

In spite of some crooked facts, a nice article about the return of the Fhilipino team from Unicon, and a little background about the Almacera brothers! Some reporters are very careful with their details and numbers, while others are, shall I say, very hurried. :slight_smile:

  • More about slow race judging: One of the track officials out there actually passed out from the heat. Give them a little slack. But yes, we need better-trained track officials!
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Hi John, is there any albums or any place that we can download stillstand videoes from?

Just so I know exactly what I’m aiming for the next time I wobble past my current 00:14.30 personal best, is 15:00.00 the Official World Record for stillstands?

cheers
Pete