The Extreme Unicycle Championships (EUC) were held in Miskolc in Hungary this year. I had an amazing time and am very, very happy with my results. Overall it was super fun.
Miskolc – Factory Arena
The Factory Arena is an amazing location for any Urban-sport. It is a huge old factory complex with a gigantic trials-park, an indoor multi-hall skate-park, an outdoor pump track and overall nice catering facilities. Hungary is a very nice and beautiful country, with awesome people. The Hungarian language is quite challenging, but almost everyone under 30 speaks (some) English and everyone over 50 Russian, so I could manage quite easily.
Junior Open
As it was my last EUC-competition as a Junior, I decided to compete in the “Open Category”. This basically means I had to compete with boys. But as we share the same riding style, it was super fun. Pretty happy with how the competitions went.
The EUC unicycle competitions
EUC opened with the Jumps and I had mixed results. Don’t know if I lacked focus as I was happy to see everybody, but in high-jump I didn’t even manage to jump my personal best, let alone exceed it. Quite disappointing, but I managed to set it right during the long jump (2nd).
Trials went fantastic, although I really had to give it all. I’m really happy with the results (2nd) and I even managed to complete a few lines that were way out of my comfort zone.
The flatland battles were right after trials and I as I was pretty tired I wasn’t sure if my legs would hold up. But it went very well and I made it to the finals (which I didn’t win, so 2nd place).
The Street-competition was awesome too. I love putting in the creativity and always attempt something that’s out of my comfort zone. I did a few high drop ins and some were spectacular fails. But my runs were solid and I landed 3 out of my five best tricks and managed to score a first place.
Big thanks to all!
My heart goes out to everyone that made this great event possible: organisation, judges, volunteers, first aid, sponsors, local government, logistics, dj’s, party-squad, parents and everyone that competed.
