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Unicycling Merit Badge?
onefluffybunny wrote: Ok, I have revised the reqs based on your comments, so please see the following modifications to the requirements (see changes to 1, 2, 8, 9, and 10): 1. Do the following: a. Give general unicycling safety rules and etiquette. b. Describe the parts and functions of a unicycle. c. Describe the required and recommended safety equipment. d. Show that you know first aid for injuries or illnesses that could occur while unicycling. 2. Using pictures, present the history of unicycling. 3. Clean and adjust a unicycle. Prepare it for inspection using a unicycle safety checklist. 4. Show your unicycle to your counselor for inspection. Do the following: a. Show all parts that should be checked regularly to make sure the unicycle is safe to ride. b. Show how to adjust seat level and height. 5. Demonstrate the following: a. Proper mounting, pedaling, stopping, and dismounting. b. Making left and right turns by performing a figure-8. c. Rolling off a curb or other obstacle. d. Idling 10 times. e. Hopping 5 times. 6. Explain the differences between standard, trials, freestyle, muni, and touring unicycles. 7. Describe your traffic laws for unicycles. Compare them with pedestrian and motor-vehicle laws. 8. Avoiding major highways, plan and take 2 2-mile trips and 1 5-mile trip. Report the route you took and interesting things seen. 9. Do one of the following: a. Demonstrate advanced maneuvers, including backwards riding, one-footed riding, and wheel-walking. b. Wearing proper safety gear, take 2 muni rides of at least one mile. Demonstrate mounting technique on slopes. c. Compete in a trials event. d. Play a sport on a unicycle, such as basketball, hockey, or jousting. 10. Do one of the following: a. Attend a unicycle convention. Tell your counselor about it. b. Visit a unicycle club. Tell your counselor about it. c. Give a talk and demonstration about unicycling to your troop or school class. What do people think? Is this better? Do-able? I think the skill things are still too hard. You are assuming that people own their own unicycle, and practice it every day. That's a pretty reasonable expectation of bikers, but not of people who are beginners at riding unicycles. Remember a lot of people, almost certainly most people who learn to ride a unicycle, are only using unicycles once a week at a juggling or unicycling club, scout group or similar. Over the sort of timescale you're describing, you can expect someone to be able to get on (by holding onto something) and ride for say 50 metres. Nothing more. You could put the others in '9a)demonstrate an advanced manouvre, such as mounting, idling, riding backwards' Number 7 is a bad idea, because in many places, the traffic law for unicycles is basically undefined, and there's no case law about them. Even a lawyer wouldn't be able to answer this in some states of the US and many countries around the world. Number 2 is interesting, but very few people actually know anything about this, so it'd be very hard to find out. 10a and b are both very location based. Most people don't live near a unicycling club or convention. You could change 10b to visit a unicycling or circus skills club. Because there are likely to be more of those, and they're surely the most popular place to learn unicycling still. -- joemarshall my pics http://gallery.unicyclist.com/albuq44 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ joemarshall's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/1545 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/24824 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- ** SPEED ** RETENTION ** COMPLETION ** ANONYMITY ** ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Unicycling Merit Badge?
i quit boyscout cause they suck there so corny. i wnet to camp and they were teaching us how to swim and bike and hike. like we didnt already know -- skianduniaddict unifreak7 wrote: IT makes me mad how skianduniaddict is so much better than me at street. -Shaun JOhanneson unifreak7 wrote: skianduniaddict kicks my ass at street -Shaun JOhanneson Det-riot wrote: PWNN'D by garvity, the unicyclists greatest enemy *shakes fist at ground* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ skianduniaddict's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/11868 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/24824 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- ** SPEED ** RETENTION ** COMPLETION ** ANONYMITY ** ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Unicycling Merit Badge?
I'm a star scout now and have 3 more merit badges and a service project left to get my eagle I think a unicycling merit badge would have been awesome, I did most of the cycling merit badge with my 36'er people were so amazed by it, it made me laugh.Anyway here's the way I would set up the unicycling Merit badge. 1. DO THE FOLLOWING:[/b] A. GIVE GENERAL UNICYCLING SAFETY RULES AND ETIQUETTE. B. DESCRIBE THE PARTS AND FUNCTIONS OF A UNICYCLE. C. DESCRIBE THE REQUIRED AND RECOMMENDED SAFETY EQUIPMENT. D. SHOW THAT YOU KNOW FIRST AID FOR INJURIES OR ILLNESSES THAT COULD OCCUR WHILE UNICYCLING. *2. USING PICTURES, PRESENT THE HISTORY OF UNICYCLING. *3. Clean and adjust a unicycle. Prepare it for inspection using a unicycle safety checklist. * 4. SHOW YOUR UNICYCLE TO YOUR COUNSELOR FOR INSPECTION. DO THE FOLLOWING:* A. SHOW ALL PARTS THAT SHOULD BE CHECKED REGULARLY TO MAKE SURE THE UNICYCLE IS SAFE TO RIDE. B. SHOW HOW TO ADJUST SEAT LEVEL AND HEIGHT. *5. DO _THREE_ OF THE FOLLOWING:* A. MOUNT UNICYCLE UNASSISTED, RIDE 50 METERS, DISMOUNT GRACEFULLY WITH UNICYCLE IN FRONT B. MOUNT WITH LEFT FOOT, MOUNT WITH RIGHT FOOT, RIDE 10 METERS BETWEEN TWO PARALLEL LINES 30 CM APART. C.RIDE DOWN A 15 CM VERTICAL DROP D. MAKE A 90 DEGREE TURN TO THE LEFT INSIDE A 1 METER CIRCLE, MAKE A 90 DEGREE TURN TO THE RIGHT INSIDE A 1 METER CIRCLE E. DEMONSTRATE 3 TYPES OF MOUNTS *6. EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN STANDARD, TRIALS, FREESTYLE, MUNI, AND TOURING UNICYCLES. [b]7. Describe your traffic laws for unicycles. Compare them with pedestrian and motor-vehicle laws.* 8. AVOIDING MAJOR HIGHWAYS, PLAN AND TAKE 2 2-MILE TRIPS AND 1 5-MILE TRIP. REPORT THE ROUTE YOU TOOK AND INTERESTING THINGS SEEN. *9. Do _one_ of the following: * a. Demonstrate an advanced maneuvers such as coming to a stop, pedaling half a revolution backward and continuing forward, or riding/hoping over a 10 x 10 cm. obstacle b. Wearing proper safety gear, take 2 muni rides of at least one mile. Demonstrate mounting technique on slopes. c. Compete in a trials event. d. Play a sport on a unicycle, such as basketball, hockey, or jousting. *10. Do _one_ of the following:* a. Attend a unicycle convention. Tell your counselor about it. b. Visit a unicycle club. Tell your counselor about it. c. Give a talk and demonstration about unicycling to your troop or school class. d. Attend a circus workshop and participate in a unicyling class. Tell your counselor about it -- Ducttape '-*buy my shirts*-' (http://www.zazzle.com/ducttapesunicycle/products) '*watch my videos*' (http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ducttapesunicycle) '*uniman comics*' (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53444) '*original thread for uniman*' (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49862) *'sigged quotes' (http://tinyurl.com/29b744)* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ducttape's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12006 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/24824 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- ** SPEED ** RETENTION ** COMPLETION ** ANONYMITY ** ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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better idea boy scouts = for city kids that are ahem weak in manliness if we get people like that with unicycling we will be required to wear a freaking bullet proof suit (full body) to ride a unicycle, that is lame. eh i think the cycling badge should be adapted to work for either a bike or unicycle. thats all... -- skrobo Unicycle For Christ 'MY VIDEOS-for enjoyment purposes mostly' (http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=skroboskim) The UniSLAB wrote: don't worry about those little clown tricks called flips and wrap arounds. We don't dance with our unis, we jump them[over trucks] sutton629 wrote: I honestly have a hard time believing that you are really a white guy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ skrobo's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12272 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/24824 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- ** SPEED ** RETENTION ** COMPLETION ** ANONYMITY ** ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Unicycling Merit Badge?
skrobo wrote: better idea boy scouts = for city kids that are ahem weak in manliness if we get people like that with unicycling we will be required to wear a freaking bullet proof suit (full body) to ride a unicycle, that is lame. eh i think the cycling badge should be adapted to work for either a bike or unicycle. thats all... HEY!!! I don't think that boy scouts are city kids that are weak in manliness, in fact I know quite a few Eagle scouts (and current boy scouts) that could kick your sorry arse.... there are a lot of wimpy city kids I know in boy scouts though.... -- Ducttape '-*buy my shirts*-' (http://www.zazzle.com/ducttapesunicycle/products) '*watch my videos*' (http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ducttapesunicycle) '*uniman comics*' (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53444) '*original thread for uniman*' (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49862) *'sigged quotes' (http://tinyurl.com/29b744)* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ducttape's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12006 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/24824 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- ** SPEED ** RETENTION ** COMPLETION ** ANONYMITY ** ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Unicycling Merit Badge?
yeah i was star but 8 would be hell for anyon on a 20" 5 miles on a 20"? O__O -- robdizzle 'The Great Chicago Meet-up Thread' (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=63844) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ robdizzle's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/15300 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/24824 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- ** SPEED ** RETENTION ** COMPLETION ** ANONYMITY ** ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Unicycling Merit Badge?
robdizzle wrote: yeah i was star but 8 would be hell for anyon on a 20" 5 miles on a 20"? O__O Naw, I've done about 10 on a 20" way before I got my coker of course, but still I had no problems, and I did it on a Torker CX... -- Ducttape '-*buy my shirts*-' (http://www.zazzle.com/ducttapesunicycle/products) '*watch my videos*' (http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ducttapesunicycle) '*uniman comics*' (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53444) '*original thread for uniman*' (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49862) *'sigged quotes' (http://tinyurl.com/29b744)* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ducttape's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12006 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/24824 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- ** SPEED ** RETENTION ** COMPLETION ** ANONYMITY ** ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Unicycling Merit Badge?
WAY TO BE! I was just thinking about a unicycling merit badge, sounds like a VERY good idea! Your requirements look very well thought-out! *High-Five*! -- Poseidon *If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space!* *Number of "Where's the other wheel?!" comments:* *2* '*The best Juggling/Unicycling equipment on the planet:** Renegade Juggling*' (www.renegadejuggling.com) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Poseidon's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/14607 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/24824 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- ** SPEED ** RETENTION ** COMPLETION ** ANONYMITY ** ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Unicycling Merit Badge?
Poseidon wrote: WAY TO BE! I was just thinking about a unicycling merit badge, sounds like a VERY good idea! Your requirements look very well thought-out! *High-Five*! thanks, but all I did was change someone elses idea to work a little better...I don't really deserve credit for that. -- Ducttape '-*buy my shirts*-' (http://www.zazzle.com/ducttapesunicycle/products) '*watch my videos*' (http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ducttapesunicycle) '*uniman comics*' (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53444) '*original thread for uniman*' (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49862) *'sigged quotes' (http://tinyurl.com/29b744)* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ducttape's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12006 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/24824 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- ** SPEED ** RETENTION ** COMPLETION ** ANONYMITY ** ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Oh, whoops, I didn't realize this was a 2 page thread before I posted. I meant the compliment the first starter of this thread for actually putting some thought into the topic. -- Poseidon *If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space!* *Number of "Where's the other wheel?!" comments:* *2* '*The best Juggling/Unicycling equipment on the planet:** Renegade Juggling*' (www.renegadejuggling.com) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Poseidon's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/14607 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/24824 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- ** SPEED ** RETENTION ** COMPLETION ** ANONYMITY ** ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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