Most general public are more impressed when you hop up a curb than when you do a crank flip. It is very sad.
THat’s just the reality of audiences vs. difficult skills that aren’t widely known. Sports that get lots of coverage, like TV, lots of spectators, etc. are better understood by the general public so they are better at identifying what’s hard. Unicycling? Not so much. Same for most obscure skills. So what you do in a unicycle competition is necessarily different from what you would do to entertain an audience.
It’s not that you can’t do the hard stuff; you just have to understand that the audience is going to appreciate a Kick-Up mount because it looks crazy hard, and pretty much ignore any amount of coasting, because that’s something they can do on their bikes. So you learn what’s visually entertaining and build your performance around that. I always used to include tricks that the audience didn’t necessarily appreciate, but they were incorporated into the 3 min. Freestyle performance I used to use in all of my shows.
Chris Huriwai’s tutorials
Uniquest’s third episode is out (and has been for two weeks).
Here I was, thinking he had given up. Bad me. Baaad.
Just wanted to follow up and say that I have shared these with a few people now and people seem to like them and at least one person has had great success, so thanks again for sharing this.
P.S. I just sent to another friend today who is attempting to learn. I’ve lent him my 24 
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