Brian Mackenzie

Alright Colin! I have only ever used the Glidecam Smoothshooter, I know nothing about how any other gear works...do you need to hold it to your side? I imagine holding it to your side would make navigating the unicycle significantly more troublesome, but not something that couldn't be overcome with practice. Good for you for getting up and trying, you are the only other non-me person I have seen a picture of doing it!

I just noticed this...I meant 'Snowboarding or skateboarding'

Hey Mike, you will LOVE unicycling, everyone does! (I'm glad I inspired you to get one, that's cool!) I am pictured using a 24" in the pic, but my filming unicycle of choice is a 29". (as i am riding in the manhattan clip) if i have a lot of time to get up and riding without the need for too much control when filming, i will use my 36" wheel. (i would use the 36" on a ski hill, for example) the general rule of thumb: the smaller the wheel, the easier it will be for low speed control. the bigger the wheel, the harder it will be at low speed control, but the more momentum you can gain and easier to roll over things like bumps and curbs. When filming, the larger the wheel also means the less your knees will move up and down shaking up the footage....not so bad with a camera stabiliser, but somthing that needs to be considered nonetheless. if you spend an hour a day on it, you should probably be wobbling happily after 10 hours. do yourself a favour and don't try to lean on walls to learn...learning by freemounting will give you all the skills you need by the time you are riding. everyone can ride, it's simply trial and error. you can think of it like this...try to get on unicycle. drop unicycle 500 times. now you can ride.

hey guys, I am the guy riding the unicycle with my Glidecam Smoothshooter, glad you guys dug the technique! You can read more about the technique in an article of EventDV magazine if you would like to know more about my style http://balanceproductions.ca/component/con...ventdv-magazine PS...Snowboarding or unicycling with a rig of anykind (maybe save for only a handheld model) would be incredibly dangerous, as you can't control when you want to stop instantly, and with a snowboard you are locked in by the feet, no thanks!!! And I would take the unicycle style over the snowboard style any day, as i ride down ski hills with it all the time :ph34r: there is a full NY clip taken from my latest uncycling DVD (the origanlly linked video was Glidecam's sponsor clip I did to put on that DVD), you can see that here http://balanceproductions.ca/technology.html (Unicycling Manhattan - 2:11...you can see how i transition from a leading shot into a trailing shot in one fluid motion...this was possible by my L7 monitor being mounted on the handle...I was pretty much looking ahead of me the whole time glancing down at the monitor to just make sure he was still in frame..) The unicycle Glidecam Vs Steadicam Segway each have their own dis/advantages Thanks folks! Brian