Dan Heaton commercial for Columbia

uni man 22 wrote:
i havent seen it on tv yet but i saw it on my computer and it was supper
B.A.
but i thought that kriss holm was the pioneer for Muni



He was. When he said off road unicycling, I'm sure he meant street and
trials as well.

Its 10 times cooler when you see it on your TV. It really is. I saw
it on my computer, and watching TV at random, it just came at me, and I
was so in shock. It was like Christmas, only I got something good.


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it is pretty sweet, but it said he invented mountain unicycling... which
isn't really true.

i just read the above posts, and if you wanna get technical, george
peck was unicycling up rocky hills when kris holm was but a wee lad.

Chase


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the commercial was really cool... Dan Heaton is simply amazing! its
also good to see the sport getting some more publicity


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Unitik908 wrote:
i just read the above posts, and if you wanna get technical, george peck
was unicycling up rocky hills when kris holm was but a wee lad.


The commercial would have been dumb if he just started spouting off
random crap about george peck and other old people, it makes it all the
more interesting for him to say he pioneered the sport, which he
definitely did, he just wasn't the very first person to do it. Frankly
I doubt George Peck was the first person to ride a unicycle off road as
well, he was just the first one to advertise it. Dan took it the point
where it could become mainstream with his movies.


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Dan Heaton has never done a 360 unispin on flat. He learned them down a
6 set.


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Brian O. wrote:
...it makes it all the more interesting for him to say he pioneered the
sport, which he definitely did, he just wasn't the very first person to
do it.

That's right. But what Dan pioneered was Street unicycling. If you ask
me, Dan invented Street. But that's too hard to explain, so it looks
like they're saying he invented or pioneered MUni. But they don't
actually say that either. And he really is one of the pioneers of
"extreme unicycling," with Universe 1 as the primary example/evidence.



Frankly I doubt George Peck was the first person to ride a unicycle off
road as well, he was just the first one to advertise it.

History time:
George wasn't the first to advertise it either. The first person to
ride a unicycle offroad probably did it about 130 years ago. Back then,
there weren't even that many paved roads, though dirt roads wouldn't
count in my book. Surely some early unicyclists rode them on trails,
across fields, etc.

I think George Peck was the first person to make a full-length video
about mountain unicycling, and it was very inspiring. Plus he made many
other contributions as the guy to look toward for a world getting
interested in dirt riding. The earliest "advertisement" of offroad
unicycling I know of is a 1981 article in the Unicycling Society of
America Newsletter, titled U.M.X.


hobo_chuck wrote:
Dan Heaton has never done a 360 unispin on flat. He learned them down a
6 set.

Are you supposed to be some kind of Dan Heaton expert? Before anyone
thought of doing scary tricks down stair sets, I'm pretty sure Dan was
filming himself doing 360s and harder tricks, some of which are shown
in Universe 1. I'm guessing you haven't seen it?

Unless you meant something other than a 360 Unispin. If you meant
rotating 360 degrees *with the unicycle,* I was there for that one. It
was on a downhill section with a little root bump/jump in it on a trail
near the infamous Mailboxes trail in Santa Cruz. This was probably in
1999 or 2000, I think the same day that some of the Universe 1 Santa
Cruz footage was filmed. Yup, there was a lot of history in that video
as well!


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I was fortunate enough to see the commercial last week on TV. Can you
say "TiVo"? I'm so psyched that I didn't miss it. I think it was on
during the Daily Show.


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Dan Heaton does not do uni-spins, Dan Heaton just jumps up and the earth
spins beneath him.

If you have five dollars and Dan Heaton has five dollars, Dan Heaton
has more money than you.

Underneath Dan's unicycle is a bigger better unicycle.

Dan Heaton counted to infinity - twice.


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Bondo wrote:
Dan Heaton does not do uni-spins, Dan Heaton just jumps up and the earth
spins beneath him.



Yup, you got the idea.

If you could capture the power behind one of Dan Heaton's rolling hops,
it could generate enough electricity to light the entire state of Texas
for half an hour.


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Bondo wrote:
Dan Heaton does not do uni-spins, Dan Heaton just jumps up and the earth
spins beneath him.

If you have a *million* dollars and Dan Heaton has five dollars, Dan
Heaton has more money than you.

Underneath Dan's unicycle is a bigger better unicycle.

Dan Heaton counted to infinity - *infinate times*.


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