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Why do some of you fellow unicyclists not want to see unicycling get bigger and bigger? The sport is catching on and its making a name for its self so theres no denying whats going to happen. Im just confused as to why you would'nt want to see this sport grow and turn into something huge? J.kohse -- cruisecontrol ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cruisecontrol's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/10970 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/44448 |
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I don't know maybe it's the fear that unicycling becomes "too" common sport. So it wouldn't be so unique anymore, when even more and more people would know how to ride it! But I think the spreading is only a good thing, because unicycling is a really efficient way of keeping fit and so on. It has so many advances. Sense of balance develops and lounges and heart become stronger... Altogether it is a very good sport and definitely more people should know about it! Oh yes, and in the meetings and while riding around you see a lot of new people and get to know them... -- eero-poika No pain, no gain. http://lonelyriders.unicyclist.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eero-poika's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/10911 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/44448 |
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I know I don't want the uni to go mainstream in fear of it ending up like skateboarding. Sure, there are some great skateboarders, but for every good one there are 5 posers. Some people have also given skateboarding a bad name. I just don't want unicycling to end up that way. -- heavy metal unicycling People who throw stones at you are quietly saying, "shoot me," they're just not being verbally expressive enough. -Harper My tapworm tells me where ro go -System Of A Down ------------------------------------------------------------------------ heavy metal unicycling's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/9857 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/44448 |
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Some people have given unicycling a bad name too. But since unicycling doesn't even have a name, yet, it doesn't have much effect. But any time you destroy public (or private) property with unicycles, and people know about it, it damages the reputation of the sport. Part of not wanting it to grow is plain selfishness. People don't want to share. Sharing would mean spreading the joy out to more and more people, to a point where the joy might get diluted. Also unicycling would be less "special." How can you impress people by unicycling if one in ten people can do it? But that works both ways. The more people that have learned to ride (or given it a serious try), the better they will appreciate *good* unicycling. So if you want to show off, the difference is that you'll have to be good. I never seem to see *good* skateboarders out there. Most of them hardly land anything. But then again I'm not paying that much attention. Yes, as the sport grows it will bring more diversity, more posers, more newbies, more mis-information and more "common-ness." But at the same time it will bring more and better unicycles, that will probably be cheaper. Also there will be more opportunities for unicyclists to get together at festivals or other events where they can have the same fun a small number of us currently have at the big conventions, MUni Weekends and other scattered events we do. NOTE: Normally I don't respond to (or read) threads with useless subject lines. But I liked this one. Please try to put the question or "point" of your post in the subject. -- johnfoss John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone "jfoss" at "unicycling.com" -- www.unicycling.com "Read the rules!" -- 'IUF Rulebook' (http://www.unicycling.org/iuf/rulebook/) -- 'USA Rulebook' (http://www.unicycling.org/usa/competition/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ johnfoss's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/832 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/44448 |
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I don't think we have to worry about unicycling getting bigger and bigger. IMHO it will not. Riding is too difficult to become a majority sport. It will only ever attract those willing to put in the time and effort. Cathy -- cathwood 'Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive - C.S.Lewis 'http://www.chuckingandtwirling.co.uk' (http://www.chuckingandtwirling. co.uk) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cathwood's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/9425 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/44448 |
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cathwood wrote: I don't think we have to worry about unicycling getting bigger and bigger. IMHO it will not. I forgot to address this in my previous post. Unicycling already *has* gotten bigger and bigger. But it's still small. It will continue to get bigger, but as far as being mainstream, like skateboarding or razor scooters, I'm not worried about that ever happening. It's too hard to learn, so there will probably always be a limit on mainstream acceptance. -- johnfoss John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone "jfoss" at "unicycling.com" -- www.unicycling.com "Read the rules!" -- 'IUF Rulebook' (http://www.unicycling.org/iuf/rulebook/) -- 'USA Rulebook' (http://www.unicycling.org/usa/competition/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ johnfoss's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/832 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/44448 |
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My other big sports are fencing and Morris dancing. In both cases, retention of new people is difficult because it takes a long time to learn. Most people can ride a bicycle, kick a football, or hit a tennis ball, but it takes weeks to make significant progress as a fencer, dancer or unicyclist and start to feel the rewards for all the hard work. But if unicycling were to become mainstream, my experience with bicycling, scuba diving and kayaking is that prices go up. Good well designed basic equipment becomes hard to find, and overpriced over-designed fashionable equipment fills the shops. -- Mikefule dit dit diddle iddle dit dit... BANG! ow ow ow! that nasty unincyclinge man has deaded me! naughty unincyclinge man! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mikefule's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/879 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/44448 |
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Mikefule wrote: My other big sports are fencing and Morris dancing. In both cases, retention of new people is difficult because it takes a long time to learn. Most people can ride a bicycle, kick a football, or hit a tennis ball, but it takes weeks to make significant progress as a fencer, dancer or unicyclist and start to feel the rewards for all the hard work. But if unicycling were to become mainstream, my experience with bicycling, scuba diving and kayaking is that prices go up. Good well designed basic equipment becomes hard to find, and overpriced over-designed fashionable equipment fills the shops. God, yeah. The shops are flooded with over-designed fashionable Morris dancing equipment round here. -- s7ev0 Avatar courtesy of Loosemoose. -Darwin loves you- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ s7ev0's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/7310 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/44448 |
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Mikefule wrote: My other big sports are fencing and Morris dancing. In both cases, retention of new people is difficult because it takes a long time to learn. Most people can ride a bicycle, kick a football, or hit a tennis ball, but it takes weeks to make significant progress as a fencer, dancer or unicyclist and start to feel the rewards for all the hard work. But if unicycling were to become mainstream, my experience with bicycling, scuba diving and kayaking is that prices go up. Good well designed basic equipment becomes hard to find, and overpriced over-designed fashionable equipment fills the shops. Well that sounds like a good excuse to ignore my last post and go out and buy up the stock on unicycle.com a bit faster than I'm doing already. Cathy -- cathwood 'Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive - C.S.Lewis 'http://www.chuckingandtwirling.co.uk' (http://www.chuckingandtwirling. co.uk) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cathwood's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/9425 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/44448 |
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Because of MUni, Trials and Street, this sport will continue to grow. Think about this, how many people know about MUni? One out of 50? (just a guess out of my bum) If that is the case, then only 1 out of 50 POTENTIAL MUNI RIDERS know about it. ...as the sport gets more visibility, the numbers of riders could explode. ....but even if you multiplied the number of riders we have today by 50, we will still be a fringe sport. -- mscalisi ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mscalisi's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/4961 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/44448 |
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