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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Outdoor: Mountain Unicycle


I saw this guy in the Barton Creek Greenbelt and asked if I could film him.  It was only the second time that I'd seen someone actually riding a unicycle on a trail.  Fortunately, I was hiking in the Greenbelt looking for some places to shoot video segments and I happened to have my camcorder handy.

Riding a unicycle looks difficult under the best of circumstances.  Moreover, the portion of the trail featured in the above video can be difficult to traverse on a mountain bike; I would have been skeptical of anyone's claims to be about to ride a unicycle through this stretch.  Thus,  I was pleased to be able to shoot a video of a mountain unicycle in action.

Otherwise, I think my amigos would have thought I was making this up.  ha ha ha

Note: If you're curious about the equipment, I shot this clip on a Canon Vixia MF M30 camcorder and turned it into a YouTube upload on iMovie.  I bought the camcorder at Precision Camera in Austin.  As for the mountain unicycle, I have no idea what kind of unicycle is in the video.