{"id":1174,"date":"2009-12-21T13:13:21","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T20:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/in-new-zealand-for-unicon\/"},"modified":"2018-12-09T17:31:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T01:31:17","slug":"in-new-zealand-for-unicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/in-new-zealand-for-unicon\/","title":{"rendered":"In New Zealand for UNICON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<p>A few days ago I left for a trip into the southern hemisphere, New Zealand. There is a big unicycle conference called UNICON in Wellington, which is at the bottom of the north island. I flew into Queenstown in the south island with a few friends of mine, Nathan, Grace and Beau and we have been having a great time! We are going to spend a week hanging out and cruising up north in our rental car, and then two weeks in Wellington for the conference. UNICON is the world championships for unicycling, I&#8217;m going to be competing in mountain unicycling and two long distance events. I&#8217;m mainly coming for fun, as I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m really fast enough to actually win (especially since I haven&#8217;t trained enough).<\/p>\n<p>Here are some cool shots of Beau as we were riding downtown.<\/p>\n<p>360 unispin, midair with hands completely off the unicycle:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_6480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_6480-680x1024.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"451\" alt=\"IMG_6480.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rolling wrap:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_6483.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_6483-680x1024.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"451\" alt=\"IMG_6483.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next day &#8212; notice the paragliders in the blue sky:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_6605.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_6605-680x1024.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"451\" alt=\"IMG_6605.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lupins:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_6499.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_6499-680x1024.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"451\" alt=\"IMG_6499.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the skate park:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_6619.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_6619-680x1024.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"451\" alt=\"IMG_6619.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I left for a trip into the southern hemisphere, New Zealand. There is a big unicycle conference called UNICON in Wellington, which is at the bottom of the north island. I&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/in-new-zealand-for-unicon\/\">[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[131,166],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography","category-unicycling","tag-adventure","tag-new-zealand-2010"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/nz_post_thumb1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8zn47-iW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5856,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/5856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}