I have just come in from playing in the street on my UNI. While I was
mucking about (trying to learn how to wheel walk) I came up with an idea
that I haven’t seen before. I will try and describe it.
Stand with your UNI to your side, in my case the uni stands on the right
of me, Lift up crank at front and next to you to nearly verticle and place
right foot on pedal. Now, with one/both hands on the seat go straight into
a one footed ride, supporting your body weight on the seat with your arms,
while keeping yourself at the side of thre UNI. I haven’t actually got it
going properly yet, though I have had a couple of good starts, it
certainly feels possible. Like I said, I just thought of it about 30
minutes ago.
Has anyone seen/tried anything like this before? I imagine someone here
has. If so, do you have any pointers. If not, can it be called the
‘Straitjacket Suicide?’
I’ve seen Sem Abrahams do this. I even have an avi of it but it doesn’t
show the mount and I don’t remember how he mounted. I think he either
mounted how you describe it, or he just jumped on. On www.xs4all.nl/~klaasbil/sem_teresa.htm this is one of the missing vids
mentioned at the bottom. I have to edit the last bit off and I THINK I now
have the software for it (it is an exotic format) but I just haven’t
gotten around to try it yet.
Klaas Bil
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 20:28:53 -0000, “David Straitjacket”
<straitjacketcircus@'DELETETHIS’totalise.co.uk> wrote:
>Hi all. > >I have just come in from playing in the street on my UNI. While I was >mucking about (trying to learn how to wheel walk) I came up with an idea >that I haven’t seen before. I will try and describe it. > >Stand with your UNI to your side, in my case the uni stands on the right >of me, Lift up crank at front and next to you to nearly verticle and >place right foot on pedal. Now, with one/both hands on the seat go >straight into a one footed ride, supporting your body weight on the seat >with your arms, while keeping yourself at the side of thre UNI. I haven’t >actually got it going properly yet, though I have had a couple of good >starts, it certainly feels possible. Like I said, I just thought of it >about 30 minutes ago. > >Has anyone seen/tried anything like this before? I imagine someone here >has. If so, do you have any pointers. If not, can it be called the >‘Straitjacket Suicide?’ > >David (going straight back out to keep trying) Straitjacket >www.straitjacketcircus.co.uk > > > >
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In message “New move?”, David Straitjacket wrote… >Hi all. > >I have just come in from playing in the street on my UNI. While I was >mucking about (trying to learn how to wheel walk) I came up with an idea >that I haven’t seen before. I will try and describe it. > >Stand with your UNI to your side, in my case the uni stands on the right >of me, Lift up crank at front and next to you to nearly verticle and >place right foot on pedal. Now, with one/both hands on the seat go >straight into a one footed ride, supporting your body weight on the seat >with your arms, while keeping yourself at the side of thre UNI. I >haven’t actually got it going properly yet, though I have had a couple >of good starts, it certainly feels possible. Like I said, I just thought >of it about 30 minutes ago. > >Has anyone seen/tried anything like this before? I imagine someone here >has. If so, do you have any pointers. If not, can it be called the >‘Straitjacket Suicide?’
It sounds like wht you are describing is a welkl-known advanced skill
called side riding. There are many riders who can do it.
When I was teasing Harper about needing to learn more one foot skills before he should attempt to learn to wheel walk, the last one foot skill in the list I posted was:
one foot seat out front with the other foot extended
I think that skill would be harder than the side ride. I have never seen anyone do the skill. If anyone has managed to do that skill I would be very impressed.
The skill you call the “Straightjacket Suicide” is a side ride. It’s a level 10 skill. Dustin Kelm does a side ride on a 6 foot giraffe. It’s one of the most impressive skills I’ve seen done as part of a freestyle routine.
I have done all of these skills now, barefooted, with the cranks in place but the pedals removed, on a flat tire, blindfolded, with Dobermans chasing me, on a thin wire stretched across Snoqualmie Falls. I’m ready to wheel walk.
'The skill you call the “Straightjacket Suicide” is a side ride. It’s a > level 10 skill ’
Hi.
Well, I did say I had only come up with the idea, and that I thought it
seemed ‘do-able’. I do not claim that I can actually do it Level 10!
eeeeeeeeek. I just tested myself to about level 4, maybe 5 on a really
really good day with a following wind.
To be Mr Pedant I notice that you ‘Corrected’ the spelling of
‘Straitjacket’ in the above. The way I spell it is actually correct, I
should know. It’s my name. Not a day goes by without my correcting someone
on that spelling
john_childs <forum.member@unicyclist.com> wrote in message news:a1j6rd$7ai$1@laurel.tc.umn.edu… > When I was teasing Harper about needing to learn more one foot skills > before he should attempt to learn to wheel walk, the last one foot skill > in the list I posted was: > * one foot seat out front with the other foot extended > > I think that skill would be harder than the side ride. I have never seen > anyone do the skill. If anyone has managed to do that skill I would be > very impressed. > > The skill you call the “Straightjacket Suicide” is a side ride. It’s a > level 10 skill. Dustin Kelm does a side ride on a 6 foot giraffe. It’s > one of the most impressive skills I’ve seen done as part of a freestyle > routine. > > john_childs > > > > > – > john_childs Posted via the Unicyclist Community - > http://unicyclist.com/forums
> I have done all of these skills now, barefooted, with the cranks in > place but the pedals removed, on a flat tire, blindfolded, with > Dobermans chasing me, on a thin wire stretched across Snoqualmie Falls.
> > >John- > >I have done all of these skills now, barefooted, with the cranks in place >but the pedals removed, on a flat tire, blindfolded, with Dobermans >chasing me, on a thin wire stretched across Snoqualmie Falls. I’m ready >to wheel walk. > > >john_childs wrote: > > When I was teasing Harper about needing to learn more one foot skills > > before he should attempt to learn to wheel walk, the last one foot > > skill in the list I posted was: > > * one foot seat out front with the other foot extended > > >– >harper Posted via the Unicyclist Community - http://unicyclist.com/forums
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Whoops! Sorry about misspelling your name. I write most of my posts in a hurry late at night while watching late night TV. I’m lucky that I don’t have more misspellings than I do. I look back at some of my posts and I have to say “damn John, you need to proofread”. Now you go and intentionally misspell your name and declare it correct. I can’t win.
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:05:37 -0000, “David Straitjacket”
<straitjacketcircus@'DELETETHIS’totalise.co.uk> wrote:
>To be Mr Pedant I notice that you ‘Corrected’ the spelling of >‘Straitjacket’ in the above. The way I spell it is actually correct, I >should know. It’s my name.
That’s right, the spelling of names is not subject to rules (at least not
the same ones as plain language) and can be weird without being wrong. But
in this case, “straitjacket” (or according to my dictionary
“strait-jacket”) is also a correctly spelled English word, the meaning of
which -especially in connection with circus- brings about visions of the
legendary escape artist Houdini. Do you endeavour such tricks, David?
Klaas Bil
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:05:37 -0000, “David Straitjacket”
<straitjacketcircus@'DELETETHIS’totalise.co.uk> wrote:
>To be Mr Pedant I notice that you ‘Corrected’ the spelling of >‘Straitjacket’ in the above. The way I spell it is actually correct, I >should know. It’s my name.
That’s right, the spelling of names is not subject to rules (at least not
the same ones as plain language) and can be weird without being wrong. But
in this case, “straitjacket” (or according to my dictionary
“strait-jacket”) is also a correctly spelled English word, the meaning of
which -especially in connection with circus- brings about visions of the
legendary escape artist Houdini. Do you endeavour such tricks, David?
Klaas Bil
“To trigger/fool/saturate/overload Echelon, the following has been picked
automagically from a database:” “N-ISDN, Tony Poe, NETWORK”
As you have pointed out the spelling of straitjacket in my name is correct
in all uses, Strait means ‘bondage or imprisonment’ and ‘jacket’ means,
well, jacket! Hence, ‘imprisonment jacket’. Straightjacket is a western
mis-spelling.
I don’t know why the mis-spell poster thought he had spelt my name
incorrectly, he didn’t, and I quoted the place where he had spelt the word
wrongly. What he had done was cut and paste something I had said, being
‘straitjacket suicide’ then he had changed it to read ‘straightjacket
suicide’. This is the only reason I felt it appropriate to point it out. I
am not usually one to point out peoples spelling errors. I make plenty of
them myself!
'the meaning of which -especially in connection with circus- brings
about visions > of the legendary escape artist Houdini. Do you endeavour such > tricks, David?’
Yep, I certainly do. Indeed I perform straitjacket escapes on a regular
basis, sometimes suspended from ropes high above the ground, as the great
man himself used to do.
Klaas Bil <> wrote in message news:3c3f5f20.1858186@newszilla.xs4all.nl… > On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:05:37 -0000, “David Straitjacket” > <straitjacketcircus@'DELETETHIS’totalise.co.uk> wrote: > > >To be Mr Pedant I notice that you ‘Corrected’ the spelling of
‘Straitjacket’ > >in the above. The way I spell it is actually correct, I should > >know. It’s
my > >name. > That’s right, the spelling of names is not subject to rules (at least > not the same ones as plain language) and can be weird without being > wrong. But in this case, “straitjacket” (or according to my > dictionary “strait-jacket”) is also a correctly spelled English word, > the meaning of which -especially in connection with circus- brings > about visions of the legendary escape artist Houdini. Do you > endeavour such tricks, David? > > Klaas Bil > – > "To trigger/fool/saturate/overload Echelon, the following has > been picked
automagically from a database:" > “N-ISDN, Tony Poe, NETWORK”
It wasn’t my name the you miss/re-spelled. It was the word ‘straitjacket’
in the phrase ‘straitjacket suicide’ mate. No need to apologise, it is a
very common mis-spelling which I come across all the time (pretty much
daily) so I end up correcting the spelling all the time.
‘Now you go and > intentionally misspell your name and declare it correct.
I can’t win.’
As said, it wasn’t my name that you mis-spelled. I have
intentionally spelled my name right! The word ‘straitjacket’ is
spelled exactly like that Strait means ‘bondage or imprisonment’ and ‘jacket’ means, well, :jacket!
Hence, ‘imprisonment jacket’. Straightjacket is a western mis-spelling.
Anyway, please do no consider this a flame, it certainly is not. The
spelling problem does not offend me in any way. I just think it should be
pointed out when I see it.
john_childs <forum.member@unicyclist.com> wrote in message news:a1m7h7$rp2$1@laurel.tc.umn.edu… > > > Whoops! Sorry about misspelling your name. I write most of my posts in a > hurry late at night while watching late night TV. I’m lucky that I don’t > have more misspellings than I do. I look back at some of my posts and I > have to say “damn John, you need to proofread”. Now you go and > intentionally misspell your name and declare it correct. I can’t win. > > Time for bed. > > john_childs > > > David Straitjacket wrote: > > To be Mr Pedant I notice that you ‘Corrected’ the spelling of > > ‘Straitjacket’ in the above. The way I spell it is actually correct, > > I should know. It’s my name. Not a day goes by without my correcting > > someone on that spelling > > > – > john_childs Posted via the Unicyclist Community - > http://unicyclist.com/forums
Dreddy_Matt <forum.member@unicyclist.com> wrote in message news:a1s3jq$6km$1@laurel.tc.umn.edu… > Wow, you’re called dave straitjacket, and you work with straitjackets. > That’s incredible > > it was like your family knew what you were gonna be before you > were born… > > > > > – > Dreddy_Matt Posted via the Unicyclist Community - > http://unicyclist.com/forums
Level 10!