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I C Y C L I Jess has ridden unicycles for over seven years and has competed in three World Championships in Tokyo, Langenthal (Switzerland), and Copenhagen. He is most proficient in mountain unicycling (Muni), but also enjoys riding trials, distance, street, and freestyle.
Jess has been producing extreme unicycling videos for a number of years, releasing them for free on the web. Most of the movies Jess rides in, along with an array of other talented riders, such as Zack Baldwin and Brian Lundgren. He has also made two documentaries covering the Unicycling World Championships and Convention (Unicon).
See Jess's coverage of the 14th Unicycling World Championships and Convention: Quicktime Movie, 460 mb |
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Pa'ia Maui Some old riding (2005) when I visited some relatives on Maui. My cousin there, Josh, started unicycling, but we weren't able to film anything together. This video took a long time to get online because I actually lost a bunch of footage on a tape somewhere and finally gave up locating it. So here is what I had, some fun beachside trials. Oh yeah, and I love this song. |
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Too Hot to Ride This was an attempt to ride one day during the heat of the summer (2006). Kaori, Brian, and I, as well as a new unicyclist from Rocklin, Taylor, went to a skatepark with high hopes. It was so hot (triple digits), we didn't end up doing that much riding. There are a few cool tricks though, like Brian's crankflip over a firework, Kaori's usual uni-dancing, and my gap to a fence. Mostly though, we filmed these kids that were hanging out in the skatepark. |
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Death Valley My friends and I went to Death Valley, CA for a camping trip in Spring 2006. Caitlin's Dad, Steve, was our guide. We stayed in a little oasis in the desert, which had all sorts of terrain. Of course I brought along my muni, and I found some funky stuff to ride on. Eric brought his muni along as well, and we explored the area while making a little movie. |
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Talent Show So my dorm had a talent show, February 2006. I ended up winning, and moved on to the All-Hall talent show. It was hard to remember what tricks I planned on doing, but I did do a few cool things. I didn't realize how tired I would get, and during the act I needed to take a break. I ended up improvising a stunt that involved the audience. But mostly, the unicycling skill in this isn't that spectacular. I ended up getting 3rd place, which was sweet. |
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Beals Point Sirens Zack Baldwin and I visit one of our favorite riding spots, Beal's Point. This state park is a 5 minute drive from my house, and was the location for our first movie, "Beals Point." |
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Campus Here's a video that I made mostly in fall 2005. I never did anything with it, but finally I edited together a second half for it. The 2nd half is actually riding that was done in Spring 2006, but the bulk of it is a prequel to UCSB Unicycling (see below). Featuring riding by me, and special guest: Kaori Matisizama |
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Maidu Madness This is a short movie of some footage I took last year (August 2005) of Zack Baldwin, Brian Lundgren, and myself. Zack has some huge hops and gaps in this... other than that it's nothing special. It does have a slick song by Gomez though. |
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Trials Course Love 99 I filmed this video early January 2006, and edited it in the next couple months. UPDATE: My film got accepted into the 2007 Santa Barbara International Film Festival. |
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UCSB Unicycling This video has a KILLER soundtrack that is simply addicting.... see for yourself. I strongly recommend that you download the high quality version - there is some spectacular scenery that you just have to see in better quality! (note: I messed up the music credits. It's Jurassic 5, not Nas) |
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Northstar Nincumpoops * Zack and I took a special trip to Northstar at Lake Tahoe just to film. Usually filmming while doing muni is a pain... in this case we had the camera out most of the time which makes it different kind of ride. The viddy turned out pretty sweet! I highly reccommend waiting for the high quality version to download! |
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Jamba Juice Jammin Zack, Kaori, and myself riding around Jamba Juice- with permission. No soundtrack, but the various music from inside the store works well! |
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Ralph's Grind Bail Zack and I found a decent lil rail in front of a Ralph's supermarket. We must have grinded the thing 50 times... but eventually there was bound to be a hard bail. |
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Porch Freestyle After getting energized by successfully doing a 360 unispin the night before, I do some freestyle on my porch with the help of my dog Checkers. |
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Fell In Love With a Girl Zack and I doing trials and street at the school across from his house. At the end, I attempt to land my first 360 unispin numerous times. Slick song for a slick lil movie! |
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8 foot Giraffe at Halftime I tested out my homemade 8 foot giraffe at a Basketball game Halftime fundraiser. It's hard to understand what I'm saying, but basically I'm telling about a local girl who was suffering from Leukemia and asking the crowd to donate to help her treatment. They ended up receiving about $500, way more than they ever expected. Unicyclists help save lives! |
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Input 2 Big compiliation of all kinds of riding from February. Skatepark street stuff, trials, and hint of Muni. Zack, Brian, and myself in it mostly. Guest appearance by Bevan Gerber-Siff. Also, look for some spectator Muni riders... |
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Zack's a Whale Fun evening riding near my house.. Zack does some monstrous gaps on rocks, I do a little BC wheeling, and one of us gaps some lunch line separators at a nearby school. Guest appearance by my friend Laura. By the way, Zack's commentary at the end isn't true. |
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Limp Trials Zack and I find and interesting riding spot near his house. Some cool trials stuff by Zack, a few lame attempts by me, and some neato music. |
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Clayton Shtuff Zack, Brian, and I doing BC, trials, and street in Clayton, California. Has some snazzy shtuff, with killer music. Contains a few swear words (thanks a lot Brian) |
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BC Action/ Street n Trials Some basic BC stuff at an elementary school near my house (I went to school there for 9 years). Also, some night street/BC/trials riding by Zack, Brian, and myself. |
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6 foot Giraffe at Rally I rode John Hooten's 6 foot Giraffe dressed up as a Pirate at my high school's Homecoming Rally. Our senior theme was "Swashbuckling Seniors" and I made up a lame rhyme to yell into a microphone while I rode around wildy. |
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KFC Showdown * Zack Baldwin, Brian Lundgren, and myself do a bunch of street, trials, and muni! There isn't that much Muni though. This turned out pretty neat, and the music goes really smooth with it. As for the KFC part, you will have to watch it to see! We did a ride on a Friday night at a nearby high school, and the Muni stuff the next morning at the wicked trials in Auburn. The high quality version has some different clips in it at the end... |
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Rainy Day Riding I was riding around my house today, and it started raining. So I kept riding, and eventually got my camera. I edited it into a nice, 2 min 45 sec movie. It has rail riding (while it's raining), some grinding, and some street moves. |
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Saturday Night Trials Zack and I went riding around to a few locations on a Saturday night. We filmed some, and I put together some shots into a nice little movie. |
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TV segment (UPN 31) This is a segment that was made about Zack Baldwin and I. It turned out pretty cool, so check it out! |
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TV segment (ESPN coverage of Unicon 12) ESPN did a segment on a few USA rider who were at Unicon. The riders were John Foss, Jack Hughes, Zack Baldwin, Nathan Hoover, and myself! This segment turned out really well! This is in the divx video format. Download the codec here. |
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Jess Injury Explanation 2004 John Foss took a little video of me explaining my injuries after a couple days of physical tormenting. (Thanks John for emailing this to me) |
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Hot Trials A little compilation of me riding on a very hot day. First part is at a school, then it moves to Beals Point. This includes a painful fall at the end. |
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Lakeside Trials Zack and I went to Folsom Lake and did trials on the rocks right next to the water. |
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Folsom High Trials Zack and I went to Folsom High School and did some trials/street stuff. Robbie Smelser came along and filmmed us. |
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Venich Beach Unicycling This movie was filmed while visiting Venice Beach, in Los Angeles. My Dad was nice enough to film me tearin' up the Beach area. Some stuff in it: grinding, trials, street riding, a lil gliding, some unispins and one ft. wheel walk. A cool movie!! |
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BC Wheeling I borrowed John Foss's BC/ Impossible Wheel and cruzed along my lane. Here is a short but smooth clip of it. |
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Muni Highlight A quick little movie of some of the technical parts of the ride I went on with Zack and Robbie. |
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Uni at Home This movie has some grinding, pedal grabbing, and gliding. The music is by the White Stripes. |
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Jess First Grind I grind a grind box at Zack's old house. |
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Beals Point Zack Baldwin and I found some awesome rock trials
lines, made some with picnic tables, did some wicked cool gliding, and
had a great time. This is at Beal's Point, Folsom Lake, California: Jan.
31, 2004. We also met a drunken bum. He's in this movie, using profanity.
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Cal Poly Unicycling This is a little trials movie I made after taking my Summit on our Thanksgiving vacation to visit my sister at Cal Poly. |
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