Re: Uni @ age 5 (mastered) many thanks to Drummonds
John Drummond wrote:
>
> Jason,
>
> Thanks for your kind words. You have the 2nd-generation ‘Introduction’
> video. Our three sons, ages 14, 10 and 7, are in the video. Just
> wondered which one you’re referring to. Casey, our oldest, is the one
> jumping over a stack 2x4s.
Hello John,
Our son was inspired by your ‘youngest’ boy on the little red Unicycle
featured during the ‘Uh-Oh… is that thing hard to ride’ segment. We
bought the 16" red United for our son since he liked your boy’s so much.
He is also very impressed with Casey’s one foot riding. It’s truly
amazing, at age 5 he’s learning very fast. If he could freemount, he
could easily pass a level one skills test today- after only two weeks of
riding. I’m home for lunch at the moment and he’s outside trying to
freemount. He wants to catch up with his older sister. It almost makes
me wish I were 5 again.
> The deck railing method has worked for many of us. If a railing had
> been available to me as a kid, I would have used it. Instead, I held
> onto the side of my mother’s 1964 Buick (while parked in the garage!).
> I’d start on the fenders, then try to make my way toward the big chrome
> door handles.
I imagine that was a pretty good distance, back when cars were sizable
and made of materials other than tin and plastic. 
I don’t know what
we would have used without the recommendation of the deck railing
system. Cars, lamp posts etc…
> John Foss developed an outline for the Intro video and supplied footage
> of the 2000 California MUni weekend; Dustin Kelm made the outline his
> own and personalized the training. We were fortunate that Dustin Kelm
> was in town and available. Our neighbor Jeffery thought it was very
> cool to learn from a freestyle world champion.
The video was very well done and extremely useful. My family is having
endless fun and are planning on attending next years National Unicycle
Convention. We were wondering if Jeffrey still rides?
Thank you again. You have created loyal customers and an inspired a
growing family of unicyclists- my wife is next. After that who knows,
maybe we can teach the family dog. 
Sincerely,
The Neumann Family
> Best regards,
>
> John Drummond
>
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> From: rsu-admin@unicycling.org [mailto:rsu-admin@unicycling.org] On
> Behalf Of jason
> Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 2:30 PM
> To: rsu@unicycling.org
> Subject: Uni @ age 5 (mastered) many thanks to Drummonds
>
> Well… he did it on day 12.
>
> Yesterday my son, the self proclaimed ‘King Uni-Man’ rode most of the
> day. I would guess he had 5 or more hours in the saddle bringing his
> total to about 16 hours. He can ride until he gets too tired to keep
> rolling!
>
> He thanked me for buying him a Unicycle about 10 times. He also kept
> saying thank you for our video tape, ‘Introduction to Unicycling’ which
> he watched many times. He was influenced quite a bit by the Drummonds
> young son who is highlighted in the video. So I would like to personally
> thank the Drummonds and unicycle.com for making such a wonderful
> introduction video. I don’t know who came up with the ‘deck rail’ system
> which is used on the video, but my family is a testimonial that it works
> well for all ages- 5, 11 and 35! On behalf of the Neumann family, thank
> you.
>
> P.S.
>
> Okay guys, I’m still looking for ideas on the ‘Ultimate Saddle’
> prototype.
>
> Christopher (rhysling) I’ve added that EMP generator you mentioned! Now
> I need ideas on a super cool gas for the air saddle. Any takers?
>
> http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery/album88
>
> –
> jason
>
> Keep your chin up and you’ll be happier.
> Keep your seat up and you’ll get better!
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