Émile5 said:uhh, don't generalize please.... thanks.
Okay, European and North American cultures? 😄
According to the JUA, more than six million people have learned to ride
unicycle in Japan in the last 30 years or so. But their system is very
institutionalized, and focuses mostly on the schoolyard, gym and track,
probably in that order. You learn to ride at your school, and there are
large organized events for track racing and Freesyle, but not a lot
else.
That's my understanding as someone who lives very, very far away but I
think it's fairly close. There are other events that go on, but they're
on a much, much smaller scale, and there is probably nobody organizing
MUni or Trials-type activities. It could be harder for them to start up
in Japan because the more traditional unicycle events have sponsors,
budgets, tradition and acceptability.
But when we do those events at Unicon, including in Japan, there is a
group of riders who are obviously very interested in them. However for
those of you who were there, you may have noticed that the foreign
visitors were *not* outnumbered by Japanese competitors on our day of
MUni and Trials. It was a long bus ride, and the vast majority of
Japanese unicyclists aren't necessarily even familiar with those
events.
Pictures:
http://unicycling.smugmug.com/gallery/235111#9137117
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