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  1. I found out today I'm doing a trials demo at 'Australia Zoo'
    (http://tinyurl.com/6bnqe) (home of Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter)
    on the 15th. From what I've heard it will involve me doing solo trials
    riding and talking about the sport and what I'm doing.

    I'm actually pretty nervous as I've always been riding with other people
    and had an announcer to help out, but it will definately be lots of
    fun.

    I'll be riding on my own trials obstacles so I'll build a few more
    before the weekend. There's also a giant model of a croc that Wayne
    (the person who kindly got me this gig) suggested I hop around on.

    I've got sandwich boards, gapping bars, hopping posts, and low rails to
    play around with (see unicycle.2ya.com's obstacle building section for
    photos).

    Any tips for sequences of things or particular tricks to do? Does
    anyone here have any wisdom to share for doing this sort of solo trials
    gig?

    Thanks,
    Andrew

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  2. Well done, but I suggest you make sure Steve isn't there. He'll probably
    hand his baby over to you while your hopping on the big crocodile and
    let about 50 loose around the base of it to make things more exciting
    for his visitors 🙄

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  3. If we unicycle, do we not bleed? EVERYBODY, run while you still can,
    they're putting us in zoos! 🙁

    hehe, na good work andrew, I hope all goes well...

    Pete

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  4. Do your backwards skinny ride over some crocs! 😉 Will you meet the man
    himself? You must take pics if so!!! Must!

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  5. my tips are:

    1) make the demo pretty short, knowing how kids in a zoo are...
    2) when describing trials and unicycling, remember that you are
    explaining it to morons.
    3) have a good variety, people might not realize that hopping on a
    sandwich board is any different from a gapping bar or gapping post. to
    them hopping is all the same.
    4) make yourself out to be worse than you really are in your speech and
    dont tell people about people that are better. ie. dont say that some
    people can sidehop 97cm but i can only hop x. make them think that what
    you are doing is a lot harder than it really is. make them hope for a
    wipe out and then surprise them when you clean it. hooray.

    good luck

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  6. Andrew, that's very cool.

    My daughter runs hot and cold on watching the show the Crocodile Hunter,
    but let us know if you'll be on.

    Good luck,
    Raphael Lasar
    Matawan, NJ

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  7. You could slip some kid $10 and get him to look as though he is about to
    do something silly like getting eaten... then at the last possible
    second it's Andrew Carter on a unicycle to the rescue!!!

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  8. You know that scene in the James Bond film where he escapes off the
    island by jumping from croc to croc? Now *that* would be an impressive
    trials routine... 🙂

    Phil

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  9. phil said:

    *You know that scene in the James Bond film where he escapes off the
    island by jumping from croc to croc? Now *that* would be an impressive
    trials routine... 🙂

    Phil *

    (the movie) live and let die, right? i wonder what U level that would
    be

    "multiple 1-meter flat gaps across pool of live crocodiles"

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  10. Why do you all seem to like Steve Irwin guys? Most Australians seem to
    hate him... or have you not seen what he did with his baby?

    [image:
    http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/01/02/crocodile.baby.ap/story.1.feed.jpg]

    That's his baby in his arms, and at one moment he put his child on the
    ground and started to make it dance in front of the crocodile. Yeah he's
    real smart ey?

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  11. Thanks for the tips Trip.

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  12. Good stuff Andrew, that sounds awesome, but pretty scary! Doing it all
    by yourself infront of everyone, but im sure you'll be fine. Will
    anybody be filiming it? if not you have to get it on video and show us
    all😄
    You should teach Steve Irwin to unicycle, then you'll see him feeding
    crocs on a unicycle on international tv and you can say, i taught him
    that....ok now im just getting side tracked. but well done and try get
    it on tape.

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  13. Jump over some kids at yr demo, Andrew! They love it! Or better still,
    jump over Wayne.

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