With the weather turning, I decided to take my uni to the gym tonight instead of the playground.
It was incredible! My spins, which on the playground were a tad choppy to start and hard to keep going, suddenly turned in to smoothly started spins resolving into pirouettes! I couldn’t believe it I think the best pirouette I came out of was about 1-1/2 rotations. I could spin until I was too dizzy and had to stop in both directions! I could turn backwards, turn on one foot (forwards), do forward unispins, all this stuff that I really struggled with before.
Thie biggest trouble was stopping the spins and turns. I think I was forcing them like I had to on the pavement and so my 90s became 270s pretty easy and I couldn’t stop to change directions in a figure eight, the inertia kept me turning one direction.
What a blast! I’ll hate to go outside with my freestyle again!!
Threadjack - how did you know the gym would let you ride inside? I’m almost embarrassed to call a local gym and ask. Figure they’ll say no you’ll scrape up our floor, or just laugh at my unicycleness.
I just got a new Primo The Wall tire on my uni, where my old one was a 2.1, this was a 1.8 or whatever, AND I got to ride on a poured concrete floor (which is actually nicer than a gym because it’s so flat and smooth). I could do a half-rev into a two-spin pirouette no problem. It was crazy!
How you got to ride in a gym, I’ll never know. I have an awesome juggling club in my area that meets in the front lobby of a university building three times a week, so I get to practice my freestyle there when it’s wet and cold out in the wintertime. awesome stuff.
When I made tentative enquiries at the university gym they implied that I would have to hire the whole hall, just so that I could ride in it. I decided not to.
Forgiveness before permission!
That’s my my favorite life-motto!!!
I just showed up and started riding next to the people playing pick-up basketball.
I am also quiet and respectful and give them no reason to evict me! I’v been bact several times since this post and seemed to raise no eyebrows.
Give it a go. What’s the worst thing, they say shoo?
On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 14:37:56 -0600, cathwood wrote:
>When I made tentative enquiries at the university gym they implied that
>I would have to hire the whole hall, just so that I could ride in it. I
>decided not to.
Sounds like the next North Wales unimeet should be in that gym, so you
can share the burden between aaaaaall the participants.
Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict
“erectile function trumps public image - David Stone, commenting on the importance of seat comfort”
Actually the North Wales Unimeet met in the Gronant Institute for our first indoor meet on Sunday. It was great. We had a good turn out and the hall is inexpensive to hire.