I don’t know why I hadn’t thought of this before, but a while back before I could ride a unicycle and could appreciate the difficulty, I was watching Guiness Book of World Records on TV and saw this; a Japanese/Chinese/Oriental looking woman was on a 6’-7’ girrafe, idling with her left foot, and, get this: assistants put bowls (i.e. cereal) on her right foot and she kicked them, one at a time, on to her head. They flipped in the air several times and landed on top of each other. She ended up with 32 stacked on her head. WHILE IDILING ON A GIRAFFE!!!!HOLY COW!!!! if you ask me, you can’t get much better than that.
Yeah… that’s not bad. If her unicycle was on top of a walking globe, I’d be impressed.
(Just kidding. I’m way impressed :>)
JonnyD wrote:
> I don’t know why I hadn’t thought of this before, but a while back before I could ride a unicycle and could appreciate the difficulty, I was watching Guiness Book of World Records on TV and saw this; a Japanese/Chinese/Oriental looking woman was on a 6’-7’ girrafe, idling with her left foot, and, get this: assistants put bowls (i.e. cereal) on her right foot and she kicked them, one at a time, on to her head. They flipped in the air several times and landed on top of each other. She ended up with 32 stacked on her head. WHILE IDILING ON A GIRAFFE!!!!HOLY COW!!!! if you ask me, you can’t get much better than that.
>
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Re: The real Level 11
This is certainly very difficult, but not original. This trick goes back to Rudy Horn,
who did it the hard way using cups and saucers.
see http://www.juggling.org/fame/horn/
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Have fun
Franz
From what I have heard there are 2 Chinese girls who do the same trick, very
similar apparently. If you want to know what is better you should go and
see the show… she can actually do it while riding the giraffe on a walking
globe!
Roger
The UK’s Unicycle Source
http://www.unicycle.uk.com
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> I don’t know why I hadn’t thought of this before, but a while back before
I could ride a unicycle and could appreciate the difficulty, I was watching
Guiness Book of World Records on TV and saw this; a
Japanese/Chinese/Oriental looking woman was on a 6’-7’ girrafe, idling with
her left foot, and, get this: assistants put bowls (i.e. cereal) on her
right foot and she kicked them, one at a time, on to her head. They flipped
in the air several times and landed on top of each other. She ended up with
32 stacked on her head. WHILE IDILING ON A GIRAFFE!!!!HOLY COW!!!! if
you ask me, you can’t get much better than that.
>
>
>
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> JonnyD
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Hi All
There is (or was) a lady from the Chinese State Circus who did all that, but
while on a tightrope as well! Now THAT is level 11! She placed the bowls on
her feet herslf too.
David Straitjacket
www.straitjacketcircus.co.uk
> From what I have heard there are 2 Chinese girls who do the same
> trick, very
> similar apparently. If you want to know what is better you should go and
> see the show… she can actually do it while riding the giraffe
> on a walking globe!
It is what you would call a “traditional” Chinese acrobat trick. I’ve seen
it many times, including at UNICON VII in 1994 by a member of the first
Chinese UNICON team. She kicked up cups on a standard unicycle, which we
jugglers know is probably harder than on a giraffe.
She did not do it on a rolling globe though. I have seen a film of this, and
it was very impressive. I noticed however that the globe was running through
an indentation in the floor, so the globe’s movement was two-dimensional
only. Still, it looked incredibly difficult, as well as dangerous!
Stay on top,
JF
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 11:22:33 -0800, “John Foss” <jfoss@unicycling.com>
wrote:
>I noticed however that the globe was running through
>an indentation in the floor, so the globe’s movement was two-dimensional
>only.
You mean one-dimensional…
Connecting to the start of this thread as “the real level 11”, it has
struck me for some time that all of the skill levels don’t specify the
type on unicycle to be used. Is there no need of skill levels for
giraffes, UWs, two-wheelers and all that?
Klaas Bil
“To trigger/fool/saturate/overload Echelon, the following has been picked automagically from a database:”
“public key encryption, SSL, ddos”
well that was a little more than I needed to know, but. . . 
anyway thanks. I just thought it was pretty neat.
I have a feeling that thicking cups to head has been around for quite a
while, with Rudy Horn maybe the first to do it on a uni - somebody
should
ask Karl Heinz Ziethen. I’ve seen photos, live shows or descriptions of
the same act being done:
standing on the ground
on a unicycle
on a unicycle on a walking globe
on a slack rope
on a unicycle on a tight rope.
Many variations on the kcking include kicking up a single bowl to the
head, kicking up two, thre or even four bowls to the head. These all
separate mid-air and then neatly slip into place on the top bowl.
Sensational! The best finale I’ve heard of is to then kick a tea pot up,
followed by a spoon, which enters the tea pot and closes the lid behind
it.
That should keep us all practising for a few centuries.
nic
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, John Foss wrote:
> > From what I have heard there are 2 Chinese girls who do the same
> > trick, very
> > similar apparently. If you want to know what is better you should
go and
> > see the show… she can actually do it while riding the giraffe
> > on a walking globe!
>
> It is what you would call a “traditional” Chinese acrobat trick. I’ve
seen
> it many times, including at UNICON VII in 1994 by a member of the
first
> Chinese UNICON team. She kicked up cups on a standard unicycle, which
we
> jugglers know is probably harder than on a giraffe.
>
> She did not do it on a rolling globe though. I have seen a film of
this, and
> it was very impressive. I noticed however that the globe was running
through
> an indentation in the floor, so the globe’s movement was two-
dimensional
> only. Still, it looked incredibly difficult, as well as dangerous!
>
> Stay on top,
> JF
>
>
>
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Unicycling on a walking globe is <ahem…> impossible. well, at least it appeared to be when I tried it. The problem i had doing it was that the ball would roll sideways causing the uni to fold onto it on it’s side.
How did you start this attempt? I’ve considered this (not considered
trying it, just thought about what would be involved) and haven’t been
able
to figure it out. I guess it would get down to being totally solid at
standstills, and then riding absolutely flawlessly from there. In my
mind,
though, I see myself neither being perfect at the standstill, or the
ride
out, which results in an interesting fall, where my head hits the
ground,
then the unicycle hits me.
So, I think once I’ve mastered the 2 wheel unicycle, have perfected the
standstill, can effortlessly stand on a walking globe with one foot in
the
air, and own a very high quality helmet, then I’ll consider the unicycle
on
a walking globe trick. 
jl
> Unicycling on a walking globe is <ahem…> impossible. well, at
> least it appeared to be when I tried it. The problem i had doing it
was
> that the ball would roll sideways causing the uni to fold onto it on
> it’s side.
>
>
> John Zanetti wrote:
> > Yeah… that’s not bad. If her unicycle was on top of a walking
> > globe, I’d be impressed.
>
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On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 05:05:34 +0000 (UTC), Gilby
<forum.member@unicyclist.com> wrote:
>Unicycling on a walking globe is <ahem…> impossible. well, at
>least it appeared to be when I tried it. The problem i had doing it
>was that the ball would roll sideways causing the uni to fold onto it
>on it’s side.
I couldn’t do this in a lifetime. Yet I don’t think it is impossible.
(Generally, impossible is often too big a word.) If the ball would
roll sideways, you’d have to twist your unicycle and ride to stay on
top. As Jeff Lutkus suggests, two-wheeler experience would help.
Klaas Bil
“To trigger/fool/saturate/overload Echelon, the following has been
picked automagically from a database:”
“FKS, CICAP, sweeping”
I don’t really know what I did to get in teh starting position. This was at Mondo jugglefest and uni convention last year that I tried it. I suppose I just held on to somebody and stepped onto my uni from a table or something.
Yeah, that’s why I figured I’d have a chance at learning it. I didn’t put too much time into it though.
> Unicycling on a walking globe is <ahem…> impossible. well, at
> least it appeared to be when I tried it. The problem i had doing it
> was that the ball would roll sideways causing the uni to fold onto it
> on it’s side.
>
>
> John Zanetti wrote:
> > Yeah… that’s not bad. If her unicycle was on top of a
> walking globe,
> > I’d be impressed.
The one I saw in the old (black & white) film from Al Hemminger was
about a
5’ giraffe, on a globe that looked to be about 4 or 5’ in diameter. Big
globe! Heavy! The weight of the globe was part of the process she used
to
stay on top of it. I’m sure it outweighed her and the unicycle. Plus the
globe was in an indentation in the floor, so it could only roll forward
and
backward. This reduced the difficulty to where it was just real hard,
and
probably real dangerous.
Stay on top,
John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone
jfoss@unicycling.com
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