I am looking for instructional info for freestyle unicycling. What books or videos do you recommend? Is anything available on DVD?
I am looking for my own use as well as for use in a beginners unicycling class that I hope to be teaching in mid-february. The potential class will be listed in the catalogue for the lifetime learning section of a community college. If it gets 9 people to sign up, I’ll be doing the class. I thought it would be good to show some video to the class to inspire them and to help them see the potential of the sport.
A while back I found some Japanese (I believe) freestyle competition clips on the internet and I was amazed. I haven’t been able to fine them since. Any good vids available for freestyle on the internet?
I mentioned books also, videos are great, but a well written book would be very helpful too.
Well the japanese clips should inspire them, i would recommend the video one wheel no limit for tricks and to show people how to learn, the music is really off putting though ( sorry for the people that chose the music )
1WNL is pretty advanced for teaching beginners because it minimizes beginning skills. Uni.com’s learning video is actually pretty good for teaching. 1WNL is very inspirational, though, and a really good catalog of neat things to work on and towards. Mike King’s video, though MUni oriented, shows a lot of “just riding” and can be helpful. Universe, of course, turns on a lot of kids (mostly to trials though!), and Dan Heaton has some really nice freestyle in a middle section.
Now for some technical computer help.
I tried to download some of the Japanese clips to my computer so i could put together a CD to show others but I was unable to do a “Save target as” onto my hard drive. Am I doing something wrong or are the clips set up so I can’t download them?
I managed to save them to my hard drive. If you can’t get it worked out, perhaps I could email them. this thread is where I found the link that I posted earlier, and one post gives some tips for downloading the clips. I am not sure what exactly I did, some files didn’t seem to cooperate the same as other ones. It is do-able.