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Muscle Memory & Unicycling?
I unicycled to a party tonight, because A) I wanted to get there faster than walking, and B) I was planning on drinking there, and pushing a unicycle home is much easier than pushing a Honda home. After said party, when I had imbibed some, to the point where I was obviously intoxicated, and in no shape to drive, I found I was able to freemount, bunny-hop in place, and ride significant distances. While muscle memory is an amazing thing, I would think that unicycling would be much more difficult than driving (no worry about balance), or typing, yet I find myself having to backspace quite a lot. Have other folks observed the same results, that unicycling is so ingrained in reflex and the muscles that it can be performed while under the influence? -- evil-nick Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. * Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear. I'm late for checkers with the Dalai Lama! My gallery: http://evil.linuxfreak.ca/uni.html Our Club: http://cs.ubishops.ca/~buuc/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ evil-nick's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/6692 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74203 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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you need to go to more conventions for the best answer -- mikepenton Uni - The Unicycle Magazine 'www.unicyclemagazine.com' (http://www.unicyclemagazine.com) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mikepenton's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/7090 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74203 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Kids, everyone here, lets get drunk and unicycle so we can provide some data for this question! -- Jerrick [SIGPIC][SIGPIC][SIGPIC][SIGPIC][SIGPIC][SIGPIC][SIGPIC][SIGPIC][SIGPIC][SIGPIC][SIGPIC][SIGPIC][SIGPIC][SIGPIC][SIGPIC][SIGPIC][SIGPIC][SIGPIC][SIGPIC][SIGPIC][SIGPIC][SIGPIC][SIGPIC][SIGPIC][SIGPIC][SIGPIC][SIGPIC][SIGPIC][SIGPIC] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jerrick's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/11632 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74203 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Age plays a factor; I'm assuming you can do many things drunk at 30 that you cannot do at 50. -- BillyTheMountain All the lower animals are Atheist, which proves reason actually has nothing to do with Atheism.-Raphael Rocks are atheists, air is an atheist, and the planet venus is an atheist.-DisgruntledDave [Dave was disgruntled before I ever misquoted him.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BillyTheMountain's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/5357 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74203 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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mikepenton;1130843 wrote: you need to go to more conventions for the best answer indeed, I have often seen friends unable to stand up and walk unaided, but still capable of wheelwalking -- kington99 Dave - what a thoroughly post-modern subversion of the cycling genre - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kington99's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/9417 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74203 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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I think you have to be pretty drunk to even try unicycling at all. I'll have to try it sober sometime...I'll let you know how it goes. BTW: that was one of the more coherent drunk-posts I have ever read. -- Bondo Apply Directly to a Unicycle. 'w00tni|iciou$n3s$Rof1iwins' (http://tinyurl.com/5fcdr2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bondo's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/15716 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74203 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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I'll actually second that. I've never really been... drunk drunk, but I had maybe 7 beers or something in Denmark at Unicon one night and, though I could still walk in a straight line without difficulty and all that, I definitely didn't feel like myself. I could still ride my guni without any difficulty, though... I did notice that it felt like I was riding on slippery ground. I'd come out of a steep turn, and the wheel would keep twisting under me as if I were turning sharp on a slippery tile floor, or something. Other than that, it didn't feel any different. Straaange -- chuckaeronut Uni to work to eat to live to uni to work to...! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ chuckaeronut's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/14677 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74203 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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evil-nick;1130832 wrote: Have other folks observed the same results, that unicycling is so ingrained in reflex and the muscles that it can be performed while under the influence? I actually find hopping up steps easier (i.e. possible) when I've had a few, because I'm less worried about cocking it up and hurting myself. I remember years ago riding quite happily across a convention field back to my tent after 8 pints of Ash Vine bitter. Mind you, I had quite a high alcohol tolerance at that time, having just completed 4 years at university. On another occasion, while riding home from the pub, a WPC [1] commented: "I bet you can't do that after a few pints". Evidently my riding style didn't show, at least to the casual observer, that I'd just had a few pints. [1] Translation for Americans and other non-English speakers: Woman Police Constable, a term which I believe is no longer used by the police. -- Danny Colyer 'http://www.redpedals.co.uk' (http://www.colyer.plus.com/danny/) "I don't think proofreading is adequate. All posts should be waxed and buffed. Then they should wear little tuxedos." - Greg Harper on usenet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Danny Colyer's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/11637 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74203 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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I do whats called the two beer test. After I feel that I have mastered a new skill such as riding up a sidewalk curbs I will drink two beers and see if I still have the skill mastered! At a batchelor party I put down about 15 drinks and sill felt very agile on the unicycle. Last Tuesday I went to a wedding and also got plastered. In the morning I was not hung over but still drunk. I met up with a friend for a MUni ride and was definetly not up to par but was still able to do the ride. I did not attempt any of the more dangerous sections of the trails. You can still do anything drunk but just not as good as you can when completely sober. Your soordination and alertness slows down but it does not shut off. That is until you pass out! Unicorn -- Unicorn Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the pedals, and you will accomplish great feats! 'The Unicycling Commune' (http://tinyurl.com/3xkd8d) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Unicorn's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12801 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74203 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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evil-nick;1130832 wrote: Have other folks observed the same results, that unicycling is so ingrained in reflex and the muscles that it can be performed while under the influence? I can vouch for this effect. I can ride a uni when I have trouble walking a straight line. I dare say that for life-long and regular riders, the unicycle is a bit of an intoxicated persons "cloaking device", making it possible for you to pass for sober - and get from place to place wtihout detection by police and passers by. I'm pretty sure that the perception that unicycling is difficult to near impossible by the average joe/policeman will function almost better than a field sobriety test. So kids, go out and drink yourself silly, but remember to bring your uni to get to and from the party, rave, playbround, bar or . . . drainage culvert or where ever you do your drinking. Also, there's a short bit about the field "sobriety test" concept in this short video that a bunch of us did for a local film festival. Its in the middle somewhere, after the little kids start cursing and asking questions: Unicycle *******s Invade Portland Brycer1968 -- brycer1968 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ brycer1968's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/11311 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74203 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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