I know a lot of unicycle riders ride as a hobby. Do anyone include unicycle riding in their business?
For a few years I have been teaching unicycling. I have been paid quite often in the past although now my unicycle teaching is mostly voluntary. All the guys who work at Unicycle.co.nz have riding as part of their business- they have to to qualify as a unicyclist. A lot of performers use unicycles as a prop.
My current role is an assistant Bike Safety instructor. It is quite rewarding, even if it is with a trainer wheel- it still involves riding and getting other people out and active.
Hi, I’m Rowan, and today I’ll be demonstrating how [post=1988634]one can use their skull[/post] to safely absorb the impact of a fall!
Hey, if Bush can be president, I guess it should come as no surprise that Rowan can teach “safety”. Keep at it Rowan, one day you’ll be able to drop “assistant” from that title.
Ho man, my tummy hurts, thanks for the laugh…
And what a fine role-model you are to your students.
Well done.
Unicycling Clown
No clowning around like some of us. Only “Safety First”…
I “Clown” first and safety second.
Paid “Unicycling Clown” for CBC Doc Zone “Are We Digital Dummies?”
Some of us are performers. Others are sponsored. There are many levels of being sponsored, but even the most basic are still business-oriented. And a few of us have probably won cash prizes for unicycling. There were cash prizes in Ride The Lobster, where 10th place netted my team $100 CAN; enough for a tank and a half of gas in our team van! 
I fill in “unicyclist” at the field ‘occupation’ at my tax filings since before I left school. And “unicyclist (performer) at events” is the litery what my anual certificat of independancy of the tax institute translates to, as it’s my main source of income. At some exceptional points I made an aweful lot of money in no-time, that I was ashamed to talk about it with common people (mainly because others can’t deal with it). Thoug the anual balance isn’t spectaculair (that’s all I say). And since the believe of a big financial crisis incubated many minds, I can’t be surprised the budgets for hiring unicyclist decreased significant, and I’m forced to anticipate or bind in. Just like anyone else in the entertainment branche, and not just there.
I’ve never had a regular dayjob, but being selfemployed is not always that fantastic as it may seem, thoug in total I don’t think I have a legitimate reason to complain.
Teaching to be assertive and defensive when needed in days where the separation between civilian and militairy fades away and rent-a-cop[1] or rent-army[2] or rent-a-forensic[3] or rent-a-spy[4] and even rent-a-judge[5] and in particular fake-police[6] are all tolerated to behave illegal, yes, is something nobel. I can understand your expressed admiration, as I guess you’re more conformed to the camp of walking in line because CCTV is watching you closely at pretty much every street nowedays, and as you live in a country that does not allow free protest.
[1] like the over countless, at least 5000(!), institutions that are allowed to tap your phone(s), including commercial security companies.
[2] like Joost Prins’ Blackwater
[3] like IT experts dealing with CP, or ‘expresse’ DNA tests.
[4] the ex-KGB or ex-Stasi or ex-Securitate etc. that now operate commercially.
[5] lawyers of the same law-firm of one of the parties their legal advisers, who in cival cases “roulate” to be judge.
[6] those fake police dumbasses who don’t have a productive job, just to delude unemployment rates.
I will spare the details about programs that currently run in the UK that resticts children that -according asumptions based on DNA structures- have a higher risk to do something illegal. Bottomline is, yes, you’re right; someone who drops the line at pointless and illegal surpression of regardless whatever, even to some seemingly meaningless activities like unicycling, is in deed a fine role-model.
Meu deus, I can see a correlation; I think you have to much time to make such long-winded posts.
We have a saying that goes “choose your battles wisely”.
Standing up to a tyrannical government is nobel.
Arguing with a traffic cop is pointless.
You’re welcome. At least I am out there doing what I love, while you sit there criticising what I do from the safety of your net.
Thank you, and your quote is out of context. My students were not witness to my impatient language, so the words I used are not too important in demonstrating safety. I could have chosen safer words when dealing with the Police but at the time my wick was at an end.
Thank you Leo. Good on you for your inspirational professional unicycling success!
Arguing with a cop (no such thing as traffic cops in NZ) has a point when the cop is ignorant and needs enlightening, especially if you have been over it many times with other cops. Arguing with you is pointless because you don’t have a point and you argue for straw men with no legs. You don’t take your own advice about choosing battles wisely, or you would not have started such a weak argument here.
Maybe not, but they can read about it here and think it’s ok to tell the police to f*ck off.
Good work!
I never knew people could “love” eating troll bait.
Glad I can fulfill that need for you.
Safety? …as if there’s a danger in any of this?
The only danger here is that you might end up wearing a helmet one day.
Enlightenment? As if you’re the Dalai Lama and you giving an attitude to a public servant is doing him some favor?
This thread is lulz-worthy!
lololol i love this thread!
and look at the tags, they’re even more funny!
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