unicycler on treadmill on letterman

I just saw it right now. He rode a 6' giraffe i think at 4 mph and
juggled 3 tennis balls.

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Pics?
Video?

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GILD said:

Pics?
Video?

Don't know how long it will be up:

http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/#

Click on "Dave TV" - "Big Show Highlight"

For future refernence they may be archived here:

http://tinyurl.com/erra

Stupid Human Tricks
(11/28/05)

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Wow! That's pretty impressive.

Could this be a way of clocking our maximum speeds in the comfort of
our own homes? :p

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Just saw it on TV. The rider was Bob Besman of Kenab Utah. The initial
time he spent holding on wasn't due to instability, he was pushing
buttons to get it up to speed of 4 MPH.

Seager said:

Well, on letterman this thursday...

Unicyclist tonight. It's OPRAH on Thursday.

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UniBrier said:

Unicyclist tonight. It's OPRAH on Thursday.

the funny thing about Oprah is that Dave has been trying to get her on
the show for like, 5 years. She is a megalomanic that doesnt ever want
to be on the other side of the microphone but Dave finally got
her.....

i dont think its going to be very good though, probobly a couple of
softball questions and then a plug for her next book or charity...

i can only hope that he mentions Ellen's show taking her on....Ellen D
is the best thing to happen to day time TV in a long time. i liked the
show better though when it was on at 10am PST.

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that can't be a 6 foot giraffe. looks fiveish to me.

Also, I think it's pretty cool to know that with a little work I could
do that too. I think most people on the forum here think that. hehe.

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That clip finally motivated me to figure out why my RealPlayer
connection wasn't working.

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Enlighten me please. Mine only showed me about 5 stills during the
entire clip. I was going to wait till someone else asked about it.

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At first i wasn't sure he would be able to do it. He almost ate it
hard. I can just imagine him trying it out the first times and flying
off the end. haha. very impressive though

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Yeah, is there any way that someone can post it in the gallery? Maybe
at home it will work, but here are work with all the proxies and
firewalls, it sure doesn't.

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flyer said:

Also, I think it's pretty cool to know that with a little work I could
do that too. I think most people on the forum here think that. hehe.

The riding/juggling part is pretty easy, once you get past the mount
and start-up process. The hard part is getting on Letterman.
Congratulations for that!

But I'd have much rather been on the old Johnny Carson show, where
variety acts were treated with the respect of skilled or unusual
performers, not "Stupid Humans" or "Is This Anything."

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johnfoss said:

But I'd have much rather been on the old Johnny Carson show, where
variety acts were treated with the respect of skilled or unusual
performers, not "Stupid Humans" or "Is This Anything."

sorry, you would only be allowed during Joan Emery's segment. 😎

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The rider was Bob Besman of Kenab Utah.

Hah, small world. I know Bob. He used to juggle from time to time with
the Wasatch Front Jugglers, the club I belonged to when I lived in
Utah. Not sure if he's still active, but at one time he was a full-time
circus performer. He is an _awesome_ juggler, and also quite skilled
on the rola-bola. I've seen him construct and then mount a "three
stack" (three levels of board, each balanced on its own cylinder), then
juggle clubs while on top. He's a master of the unstable platform.

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I put the video clip in my 'Monster gallery'
(http://gallery.unicyclist.com/monster). Scroll down to the bottom.

The video is in Real Media format. The gallery doesn't quite
understand Real Media files and thinks it is an audio file. It is a
video file. You'll need RealPlayer to play it.

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Thanx John!

1st EDIT: Your link seems a bit dodgy tho.
I get this error message all over the screen when I click on it.

Quoted message said:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
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on line 245

2nd EDIT: But it's ok, you just have to scroll down past all of that.

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GILD said:

Thanx John!

Your link seems a bit dodgy tho.
I get this error message all over the screen when I click on it.

The whole gallery is doing that. Gilby needs to kick the server. Just
scroll on down and ignore the error messages. It'll all work.

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I put the video clip in my 'Monster gallery'
(http://gallery.unicyclist.com/monster). Scroll down to the bottom.

JC, you again show you're The Man.

Bob did a good job making that trick look harder for him than it was.
Having seen him build and mount a three-stack rola bola, this trick was
nothing for him...he was in control fully at all times.

I tried to find a good image of a three-stack and failed. I'm ticked
at myself that I never got pics of Bob doing his act in Salt Lake. I
was too busy reeling in my jaw from the floor. Here is a picture of a
'fake four stack' (http://www.entertainer.co.nz/images/shadpg7.jpg),
but if you look closely, you'll note it's really just a single rola
bola with extra layers of boards on top. A true three-stack is a pvc
tube on the ground topped with a board, topped with another pvc tube
topped with a board, topped with another pvc tube topped with a board.
The pvc tube in the middle layer is perpendicular to the other two,
making the stack a true 360 degree balance apparatus, and much much
more difficult to ride than the four-layer apparatus in the photo.

FYI, Bob has also written a 'learn-to-juggle'
(http://tinyurl.com/96x24) book...not sure why, as his real talent is
in the unstable platform, where he's got some game equal to 'Rhys
Thomas' (http://www.jugglemania.com/theatre_video.html).

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