Wooden unicycle from Austin Jugglefest 2010

I failed to make it to the unicycle room this year, and this is what I missed.

Motorized, self-balancing unicycle from a Slovenian inventor

This one looks like fun.

Using a bike like a unicycle

...and other amazing bike tricks, via an indoorcycling contest in Germany. Youtube video.

29 hovers on the unicycle

Hey, when you get to 29 it starts to seem like something you could really do for a while. Then you fall down.

22 hovers

Unicycling daily has its rewards I guess. 22 moves, new tiny personal record, and now juggling while hovering doesn't seem impossible.

16 hovers, new record

I need to get out there and unicycle more. Still, made a little progress today.

Yesterday I rode the uni and juggled in the Milwood Neighborhood 4th of July Parade. Introduced some kids to the wonders of plate spinning.

They had an orchestra this year -- a bunch of winds and a drummer. Nice stuff.

11 unicycle hovers, new personal best

11 ain't much, but it's more than I've done before. I hit this height last night. I'm counting each forward or back move. I thought about counting each pair of moves, but more increments/higher numbers is more motivating.   More importantly, I'm starting to feel like I can control the motion.

Unicycle hovering magically improved by biking

I was practicing hovering on my unicycle last week, and it seemed like I was suddenly a lot better than I used to be, without having actually practiced any. I'm crediting lots of biking for this. Hovering takes a lot of muscle.

Of course I intend to learn to juggle while hovering. I hadn't thought about it, but someone at a TJS meeting told me it was much harder than juggling while moving forward. Stands to reason; you're changing direction constantly. And he was right: I can't manage it at all yet, though I can't hover for very long yet, either. Nonetheless, this is encouraging progress.