Well I dont' know what it is with me but I always seem to get lucky with
unicycling and media attention.
So the other day I had just got home and my mum said "weeell I just got
a call from a TV Producer" and I was like "Yeah okay mum whatever" I
thought she was just playing a joke on me but she went on to explain and
turns out she wasn't... In NZ there is a childrens programme on every
saturday morning called 'Squirt' aimed at about 8-15 yr olds. They
usually have stories about interesting things kids or younger people are
doing around the country to interest kids and get them invloved in
stuff, and one producer guy who works for them saw my article in the
paper last year and thought it would be cool to interview me and film me
for the show! So I rang up, talked to this guy and organised a time to
meet up.
Yesterday we met down at my school (just a good place to ride) and they
interviewed me for a bit less than an hour (he had said the whole thing
would only take an hour) and then we went around and I did a bit of
freestyle, trials and street and they filmed me! 2 hours later it was
over and i think it went really well and they got some really cool
shots..although by the end I had ripped my KH seat in half 🙁 probably
due to repeated leaps down a 7 stair. Overall I think everything went
really well, though I was a bit nervous in the inerview and had the sun
and another light thing (there were -three- people just for me!) blaring
in my eyes so i probably said some pretty weird things...
The guy said he would send me a copy of the finished item and also over
the computer, so with any luck I should be able to show you all. Anyway
just though you might like to know NZ is giving extreme unicycling a
fair amount of media attention!
Peter
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