World Record- Highest drop on a unicycle

I think you saw a guinness world record there are many people who droped
higher than that but without making it official for guinness.

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that was either Alex toms from sydney or Rhys Kember from Canberra. Alex
did it on the TV show filmed here in Oz a few years ago and Rhys was
going to try to break it (not sure if it ended up happening though).
I think it is a bit of a silly record to go for though. Alex busted a
few sets of Profile cranks doing it and Rhys wrecked his ankle in prep
for his attempt. I don't know if the record goes to the guy with the
most skill, or the guy who is willing to punish himself and his
equipment more.
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Anyone can jump off a higher building than the last guy. But is that a
display of skill, or of stupidity? :eek:

To be meaningful, those drop records probably have to be to flat. And
then the softness of the landing surface should be consistent as well.
To make it more sensible, it should be something with some "give," like
the tire with a piece of plywood on top. Here's Joe Hodges showing us
'an example from Unicon XIII' (http://tinyurl.com/4qhfuk) (just remove
the gap and Jeff Groves' mom from underneath!). Jumping to anything
hard is just bad for you.

Higher drops have been done to sloped surfaces, which is a lot easier
on the body but then you get into differences in the height vs. landing
angles, landing surface, etc.

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the best surface to land on in my oppinion is pavement. it sucks a lot
more to wipe out on. but if you start to pedal as soon as you land
your gonna tend to just step off if you cant keep it together. just
make sure your feet are on the pedals properly. if your to far on your
toes your gonna cause a lot of hurt to your ankles.

would anyone be interested in starting a friendly drop comp?

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johnfoss said:

Anyone can jump off a higher building than the last guy. But is that a
display of skill, or of stupidity? :eek:

But they still have to land it. :P

But in a way I agree, dropping high just for the sake of dropping high
does seem rather silly. But if people want to brake their uni's, and
themselves, fine.

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A lot of you are talking like if you start doing big drops you are
guranteed to break yourself and your unicycle just like that.

If you are landing right, you wont be breaking anything for a long
time.

Big drops is a skill. You mess up the skill, you mess up yourself, or
your uni. Learn the right technique to landing and absorbing impact and
youll be fine.

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My biggest, successful drops were in the 7 foot range, but I also had
plenty of run-up if it was a rolling hop, and at least a little
downslope if it was a static drop-usually side to front with some
decent outward projection, so I could roll out easier. I won't be doing
any more drops to dead flat, unless I have plenty of room to get
sufficient forward momentum to easily roll out, like the 8 set I did.

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Jerrick said:

A lot of you are talking like if you start doing big drops you are
guranteed to break yourself and your unicycle just like that.

If you are landing right, you wont be breaking anything for a long
time.

Big drops is a skill. You mess up the skill, you mess up yourself, or
your uni. Learn the right technique to landing and absorbing impact and
youll be fine.

Surely the biggest drop you can do is more or less defined as the
furthest you can go wihtout breaking yourself or your uni? If you keep
going bigger and bigger you are garaunted to break something
eventually.

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Jerrick said:

Learn the right technique to landing and absorbing impact and youll be
fine.

To a certain extent, yes.

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Chexjc said:

To a certain extent, yes.

Yep, even the best can get hurt, regardless of great technique. They're
human, even the great Kris Holm.🙂 Btw, any word on how he's doing?

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was it 10 Feet to Flat? Like... Cement. cause Yoggi Busted a 15 foot
one, its on U2b Somewhere, Search it up.

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UniKid2 said:

was it 10 Feet to Flat? Like... Cement. cause Yoggi Busted a 15 foot
one, its on U2b Somewhere, Search it up.

Doesn't he land on a tyre? And he falls off.

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i know that alex's attempt that was filmed for Oz tv was to dead flat
polished concrete. I'm not such a huge fan of dropping just for the
sake of it- if i come across a nice rop in a muni run though i will try
to bomb it- find that much more rewarding and fun than searching for
stuff to punish my ankles, knees and cranks on.
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Unisykolist said:

it wouldnt be too hard if you just practice would it?

Consider the impact on your bones (spine, knees, back, ankles, foot),
your (fullgrown?) muscles, your brain (...[insert predictable custom
joke here]), and maybe your unicycle, against what you gain from
practice a very-very huge jump...
Then -asuming you can do a large or huge jump already- why practice if
you don't have a spare body...?

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(http://www.unicyclist.org/blog/show.cfm?serial=00942)

Bytheway, what's so (short-term) cool of huge jumps if it (long-term)
demolished your body (as proofed by others), is doing so then truly
that satisfieng?
If so, can you please explain/word it?
cause I (and probably others to) am seriously interrested to hear it.

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