Jacquie and I turned on the TV the other night, and it came right on to a shot of Kris Holm riding down a staircase bannister. This was followed by a number of other Holm shots, all of which look like they were from somewhere in the Unizaba video. Mexico, Vancouver, North Shore, etc.
I think this show was on TLC (the Learning Channel) or it might have been Discovery. It’s a show with a general enough title that they can show all kinds of interesting video.
They have lots of videos of people getting into stupid situations, like a guy trying to drive is van through a watermain break in an Arizona street (after being warned not to by firemen on the scene). His van went down like a sinking ship; submerged! He had to rescue his dog before he would come out of there.
But they also show all sorts of videos of just amazing or interesting things.
They made a very telling statement about the sport of unicycling, but now I can’t remember what it was! They said something like “Kris has reached the top rung in his sport. The question is, what is his ladder leaning against?” In other words, being at the pinnacle of unicycling, as I have been in the past, doesn’t exactly make for a career…
Perhaps, but it’s still probably a hell of a lot o’ fun. Just like Kris said on some other show , ‘you’re havin fun the second you get on’ (or something alogn those lines).
> The question is, what is his ladder leaning against?" In other words,
> being at the pinnacle of unicycling, as I have been in the past, doesn’t
> exactly make for a career…
I don’t know the details of Kris Holm’s life, but it appears from a
distance that he has made a successful career out from unicycling? I
think his ladder is secured by Norco.
Do you not believe that as the sport of unicycling gains momentum there
will be more opportunity for other riders to achieve the same or greater
career potential?
i think people who work in “unusual jobs” like kris holm or any of us who do performance stuff have to sooner or later think about private pension plans.
i’m going to think about it later, but not much later.
i suspect that in the bmx world there are very few people who get “set for life” through sponsorship.
