innovation - pedal grab

who can be said to have done the first pedal grab? and when?

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unigeee wrote:
*who can be said to have done the first pedal grab? and when?

john *


Or, maybe the questions are "who first went to rubber from a pedal grab?
and when?" I suspect that (many) others like me did their first pedal
grabs as missed hops, which happened to land/catch on the pedal.


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point well taken. so who first went to rubber? and when?

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I'm pretty sure the one and only Kris Holm invented the pedal grab.
(i'm not positive, but pretty sure)
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sabin_a. wrote:
*I'm pretty sure the one and only Kris Holm invented the pedal grab.
(i'm not positive, but pretty sure)
-Sabin *


I remember hearing KH say that he thinks he's the first. I think it
might have been in the discovery channel show More then Human, but again
I'm not sure.

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sabin_a. wrote:
*I'm pretty sure the one and only Kris Holm invented the pedal grab.
(i'm not positive, but pretty sure)
-Sabin *


I think I was the first to do this as a technique for trials, as far as
I know. Frontside pedal grabs in '98, and offside pedal grabs in 2000
I think.

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what a great invention!

I think I was the first to do this as a technique for trials


does that mean that it has been used as a technique for other forms of
unicycling before then?

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unigeee wrote:
*what a great invention!



does that mean that it has been used as a technique for other forms of
unicycling before then?

john *


Trials as a serious sport unto itself was pretty much born in the mid
1980's, but people have being doing things on unis for over 100 years
that could be considered "trials".

Consequently, there's a grey area surrounding the origin of
trials-specific techniques like pedal grabs. Likely people have hung
off their pedals on things previously, but as far as I know it was never
used as a serious method to negotiate terrain that you couldn't hop to
directly.

Kris


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Did Kris invent any other tricks?


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gpickett00 wrote:
*Did Kris invent any other tricks? *


While brakes certainly had been installed on unicycles before I did it,
I think I might have been the first to use brakes for technical downhill
in MUni.

Seat out in front hopping has been around for a long time, but I think
that George Peck was the first to use it for serious trials.

Rolling hops became a big part of unicycle trials and street freestyle
when Dan Heaton, Adam Ryznar and I were filming one day in downtown
Vancouver for Universe 1. I did a 29" rolling hop onto a parking lot
divider, and then Dan and Adam went back and took it to a new level with
all the grinding and higher rolling hops that have been done since
then.

There's some great history in freestyle tricks as well. Anybody want
to share any of the history behind coasting, gliding, stand-up tricks
etc.?

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