Hey folks,
after watching some videos of the UNICON XI yesterday I tried a very special trick with the unicycle. Lean your body on the seat, und use your hands to pedaling…
Who has a name for that trick ? I need some tips for doing this skill…at the time I drive always backwards whith the Viscount into the “backward” direction. All the time I fall down from the unicycle after a few (3 or 4) pedal turns…
thanks
_Felix
After watching Guy Hanson perform this trick at UNICON, I’d highly advise wearing a helmet no matter what the trick is named.
I think Guy Hansen calls it “hand pedaling?” Maybe hand cranking.
But there are different ways to do this. He uses his chest on the seat, but it might be possible in other positions as well. But I will suggest that the way Guy does it is the most basic way, and can be done with an unmodified unicycle. I’d call it hand pedaling or hand cranking.
Stay on top,
John Foss
Re: Name this trick
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 15:45:08 -0500, foxx
<foxx.bgaty@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote:
>Lean your body on the seat, und use
>your hands to pedaling…
>Who has a name for that trick ?
I think it’s simply (but oxymoronically) called hand pedaling.
Klaas Bil
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Re: Name this trick
“Klaas Bil” <klaasbil_remove_the_spamkiller_@xs4all.nl> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 15:45:08 -0500, foxx
> <foxx.bgaty@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote:
>
> >Lean your body on the seat, und use
> >your hands to pedaling…
> >Who has a name for that trick ?
>
> I think it’s simply (but oxymoronically) called hand pedaling.
>
> Klaas Bil
>
Good point, pedants (like me! ;-)) should call it manualing.
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–Lloyd Conant
hmm I dont think I would call it a manual, in the rest of the sporting world a manual is what we do all the time, ride on one wheel. or in skateboarding 1 truck.
I think I would call it more on the lines of a Handjob. Yeah I know the sexual conotation behind that. And yeah I still would call that trick that however non PC it may be.
Chex
Re: Re: Name this trick
Or you could just call it handling, but that would mean we’d have to stop pedaling and start footling. That kind of appeals to me.
Have fun!
Graeme (just footling around)
Re: Name this trick
>Scott Kurland wrote:
>> *Good point, pedants (like me! ;-)) should call it manualing.
>> *
I believe manualing is the word given to gliding. is it not?
Dylan
hand pedalling, hand job, whatever turns your crank
Having previously broken my neck I found that spill to be quite scary.
On an hpv built for disabled people “pedaling” with the hands is usually called hand-cranking.
That doesen’t mean we should follow suit though.
Guy claims that at least some of the somersaults were planned.
-mg