TV News story - digital version now posted.

Some time before Christmas I was interviewed and filmed riding in Aotea
Square, downtown Auckland, one of my favourite locations for trials
riding. The interviewer, Paul Moor, had clearly done his background
reading and surprized me with his knowledge of unicycle and biketrials
riding. We spent about an hour filming the tricks shown in the article,
which was edited down to 2 minutes 10sec.

For anyone whos interested, the background music for the story is
Scribe's "Not Many" single which was wildly popular here in NZ a few
months ago. Its on "The Crusader" album. Go NZ hip-hop!

You can see 'the TV One News story here!' (http://tinyurl.com/2wyoy)

The file's 35Mb - it could take a while for dial-up users to download.

There are also a few new freestyle videos in my gallery, as my sig
says...

-Tony
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Very nice! Well done Tony. How high was that big drop to the sand??
Wow.

Andrew


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Those opening shots were not me! I wish I could take credit for that
huge drop, but its not me. They are from a German website, I think.
Neither am I Tony Hawk nor a clown (both of whom also appeared in the
story)!


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Great story! I feel honored to have met you. There couldn't have been
(much) better a story about a better guy.

If you are ever in Hawaii, ring me up. I'm sure you could get on the
news here too.


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Nice news coverage Tony. Was that local news or was it national? My
brother and his sons live in Napier and I can’t get them to start
unicycling. They don’t have broadband so they don’t see the videos from
the web, which brings me to the size of that video. The video is
compressed with DivX5 (11.9MB) but the audio is uncompressed (23.9MB)
meaning that if the audio were compressed the total size would be about
22MB less. Just a thought.

Keep up the good work of educating the masses that unicycling is a
sport.

Cheers, Gary


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unicus wrote:
* (BTW I recompressed the whole file to 7MB). Just a thought.
*


How was the quality? Can you post it?

Daniel


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Nice to hear from you again Daniel! It was something you said to me
about footplants when we went for that night ride in Ak that lead me to
develope that trick more. There was a footplant in the news story -
thanks to you!

Unicus - I'll see if I can get a more compressed version posted. I'm a
newbie when it comes to audio/video compression...


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TonyMelton wrote:
*Nice to hear from you again Daniel! It was something you said to me
about footplants when we went for that night ride in Ak that lead me
to develope that trick more. There was a footplant in the news story -
thanks to you!
*


Thanks! I just wish I could do them


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Nice one, Tony! Those look like some pretty steep stairs.

Back to you, ... dude.


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dats some healthy beats in the background, anyone know who its by and
what its called???


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