What's your LEAST favorite riding style?

Riding Advice
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Kangaroo and juggling while riding.

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ergh… some trials (can be boring), or perhaps just long distance riding.

Or some old school circus riding can be somewhat demeaning lol.

Edit: also traditional Japanese freestyle isn’t too fun. Yeah, that’s probably my least favorite. It’s also impressive at first but gets old after like 3 routines.

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Some of you are confusing equipment or tricks with styles of riding. Giraffe or juggling are not styles. You can do MUni, Freestyle or Street on a giraffe, though juggling pretty much slots you in the Freestyle (or just messing around) category. A giraffe can be very fun in a parade, if that’s your cup of tea. My favorite thing to do with a giraffe in a parade is pretend to start falling toward people you don’t know are there. Everyone else (but those people directly in front of you) thinks it’s hilarious. It never gets old!

I think BC can count as its own style though, because the body moves required to ride one are in their own category. Still, you can do Street, Flat or Freestyle on a BC.

Having said that, and eliminated lots of things that aren’t styles, I’d have to say I appreciate all styles of unicycling, even if I hardly ever do some of them. I guess what I don’t like is any style done badly, by someone who has the skill to do it better. Especially Freestyle, in competition, where you’re watching something that’s supposed to be entertaining. :slight_smile:

And BTW, if you didn’t understand all that stuff Harper was saying about polls, basically he’s saying polls are useless because a) Most creators don’t know what polls are for, b) Most creators don’t realize they are not polling a typical cross section of unicyclists, c) Usually there aren’t enough responses to provide any meaningful data, d) You never know how many people are responding honestly and how many are randomly claiming stuff just to be annoying. Don’t make polls.

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I disagree with you their.

Perhaps it’s time to separate freestyle into two styles, like street has, Old school freestyle and new school freestyle.

Old school freestyle may involve these things like juggling, giraffe riding, and other things of that nature, but not new school freestyle. Not the freestyle that I grew up with!

To me freestyle is just a bunch of tricks which include, but are not limited to glide, wheel walk, and seat misplacent :stuck_out_tongue: variations.

I refer to old-school freestyle, as just circus-style. Perhaps this was freestyle 30 years ago, but modern freestyle and old-school freestyle is in my eyes incomparable.

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freestyle and long distance riding I think…:wink:

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So then you would classify juggling on a unicycle as Freestyle… old school?

I agree with you on those two basic Freestyle variations, and there are more. There’s Japanese style, which is more dance-based. There used to be German style, which was more Artistic Bicycling-based (seen in group performances, including the winning group at Unicon III). Plenty of other sub-styles we could probably name, though several have come and gone over the years since I’ve been involved.

The big difference between what you described as new and old-school Freestyle is the gear. The newer style, or what I called in the 80s a “pure” style, is just one regular unicycle and no (or perhaps minimal) props. The other would be basically everything else. That style didn’t really exist 30 years ago. Not that it hasn’t always been around, but didn’t necessarily catch on as preferable until it won championships. In the first four Unicons, all the Men’s Freestyle winners used a single 20" unicycle and, if I remember correctly, no props. I remember the women using props at Unicons III and IV though. I would say that new style developed out of the “Swedish Style” of the early 1980s and always used a 20" wheel, instead of the 24" wheels that were more common for Freestyle at the time.

Fortunately, Freestyle encompasses everything, so there’s always room to try new (or old) things, with or without the various sub-styles.

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I think all the various styles are goood in their own right and I can’t decide which I like the least.

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No, I cant decide either… probably just normal riding if that counts. I prefer doing something like trials or muni than just riding.

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Dude, you are too funny, but you pretty much summed up my riding style. I just ride around town and I’m learning to jump on to stuff. I guess you would probably call that Street(?)

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I think you’re kind of in the middle. That’s the problem with all this categorization. While it’s necessary for competition events, it could get in the way of just enjoyment of unicycling. A MUni ride can contain Trials. A Flatland ride can contain elements of Street or Freestyle, etc. And when we first learn to ride we’re just riding, which doesn’t have (or necessarily need) a category.

So if you’re just riding around you can think of it as bits and pieces of various styles, or just riding around which is perfectly okay.

33

I know what style I hate…

…clown…

edit: That isn’t even a style of unicycling, but I put it down anyway, because unicycling is meant to be EXTREME. lol

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What if its an extreme clown?

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What would that look like? Besides Kris in a clown outfit, of course.

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I don’t know, Pele in a clown outfit?

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Some of the unicycle stunts on Jackass (TV show on MTV) come to mind…

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I say the style of unicycling I dislike most is when a person does any style dressed as a clown… (is that a style? lol)

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Haha that gives me an idea…a very easy to guess idea…

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Yes.

Haha it’s just so hard for me to see juggling on a unicycle as freestyle! I know that that probably WAS freestyle for a long time, but still.

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muni

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yeah

I hate circus riding. especially when they juggle bowling pins aswell…
freaking freaks… :angry: