Hi people,
do somebody know where’s the UNICON XII takes place ?
thanks
_Felix
PS: now I go for a city trial ride with my new KH seat (hehe)
Re: Where’s the next UNICON ?
I’m sure it’s “i.t. middle of Germany”. 
Actually, it hasn’t been announced yet and maybe won’t be until after the first of October.
Bruce
Middle of Germany like Frankfurt? I was in Germany in April, and flew into Frankfurt airport, and visited Stuttgart, Munich, Duesseldorf, Koeln(Cologne) and other smaller cities like Marburg.
Germany is cool!
Better not let this one get out of control…
I was just teasing Foxx because he says he’s from i.t. middle of Germany. As far as I know, there has not been a commitment on the next location of UNICON.
Bruce
hey,
thanks for the really great answers 
_Felix
japan
Ive heard that it may be in Japan. This may be old news, but thats what ive heard.
Folks,
To my knowledge, the only expression of interest in hosting the next UNICON has come from Japan. This was discussed at the International Unicycling Federation (IUF) meeting held July 30th in Snoqualmie, Washington USA during UNICON 11. The representative of the Japan Unicycling Association (JUA) presented several potential conditions and raised some questions at that time. He said further discussions would have to wait until after a JUA meeting October 31.
Some of the points that were presented (in order of discussion):
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The JUA would need a list of, “country leaders.”
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How many countries would be willing to participate? How many non-Japanese unicyclists would be willing to participate? The JUA would like to see at least 100 non-Japanese unicyclists.
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The JUA could not pay any airfares / expenses as they did in 1987.
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Accommodations would run about 5,800 yes (about $50 US) per person per night. This would include lodging, breakfast and diner.
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Is this UNICON going to be considered a convention or a competition?
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The JUA would need help compiling a substantial amount of information that would have to be supplied to the government of Japan.
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The JUA would like to see only, “world class,” unicyclists compete.
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The JUA would like to limit this UNICON to three to four days, possibly holding events over two weekends. This is due to the fact that the JUA would not be able to supply volunteers to run events during the workweek. One possible suggestion would be to hold artistic events one weekend, with track and field events being held the following weekend. The basketball and hockey tournaments might be able to be held during the week in between the two weekends, as those tournaments traditionally have been self-run by the participants.
The IUF Board of Directors would welcome your input on any or all of these points. The current oficers of the IUF are:
President: Rita Platzcke-Widlak (Germany)
Vice President: Christian Hoverath (Germany)
Secretary / Treasurer: Tom Daniels (United States of America)
Directors: Jonathan Marshall (United Kingdom - term expires in 2003), Kato Yuichiro (Japan - term expires in 2004) and John Foss (United States of America - term expires in 2005).
Personal e-mail addresses, addresses and telephone numbers of the IUF officers have not been posted in this newsgroup in the interests of avoiding as much potential spam as possible from, “data miners,” who search public forums for e-mail addresses. Please either post your comments and questions to this newsgroup or e-mail me at any time for our direct contact information.
Tom Daniels
Secretary / Treasurer
International Unicycling Federation
thank you for the help !
_felix
Re: Where’s the next UNICON ?
> 4) Accommodations would run about 5,800 yen (about $50 US) per person
> per night. This would include lodging, breakfast and diner.
That’s amazingly cheap for Japan! Count me in!
> 7) The JUA would like to see only, “world class,” unicyclists compete.
So what’s a world-class 10K unlimited time, in JUA’s opinion? Knee rehab is
going well and Grendel’s more responsive now that he’s tasted blood. What
can I say, I get along better with predators than prey.
>
> 8) The JUA would like to limit this UNICON to three to four days,
> possibly holding events over two weekends. This is due to the fact that
> the JUA would not be able to supply volunteers to run events during the
> workweek. One possible suggestion would be to hold artistic events one
> weekend, with track and field events being held the following weekend.
> The basketball and hockey tournaments might be able to be held during
> the week in between the two weekends, as those tournaments traditionally
> have been self-run by the participants.
>
> The IUF Board of Directors would welcome your input on any or all of
> these points. The current officers of the IUF are:
Sounds like a heck of a vacation.
>
> President: Rita Platzcke-Widlak (Germany)
>
> Vice President: Christian Hoverath (Germany)
>
> Secretary / Treasurer: Tom Daniels (United States of America)
>
> Directors: Jonathan Marshall (United Kingdom - term expires in 2003),
> Kato Yuichiro (Japan - term expires in 2004) and John Foss (United
> States of America - term expires in 2005).
>
> Personal e-mail addresses, addresses and telephone numbers of the IUF
> officers have not been posted in this newsgroup in the interests of
> avoiding as much potential spam as possible from, “data miners,” who
> search public forums for e-mail addresses. Please either post your
> comments and questions to this newsgroup or e-mail me at any time for
> our direct contact information.
>
>
> Tom Daniels
> Secretary / Treasurer
> International Unicycling Federation
Hell, if they’re IUF officers, surely they read rsu. Right? Though the only
name I recognize is John Foss. Tut.
OT: Regarding data miners and spam, spamcop is $12 a year.
Re: Where’s the next UNICON ?
Greetings
In message “Re: Where’s the next UNICON ?”,
Scott Kurland wrote…
>> 4) Accommodations would run about 5,800 yen (about $50 US) per person
>> per night. This would include lodging, breakfast and diner.
>
>That’s amazingly cheap for Japan! Count me in!
>
>> 7) The JUA would like to see only, “world class,” unicyclists compete.
>
>So what’s a world-class 10K unlimited time, in JUA’s opinion? Knee rehab is
>going well and Grendel’s more responsive now that he’s tasted blood. What
>can I say, I get along better with predators than prey.
I know the story from the inside, so don’t take this requirement too seriously.
They want to avoid a UNICON full of low leverl riders, but there won’t be any
strict tests. This reuqirement is especisally meaningless for countries from which
there are few riders/
>> 8) The JUA would like to limit this UNICON to three to four days,
>> possibly holding events over two weekends. This is due to the fact that
>> the JUA would not be able to supply volunteers to run events during the
>> workweek. One possible suggestion would be to hold artistic events one
>> weekend, with track and field events being held the following weekend.
>> The basketball and hockey tournaments might be able to be held during
>> the week in between the two weekends, as those tournaments traditionally
>> have been self-run by the participants.
>>
>> The IUF Board of Directors would welcome your input on any or all of
>> these points. The current officers of the IUF are:
>
>Sounds like a heck of a vacation.
>>
>> President: Rita Platzcke-Widlak (Germany)
>>
>> Vice President: Christian Hoverath (Germany)
>>
>> Secretary / Treasurer: Tom Daniels (United States of America)
>>
>> Directors: Jonathan Marshall (United Kingdom - term expires in 2003),
>> Kato Yuichiro (Japan - term expires in 2004) and John Foss (United
>> States of America - term expires in 2005).
>>
>> Personal e-mail addresses, addresses and telephone numbers of the IUF
>> officers have not been posted in this newsgroup in the interests of
>> avoiding as much potential spam as possible from, “data miners,” who
>> search public forums for e-mail addresses. Please either post your
>> comments and questions to this newsgroup or e-mail me at any time for
>> our direct contact information.
>>
>>
>> Tom Daniels
>> Secretary / Treasurer
>> International Unicycling Federation
>
>Hell, if they’re IUF officers, surely they read rsu. Right? Though the only
>name I recognize is John Foss. Tut.
>
>OT: Regarding data miners and spam, spamcop is $12 a year.
>
>
>___________________________________________________________________________
>rec.sport.unicycling mailing list - www.unicycling.org/mailman/listinfo/rsu
>
Stay on top, Jack Halpern
Executive Director for International Development
International Unicycling Federation, Inc.
Website: http://www.kanji.org
Re: Where’s the next UNICON ?
Many of the IUF officers read the rsu. But they read it passive, so they do
not answer posts often. They have their own mailing list. But that do not
mean that they do not know whats going on in the world of unicycling.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jack Halpern <jack@kanji.org>
To: Scott Kurland <skurland@juggler.net>
Cc: <rsu@unicycling.org>; Hirai <yankl@mue.biglobe.ne.jp>
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: Where’s the next UNICON ?
> Greetings
>
> In message “Re: Where’s the next UNICON ?”,
> Scott Kurland wrote…[color=darkred]
> >> 4) Accommodations would run about 5,800 yen (about $50 US) per person
> >> per night. This would include lodging, breakfast and diner.
> >
> >That’s amazingly cheap for Japan! Count me in!
> >
> >> 7) The JUA would like to see only, “world class,” unicyclists compete.
> >
> >So what’s a world-class 10K unlimited time, in JUA’s opinion? Knee[/color]
rehab is
> >going well and Grendel’s more responsive now that he’s tasted blood.
What
> >can I say, I get along better with predators than prey.
>
> I know the story from the inside, so don’t take this requirement too
seriously.
> They want to avoid a UNICON full of low leverl riders, but there won’t be
any
> strict tests. This reuqirement is especisally meaningless for countries
from which
> there are few riders/
>
>[color=darkred]
> >> 8) The JUA would like to limit this UNICON to three to four days,
> >> possibly holding events over two weekends. This is due to the fact[/color]
that[color=darkred]
> >> the JUA would not be able to supply volunteers to run events during[/color]
the[color=darkred]
> >> workweek. One possible suggestion would be to hold artistic events one
> >> weekend, with track and field events being held the following weekend.
> >> The basketball and hockey tournaments might be able to be held during
> >> the week in between the two weekends, as those tournaments[/color]
traditionally[color=darkred]
> >> have been self-run by the participants.
> >>
> >> The IUF Board of Directors would welcome your input on any or all of
> >> these points. The current officers of the IUF are:
> >
> >Sounds like a heck of a vacation.
> >>
> >> President: Rita Platzcke-Widlak (Germany)
> >>
> >> Vice President: Christian Hoverath (Germany)
> >>
> >> Secretary / Treasurer: Tom Daniels (United States of America)
> >>
> >> Directors: Jonathan Marshall (United Kingdom - term expires in 2003),
> >> Kato Yuichiro (Japan - term expires in 2004) and John Foss (United
> >> States of America - term expires in 2005).
> >>
> >> Personal e-mail addresses, addresses and telephone numbers of the IUF
> >> officers have not been posted in this newsgroup in the interests of
> >> avoiding as much potential spam as possible from, “data miners,” who
> >> search public forums for e-mail addresses. Please either post your
> >> comments and questions to this newsgroup or e-mail me at any time for
> >> our direct contact information.
> >>
> >>
> >> Tom Daniels
> >> Secretary / Treasurer
> >> International Unicycling Federation
> >
> >Hell, if they’re IUF officers, surely they read rsu. Right? Though the[/color]
only
> >name I recognize is John Foss. Tut.
> >
> >OT: Regarding data miners and spam, spamcop is $12 a year.
> >
> >
>
>___________________________________________________________________________
> >rec.sport.unicycling mailing list -
www.unicycling.org/mailman/listinfo/rsu
> >
>
> Stay on top, Jack Halpern
> Executive Director for International Development
> International Unicycling Federation, Inc.
> Website: http://www.kanji.org
>
> rec.sport.unicycling mailing list -
www.unicycling.org/mailman/listinfo/rsu
Japan?!?
I volunteer Canada. Now someone else please sort this out.
Yeah, I volunteer Canada as well. Ottawa , Toronto , or London would be cool. go Canada.
-Mike
I third Canada.
Ok all, we’ll be there. Just let us know when and where.
um. yeah. I volunteered Canada as well, but i think the organizin could be up to Sofa…muahahhaha… or someone else.
But really, Canada would be such a great place! First of all, there are a lot of unicyclists here, and also we’ve got mountains…er…well…not many in Ottawa, but we got some big hills… what about london.
Now, being serious, who is it who decides where it is an how?
-Mike
Friends to the North,
If you want to have a UNICON in Canada, you need to form an organizing committee, come up with a proposal / plan, secure a venue(s), figure out the financing, recruit volunteers, etc. Just saying, “A UNICON in Canada would be cool,” doesn’t get us anywhere.
Tom Daniels
Author of the much anticipated book, “How Not To Organize An International Sports Competition For Fun And Profit” (or, “How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Anarchy”)
Thanks for volunteering. The folks in Toronto know what’s involved in putting on a North American convention, they can give you an idea how you may want to sort this out.
UNICONs are hosted by groups of volunteers who are willing to do a ton of work and take a financial risk. If you can talk someone into doing this, more power to ya!
But Canada has already hosted the second largest number of UNICONs in any one country. USA has hosted 3, Canada 2. Japan, Puerto Rico (we count them separate for UNICON), UK, Germany, and China have each hosted one. Japan has probably scored the most top awards over the years, and Japan also has the most experience putting on unicycle meets, so they are well suited. I have heard lots of positive stuff from people about going there.
But it won’t be free of course. However it will be a lot cheaper for Japanese riders. Your chance at a cheap UNICON trip was this year, just over the border!
Your avatar animation does not depict a suicide mount. As I understand it, suicide is the informal (interesting) name for a free jump mount. This means you balance the unicycle, let go of it, then jump on.
Stay on top,
John Foss
Something every host wants, and easy enough to pull together.
I think getting 100 foreigners to Japan will be a piece of cake. We had about 50 way back in 1987! That is a non-problem. It’s hard to know in advance how many countries though. Sometimes peoples’ early committments don’t come through, while other teams pop up at the last second announcing they are coming.
Oh well, but I think whoever came up with this list isn’t aware that nobody else ever managed this at any of the other UNICONs! If you host it, they will come. These days, the problem is too many riders rather than too few.
As someone else mentioned, that is cheap for Japan. Cheap!
Yes. UNICON stands for “unicycle convention” and has always been associated with the one-and-only world championships of unicycling.
I’m sure we can help.
I would ask them for their specific definition of “world class.” Jack Halpern has explained that this should not be an issue. Though we may make changes to the IUF rules in the coming months, we will not be establishing any minimum standards for allowing people to come to UNICON.
I think this can work very nicely, as Tom has described, and/or simply having a few days off during the week for people to be tourists. This is a golden opportunity for one or more Japanese tour companies to show us around. I can imagine a big group of us riding the Bullet Train to Tokyo and perhaps staying overnight, while seeing the sights there and perhaps riding our unicycles around the Imperial Palace moat like we did in '87. Or going to a mountain somewhere for a day of fun MUni. Or whatever people want to do.
I look forward to working with the JUA representatives on helping them plan a “world class” UNICON for Japan in 2004!
Stay on top,
John Foss
Re: Where’s the next UNICON ?
Scott Kurland <skurland@juggler.net> wrote:
>> 7) The JUA would like to see only, “world class,” unicyclists compete.
> So what’s a world-class 10K unlimited time, in JUA’s opinion? Knee rehab is
> going well and Grendel’s more responsive now that he’s tasted blood. What
> can I say, I get along better with predators than prey.
I don’t know about the JUA’s opinion, but I do know that this year
the 10K unlimited was won in about 24 minutes, 2nd about 25 minutes
and 3rd 26 minutes. I suspect that Roger could have been somewhat
faster if the competition was closer. This was a pretty flat course
so little in the way of hills to wreck knees etc.
Given these times it would seem fair to assume that anything
under about 29/30 minutes would be “world class” (you need enough
people to give depth to the race…).
Paul
Paul Selwood
paul@vimes.u-net.com http://www.vimes.u-net.com