On ‘The Big Moment’ on ABC where they give people prizes if they can do some
challenging task like spin plates they are going to have some guy riding a
unicycle. It is on right now so you probably missed it.
jh
Re: Yet another uni on TV
The newspaper mentioned “man rides Unicycle” as partof the description of “The
Big Moment” TV program, so I taped the show. A guy who knew nothing about
unicycling was given 5 days to learn to ride a uni over a short obstacle course
(his Big Moment) on the TV program. The course looked to be about 10 meters
across with 3 cones about 2 meters apart he had to ride around. If he succeeded
he would wind cash and prizes of $25,000. Riding was demonstrated by another guy
named Don Pearson who was assigned to help him learn since the task was deemed
to be very difficult. (There were 4 different challenges given for the show.
This was the only one where it was implied the participant would be given any
help learning.) The guy was also given a video camera to record his progress
through the week. During his Big Moment challenge he rode about 3 meters and
fell off as he approached the first cone. He was the only one who failed. I
didn’t feel to sorry for the guy for not getting the $25k. From the looks of his
house where he was practicing (including an exercise room with a dance floor,
ballet bar and wall mirror about 10 meters long, and an his own outside tennis
court) he appeared to be very wealthy. The challenges for the contestants were:
a woman was given an untrained, one year old golden retriever and challenged to
train it to do 5 basic tricks; 4 college girl had to learn to spin 10 or 12
plates on sticks within 2 minutes and keep them spinning an additional 30
seconds once they were all spinning; and a guy was challenged to memorize pi to
100 decimal places.
I don’t think I will be watching again.
Does anyone know Don Pearson?