Sponcers?How?

e-mail sixsixone.com w/ some of your vids and learn how to spell
sponsor.🙂 They will give you a discount of everything you order from
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im thinking of making a sponcership vid for my LBS this summer

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Yea k, But I think Being sponcered by Torker would be cool.
So I just set off to making a vid, send it to them, tell them how I
would be helpful, In the vid ride my Torker DX, And hope I get it, or
is torker to good, do you have to be as good as luke Collelto, or
Shaun, or Xav?

Sponsorship

I ride a Torker DX, so I dont think i could try out for qua-ax, i
dont own any sixsix-one stuff, and many ppl are sponcered by them.
I just think i would need an email, to email torker.

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CKCrowe said:

Yea k, But I think Being sponcered by Torker would be cool.
So I just set off to making a vid, send it to them, tell them how I
would be helpful, In the vid ride my Torker DX, And hope I get it, or
is torker to good, do you have to be as good as luke Collelto, or
Shaun, or Xav?

Sponsorship

idk, but i think that torker would be hard to get sponsered by because
they are a uni company and could get a lot of decently great riders
fairly easily if they wanted, but idk so gor for it

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idk how to email them, didnt you say you tried out for Qu-ax, and they
didnt even need a vid from you, or was that someone else?

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CKCrowe said:

idk how to email them, didnt you say you tried out for Qu-ax, and they
didnt even need a vid from you, or was that someone else?

nope wasnt me, ive never tried to get sponsered by anyone, hmm

'Try these email adresses' (http://www.torkerusa.com/)

btw the title of this thread sounds like spencers how

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it is a common misconception among 14 and under year olds that
sponsorship will prove to everyone else that you are good, and
therefore you should try with every last breath to get hooked up.

Think first. Why do you want to be sponsored?
What can you do for your sponsor?
Who would sponsor you?

if you have good answeres to these, include them in your sponsor me
vid. If you can though, try to have your potential sponsor notice you
before you call to them for a new uni.

good luck!

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just because Kris can do it, doesnt mean its possible 🙂

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Someone will only sponsor you if they believe that the freebies they
give you cost less than the extra income they will get from people
buying their stuff because of your work. You need to think how you
intend to increase their sales with your riding. It doesn't matter how
good you are if no-one ever sees you ride, mention any times/places you
ride where their brand will get good exposure, such as in competitions,
if you've already made videos and put them on the internet the viewing
figures might help make a convincing argument.

But I agree with uni-jim, why exactly do you want sponsorship? These
companies must get hundreds of emails from kids wanting free stuff for
nothing, what will -you- do for them?

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This is how you spell _SPONSER_ and
_SPONSERSHIP_

correct spelling of this word will certainly help

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juggle508 said:

I know why Tomsey is so good at backs and why Shaun owns at normal
flips.
It has to do with the gravitational pull. Like how the toilet flushes
in the opposite direction down there. Well its easier down there to
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The.Mars.Volta said:

This is how you spell _SPONSER_ and
_SPONSERSHIP_

correct spelling of this word will certainly help

That would be nice. But I think you will find that its spelt
_SPONSOR_ and
_SPONSORSHIP_

kthx.

People... at the very least, could you please use a spell check!!!
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The.Mars.Volta said:

This is how you spell _SPONSER_ and
_SPONSERSHIP_

correct spelling of this word will certainly help

You mean like spons*o*r and spons*o*rship!

The first guy though, you should read those posts about sponsorship, if
you search with the right spelling, you might get more useful posts.
There's tons of info about it already, which you kind of obviously
haven't read yet.

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You don't necessarily need to be the worlds greatest rider to get
sponsored. I mean, take Lucas Wintercrane for example. He's *-RUBBISH-*
but is a Qu-ax team rider. He is a friendly guy and gets alot of
coverage, that counts for alot too when companies are looking to
sponsor people.

Rock on!
Edd

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I just thought I would chime in here.

What possible use do you have for sponsorship?

I can't say your up there with the best riders, I doubt you desperatly
need the free stuff. All I can see is that your like hundreds of other
kids wanting to get sponsored for not doing much (anything?) to the
sport. All you want is the respect, but have you earned it at all? I
mean really?

There are a few people I think should be sponsored that aren't, I'm not
going to name any, thats lame. If you get sponsored by asking my
opinion will be that you are taking away from the sport.

Lucas Wintercrane is a good example of a sponsor, he does many, many
shows (infact is doing one now I believe) and promotes his companies
products.

Wait for a sponsor to come to you, the only way you'll gain respect is
by being more mature.

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I was considering to send a video to an LBS to get sponsored. I wanted
them to maybe send me to FLUCK. In return they could hook up with
unicyclist.com and I'd send people to that shop every time they asked
me where I got my uni from(happens quite often).

But now FLUCK is 41 days away and the vid isn't ready, so I guess I'll
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Lucas1wheel said:

you guys are meannnnnnnnnn lol, jokin, i remember being like you i went
through a stage, where i thought i must be one of the best in the world
because id never been on this community before and had only seen local
riders that wern't amazing so i figured i must be the best, the
community should act as an eye opener and yeh dont let sponsorship be a
drive, because it will take over, and then when the sponsorship goes
you will have no internal motivation which will mean your performance
will drop, this is a text book pe a level answer for why extrinsic
motivation is bad if you rely on it. xxxx

i pretty much agree with everything every one else has said, and
yeah... I wanted a sponsor really bad at one point because my uni was
turning crappy (torker DX) and I felt that I had to hold back because
of the uni, and that makes me mad. I don't let things hold me back.
well... being sponsored is not really that important. sure you get free
stuff, but it doesn't really mean much. I am sponsored by 661, i have
been for 2 years, but i only get a decent discount on stuff (60% off).
I own nothing with the 661 brand on it 🙂 I don't care much about it.
it is true that if you have a huge goal that is too reachable... when
you reach it, you don't feel much like riding anymore. I havn't ridden
much in the last 2-3 weeks because I hit my goal ... it had been my
goal since I jumped up my first stair. now i am having trouble getting
motivated, don't get me wrong, i am going to go ride again, i am
getting myself motivated again, but this time its different. I don't
care how high or how far other people jump anymore. its not a big
deal(not that a competition wouldn't be fun). i just want to ride for
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ivan said:

I was considering to send a video to an LBS to get sponsored. I wanted
them to maybe send me to FLUCK. In return they could hook up with
unicyclist.com and I'd send people to that shop every time they asked
me where I got my uni from(happens quite often).

This is the kind of thing that most sponsors just won't do.

Don't expect a random bike shop to just pay out hundreds of
pounds/euros/dollars to send someone they don't know to a convention
thousands of miles away, just because you send them some home video.

If you think about it, they have to be convinced that you'll send them
enough wannabe unicyclists to make that money back in profit. Say they
make £20 off each unicycle they sell, and the flight to Fluck would
cost £400, they'd have to be sure of you sending more than 20 people to
their shop and all of them actually buying unicycles. For it to be
worth their time sorting things out, it'd be more like 40 people. From
their point of view, they've probably sold a total of zero unicycles in
the last year, the chances of selling 40 in the next year are pretty
low.

Them sending you to fluck, what have they got to gain from that? You're
hardly going to promote your local bike shop at Fluck are you?

They might pay your entry fee at some local events if you were lucky,
or give you a discount on stuff in the shop. Those are the kind of
things local shops are likely to do for sponsored riders.

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dunawan said:

why are koxx one unicycles so costly???

forrestunifreak said:

They are expensive because they use only the finest soft drink cans.

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I am part of a ski team that is sponsored by over ten companies. I have
only approached one sponsor, and this is what I learned. You have to
give the company a good reason to sponsor you. I approached KHU because
I knew that I was going to races in Europe last winter. From my
previous experience, none of the euro racers had heard of KHU. I told
Kris that I would bring a KH uni with me and ride it as much as
possible. You need to appeal to the sponsor more than sound needy. I
provided a few pics of me unicycling and skiing, but since I was not
trying to get sponsored for my unicycling ability it was not as
important to make a video, although I bet it would have helped.

Basically the most important thing is to appeal to the sponsor and tell
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joemarshall said:

You mean like spons*o*r and spons*o*rship!

yes i do actually, silly me.

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juggle508 said:

I know why Tomsey is so good at backs and why Shaun owns at normal
flips.
It has to do with the gravitational pull. Like how the toilet flushes
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