things to do on a unicycle that I haven't seen done yet

I’d like to see someone able to properly ride a half-pipe or other skate park obstacles. Yes I’ve seen people drop into a half-pipe, but I’ve never seen anyone build vertical momentum on one. There are riders out there getting better at this stuff. Bigger wheels seem to help.

How about a hand spring. Hop forward into a hand stand and then spring up back onto the uni. What’s it called when a skater freezes on one arm at the top of a halfpipe? Doing some thing like this with a uni on a hand rail would be cool, but you’d need a lot of upper body strength. Either that or start higher than the rail, bend down, grab it and take the uni over your body around and down to land it. I’ve seen people bend down to grab things off the ground while riding, so I think this should be doable. You could even do something half that like the free runners. Do a forward or side hop at an obstacle and get horizontal, use the free/balance hand to plant on the obstacle and swing your uni over it side ways.

SIF/SIB wheel walking. I’m sure its been done, but I havent seen it.

That’s all I have time to think of for now.

how about a 360 body variable. or whatever you’d call it. jump off the uni and do a 360 with just your body back onto the uni

been done.

Plus One

I agree. An intentional act that injures yourself may not be covered by insurance, and the insurance company would have “concrete” evidence : )

The uni trick I would like to see would involve a person riding a unicycle while simultaneously sitting in their own lap!

I like how the thread seems to have picked up on the one about max. speed into a concrete wall and not the others. :slight_smile:

I have seen and/or done several variations on your #5. Hard to describe without lots of words, but your idea is similar to a trick I used to do called Pedal Walk. It required pedals with concave ends (so they could walk) and led to the breakage of a frame, a few days before the Unicon where I was going to perform it in the Freestyle competition! :astonished:

Then you must no know Cody Williams! If anybody could/would do it, it’d be him! :sunglasses:

I know him, and I’ve seen that video, but I’m pretty sure he can’t hop high enough or do a backflip anyway. And doing a wallflip is in completely another league of craziness than he (or anyone) is in.

I must stress the fact again that I can’t even ride a uni yet, so this is all speculation based upon my time on bikes and skateboards.

geting on doesn’t sound even remotely complicated (ie. basically jsut a wrap trick and a jump), but as you said, the actual grind sounds extremely difficult. the dismount doesn’t sound all to bad, as your foot would be crotched in the corner of the pedal/crank, so the pedals wouldn’t be too hard to find.

until school is out, I am only going to be able to practice during the weekends while at work, but this summer I will get this done and up a video for you (unless I break my neck in the process). I will make sure to include all the bails that lead up to finally landing it

Have you even thought about this? Because of your reference to a dark slide I don’t think you have…

Lets use your example of a dark slide. Excluding the intro and conclusion of a dark slide, during the actual slide, both feet are on a flat plane, and also the board is sliding on a flat plane, this is not all that difficult of a balance situation. The trick you are describing, is like if you were to try to slide on the EDGE of a skateboard.

Here lets do this first, take a skate deck, with no trucks, and go jump on it a few times and board slide a rail. Now go get a metal pipe of equal size to a uni frame, and try to do the same thing.

it would be a rail on a decline, as I couldn’t imagine getting enough speed on a 20" wheel to make it work otherwise.

as far as mounting, I visualize saddle in front in left hand, you on the right side of the rail. get a good bounce to the left, tuck your left leg into your body while wrapping the frame around your left leg. the final position of the uni would be horizontal, with the front of the seat facing the sky while you still hold it with your left hand, and your right foot planted at the crotch of the right pedal/crank. I’m not sure if you would be able to hold onto the seat hard enough to combat the clockwise twisting force of your right foot though. an alternative footing would be left foot on saddle, right foot on crown. at least that would keep the wheel stationary, making the dismount a little easier.

Whilst it is still attached to the unicycle, cover your seat in a ziplock bag, fastening it at the base. Then go on a four day muni marathon with a group of like minded people, at the end carefully release your seat back into the world and brag to your fellow unicyclists about how fresh it is.

oh, I was only referring to the MOUNT, not the actual grind or dismount! the hard part of a darkslide is the mount/dismount, whereas the hard part of this uni trick, in my eyes, is the grind itself.

once I get the hang of a uni, I’m going to start out trying to stall in this mount position, which I honestly don’t think will be hard at all. again, I am speaking from no uni experience, but I know I could mount a bike in this position, which is much bulkier and heavier than a uni

The theory is sound, even if it would be the most ridiculously hard trick I’ve ever seen + probably break your unicycle. Definitely post video of all the stuff you do related to the trick, even just standing in the stall. :slight_smile:

I think if you really wanted to do this trick, you would need to do quite a few modifications to your uni, including seat modifications and a grind/reinforcement plate of some kind, but it still stands that the joint at the crown is designed to take vertical pressure and lesser side pressure, this trick would be complete side pressure, with weight displacement on far sides of the contact point, making the pressure even more of a problem.

I’m just imagining you finally being able to get into this trick, but one time you jump just a little too high and upon impact on the rail you snap your uni in half.

Someone please tell me if I’m being ridiculous.

you aren’t being ridiculous at all. as I said earlier, I am going to build a custom seat down the road that can take a beating, and thankfully, I am a really really light dude. if I end up in the hospital with a seatpost in my groin, I will make sure to send pics of the xrays :slight_smile:

I don’t mean just for reinforcement, I mean so you can stand on it, how are you planning on doing it at the moment?

I don’t care how much you ride, if you can’t even ride right now how are you expecting to do this extremely difficult trick by the end of the summer?..

well, I wouldn’t have been able to do it if you hadn’t told me I wouldn’t be able to in the first place. I’m like john locke from lost when somebody tells me something can’t be done. my main problem with the uni so far is my lateral balance, as I’m used to two wheels, but otherwise, the uni feels quite natural underneath me.

anyhow, I may be shooting for an unrealistic goal, but that’s how I learn things. I learned guitar to learn bach’s bmv999, I hopped on a skateboard after watching a dude ollie a recycle bin and set that as my goal. that is just how I do things. if the fall rolls around and I fell short, I will humbly admit defeat, but in the mean time, wish me luck :slight_smile:

Ah! You just hit one of my peeves… which is when someone says they have “learned” an instrument, anyone can pick up a guitar and figure out how to pick out a few songs, and likewise anyone can pick up a uni and learn how to ride. But “learned” implies that you already know everything there is to know about playing guitar.

Sorry, that one just really bothers me, I am not trying to insult you or anything I swear.

well in that case, nobody has “learned” anything in life, as there is always room for improvement. for the books, music is the main squeeze of my life, and I don’t take guitar lightly. in the past 10 years that I’ve been playing, I’ve developed a rather unique style