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Wow, nicely done Evan...impressive stuff for sure -- unicyclistjoe NZUni President 93cm Highest Hop 225cm Longest Hop ------------------------------------------------------------------------ unicyclistjoe's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/6856 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/45244 |
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What does the size wheel have to do with anything? More surface area = more friction slower. A trials BC would be pretty slow. But anotherwise its all pretty much the same. Weights also an issue. The less weight faster youll accelerate. Gotta love physics e39m5 -- e39m5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ e39m5's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/9836 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/45244 |
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cool stuff. what's the difference between a plain ol' grind and a "blunt grind" anyway? -- abbabibble Cheers, Mat. ----------------------- SUPER AWEXOME SUPER-UNI SHIRTS! PREORDER YOURS TODAY!!!http://unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44230 --"to maxis: STOP. GRAMMAR TIME." -Fwgen0moB? "abababilbel" - General Dibbles ------------------------------------------------------------------------ abbabibble's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/10751 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/45244 |
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A blunt grind is when you ride up on one side of the ledge/rail and hop over it and grind it on the opposite side. Oh and thats a nice grind Evan...I don't like watching that clip because when I grinded that ledge on my uni and I fell hard and landed in a hole squished against the fence...bloody hands ha, but your grind is good. -- litldude2 Gallery.unicyclist.com/spencer Litldude2 (att) aol (dott) com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ litldude2's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/6134 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/45244 |
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e39m5 wrote: Weights also an issue. The less weight faster youll accelerate. And physics also tells us that a lighter wheel will decelerate faster, too. A bigger wheel carries more momentum (which is related to speed), but may be more the deciding factor when grinding. Whatever, I'm no expert. Jason was right. Cool vid, sweet move. Keep it up. -- entropy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ entropy's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/5816 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/45244 |
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litldude2 wrote: I heard from someone (probably evan) that most of Jeff's part in defect was filmed 15 months ago. If thats true then Jeff did his big ledge grind before Evan learned how to even ride a bc. QUOTE] Haha, yeah. I gues what I meant is that he is better than the small amount of stuff Jeff Does in Defect.... -- forrestunifreak warning: the above statement is usually not intended to offend anyone. it has been know to cause warts, ringworm, and diaper rash. it may contain logic, poltical incorrectyness, pchycological nudity, and traces of peanuts.you cant read this! 'My gallery' (http://tinyurl.com/bbf9x) 'Seattle Bike Supply' (http://www.seattlebikesupply.com) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ forrestunifreak's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/6828 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/45244 |
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entropy wrote: A bigger wheel carries more momentum (which is related to speed), but may be more the deciding factor when grinding. Whatever, I'm no expert. I don't think that if the wheel is 6" bigger it will make -that- much difference in grinding. Maybe if you are going down a big hill it would make you go faster but with a few revs of run up the difference in speed will depend alot more on how hard/fast you can push off. The big wheel would be easier to grind ledges because you don't have to hop as high to get the plates on but then if you want to do variations it will be harder (like with blunt grinds you have to hop higher to get over it and 180 to grinds you probably have to start farther away so the wheel has more room to spin before you land in the grind) forrestunifreak wrote: Haha, yeah. I gues what I meant is that he is better than the small amount of stuff Jeff Does in Defect.... Then I agree -- litldude2 Gallery.unicyclist.com/spencer Litldude2 (att) aol (dott) com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ litldude2's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/6134 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/45244 |
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I don't know why it is, but there is SUCH a big difference between the 26" wheel and the 19". It may be that the plates are higher? I'm pretty tired right now and my brain is being mean to me, so if i sound like a dumass that is why....but heres my guess..... Since the plates are higher on a 26" this gives you more airbourne time between each stroke in the skate mount. On a 19" you have less because in the skate mount you bring you foot back forward around the plate hight position then shove the ground again. i suppose you could addapt and get a better ballance then make larger strokes but relitive to the 19", the 26" wheel is easyer to go get going faster. i dont know if that makes any sence. -- Evan Byrne "Guns cause crime like flies cause garbage." -Harper ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Evan Byrne's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/9367 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/45244 |
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litldude2 wrote: A blunt grind is when you ride up on one side of the ledge/rail and hop over it and grind it on the opposite side. Maybe in unicycling, but that's not true in skateboarding, except in coincidence where there's only one edge of the rail/ledge to grind. If we are applying skateboarding trick names to unicycling, then a blunt slide would be when you roll up to a ledge/rail, jump so that your wheel lands on the other side of the near edge, and you grind on the near edge with the opposite platform/plate. So if you are riding up to a ledge that is on your right, you'd jump, land your wheel on the right side of the edge of the ledge, and grind on the left edge of the ledge with your left platform. The difference is that if you are grinding a fun box that is, say, a meter wide (regardless of length), then your wheel wouldn't actually make it to the other side of the ledge, since the fun box is obviously way too wide. So the BC would land at like a 45 degree angle, with the wheel riding on the top of the fun box and the opposite platform grinding the edge. Does that make sense? For instance, have you seen the Birdhouse skate video from like 7 years ago called 'The End'? Well that "noseblunt slide" that Heath Kirchart does on that brown rail - the one that he won the trick of the year award for - it isn't actually a noseblunt slide. It's really a nose slide on the opposite side of the rail, since he's actually on the other side of the rail, sliding on only the nose and not the truck's base plate as you would with a bluntslide. He ollies over the rail, and then lays down the (nose) slide. The difference is subtle, but there is a difference. Typically though, your definition does work for grinding rails, since there's only really one edge of the ledge/rail to grind. Any of this make any sense? -- hecklar ------------------------------------------------------------------------ hecklar's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/6917 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/45244 |
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hecklar wrote: Maybe in unicycling, but that's not true in skateboarding, except in coincidence where there's only one edge of the rail/ledge to grind. If we are applying skateboarding trick names to unicycling, then a blunt slide would be when you roll up to a ledge/rail, jump so that your wheel lands on the other side of the near edge, and you grind on the near edge with the opposite platform/plate. So if you are riding up to a ledge that is on your right, you'd jump, land your wheel on the right side of the edge of the ledge, and grind on the left edge of the ledge with your left platform. ...snip...Typically though, your definition does work for grinding rails, since there's only really one edge of the ledge/rail to grind. Any of this make any sense? But surely that means that the only object you can 'blunt slide' on is a single pole rail, since any other type of rail (wall edge, funbox etc) is theoretically just 2 rails with a gap between them... And in that case, there is actually no such thing as a 'blunt slide' because a single rail has no left/right distinction of side. I suggest we go with the definition of heading to grind one side of a rail (be it single pole or wall/box based) and performing a hop to switch the grind side. Thats what I thought it meant anyway. Loose. -- Loosemoose Dave: "I had a particularly bad UPD & found I'd lost a shoe" Officially a & ~ expert. _no1_quote_of_crawley_2005:_ Leigh: "Where's Trevor" Baz: "I think he's upstairs, balancing The Bishop" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Loosemoose's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/6326 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/45244 |
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