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yes but wha tIm saying is that if unicon would be on tv when ppl would
be zappin channels they'd see some guy doing a humongous drop they'd
watch.. anybody would it's interresting.. like ppl would think less
that it's a clown thing ad they'd see the real side of unicycling

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Unfortunately not everbody who saw it would be instantly captivated,
only a fraction of the population would stop even for a second. The
vast majority of people would consider it boring, or pointless, or
both, or wouldn't know what to think and would flick over quick before
it induced them to actually use their brains for a second. Yeah sure
alot of skaters, bikers and the like would keep watching out of
interest in another extreme sport, but they make up a tiny proportion
of the viewing public.

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Maxisback, I have terrible news for you. No one gives a shoot about
unicycling in France.
We were 350 at the last French cup, and although Yoggi is inspiring a
few teenagers, it remains totally obscure. Skateboarding on the other
hand has been solidly trendy for the past 30 years.

I've been unicycling for 9 months now, and I saw a unicyclist by
accident only once in Paris, where I live, the only film where I saw a
unicycle by accident was in King Kong. There has been two minor cable
TV shows about unicycling since I've started, you can see me in both of
them...

That friend of yours made fun of you.

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kington99 said:

Unfortunately not everbody who saw it would be instantly captivated...

That's a very good point, Besides live extreme unicycling (not
freestyle) is rarely as impressive to watch as live skating or skate
boarding. For two reasons in my opinion :

- The first being that Unis cannot capitalize on speed, a lot of jaw
droping tricks are based on speed, like jumps and flips. I find that
utterly annoying that a cheesy lil scooter can perform a flip and not a
uni 🙁

- The second is that you tend to fall of the Uni a lot when grinding,
railing or jumping, or performing a street combo. And It looks more
like a failure when you UPD from a uni than when you miss a line from a
trials bike, I don't know why but that's how I've seen people react.
Most people don't realize how hard it is to ride a uni, or a BC, so
they go "yeah great so what ?".

Then again on TV, you can edit, so I'm sure that if the most impressive
moments of a convention were edited together, you could come up with an
interresting 3 minute piece.

It could be a good idea to show TV networks a sample video of what can
be done and offer a Sports News Show to come and shoot, or donate a
piece, shot by professionnal standards, that would be produced by
Unicon as a demo reel...

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thieum said:

I've been unicycling for 9 months now, and I saw a unicyclist by
accident only once in Paris, where I live, the only film where I saw a
unicycle by accident was in King Kong. There has been two minor cable
TV shows about unicycling since I've started, you can see me in both of
them...

You don't even have TV at home! (neither do I)

You're probably talking about "Trace TV" show and the fecing uni vs
basket uni "Stade 2" show on France 3 channel.
But you forget the report about the French Cup on both France 3 and M6
news! Not cable. And we can also see you in it! You're a star!

Since you've started, another show "incroyable mais vrai" on TF1
channel (not cable) talked about Muni.

Actually, except that, I totally agree with you

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All of us could probably do a little more to help the cause as well
like 1)Ask your local REI store why they dont have any Kris Holm
unicycles in stock on display since they are a distributor for them?
2) Hit up you local skate board shop and most I have seen have T.Vs
showing videos, maybe they could run a good K.H. vid or ? to show
everyone there is more to unicycling
3) Same as #2 but hit the local Bike shop as well
And I am sure many others here have ideas as well
What ideas do you have?
P.S. I have done the above

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WTF then I gotta go break my bud's legs for lying to me and making me
look this dumb..

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