I was watching the IUF Skill Levels video the other day and a thought came to
me…(besides WOW!)…why is there no classification for artistic DISMOUNTS?
Seems like there would be as many interesting ways to get off a unicycle
as there are to get on…for example some of the mounts could be performed
in reverse.
I was thinking that each skill level would basically end with one new dismount,
similar to the way that the 10 mounts are incorporated in it now.
> I was watching the IUF Skill Levels video the other day and a thought came to > me…(besides WOW!)…why is there no classification for artistic DISMOUNTS? > > Seems like there would be as many interesting ways to get off a unicycle as > there are to get on…for example some of the mounts could be performed in > reverse.
There’s one non standard dismount I use sometimes as the end of my routine: from
idling jumping to handstand. It means handstand on the floor, dropping the
unicycle, NOT handstand on the uni while riding.
> I have seen alot of creative dismounts. I’m not to sure as to how many could > be duplicated.
Aah, I remember them well! You never (usually) have a camera handy when you want
one. But sometimes you do: http://www.unicycling.com/unifoss/thingnot/dontdo.htm#25 (the picture was not
staged – I just asked him to wait a minute while I got the shot)
Hmm… Everytime I try to Muni I do LOTS of artistic
dismounts! jd
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artistic dismounts
> I was watching the IUF Skill Levels video
the other day and > a thought came to me…(besides WOW!)…why is > there no
classification for artistic > DISMOUNTS? > > Seems like there would be as many
interesting ways to get > off a unicycle as there are to get on…for > example some of
the mounts could > be performed in reverse.
There's one non standard dismount I use
sometimes as the end of my routine: from idling
jumping to handstand. It means handstand on the
floor, dropping the unicycle, NOT handstand on
the uni while riding.
Wolfgang
>John P Dibble schrieb in Nachricht >> There’s one non standard dismount I use sometimes as the end of my routine: >> from idling jumping to handstand. It means handstand on the floor, dropping >> the unicycle, NOT handstand on the uni while riding. > > >You are joking, right? Can you really do that? How long did it take you to >learn that?
I’m not John P Dibble, but on the other hand it was me who wrote those lines.
There has been some messing up with citing.
Anyway, I’m not kidding. It’s not that hard. It takes some guts to do it the
first time, but you will be surprised how easy it is, provided you are
comfortable with the handstand. The handstand took me much longer to learn than
the transition itself.
Doug Williams wrote: >| used to practice going from the uni into a forward roll (or tumble >actually) and from there I could easily see going into a hand stand >(i.e.easy for people with talent, not myself). But I’m not clear what’s going > on here in the transition: are you jumping straight off the uni into a > hand stand? Yikes!
Yes, it’s just jumping from idling to hand stand. No rolling, no tumbling,
nothing else. Just watch your ellbows to be not straigthended when coming down.
You will need to bend them for absorbing the shock.
>Wolfgang Stroessner wrote: >> >> Doug Williams wrote: >> >| used to practice going from the uni into a forward roll (or tumble >> >actually) and from there I could easily see going into a hand stand >> >(i.e.easy for people with talent, not myself). But I’m not clear what’s >> > going on here in the transition: are you jumping straight off the uni >> > into a hand stand? Yikes! >> >> Yes, it’s just jumping from idling to hand stand. No rolling, no tumbling, >> nothing else. Just watch your ellbows to be not >straigthended >> when coming down. You will need to bend them for absorbing the shock. >> >> Wolfgang
>I’d like to see that! Could you make an MPEG?
Sorry, but I can’t. I dont have the technical facilities for making mpegs. And a
photo doesn’t get the point. So I doubt you have to wait for UNICON X or any
other convention we meet.
> I was watching the IUF Skill Levels video the other day and a thought came to > me…(besides WOW!)…why is there no classification for artistic DISMOUNTS? > > Seems like there would be as many interesting ways to get off a unicycle as > there are to get on…for example some of the mounts could be performed in > reverse.
We thought about dismounts at the time the levels were being made, but there
just aren’t any dismounts that are hard. Getting off the unicycle, even if it’s
by reversing a side mount or even a kick-up, is still relatively easy.
We thought about it for Standard Skill too, but there were enough other figures
to worry about, and most accomplished riders wouldn’t use them because they
wouldn’t be worth enough points.
But dismounts can definitely be cool, and there’s plenty of room to invent and
display them in the many events of Freestyle.
Wayne van Wijk wrote: > > My favourite is always the “Tah Tan Gah” dismount during wild games of > unicycling wrestling.
The word sounds familiar to me (Dances with the wolf?), but how does this Tah
Tan Gah dismount work? I can imagine something, but I am interested in some
official explanation.
John P Dibble schrieb in Nachricht > There’s one non standard dismount I use sometimes as the end of my routine: > from idling jumping to handstand. It means handstand on the floor, dropping > the unicycle, NOT handstand on the uni while riding.
You are joking, right? Can you really do that? How long did it take you to
learn that?
| used to practice going from the uni into a forward roll (or tumble
actually) and from there I could easily see going into a hand stand (i.e. easy
for people with talent, not myself). But I’m not clear what’s going on here in
the transition: are you jumping straight off the uni into a hand stand? Yikes!
Doug Williams Montreal
Wolfgang Stroessner wrote in message
<199904230627.IAA10166@us2005.wdf.sap-ag.de>… >John P Dibble schrieb in Nachricht >> There’s one non standard dismount I use sometimes as the end of my routine: >> from idling jumping to handstand. It means handstand on the floor, dropping >> the unicycle, NOT handstand on the uni while riding. > > >You are joking, right? Can you really do that? How long did it take you to >learn that?
I’m not John P Dibble, but on the other hand it was me who wrote those lines.
There has been some messing up with citing.
Anyway, I’m not kidding. It’s not that hard. It takes some guts to do it the
first time, but you will be surprised how easy it is, provided you are
comfortable with the handstand. The handstand took me much longer to learn than
the transition itself.
Wolfgang Stroessner wrote: > > Doug Williams wrote: > >| used to practice going from the uni into a forward roll (or tumble > >actually) and from there I could easily see going into a hand stand > >(i.e.easy for people with talent, not myself). But I’m not clear what’s going > > on here in the transition: are you jumping straight off the uni into a > > hand stand? Yikes! > > Yes, it’s just jumping from idling to hand stand. No rolling, no tumbling, > nothing else. Just watch your ellbows to be not straigthended when coming > down. You will need to bend them for absorbing the shock. > > Wolfgang
My favorite dismount is the unicycle prat fall either forward or backward. You
basically put one foot down then throw your weight into a roll. It looks really
cool, in front of an audience that realizes the actual TAH TAN GAH aspect of it.
Now to learn to do it in reverse, lay on the ground and fall up on to the
unicycle and ride away