The thing that I don’t like about trickless big street is that there are very few things to it.
Let’s see:
Rolling hop length
Rolling hop height
Ability to take rolling drops
Grinding as big a rail as possible
Being able to combine rolling hop length and height
So, in a video, what you get as a result is:
The biggest high jump you can do,
the biggest stair set you can clear,
the longest gap you can clear,
the biggest drop you can do,
the biggest rail you can grind,
the second biggest high jump you can do,
the second biggest stair set you can clear,
the second longest gap you can clear,
the second biggest drop you can do,
the second biggest rail you can grind,
the third biggest high jump you can do,
the third biggest stair set you can clear,
the third longest gap you can clear,
the third biggest drop you can do,
the third biggest rail you can grind,
And so on, depending on how much time you would like to waste. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I would prefer a video with each clip being the best you can do for that instance, instead of a repeat of the same 5 things over and over again, were there you see 5 impressive things, and then see the same things being done less impressively.
You know? Trickless big street is just too monotonous. I love watching big street with many tricks incorporated, whether they are flip tricks or tricks of a different nature, and maybe the 5 possibilities of trickless big street. However, when I do watch a pure trickless big street video, I do wish that the video was only 5 clips long. If you would like to ride pure trickless big street, then that’s fine with me, but for me, I can’t imagine it not getting old after awhile, practicing only 5 different things, with no real innovation or personal creativity. There is only one thing that you can get creative with in trickless big street, and that is the obstacles you choose. Add some tricks, and you’ve got many more variables to play around with. With tricks, you can still creatively choose obstacles, as well as creatively choose what you want to do up/down/along them.
Unicycling for me is a way to exercize my creativity, and to really innovate in an active manner. I am terrible at drawing, I am terrible at playing instruments, I can’t sing, unicycling (as well as some skateboarding, snowboarding and scootering) is my art form. When you only have 5 things to get better at, it seems like unicycling is less of an art and more comparable to perhaps baseball, where your only real options for creativity is in choosing what performance enhancing drugs to take, and how to get away with it. I’m usually quite bored with watching most team sports, but I absolutely love the sports that allow personal creativity. We are not long-jumping machines, we are individuals, with our own ideas, and our own personalities, and to limit a sport to a short list of things to improve on doesn’t really seem to accommodate our individual creativity very well.