This is fantastic! About what to do there, if there are really many hundreds of
riders, a coordinated routine seems unlikely. How about we all ride around
really fast and see how many collisons we can cause? Just kidding. I suppose we
could try to get everyone riding along in a long line, touching the back of the
person in front?
—Nathan
“Jack Halpern” <jack@kanji.org> wrote in message news:200007280254.AA01544@mail.kanji.org… > > Hi all, > > I am glad to report that today I received an official document in Chinese > issued by the city government of Beijing with an formal approval for holding a > UX unicycling event in Tiananmen Square! > > This, combined with the ride ion the Great Wall, will no doubt make make > unicycling history. > > It took a lot of effort to achieve this. It started about a year ago when I > went to China on my first trip to prepare for Unicon X. Since then, we have > continued discussing it, and I have been urging the CUA to press ahead with > the difficult negotiations. > > Thanks to Zhang Shuxiao, the vice-president of CUA and an IUF director, these > efforts bore fruit. > > It is now time to work hard on finalizing our plans on what we are going to do > there. As I said before, the CUA is open to our suggestions. > > > Vice Chairman, Unicon X IUF Vice President > > Jack Halpern > > Website: http://www.kanji.org
I am glad to report that today I received an official document in Chinese issued
by the city government of Beijing with an formal approval for holding a UX
unicycling event in Tiananmen Square!
This, combined with the ride ion the Great Wall, will no doubt make make
unicycling history.
It took a lot of effort to achieve this. It started about a year ago when I went
to China on my first trip to prepare for Unicon X. Since then, we have continued
discussing it, and I have been urging the CUA to press ahead with the difficult
negotiations.
Thanks to Zhang Shuxiao, the vice-president of CUA and an IUF director, these
efforts bore fruit.
It is now time to work hard on finalizing our plans on what we are going to do
there. As I said before, the CUA is open to our suggestions.
> > Hi all, > > I am glad to report that today I received an official document in Chinese > issued by the city government of Beijing with an formal approval for holding a > UX unicycling event in Tiananmen Square! >
The IUF thanks the People’s Republic of China for allowing us to do the event at
the magnificent Tiananmen Square.
We urge them to take advantage of this huge gathering of unicyclists and convert
it in recreation for the Chinese people. > > It is now time to work hard on finalizing our plans on what we are going to do > there. As I said before, the CUA is open to our suggestions. >
I believe that Andy scheduled some time for preparation for this event. But we
should have some firm ideas even before that.
>From the postings, the consensus seems to be to do something where everybody
is involved, like the snake, or a human chain.
My opinion is that to feature some of our elite athletes would convert the rest
in spectators. The uniqueness and beauty of the event is in the sheer number of
unicyclists riding together in a square with so much history. If there is a
theme, it should relate to China.
I agree that small scale shows would reduce the huge population of unicyclists
to spectators. Also I believe that many of them will not want to sit still, and
will ride around anyway. The two main focused activities I can think of are
group photos/video, and a big follow-the-leader.
The group photo is obvious. For the other, I think back to our big group ride
through Quebec City at UNICON VI. This was one of my favorite UNICON events. If
we do a follow-the-leader, it accomplishes several things:
Shows the vast number of riders
Shows us all cooperating
Gives everyone a chance to participate
There has to be a specific director of this activity, but I think if we do a
big line we should take turns with different leaders representing each of the
different nations present. The Chinese line leaders might lead us in a giant
map of China. Another leader might make a giant circle, and see if we can all
link up. Etc.
It should be fun and simple, because with such large numbers, it will be hard to
do anything complicated.
In message “RE: More good news on Tiananmen”, John Foss wrote… >> Let’s hear some ideas now from all of you. > >I agree that small scale shows would reduce the huge population of unicyclists >to spectators. Also I believe that many of them will not want to sit still, >and will ride around anyway. The two main focused activities I can think of >are group photos/video, and a big follow-the-leader. > >The group photo is obvious. For the other, I think back to our big group ride >through Quebec City at UNICON VI. This was one of my favorite UNICON events. >If we do a follow-the-leader, it accomplishes several things: > >- Shows the vast number of riders >- Shows us all cooperating >- Gives everyone a chance to participate > >There has to be a specific director of this activity, but I think if we do a
We definitely need a director for this. I think we should pick one now. Though
what we want to do is simple, because of the large number of people it could get
out of hand.
Any volunteers?
>big line we should take turns with different leaders representing each of the >different nations present. The Chinese line leaders might lead us in a giant >map of China. Another leader might make a giant circle, and see if we can all >link up. Etc. > >It should be fun and simple, because with such large numbers, it will be hard >to do anything complicated. > >See you there! > >John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone jfoss@unicycling.comwww.unicycling.com > >"Our time is a most precious commodity, but it’s how we spend it that makes us >rich." - John Foss > > >
> Greetings > > In message “RE: More good news on Tiananmen”, John Foss wrote… > >> Let’s hear some ideas now from all of you. > > > >I agree that small scale shows would reduce the huge population of > >unicyclists to spectators. Also I believe that many of them will not want to > >sit still, and will ride around anyway. The two main focused activities I > >can think of are group photos/video, and a big follow-the-leader. > > > >The group photo is obvious. For the other, I think back to our big group > >ride through Quebec City at UNICON VI. This was one of my favorite UNICON > >events. If we do a follow-the-leader, it accomplishes several things: > > > >- Shows the vast number of riders > >- Shows us all cooperating > >- Gives everyone a chance to participate > > > >There has to be a specific director of this activity, but I think if we do a > > We definitely need a director for this. I think we should pick one now. Though > what we want to do is simple, because of the large number of people it could > get out of hand. > > Any volunteers?
Thinking back to Quebec with only 200 riders and then Bottrop where a big circle
of riders holding hands (which didn’t work so well), I think this event needs to
be carefully thought out. But, most importantly, whoever is in charge of this
event needs to make sure that the CUAs goals are met as well as space
considerations are addressed (I doubt that they would give the full Tianamen
square for our event). With so many riders, it could very easily turn out to be
very disorganized and therefore not reach its full potential. I have some ideas
but before I even consider them, I would like to ask many questions to the
organizers on what they think would work the best. As for the group picture, I
have some ideas on this too, but once again, it depends on how much space we can
get and where on Tainamen square we will be. I would think that the Team meeting
would be a good place to find a small group of volunteers (about six) from
differant countries (who are good at organizing lots of people) to work on this
project with the CUA.
If this event is done right, it will be one bigger highlights of the whole
convention.
> Greetings > > In message “RE: More good news on Tiananmen”, John Foss wrote… > >> Let’s hear some ideas now from all of you. > > > >I agree that small scale shows would reduce the huge population of > >unicyclists to spectators. Also I believe that many of them will not
want to > >sit still, and will ride around anyway. The two main focused activities
I > >can think of are group photos/video, and a big follow-the-leader. > > > >The group photo is obvious. For the other, I think back to our big group > >ride through Quebec City at UNICON VI. This was one of my favorite
UNICON > >events. If we do a follow-the-leader, it accomplishes several things: > > > >- Shows the vast number of riders > >- Shows us all cooperating > >- Gives everyone a chance to participate > > > >There has to be a specific director of this activity, but I think if we
do a > > We definitely need a director for this. I think we should pick one now. Though > what we want to do is simple, because of the large number of people it could > get out of hand. > > Any volunteers?
Let,s pick him on Tuesday in Beijing. Not everybody is in the NewsGroup.
Actually, some UX attendees are already there.