Level 10

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I’m proud to announce the first offical Level 10 rider.

Dana Schnieder of the Twin City Unicycle Club, Minnesota, USA has ‘offically’
passed all ten IUF levels on Monday, September 29. Dana has been riding for
about seven years. She has more than a few World Title under her belt.

One of the reasons nobody else had done this is that it is really hard. Level 8,
9 and 10 all have skills that take some serious dedication to learn. Such as
hand wheel walk and backward spin in Level 8, seat drag in front and back
(including pick up) and backward pirouette in Level 9, and side ride, coast,
wheel walk one foot backwards and sideways wheel walk in Level 10.

For a list of the IUF levels go to this site:
http://ecstasy.winternet.com/unicycling/skills/skills.html

cotter@skypoint.com Andy Cotter Unicycling Society of America - Vice President
USA home page http://www.unicycling.org/usa/

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Wow, CONGRATULATIONS!

We have had those 10 levels with little change for over 10 years now. It’s high
time someone made the big 10! I knew Dana would get there sooner or later.

Hearing about that really makes me think I should go back and work on that darn
Hand Wheel Walk . . .

Stay on top, John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone reply to: unifoss@calweb.com

as seen in the IUF Skill Levels video: “I’m not a level 9, but I play on on TV”

(disclaimer: Intel does not care that I never mastered the Hand Wheel Walk)

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Subject: Level 10 Author: unicycling-owner@icicle.winternet.com at SMTPGATE
Date: 10/1/97 8:19 AM

I’m proud to announce the first offical Level 10 rider.

Dana Schnieder of the Twin City Unicycle Club, Minnesota, USA has ‘offically’
passed all ten IUF levels on Monday, September 29. Dana has been riding for
about seven years. She has more than a few World Title under her belt.

One of the reasons nobody else had done this is that it is really hard. Level 8,
9 and 10 all have skills that take some serious dedication to learn. Such as
hand wheel walk and backward spin in Level 8, seat drag in front and back
(including pick up) and backward pirouette in Level 9, and side ride, coast,
wheel walk one foot backwards and sideways wheel walk in Level 10.

For a list of the IUF levels go to this site:
http://ecstasy.winternet.com/unicycling/skills/skills.html

cotter@skypoint.com Andy Cotter Unicycling Society of America - Vice President
USA home page http://www.unicycling.org/usa/

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Congrats to Dana!!

Its nice to know that level 10 is possible.

As far as another level may I suggest an alternative. Just an idea. But it would
be interesting to have an expert certification that one can only acheive after
passing level 10. The purpose of this certification would be to show CONSISTANCY
thoughout all the levels. From personal experience I know some people pass a
level and never work on a certain skill again. My idea would be that in order to
get this expert certification that one would have to pass all 10 levels in one
session with 3 total errors at the most. As far as repeating the mounts in each
level I think that would not be necessary. 10 total mounts should surfice.

Kevin

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Andy Cotter (cotter@skypoint.com) wrote:
: I’m proud to announce the first offical Level 10 rider.

: Dana Schnieder of the Twin City Unicycle Club, Minnesota, USA has ‘offically’
: passed all ten IUF levels on Monday, September 29. Dana has been riding for
: about seven years. She has more than a few World Title under her belt.

: One of the reasons nobody else had done this is that it is really hard.

No kidding!

      • C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S * * * D A N A * * * ! ! * * *

I think this makes Dana the first person ever to pass level 9, much less level
10. I didn’t think anyone would ever pass level 10. Some of those skills are
just not for mere mortals. If I remember right, John Foss (somebody else with a
world title or two under the belt) can do the level 9 skills, except that the
levels have to be done in order, and there’s a level 8 skill John doesn’t do.

Kids these days… somebody must have forbidden Dana to do it… :slight_smile:

Robert Herndon (A lowly level 3.)

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At 11:46 97/10/05 -0400, KevinCH975@aol.com wrote:
> Congrats to Dana!!
>
> Its nice to know that level 10 is possible.
>
> As far as another level may I suggest an alternative. Just an idea. But it
> would be interesting to have an expert certification that one can only acheive
> after passing level 10. The purpose of this certification would
be to
> show CONSISTANCY thoughout all the levels. From personal experience I know
> some people pass a level and never work on a certain skill again. My idea
> would be that in order to get this expert certification that one would have to
> pass all 10 levels in one session with 3 total errors at the most. As far as
> repeating the mounts in each level I think that would not be
necessary. 10
> total mounts should surfice.
>
> Kevin

Dana or someone,

Could I get more facts? Is Dana the only woman every to achieve this? How many
men have done so and who are they? I want to publish an articlein the JUA News.
Regards, Jack Halpern

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Andy Cotter wrote:
> I’m proud to announce the first offical Level 10 rider.
>
> Dana Schnieder of the Twin City Unicycle Club, Minnesota, USA has ‘offically’
> passed all ten IUF levels on Monday, September 29. Dana has been riding for
> about seven years. She has more than a few World Title under her belt.

    And my two cents: CONGRADULATIONS, DANA! YOU GO, GIRL!

-Allan “Coast Guard Kiteman” Gaines [virtually level two, and proud of it…]

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Congratulation, Dana! Now that that you’re at the top, where will you go to to?
Fellow uniwheeleres, doe we need a Level 11, or perhaps Master of the Wheel for
peple like Dana?

Dana, are you reading this? Andy, is she connected? If not, tell her I would
like to write an article for JUA News on this. Maybe she has a suitable picture
available…

At 09:06 97/10/01 PDT, JohnX Foss wrote:
>
> Text item:
>
> Wow, CONGRATULATIONS!
>
> We have had those 10 levels with little change for over 10 years now.
> It’s high time someone made the big 10! I knew Dana would get there
> sooner or later.
>
> Hearing about that really makes me think I should go back and work on that
> darn Hand Wheel Walk . . .
>
> Stay on top, John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone reply to: unifoss@calweb.com
>
>
> as seen in the IUF Skill Levels video: "I’m not a level 9, but I play
> on on TV"
>
> (disclaimer: Intel does not care that I never mastered the Hand Wheel Walk)
>
> ______________________________ Reply Separator

> Subject: Level 10 Author: unicycling-owner@icicle.winternet.com at SMTPGATE
> Date: 10/1/97 8:19 AM
>
>
> I’m proud to announce the first offical Level 10 rider.
>
> Dana Schnieder of the Twin City Unicycle Club, Minnesota, USA has ‘offically’
> passed all ten IUF levels on Monday, September 29. Dana has been riding for
> about seven years. She has more than a few World Title under her belt.
>
> One of the reasons nobody else had done this is that it is really hard. Level
> 8, 9 and 10 all have skills that take some serious dedication to learn. Such
> as hand wheel walk and backward spin in Level 8, seat drag in front and back
> (including pick up) and backward pirouette in Level 9, and side ride, coast,
> wheel walk one foot backwards and sideways wheel walk in Level 10.
>
> For a list of the IUF levels go to this site:
> http://ecstasy.winternet.com/unicycling/skills/skills.html
>
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> USA home page http://www.unicycling.org/usa/
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Regards, Jack Halpern

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