ok so this is a thread where u can post all the embarassign crashes you’ve had. maybe you were riding along and a couple of hot chicks walk by and you try to do a sweet trick but face plant.
so my embarassing crash: i was doing tricks all day jumping on and off curbs. no big deal. a cop drives by and i just try to ride along not doin anything until he passes. instead my pedal hits the curb and i eat it hard. the cop asked if i was all right and then says, “if you had more air under that it would’ve been more impressive.” i was too busy thinking how stupid of a crash that was to come back with anything witty so i just nodded and he drove off. i stopped riding right then.
I was riding downtown, not even doing anything, then these people are just all like, look he’s riding a unicycle! Then I fell, and it was embarassing, then I just grabbed my crotch, adjusted my jewels, mounted and rode off all cool like.
I was doing a show for a crowd of 250 or so cub scouts last summer and completed some cool tricks pretty easy, then I was just riding around for them and I face-planted right as a cub scout shouted out to their parents pointing at me saying “he’s really good at unicycle watch him!”
we had a fund raiser male beauty pageant at my school. I practiced once and every thing went perfectly. No upd juggling and all perfect with a hand stand then a back flip. Everyone was just kinda impressed. Then with a packed theater with over 375 people I go to do it and mess up on just a spin on the floor and then can’t seem to mount. My solution was to throw a 360 jump mount after missing a normal mount twice. I then caught the edge of one of my boxes and fell to the floor and was rather aggravated. everything else went fine but it just bothers me to fall with all the people in the audience. I still managed to knick a spot in the top seven of the contest but was not happy with my talent. (more talent then most of the others but I know that I can do better)
one time, i was showin off for a crowd of spring breakers when i tried pedal grabbing on a bench. after that i tried to do a 180 unispin off the bench and i messed up…PAIN i racked myself REALLY HARD. i just yelled, “OH SH*T!”… I hope i can still have kids someday…what really sucked was i jumped as high as i could off the bench trying to show off…stupid idea! ah well, i’m better now…i wish i had gotten that on tape…
Well, one time there were like 6 or 7 people that were watching me roll through and one goes, “oh look, a unicycle!” I got a few of “Dude that’s awesome!” and “You’re my hero!” along with “I love you!” stuff like that. I just smiled and nodded as I kept peddaling. Well, I didn’t tuck my laces into my shoe that day and right as they were saying this stuff, my laces got wrapped around the hub and threw me to the ground rather quickly. I’d say that might be my most embarassing one.
Well this group of skater came up to the quad of our school where we were riding. They were talking to themselves about us. So we kept riding and I decided to 180 the stairs without a helmet or anything. I hit the bottom stair and landed on my back. The skaters were really impressed I guess and came over and talked for a bit about how cool unicycling was.
It’s even sillier when a noob joins the forums with an average of 15 posts per day and doesn’t pay enough attention to how the forums are organized. BTW, besides some annoying habits (to some), this noob does have some funny things to say.
I’ll say it again: Unicycle threads in JC just encourage more unicycle threads in JC.
Once? Hopefully you learned your lesson. If you want it to look good in front of an audience, ten times in a row with no mistakes means you’ll probably get it when they’re watching. It’s not the same conditions, and you can’t predict how your adrenaline and nerves will affect you until you have a lot more performing experience.
If I had more time I’d link to a description of one of my many bad falls (in front of audiences)…
