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- Ed Unicycles New Zealand [Ep.9]
After saying farewell to my parents I continue my ride up north to Auckland. Abby and Gazza, unicyclists in training, take me to see Franklin Road - famous for its yearly christmas light competition.
I'm raising funds and awareness for 'School in a Bag'. Find out more:
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Kiwi riding a kiwi fruit unicycle drawn by UpsidedownOJ
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My name's Ed and for the last 2.5 years I've been riding my unicycle around the globe. With over 15,900miles already ridden, 'Ed Unicycles New Zealand' is the video series documenting my 1500mile self-supported unicycle tour across Kiwi-land.
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15:15 it's not embarrassing; it's human
Ed, physical pain is never embarrassing. What you’re doing is incredible.
8:08 this is Rick. Ed that's great you're giving Rick space to express his thoughts and message 👍 plus congrats for your great accomplishment 👏
Even tough this is already more then a year old i still wanted to say talking about the pain (physical and the mental part you were struggling with) is not embarrassing at all.
Ed, I love the fact that your parents allow you to be your own person and they treat you with so much love and respect. They did a great job raising you! You are such an amazing young man! Keep up the great work.
dude, doing a little stretching or yoga every morning on bike touring trips is essential!
Ed, I am so envious that you do not have a deadline to get back home to the United Kingdom. "At your own pace" is wonderful way to live your life. Sadly, most people can't do the same. Everybody is caught up in their own lives and lose track of time. Before we know it, everything else passed us by. I've watched all your videos and I look forward to the new ones as well. God bless you! Safe journeys always!
You're a frickin' legend man- your humanity is real... :)
Another GREAT video Ed! I know you're well into the USA now, but I assume you know the importance of "listening" to your body, backing off, and taking some additional rest when needed. Beck off and take it a little easy when times get difficult and you'll make it through (as I'm sure you've done many times over). Keep on keeping on! Love this video(s)!!!
I really appreciate that you show all parts of your journey around the world, good and bad. The positivt and willpower that you usually show, almost seems superhuman, its a big inspiration to me and its an even bigger inspiration when after moments like these with your back, you are still pushing through and your determination is still on an all time high. Thanks for sharing your journey !
Its not embarrassing to be emotional when you are in pain and you care about something so much. You are a true inspiration for baring all and pushing on through it!
If you had not shown this you would have made it seem like you unicycled around the world without any problems, and that it was easy.
I appreciate you posting this, because it shows how hard you are working, and how much you really care about your goals and the whole journey!
Thanks for being honest
Ed its so good to see how far you've made it in the 12 months of me watching thank you so much for all the inspiration and thank you so much for what you're doing for this world it's something bigger than most people would ever understand nor will ! If you're ever in Canada mate you always have a nice warm place to stay here for a night !
You are a inspiration to everyone. When your back goes you need to rest it and stretch. We have almost caught up to your USA tour. We have been pushing your tour on anyone who will listen.
Can’t wait to see you in the Carolina’s and Georgia in USA! So excited that you are only months away from completing your journey!
Cheers to ya, Ed!! Take the time you need to get better and be careful! You do incredible things on the uni and off!
You have changed a lot since you started, Ed. Your physics, your face.
You're a legend Ed. Hoping you'll be available for the cycle touring festival next year. Take care man.
Because this is your personal vlog that we are allowed to follow, it is nice to see that all is not fun times riding an overweight unicycle around the world. Your journey looks tough, dirty, and a grind at times but when you have finished you and I will have grown. Grown with both knowledge and experiences. Thanks for sharing, cheers ;
Always great seeing a new video from ya Ed!
I recently bought a 36in uni.. I also bought one for each of my daughters so theres 3 uni's in the house. got the youngest a 20in and the oldest a 24in. because of you lol your inspirational!!! I believe it will get my core muscles back into shape.. your awesome keep up the good work
Don't be embarrassed ED you are only human, so glad u put this in.
Really hoping your back mends quickly, Ed. I can't believe you went through my tiny hometown of Ridgecrest California! I will keep my eye out, and guest room available should your travels bring you through Washington D.C. Keep it up, Ed!
You have awesome parents Ed! Keep Calm and Ride On!
So pleased you got to Ponsonby rd and saw the lights. We take the kids every year. That house with the train set was always my favourite and sadly it wasn’t there last Christmas. The day the roads got really busy I’m guessing was dec 27, the day everyone leaves for 2 weeks summer holiday. The mass exodus from Auckland. I wish I had found your channel while you were here. You could have stayed.
GUYS! HE´S GROWING A BEARD!!
ive been pretty excited about this for the past few videos. I'm happy if he seems happy with it.
Riding down Mt Albert Road, my old haunt! And that looked like Gladstone primary where my kids went to school. And Pt Chev... all my local places!
I was suddenly affected by sciatica when I was your age and it's a LOT to deal with then you're so young. You know older people complain about bad backs all the time but it does feel silly to have the issue when you're that age. My back remains delicate but THE GOOD NEWS about first having the issue when young is you learn how to deal with it at an age when most only first start to struggle. At 56 my posture is pretty good, I know how to sit well and, most importantly of all, I know instantly how to deal with the very first twinge and not let it get worse. Pilates helps me as does regular swimming but mostly it's about understanding just how important one's spine is and taking care of it in every way you can.
You can do it Ed! Stay strong bud!
Wow suspenseful cliffhanger! I know this was taken like 3 months ago and you've probably dealt with your back issues, but I also have lower back issues and the way I deal with it is a nice stiff lumbar supporter belt and basic yoga stretches twice a day. The supporter belt cinched very tightly will get you through the unicycle rides, but it usually takes time to completely fix the back issue.
Butterfly at 6:07, so awesome!
That bagpipes was awesome
You're the man Ed
great as always m8
Thinking about it, I would love to see a Montage of all the clips that you did not use
Lower back pain is the worst! I was out for 3 days just praying to god the pain would stop. I think it was caused by cycling. Anyhoo one day the pain just went away! If you’re on a long bike tour the only thing I could recommend is taking aspirin and taking a day or two just to rest and yoga stretches for the back!
Amazing!
That piper is ridiculously good.
Oh you leave us on a cliffhanger Ed. I hope you are rolling easier now.
I know I'm late but this is not embarrassing you are trying to cross the entire planet on the unicycle you should never be embarrassed love you bro good s*** I did this from speech to text
Ed, I realize your in the US now (and I sure hope your back pain is behind you... pun intended!). That kind of pain can be debilitating & literally bring you to your knees. If it happens again & you can get a hold of some ice, try icing your back 10 mins on, 10 mins off. Several times. Together with so e ibuprofen, this works for me. Good luck bro & stay safe.
Do you have plans for your channel after your journey ends?
Where are you now in nz?
That was a perfectly good can of food, the sign of botulism in canned food is a swollen can with bulging ends, or a leaky can. Anyways, food-borne botulism is exceedingly rare, and 90% of what little cases there are are actually due to home canning or jarring.
Take it easy Edd, get some rest for a few days. gl. Sorry i didn't realise you were ok and in the USA.
hey ED any plan to come to India ??
Chin up we love you.
Glad to see you are in the USA finally. I am keeping an eye on your location in hopes of possibly meeting up with you. On bit of advice, you've been sleeping on the ground for basically 2.5 yrs, try stretching a bit before just hopping out of your tent from now on. I always try to pull my knees, one at a time, up to my chest and hold for a few seconds while still lying on my back whenever camping. Curl your toes and feet up stretching your calves and also lightly twist at the hips.
John Day Hi John!
I'm following Ed as you're. But how do you know that he's in the US now? How do you do that? Does Television Channels in the US help you know his location or are there other ways. Kindly let me know.
Regards,
Mandeep (India)
Mandeep K C Below the video in the description there's the link, Live Tracker, click on it. It shows where he is located as of his last update on his locator. You can zoom in also to get more detail
Look on his website. Got a tracker www.worldunicycletour.com/ or facebookpage facebook.com/MrEdPratt/?ref=br_rs
I think that's the least bad, that bagpipes have ever sounded.
rice cream is so good you missed out mate
If the back pain is in your muscles I'd expect it to go away, but it could take days and you need to do some sort of therapy, like finding a sports massage therapist or physio. GL
Ed serious question, how do you go toilet number 2??? When in wild, do you dig hole and bury it?? i'm just super curious lol
Thank you!
Hey Ed, I know that you are riding in the US now, so I assume all's well with your back. But man, you must have been in some pain. Hope it was nothing major. Anyway, always listen to your body and have a great ride in the US :)
Here in the UK we are so short of Hedgehogs, you don't even see squashed one's anymore. So if you don't want them in New Zealand please pay their airfare back to the UK, cheers.
G.H.T. 🐹🐹💛💛
This comment cracked me up !
This comment ceacked me up !!
Oops spell check !
I love the background music. Can someone tell me were to find these songs?
Khenry King did you read the description?
I thought you were going from South America to North America and not U.S. West to East. You not enjoying unicycling as much anymore ?
Cool Dad yo! Santa Cruz Shirt,DC-Shoes:)
Look up the whole food plant based diet and back pain. I used to have spasms when I was 40 I switched to a whole food plant based diet. Haven't had a single back spasm since then. I am now 50 and still no back pain.
6:07 Monarch butterfly
when you opened that can of beans, you opened up a can of worms
Why is that cow in the background of the shot??
Go work with the 360 camera!
15:29 ❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️
I myself live in a geographical area where hedgehogs are extremely in abundance so
damn that bagpipe song is good
I LIVE AT GLENFIELD AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND
Kidneys I suppose.
Hi Ed. Myself and a few others were trying to figure out how many Miles-KM you get from your tyre in the comments section from your last vid.
I need to ask how many tyres have you used since you left England and when did you change them?
Have really enjoyed watching all your videos as have many friends whom I have sent to your channel. Keep going dude I cant wait to see USA.
I was wondering this as well!!! I posted this question in his last video as well.
Cmo'n Ed give us an answer. I have no guess maybe 1700-2000 Miles per tire, I truly have no idea but for some unknown reason need to know how many tiers I would need if I was a uni-cyclist traveling the continents of the globe, I presume it would have to be about half of the tires that a normal cyclist doing the same journey seeing as how there is only one wheel instead of two to share the load.
you poor thing, back pain is the worst! hopefully some sports massage or physical therapy will get you straightened out
It was actually kind of a bad coincidence that this happened shortly after leaving your parents. Sometimes, those weird pains seem to come from nowhere. However, taking it from your videos, this is only your second serious injury in years of traveling the world on a bike! I may say, you have been very lucky. I'm not sure if this is the right relation, but I guess I know how that feels. After hauling heavy shit over a whole day, my back really refuses to move as well. I can force myself, but this is never good advice. When your body feels bad, there is a reason for it, and you better don't ignore it.
You are doing great, no time pressures, work with your body & find a good chiropractor & keep smiling :-)
Oh one more thing Why do you never get sick even the common cold
Nightmare.......that's a disc that's oozing out .... such a terrible thing
i live in new zealand
you likely slept askew - lie down on something *flat* and deep breath 'til you fall asleep.
Don't force it. You can't hurt your back. Physical therapy can fix anything. Ask me how I know. But I've forced life, and regretted it. Perhaps there is a reason for this. Just try to listen.
He is in USA now.
He made it!
cool! he made It through his back pain dilemma . This vid happened almost 3months ago.
Have you tried Vitamin I, ibuprofen? Get some rest!
Wdym embarrassing you just rode so far
Proof the earth is round 2:11
15:20 - 16:20 is all the process of learning and becoming a man
Acute back spasm, I assume.
After a night of drinking?
Yes or no, dehydration can be a killer on the back. You've been pushing yourself for two years, come dangerously close to major electrolyte imbalance (a friend of mine suffered this and he's never been the same - careful!). In other words, a good recipe for back issues.
Hydrate and stretch. Be "back smart," or in other words, learn about back health and what to avoid. Ice and anti-inflammatories should get you straight. But there also may be more to back problems than we know, or are just coming to realize...
I was on my back for two weeks due to acute back muscle spasms after three years of intense bike racing. Lots of miles in my last year with two national championship events raced, my back was toast. Then a weekend away at a wedding and WAY too much champagne did it in. It took two weeks to be able to walk again, and then a few years to regain "normalcy." And when I was in the best shape of my life. But I didn't listen to the signs. Shooting pains down my left leg during races were key. This sciatica was telling me I was doing something wrong!
I eventually recovered and resumed normal life. But I would encounter back "episodes" every so often; I don't know, maybe every six months or a year? Either way, I would sometimes be incapacitated and it sucked. One of the worst happened right before a long Sierra mountain bike ride. As I was waiting for friends to get ready to ride, I was warming up and screwing around. As I rode a wheelie, I felt my back go "Pop!" and man, I KNEW something was definitely amiss. But I really wanted to show this ride (Hole in the ground) to a friend, so I went on as planned. After three hours, I was CRAWLING back home. Simply miserable. Ibuprofen and aspirin were useless. I then discovered naproxen sodium (Aleve). Wow, a savior!
Then about six years ago, I upped my dental hygiene routine. I went from flossing once a day and brushing twice a day, to flossing & brushing twice a day. Flossing felt so good at night, I figured why not do it after morning breakfast. Only until recently did I realize that I have had NO back episodes since improving my dental hygiene. Coincidence? Maybe. My general health hasn't been improving over that time - in fact, weight gain has unfortunately been pretty constant, so it's not like I also happened to get into much better shape in that same time period.
Anecdotal? Yes. But I also heard about a radio producer who suffered over a decade of back suffering, despite doing yoga, eating well and taking care of himself. No explanation for his terrible back situation. He visits his dentist one day and the dentist says, "You seem to have something going on; I see signs of chronic infection, so you should have a CT scan of your head and spine." Long story short, he discovered a tooth infection had spread into his spinal fluid and into his back! This may indeed explain his chronic back pain for so long. He had NO idea he had an undiagnosed tooth issue that had gone (somewhat) systemic. The guy then quit the radio show, so I never heard the conclusion of the story.
But I do know that medicine is learning how important dental hygiene is to general health. Like for example, if you have pretty much ANY surgical procedure planned, you are required to get a dental bill of good health prior to any work. So perhaps our teeth are far more crucial to overall health than we ever knew.
Okay you know what I just want to know your opinion on how you feel about possibly Caucasian or Africans or Asian going into an area in geographically overpopulating ... honestly you sound like a spiciest
lightdark00 it has been rephrased
lightdark00 i dont even know what to say to you ... as I am a leader in Neighbors Against Racism in my community not only that this conversation is regarding speciesism and is related to an animal topic nothing more I simply asked him if he thought it was okay to eliminate a species because he thought one was overpopulating and just to clear one thing up I'm using a broken phone with a horrible iOS system that tends to mess up my texts before I have a chance to correct them don't be calling people racist unless you know truly what they are I mean I have dreads and I'm wearing a tie dye shirt in my profile photo
When that can popped up in frame I was so disappointed in you, Ed
next time when it happens, call a chiroprator Ed.
Gonna have to skip over this episode - ruined by squealing kids......
don't be sad hedgehogs are a pest in New Zealand the less the better
Thats just not true at all !
yes it is. www.doc.govt.nz/nature/pests-and-threats/animal-pests/hedgehogs/
The impact of hedgehogs from the doc website page.
"Impacts
The extent to which hedgehogs impact upon the New Zealand environment is only recently beginning to be understood in any detail. Here is a summary of findings:
Hedgehogs are proven to be a major predator on eggs of riverbed breeding birds such as banded dotterel and black-fronted tern, and have been known to kill and eat chicks of a variety of ground-nesting birds.
In the MacKenzie Basin (South Island), hedgehogs have been found to be responsible for one in five predator attacks on nests.
Hedgehogs have a voracious appetite for invertebrates and take many local endemic species.
They are known to eat the rare giant native centipede, wētā, and other rare insects.
They have been known to eat the native snail Wainuia urnula. Lowland populations of Powelliphanta snails may also be severely affected, particularly the Patarau and Otaki sub-species. Only smaller (juvenile) snails are eaten, but this severely affects recruitment and population recovery.
Hedgehogs also prey upon lizards, particularly in cooler periods when lizard activity slows. Skinks are particularly at risk.
It is possible that hedgehogs also prey on endemic frog species, as they are known to take introduced frogs and their range overlaps with some New Zealand frog species."
madhouse5213 sorry maybe I worded that incorrectly what you're saying about how head hedgehogs are just pests that can be done rid of is completely incorrect there may be an abundance of the animal but for you to just say don't be sad if a couple are dead is completely unreasonable and just the fact that you're sharing a government page tells me you're government brainwashed human being that I'm not going to continue a conversation with ⚛☮
LOL look at this dude