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    monociclos
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    Hi everyone!

    Im pepe from Spain, I need to make a unicycle demo, i cant count whith
    other two or three unicyclists if needed.

    *The audience:
    --->50 bicyclists or so well ir doesnt matter at all, does it?

    *Our Level:
    --->Free: Wheel walk, pull gliding, uni spin
    --->TRials: standard level, pedal grab, jump 50 cm high, 1 m down
    --->Others: rope jump, one and two and tree if really needed, like circ
    du soleil jejjeje

    *Place:
    --->Circus Carp with mucic for the show/demo

    *Length:
    --->30 min

    *Unicycles:
    --->Free & trials unicyles
    --->A giraffe
    ---> A Ultimate wheel
    ---> A mini uni
    --->One Big Wheel

    *Ideas:
    ---> We dont know how to put together all that stuff 🙁
    ---> It would be great if you gie us a hint, waht you consider more
    epectacular??
    --->which things would you do first?
    ---> which music could work?
    --->any ideas??

    Please reply us with your ideas!!!!

    THANKS!!!!!

    Pepe

    I think Im going to open a forum whit the same questions, but, is you
    dont whant to sare your secrets by pm or in the forum i would understand
    it!! dont worry!!

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  2. andrew_carter
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    Just remember that throughout the whole demo you should be doing more
    and more impressive skills like one big crescendo. We did daily demos
    (mainly trials) at a big Australian folk festival last Christmas
    holidays and towards the end of the week when we'd started to get the
    hang of building up the moves and skills, people were enjoying it the
    most. Try to get the crowd involved by getting everyone to count down
    together bofre someone does a big drop or a big move of some sort.
    Jumping over people is always entertaining to most people. We had a
    1.5m high platform that we were dropping from and clearing more and more
    people each time (only up to 5). The crowd enjoyed that.

    Good luck,
    Andrew

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  3. monociclos
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    Thanks andrew!

    I would like to see you in action jumpig over the crowd! wow!!

    What could be the order, to make the show in creschendo???

    free -> trials -> rope (two ropes) -> volunteers (jumping over) ->
    girafe

    How would you use the giraffe? Did you have a speaker? or a dj?

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  4. johnfoss
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    Oddly enough, I am doing a similar show tomorrow. The event is the
    Modesto Family Cycling Festival, in downtown Modesto. This is where the
    movie American Grafitti was filmed.

    So the audience will be families, and the event is cycling-oriented.
    This is great for me as I don't have to do any juggling or other skills,
    which I am not as good at. Since it is a cycling event, I do it from an
    educational point of view, but it's still a show. I explain what the
    different unicycles are about.

    I also have 30 minutes, and will be followed by a unicycle club
    performance (Uni Psycho Mania), and the Giant BMX Stunt Team.

    I will use some audience volunteers to jump over, or for other help. I
    usually finish up with the giraffe, though my "biggest" trick is usually
    the saddle-handlebar stand on my artistic bike while juggling three
    clubs. This is especially hard on the piece of street where this show
    will be. Maybe I'll be lucky and they will have repaved it since the
    last time I was there.

    I might also bring my 9' giraffe, but I don't really have any show
    material for that one, just riding it and showing how you get on and
    off. And maybe a spin, and pretending to fall on the audience.

    The main thing is to have fun, and take the audience places they want to
    go, or where they don't think you can go.

    --
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    "We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not
    because they are easy, but because they are hard." -- John F. Kennedy,
    1961
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  5. monociclos
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    Are you going to record the show?

    It would be great, internet is lack of those kinds of videos, no
    performances for non unicyclists 🙁

    Thanks!

    Pepe

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  6. andrew_carter
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    Sorry, no photos or footage of the people-jumping. I'd probably put the
    trials a little further towards the end...non unicyclists are generally
    pretty impressed with trials.

    Andrew

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