Howdy,
Just getting back into uni after a long hiatus, and enjoying the forums - so much time-wasting potential! So now that I am officially fixated, was wondering if folks know of any longer-format reading on the subject of unicycling? History, culture, anecdotes, vernacular… philosophy? I just read a great book (The Most Fun Thing by Kyle Beachy) that looked at skateboarding from a variety of standpoints, including the philosophical, and really enjoyed it. I thought, unicycling deserves such a treatment for being a similarly niche sport with an outsized power and meaning to the folks who participate in it. Then I thought, maybe there already is one? If not, someone here needs to get busy writing it!
Three books that come to mind which look at things from different perspectives (I think I have couple of other ones too which I’d have to dig out). I’ve read the first two of these completely, the third not so much:
How is the book, have you read it? I see they have his ‘Naive Super’ on Audible, I may give it a listen. I watched him unicycle on You Tube, he has a fine beard
I’ve been looking for the paperback version of Kris Holm’s “The Essential Guide”.
I own the E-book, but I’d love one for the real bookshelf. …Not for 75 USD though!
Yes I have read it several times! He is one of my favourites and I have read all his other novels. They all have a reflective and humerous tone I like. “Naive Super” was his big hit.
The unicycling book is a about approaching it as an adult beginner. How the impossible turns possible and his developing love for the only wheel.
I was expecting a revolutionary demand for unis in Norway/Scandinavia since he is fairly well read. And maybe it has been in Norway? But yet to come in Sweden where I live. A sadly underdeveloped unicycling country.
