Dead newsgroup; let's talk about UNICON!

General
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Not much newsgroup activity lately.

I think a lot of us are recuperating from UNICON and taking it easy. But the
people who didn’t go are anxious to hear about it. What were your impressions?
Your stories? Your best and worst experiences in China?

My favorite was again visiting the Great Wall, as I did when there in 1993. It’s
definitely the most spectacular thing to see in China. Soon I will have some
pictures up on my Photo Albums page. Jacquie and I watched a group of intrepid
unicyclists climb 563 stairs, without any landings or breaks, at one end of the
restored wall. Watching was fun; we were already hot & sweaty. Of the first
group to climb up, Christian Hoverath was the fastest.

I also enjoyed the ride to Tiannanmen Square. We had a special UNICON subway
train, all to ourselves! This train was quite long, and we filled it! It was
great fun stopping in each station, to see the doors open, people start to step
in, then look at what was in the train and change their minds. A bunch of
foreigners, all with unicycles? I’ll wait for the next one…

UNICON 11 will be in 2002, combined with the USA National Unicycle Convention,
in North Bend, Washington. Same place as the 1999 NUC, with the same mountain
but a different track. The old dirt track will either be repaved, or we will
use a different one. A Hampton Inn is being built in North Bend, and will have
at least 72 units. Details to follow, and hopefully a web site before the end
of the year.

Join in. What did you think of UNICON X?

John Foss President, International Unicycling Federation President, Unicycling
Society of America (reply to jfoss@unicycling.com) http://www.unicycling.com

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Whoo hoo! That’s right in my backyard. I’ve already made my travel plans to
attend. I’m going to UNICON. :slight_smile:

How’s it going to work with both NUC and UNICON being combined? Are they both
going to go on at the same time?

john_childs Bellevue WA

>From: John Foss
[snip]
>UNICON 11 will be in 2002, combined with the USA National Unicycle Convention,
>in North Bend, Washington. Same place as the 1999 NUC, with the same mountain
>but a different track. The old dirt track will either be repaved, or we will
>use a different one. A Hampton Inn is being built in North Bend, and will have
>at least 72 units. Details to follow, and hopefully a web site before the end
>of the year.
>

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> How’s it going to work with both NUC and UNICON being combined? Are they both
> going to go on at the same time?

The details remain to be worked out. Though some events may happen separately, I
think our time will be maximized by combining most events, and letting the
computer figure out the awards.

Suggestions?

John Foss President, International Unicycling Federation President, Unicycling
Society of America (reply to jfoss@unicycling.com) http://www.unicycling.com

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> Holding the NUC and UNICON on the same days is bad enough. Making a single
> competition event count for both the NUC and UNICON standings will cripple the
> sport of unicycling in regards to its chances of becoming an Olympic sport!
> Can anyone name an Olympic sport where a national championships and world
> championships were combined?

UNICON III was combined with the 10th annual All Japan Unicycle Meet. I didn’t
notice any ill effects from that one, for either the JUA or IUF. In fact, it
remains the largest gathering of unicyclists (851) I’ve ever been to. It would
not have been so big had the two events not been combined.

The important thing is that we carefully plan what we do, so both events are
strengthened rather than weakened. One of the advantages of doing the two
conventions together is introducing UNICON to a larger audience within the US,
having a larger convention in general, possibly encouraging more IUF membership
(if we are doing individual), and combining two trips into one, for Americans
who would want to go to both.

For riders in many countries, it may be a one-or-the-other choice on whether to
go to a nationals or UNICON. By combining the two events, people within that
country can as easily go to both. I’m sure we can work out ways to make this
happen to the benefit of both conventions.

In the process, suggestions and ideas are more helpful than saying things will
be disastrous.

I will start lighting up the IUF Rules Committee soon. We will have an email
list for that topic, and everyone who is interested will be invited to join in
the discussions.

Stay on top, John Foss President, International Unicycling Federation President,
Unicycling Society of America (reply to jfoss@unicycling.com)
http://www.unicycling.com

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Ken Fuchs wrote,

> I repeat, can anyone name an Olympic sport where a national championships and
> world championships were combined?

I don’t know. We may or may not find useful parallels if we can find any
examples. I don’t mind being the first. For any sport that is as “poor” as ours,
it makes great financial sense to do it this way.

> >that country can as easily go to both. I’m sure we can work
> out ways to make this happen to the benefit of both conventions.

> This is a US centric argument. For example how does combining USA nationals
> and the UNICON make it easier for a Japanese rider to go to both the Japanese
> nationals and UNICON?

It mostly benefits the Americans, who are hosting. It benefits the Japanese
in two ways:

  1. A bigger convention, with more Americans to meet and ride with

  2. At a future UNICON, JUA (or JIUA) can combine it with the All-Japan
    Nationals. This will benefit Japanese, and have little or no effect on
    Americans.

This has no effect on a Japanese rider’s ability to attend their nationals in
2002. Should it? That’s completely outside our scope. The important thing is to
make sure it does not hinder international riders to attend a UNICON that is
combined with NUC.

> >In the process, suggestions and ideas are more helpful than
> saying things will be disastrous.
>
> I’m suggesting that the USA nationals be held before the UNICON.

Most likely, this is how it will turn out. The current idea we are working with,
courtesy of Andy Cotter, is the NUC first, with no frills. All non-essential
events (extra competitions, workshops, shows) will be saved for UNICON, to keep
the NUC shorter. Leave a day or more between the two conventions (possible tours
there), then UNICON, including all the “extras” that were left out of NUC.

> There was a USA nationals in which there was standard awards and USA citizen?
> only awards. It was distasteful to say the least.

I agree. The above approach will solve that. Andy’s suggestion also is that only
North American riders be permitted to compete at NUC 2002. Hopefully foreign
riders who arrive early can help with judging or other things, but it will be
exclusively our nationals (unlike other years, where visitors are welcome).

Stay on top, John Foss President, International Unicycling Federation President,
Unicycling Society of America (reply to jfoss@unicycling.com)
http://www.unicycling.com

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“John Foss” <john_foss@asinet.com> wrote in message
news:631B3F1D150FD3118E4D00A0C9EC1BDA227829@SERVER…
> Not much newsgroup activity lately.
>
> I think a lot of us are recuperating from UNICON and taking it easy. But
the
> people who didn’t go are anxious to hear about it. What were your impressions?
> Your stories? Your best and worst experiences in China?
[snip]

I’ve been working on getting photos up. The first album of 50 Great Wall
pictures (two trips, two days apart) is up - take a look at:

http://www.zing.com/album/?id=4293756335&code=386601&mode=invite

click on a picture and you can see it medium sized, then pull down on Normal
Size and you can see the full sized version. You can order prints of these too.
If you use these on a web page, please include “Photo by Nathan Hoover”.

Both these trips were highpoints of the whole experience in China. Another was a
nighttime ride to Tianamen Square. 15 of us rode to the subway and took it
downtown, stopping 2 stops short of the famous square. When we arrived, we
attracted lots of attention (including from the Police). After a long photo
session, we did a complete lap around the square which was great. It was about
9pm, dark, lots of people out and many were flying kites.

I loved riding with the Chinese kids too. At the track the first day, it was
really fun watching them practice, showing them my Muni (huge smiles when they
got to ride it), and riding with them. No smiles at the Muni race though - they
were all business. At one point I was passed on the flat by a little kid on a
16" wheel! They are SO fast and fearless. Not even Dan Heaton or Kris Holm had a
chance against them. Next time I say we make the course WAY harder, and no
walking - you have to ride every section!

Going out to dinner each night was great fun too. It was adventuresome as most
places didn’t have non-Chinese menus and English isn’t really spoken. One night,
by chance, just about all 50 people from the US ended up at the same restaurant,
taking over 6 tables, about half of the place. We got adventurous and managed to
order dog, then snake. My first meat in 15 years was dog! Not bad - didn’t taste
like chicken. The snake was more involved. After pulling it live out of a cage,
it took about 30 minutes to prepare. Others had finished eating, but no one
wanted to leave without trying the snake. We had spiced snake skin with
cucumber, snake meat with vegetables, and to top it off, snake soup. Beer is a
great deal in China. 640ml for $0.25 to $0.75 depending on the place. And no
discernable drinking age which REALLY appealed to the younger guys.

The beer drinking workshop is somewhat of a blur in my mind. I barely remember
my last successful test at 16 beers, but Roger wrote it down so it must be true.
It is amazing how hard it is to ride and do stuff after lots of alcohol. I
brought back 6 of those little 100ml bottles of rotgut that sold for $0.25 each

  • the guys here at work tried it and liked it - I remember that during the beer
    workshop it didn’t taste like much. Bruce killed us all, but he paid for it
    dearly the next day.

What was a low point? The low point for me was the morning of our elusive “Muni
ride in the mountains north of Beijing.” Andy, Roger, Geoff and others had
worked really hard to pull this ride off. In fact, the night before they had
succeeded in getting a 15 person bus with driver for 9:30am. But come 8am, Geoff
and I were riding over to the Muni course looking for a mountain biker who might
accompany us for the day and show us some great trails to ride. Of course we
failed to find anyone who would agree - even with the whole thing spelled out on
paper. This was the low point.

The ride was salvaged though - plan B was to go to some temple/park that had a
high steep hill. We were dropped off and although we all set personal sweating
records, and much of it was unrideable for all but Kris, it was pretty fun after
all. We got to ride 1km of very nice singletrack that I’m sure has never before
been unicycled. We startled a couple looking for privacy, took lots of pictures
and the beer was great at the end.

There were lots and lots of other great things - it was a really amazing trip.
THANKS to everyone who helped to pull it off! I’ll write some more when I have
more pictures up.

—Nathan

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----- Original Message ----- From: John Foss <john_foss@asinet.com> To: ‘John
Childs’ <john_childs@hotmail.com>; <unicycling@winternet.com> Sent: Thursday,
August 17, 2000 1:46 PM Subject: RE: Dead newsgroup; let’s talk about UNICON!

> > How’s it going to work with both NUC and UNICON being combined? Are they
> > both going to go on at the same time?
>
> The details remain to be worked out. Though some events may happen separately,
> I think our time will be maximized by combining most events,
and
> letting the computer figure out the awards.
>
> Suggestions?

  1. Make team leaders, not UNICON hosts, responsible that their riders
    (especially young ones) are there on time and ready to go. Announcements are
    a courtesy that should be done, but does not remove the responsibility from
    the rider and/or team leader to the announcer and/or host.

  2. Only team leaders can make claims and only to the chief referee or a person
    chosen by the chief referee. Have an established mechanism and form to make
    this claim.

When the events flow, they seem to move fast.

Alberto Ruiz
>
> John Foss President, International Unicycling Federation President, Unicycling
> Society of America (reply to jfoss@unicycling.com) http://www.unicycling.com

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>> How’s it going to work with both NUC and UNICON being combined? Are they both
>> going to go on at the same time?
>
>The details remain to be worked out. Though some events may happen separately,
>I think our time will be maximized by combining most events, and letting the
>computer figure out the awards.
>
>Suggestions?

The NUC and UNICON competitions should be held on different days. I’d suggest
that the NUC start on a Saturday and end the following Tuesday or Wednesday. The
UNICON could start on the following Monday.

Holding the NUC and UNICON on the same days is bad enough. Making a single
competition event count for both the NUC and UNICON standings will cripple the
sport of unicycling in regards to its chances of becoming an Olympic sport! Can
anyone name an Olympic sport where a national championships and world
championships were combined?

Sincerely,

Ken Fuchs <kfuchs@winternet.com

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Greetings

In message “RE: Dead newsgroup; let’s talk about UNICON!”, John Foss wrote…
>> Holding the NUC and UNICON on the same days is bad enough. Making a single
>> competition event count for both the NUC and UNICON standings will cripple
>> the sport of unicycling in regards to its chances of becoming an Olympic
>> sport! Can anyone name an Olympic sport where a national championships and
>> world championships were combined?
>
>UNICON III was combined with the 10th annual All Japan Unicycle Meet. I didn’t
>notice any ill effects from that one, for either the JUA or IUF. In fact, it
>remains the largest gathering of unicyclists (851) I’ve ever been to. It would
>not have been so big had the two events not been combined.

It is interesting that John should be for this, as some others are again. I was
the chairman of the Unicon III organizing committeee, and I think that on the
whole things went well, though Alberto says that IUF rules were not
followed… I suspect that the rules may be a problem when merging UXI with
NUM in Washington, wouldn’t they.

>The important thing is that we carefully plan what we do, so both events are
>strengthened rather than weakened. One of the advantages of doing the two
>conventions together is introducing UNICON to a larger audience within the US,
>having a larger convention in general, possibly encouraging more IUF
>membership (if we are doing individual), and combining two trips into one, for
>Americans who would want to go to both.
>
>For riders in many countries, it may be a one-or-the-other choice on whether
>to go to a nationals or UNICON. By combining the two events, people within
>that country can as easily go to both. I’m sure we can work out ways to make
>this happen to the benefit of both conventions.
>
>In the process, suggestions and ideas are more helpful than saying things will
>be disastrous.
>
>I will start lighting up the IUF Rules Committee soon. We will have an email
>list for that topic, and everyone who is interested will be invited to join in
>the discussions.
>
>Stay on top, John Foss President, International Unicycling Federation
>President, Unicycling Society of America (reply to jfoss@unicycling.com)
>http://www.unicycling.com
>
>

Regards, Jack Halpern CJK Dictionary Publishing Society, http://www.kanji.org
Voice: +81-48-481-3103 Fax: +81-48-479-1323

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----- Original Message ----- From: John Foss <john_foss@asinet.com> To:
‘Ken Fuchs’ <kfuchs@winternet.com>; <unicycling@winternet.com> Sent:
Monday, September 25, 2000 11:59 AM Subject: RE: Dead newsgroup; let’s talk
about UNICON!

> > Holding the NUC and UNICON on the same days is bad enough. Making a single
> > competition event count for both the NUC and UNICON standings will cripple
> > the sport of unicycling in regards to its chances of becoming an Olympic
> > sport! Can anyone name an Olympic sport where a national championships and
> > world championships were combined?
>
> UNICON III was combined with the 10th annual All Japan Unicycle Meet. I didn’t
> notice any ill effects from that one, for either the JUA or IUF. In fact, it
> remains the largest gathering of unicyclists (851) I’ve ever been to. It would
> not have been so big had the two events not been combined.
>
UNICON III was a good UNICON for 1987. It was a very important stepping stone
for the IUF. Today it would not qualify as a UNICON.

>
> The important thing is that we carefully plan what we do, so both events
are
> strengthened rather than weakened.

> One of the advantages of doing the two conventions together is introducing
> UNICON to a larger audience within the US, having a larger convention in
> general, possibly encouraging more IUF membership (if we are doing
> individual), and combining two trips into one, for Americans who would want to
> go to both.
>
Very carefully done, it can be a great thing. Remember that when you asked for
UNICON XI your commitment was that you would run a real UNICON. If you that into
account along with rhe IUF survey, many of the NUM events could be qualifiers
with international participation.

If that will be your goal you will have to be careful not to give incentives for
local participation on the weekends. The incentive must be that they stay over
fot the whole convention.
>
> For riders in many countries, it may be a one-or-the-other choice on
whether
> to go to a nationals or UNICON. By combining the two events, people within
> that country can as easily go to both. I’m sure we can work out ways to
make
> this happen to the benefit of both conventions.

Again, your commitment in Beijing was that it would benefit the UNICON. If it
benefits the NUM also, that will be great, but the priorities must be clear.
>
> In the process, suggestions and ideas are more helpful than saying things will
> be disastrous.

Keep the main UNICON events simple. Use your experience positively. Whatever
bothered you in previous UNICONs improve it for UNICON XI.
>
> I will start lighting up the IUF Rules Committee soon. We will have an
email
> list for that topic, and everyone who is interested will be invited to
join
> in the discussions.

I am.

Alberto Ruiz
>
> Stay on top, John Foss President, International Unicycling Federation
> President, Unicycling Society of America (reply to jfoss@unicycling.com)
> http://www.unicycling.com

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>> Holding the NUC and UNICON on the same days is bad enough. Making a single
>> competition event count for both the NUC and UNICON standings will cripple
>> the sport of unicycling in regards to its chances of becoming an Olympic
>> sport! Can anyone name an Olympic sport where a national championships and
>> world championships were combined?

>UNICON III was combined with the 10th annual All Japan Unicycle Meet. I didn’t
>notice any ill effects from that one, for either the JUA or IUF. In fact, it
>remains the largest gathering of unicyclists (851) I’ve ever been to. It would
>not have been so big had the two events not been combined.

I repeat, can anyone name an Olympic sport where a national championships and
world championships were combined?

>For riders in many countries, it may be a one-or-the-other choice on whether to
>go to a nationals or UNICON. By combining the two events, people within that
>country can as easily go to both. I’m sure we can work out ways to make this
>happen to the benefit of both conventions.

This is a US centric argument. For example how does combining USA nationals and
the UNICON make it easier for a Japanese rider to go to both the Japanese
nationals and UNICON?

>In the process, suggestions and ideas are more helpful than saying things will
>be disastrous.

I’m suggesting that the USA nationals be held before the UNICON.

There was a USA nationals in which there was standard awards and USA citizen?
only awards. It was distasteful to say the least. These two types of awards took
away from each other. We will have the same situation on a bigger scale with a
combined USA nationals and UNICON.

Sincerely,

Ken Fuchs <kfuchs@winternet.com

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Nathan Hoover wrote:Going out to dinner each night was great fun too. It was
adventuresome as

> most places didn’t have non-Chinese menus and English isn’t really spoken.
> One night, by chance, just about all 50 people from the US ended up at the
> same restaurant, taking over 6 tables, about half of the place. We got
> adventurous and managed to order dog, then snake. My first meat in 15 years
> was dog! Not bad - didn’t taste like chicken. The snake was more involved.
> After pulling it live out of a cage, it took about 30 minutes to prepare.
> Others had finished eating, but no one wanted to leave without trying the
> snake. We had spiced snake skin with cucumber, snake meat with vegetables,
> and to top it off, snake soup.

The snake that Nathan’s table ordered was hidden in sauce and vegetables, and
really wasn’t very good. At our table we had a paper that asked for the “house
specialty” written in chinese. As it turned out the house specialty was dog as
well, but it was prime sliced dog, and it was surprisingly good. Our dog was
better than their dog.

We had all been to that restaurant before and one of the favorite dishes was
steamed shrimp, where the shrimp were cooked at the table in a kind of sauna. A
pot that contained extremely hot rocks covered by a screen was placed on the
table. Live shrimp were placed in the pot along with a broth which exploded when
it hit the rocks. A lid was then placed on the pot and a tower of steam escaped
around the edges and formed a solid column that reached the ceiling and then
spread out. All of the kids were at one table on dog night. One of my favorite
things was watching Beau ordering the shrimp dish without the aid of an adult,
or a travel book, or an english speaking waitress. He made an erupting sound
with his mouth and swept his hands up from the table as high as he could reach
and then spread them out. The waitress knew exactly what he wanted.

John Hooten

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Good work, Nathan. Awesome photos: check them out, folks!

Arthur Doerksen

“Nathan Hoover” <nathan@paper2net.com> wrote in message
news:spme20i5r5j149@corp.supernews.com…
> “John Foss” <john_foss@asinet.com> wrote in message
> news:631B3F1D150FD3118E4D00A0C9EC1BDA227829@SERVER…
> > Not much newsgroup activity lately.
> >
> > I think a lot of us are recuperating from UNICON and taking it easy. But
> the
> > people who didn’t go are anxious to hear about it. What were your
> > impressions? Your stories? Your best and worst experiences in China?
> [snip]
>
> I’ve been working on getting photos up. The first album of 50 Great Wall
> pictures (two trips, two days apart) is up - take a look at:
>
> http://www.zing.com/album/?id=4293756335&code=386601&mode=invite
>
> click on a picture and you can see it medium sized, then pull down on
Normal
> Size and you can see the full sized version. You can order prints of
these
> too. If you use these on a web page, please include “Photo by Nathan Hoover”.
>
> Both these trips were highpoints of the whole experience in China.
Another
> was a nighttime ride to Tianamen Square. 15 of us rode to the subway and took
> it downtown, stopping 2 stops short of the famous square. When we arrived, we
> attracted lots of attention (including from the Police).
After
> a long photo session, we did a complete lap around the square which was
great.
> It was about 9pm, dark, lots of people out and many were flying kites.
>
> I loved riding with the Chinese kids too. At the track the first day, it was
> really fun watching them practice, showing them my Muni (huge smiles when they
> got to ride it), and riding with them. No smiles at the Muni race though -
> they were all business. At one point I was passed on the flat by a little kid
> on a 16" wheel! They are SO fast and fearless. Not even Dan Heaton or Kris
> Holm had a chance against them. Next time I say we make the course WAY harder,
> and no walking - you have to ride every section!
>
> Going out to dinner each night was great fun too. It was adventuresome as most
> places didn’t have non-Chinese menus and English isn’t really spoken. One
> night, by chance, just about all 50 people from the US ended up at the same
> restaurant, taking over 6 tables, about half of the place. We
got
> adventurous and managed to order dog, then snake. My first meat in 15 years
> was dog! Not bad - didn’t taste like chicken. The snake was more involved.
> After pulling it live out of a cage, it took about 30 minutes
to
> prepare. Others had finished eating, but no one wanted to leave without trying
> the snake. We had spiced snake skin with cucumber, snake meat with vegetables,
> and to top it off, snake soup. Beer is a great deal in China. 640ml for $0.25
> to $0.75 depending on the place. And no discernable drinking age which REALLY
> appealed to the younger guys.
>
> The beer drinking workshop is somewhat of a blur in my mind. I barely remember
> my last successful test at 16 beers, but Roger wrote it down so it must be
> true. It is amazing how hard it is to ride and do stuff
after
> lots of alcohol. I brought back 6 of those little 100ml bottles of rotgut that
> sold for $0.25 each - the guys here at work tried it and liked it - I remember
> that during the beer workshop it didn’t taste like much. Bruce killed us all,
> but he paid for it dearly the next day.
>
> What was a low point? The low point for me was the morning of our elusive
> “Muni ride in the mountains north of Beijing.” Andy, Roger, Geoff and others
> had worked really hard to pull this ride off. In fact, the night before they
> had succeeded in getting a 15 person bus with driver for 9:30am. But come 8am,
> Geoff and I were riding over to the Muni course looking for a mountain biker
> who might accompany us for the day and show us some great trails to ride. Of
> course we failed to find anyone who would agree - even with the whole thing
> spelled out on paper. This was the low point.
>
> The ride was salvaged though - plan B was to go to some temple/park that had a
> high steep hill. We were dropped off and although we all set personal sweating
> records, and much of it was unrideable for all but Kris, it was pretty fun
> after all. We got to ride 1km of very nice singletrack that I’m sure has never
> before been unicycled. We startled a couple looking for privacy, took lots of
> pictures and the beer was great at the end.
>
> There were lots and lots of other great things - it was a really amazing trip.
> THANKS to everyone who helped to pull it off! I’ll write some more when I have
> more pictures up.
>
> —Nathan
>
>
>
>

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Last summer we had Eurocycle and Danish nationals at the same time. That was not
a problem, it was the same competitions, so people just entered once, and when
looking at the results we should just use different filters to see either
European or Danish results. That worked very well.

Lars Lottrup Team Sumo, Denmark

-----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: owner-unicycling@winternet.com
[mailto:owner-unicycling@winternet.com]På vegne af Alberto Ruiz Sendt: 19.
august 2000 15:27 Til: John Foss; ‘John Childs’; unicycling@winternet.com Emne:
Re: Dead newsgroup; let’s talk about UNICON!

----- Original Message ----- From: John Foss <john_foss@asinet.com> To: ‘John
Childs’ <john_childs@hotmail.com>; <unicycling@winternet.com> Sent: Thursday,
August 17, 2000 1:46 PM Subject: RE: Dead newsgroup; let’s talk about UNICON!

> > How’s it going to work with both NUC and UNICON being combined? Are they
> > both going to go on at the same time?
>
> The details remain to be worked out. Though some events may happen separately,
> I think our time will be maximized by combining most events,
and
> letting the computer figure out the awards.
>
> Suggestions?

  1. Make team leaders, not UNICON hosts, responsible that their riders
    (especially young ones) are there on time and ready to go. Announcements are
    a courtesy that should be done, but does not remove the responsibility from
    the rider and/or team leader to the announcer and/or host.

  2. Only team leaders can make claims and only to the chief referee or a person
    chosen by the chief referee. Have an established mechanism and form to make
    this claim.

When the events flow, they seem to move fast.

Alberto Ruiz
>
> John Foss President, International Unicycling Federation President, Unicycling
> Society of America (reply to jfoss@unicycling.com) http://www.unicycling.com

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Re: Dead newsgroup; let’s talk about UNICON!

>As it turned out the house specialty was dog as well, but it was prime sliced
>dog, and it was surprisingly good. Our dog
was
> better than their dog.

This brings on a whole new meaning to the phrase “good dog”.

Wayne.

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Re: Dead newsgroup; let’s talk about UNICON!

----- Original Message ----- From: Nathan Hoover <nathan@paper2net.com> To:
<unicycling@winternet.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 9:57 PM Subject: Re:
Dead newsgroup; let’s talk about UNICON!

> “John Foss” <john_foss@asinet.com> wrote in message
> news:631B3F1D150FD3118E4D00A0C9EC1BDA227829@SERVER…
> > Not much newsgroup activity lately.
> >
> > I think a lot of us are recuperating from UNICON and taking it easy. But
> the
> > people who didn’t go are anxious to hear about it. What were your
> > impressions? Your stories? Your best and worst experiences in China?
> [snip]
>

>
> There were lots and lots of other great things - it was a really amazing trip.
> THANKS to everyone who helped to pull it off! I’ll write some more when I have
> more pictures up.
>
A large group stayed an extra week in China and are just returning home. You
should see lots of UNICON reporting in the next days. I will write some from a
Puerto Rican perspective. I hope others will do the same from their perspective.

Your last comment summarizes the consensus. There were problems, but
alternatives were always found. And there were a lots of great things going on.
It was a really amazing trip.

Alberto Ruiz

> —Nathan
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