Here in Brazil when i go to ride around my house, a lot of peoples make
jokes... Some are a little bit more "ignorants" than others... but when
i do something cool like a unispin or a big side hope... They like...
Here just a very limited group knows what is unicycling...
I ride Biketrial's too... Some friends of mine rides BMX's... but they
are a disaster riding.... So when i arrived at my school with my bike
and i made some cool stuff everybody liked...
When i arirved at the school with my uni everbody joked with me... in
the range between the classes i made some trials lines... Even my
teachers and the school officcals liked!!! Even some high school girls
liked... and they are hot 😄 !
But no one knows that no one born knowing how to ride a uni and doing
some cool tricks... So the biggest part make jokes... It's a great
prejudice!
When i showed to my friends some videos of Xav and other french guys
riding, they asked me where they can buy a uni here! A irony... because
they joked with me!
It is a diferent sport, we aren't popular... but unicycling in
growing... and very fast BTW!
In the last two year unicycling grew what Biketrials grew in 5 or 6
years... In the Latin american version of the X-Games in Brazil we have
a Biketrials dual lane... Uni is not SO distant of some Highlight!
Unicycle can easy turn into a "cool" sport... A uni it's something that
a mom or a dad can buy in a toy store to his son... Like a
skateboard... It isn't big, it's funny and even the parents can ride!
Here in brazil we have just 1 uni manufacturer... And he have interests
just in juggling... So it's harder to make everything...
One Koxx uni costs something about R$1200,00 (if you bring it from USA
with you, if you import it with all taxes something like R$2500))...
And our minimum wage is R$365,00... So just a class B or A citizen can
buy it!
It's hard to turn uni into something very cool, but i believe that will
happen! And it's not so far!
While this is not happening, i just ignore what the other peoples think
about me! i'm Happy riding unicycles!...
In some years maybe who jokes with you, will buy a uni to his son!
Best Regards... And Keep riding, whatever they think of you, keep
riding!!
Pedro.
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pedrotejada
Unicycle in Brazil!
São Paulo-SP 😄
Sorry about the terrible english!
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