One Million Youtube views

I just passed one million youtube views. :slight_smile: Never had the benefit of having a single video “featured” on youtube; you become intelligible for that if any of your videos have copyrighted music on them, so I had to earn each and every view the old fashioned way! :o

I want to thank the uni-community for watching and also the thousands of non-riders, many of whom have been inspired to take up this most awesome sport!

Congratulations Unigeezer!!

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That would be ME!
Thanks for the inspiration!

Wow that’s nice. Thanks guys. :slight_smile:

You also kind of bring me to this sport. You weren’t the first person who I saw in an unicycling video, but you helped me to make the move and buy an unicycle ;).

Btw. When you search for mountain unicycling on Youtube, most of hte results are your videos.

Congrats for your milion views. Next base is one million subscribers :smiley:

Congratulations!!!

Congratulations Unigeezer, you’re a millionaire! :wink:

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For the inspiration!!!

About a year ago, when I was just got into unicycling, and even before getting exposed to this amazing community, I used to watch unicycle vids on youtube.
One of my first search results was your “36er Mounting Tutorial” - It was amazing… so I start reading about you, and following your amazing story.
I wish that I’ll have half of your riding skills when I’m 55 :):):slight_smile:
Keep riding and posting your great vids and pics.

UVcycle

How many of those views were your own?

Alright, way to go, Terry! About 200,000 of those views are mine…

You’ve been one of the most influential riders on me. Every time I watch one of your videos, it makes me instantly want to go for a ride… Even in sub-zero Wisconsin weather. Then I realize that I’m not fortunate enough to live in California, at which point I sadly retreat to my house and imagine riding the Santa Ana River Trail :roll_eyes:

Your videos are truly great! The million is well earned :wink:

Congratulations! You have certainly earned it. I hope they generate some work for you.

Among other forms of inspiration, for me, Terry’s riding is a reminder to me (at 50 years of age), of NO EXCUSES! I’m a fan.

You could do what I did – move to California (from almost-as-cold Michigan)… :slight_smile:

Probably less than Milosboy’s 200,000, so that still leaves quite a few from everyone else!

Congratulations, truly a great milestone! I can’t tell you how many times I have watched your videos to help me learn how to ride - a really big thanks from here in Aus.

Congratulations, UniGeezer!

Congratulations, UniGeezer!

I’ve probably watched all of your videos, and I’ve watched the ascent of Fargo St. about 200 times. Very inspirational!
36er mounting tutorials were very helpful also.

Jrapp

I’ve watched quite a few of Terry’s videos, always fun, plenty of good action and commentary, hope to meet the man in person at the next Cali Munifest.

Terry, are you going to make the drive?

Thanks for the comments guys! As for how many views are mine, lol, not many. Most of my viewing is done during editing and before uploading, so I can see what changes I might want to make.

Once uploaded, I usually will watch it to see if I want to add any annotations, or to reply to any comments. Other than that, I usually don’t watch them online more than a few times, mostly because being my own worst critic, I see so many things I would have done differently or tried to do better.

That’s is the primary reason that motivates me to keep making videos; I say to myself that the next one will be better, and that one day I just might “get it right”! :o:)

You ‘’ Got it right’’ years ago Mr P, you’re an inspiration to us all !! :slight_smile:

One of the best parts of making videos over these last 6 years is being able to correspond with so many terrific people who have been inspired to take up our awesome sport! I consider it an honor indeed to have received hundreds of emails, letters and messages from people from all over the world, and I reply with great enthusiasm to each and every one.

But inspiration goes both ways, and from time to time I receive some of the most amazing stories, and I want to share a very special one with you here, with this gentleman’s permission. His story is a testament to both his incredible inner strength and determination, and his physical resiliency. It’s a rather long letter, but I wanted to quote it in its entirety:

Terry-
I just wanted to drop you a line to thank you for introducing me to this incredible sport. My name is Carey, and I’m a 52 y.o. emergency medicine physician. I had been a distance runner/marathoner/triathlete for over 30 years, until July of 2010 when I was hit by a farm tractor that suddenly pulled out in front of me while I was riding a Vespa-type scooter at 45mph.

I hit the engine block full force, and sustained multiple injuries- including an open book fracture of my pelvis, torn abductors in both legs, torn hip cartilage, multiple fractures…and later clots in my lungs and legs. Today I am very lucky to be alive, but sadly I can’t run anymore due to my hips and a pelvic non-union. I fought for months to get my fitness back, and was biking 100 miles a week again within a year, but I have longed for the simplicity of running out my front door into the nearby canyon and finding solitude on the trails without the complexity of a bike.

[I]Somehow- I really don’t remember how- I came upon one of your videos this winter. The simplicity of a unicycle, plus the incredible skill that you have, was very inspiring to me. I wondered if a 52 year old orthopedic nightmare could unicycle without pain- what the heck, it doesn’t hurt to ride my bike, I thought- so on February 18 I bought a $140 24″ Torker Lx and brought it home. My wife thought i had gone insane. After seeing me fall hundreds- maybe thousands- of times, she was certain of it. Neighbors began to wonder.

At first they were curious, then they started to give me a wide berth on the road. Hushed whispers in Starbucks- “That’s the wacko doc that belongs in the circus-” made me more determined to learn how to tame that one wheeled monster. Fortunately, my wife and teenage boys now think it’s pretty cool (or at least that’s what they tell me).

I wasn’t a very fast learner. Riding came a lot sooner than mounting. But I gave myself a goal- by Easter Sunday, I wanted to be able to ride around the block. Well, on the Saturday before Easter, I free mounted in the garage, rode down the driveway and all the way around the block and back- a distance of about a half mile. I was pumped.
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Well, on the Saturday before Easter, I free mounted in the garage, rode down the driveway and all the way around the block and back- a distance of about a half mile. I was pumped. Now I am up to 3 mile rides in the neighborhood daily. I am still learning- and a long way from competent- but my goal is to buy a good MUNI and start riding the canyon trails this summer. The better I get, the more I realize what a Zen sport this is….like telemark skiing and whitewater kayaking, the more relaxed I am, the better I perform.

Anyway, thanks again for your inspiration and your INCREDIBLE videos- I really appreciate the quality, the effort, and your great sense of humor. If you are ever out this way, give me a call and I’ll try to keep up with you on the trails!

Sincerely, Carey