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Unicycle Hockey, 2012. Unicycle hockey is a team sport, similar to rink hockey where players try to hit the ball with their sticks into the other team's goal, except that each player must be mounted on a unicycle to play the ball. A team is composed of five players (plus substitutes), but there is no dedicated goalkeeper role (although one ...
In March 2010, he filed a provisional patent for Solowheel, a self-balancing electric unicycle, [19] using a gyroscopic sensors to balance the unit in the direction of travel. The Solowheel won numerous awards including 2011 ISPO Bike BrandNew finalist in Munich, Germany and 2012 INPEX Invention Trade Show first runner-up in Pittsburgh ...
Unicycle basketball uses a regulation basketball on a regular basketball court with the same rules, e.g., one must dribble the ball while riding. There are a number of rules that are particular to unicycle basketball as well, e.g., a player must be mounted on the unicycle when in-bounding the ball.
Daniel Wood is an American inventor and entrepreneur, best known for creating the first commercially available self-balancing unicycle. [1] He is currently the founder and CEO of Focus Designs . He is also the Director of Control Systems at Future Motion as well as an advisory council member at RYNO Motors.
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He taught his 6-year-old son, Charles, how to ride a unicycle in the hallway of their apartment building. [6] King started a club, and his students would refer to him as "the Old Man" or "Mr. Jerry." [7] One of King's students, Albert Owens, was on a unicycle when a basketball rolled near him. While still on the unicycle, Owens shot the ...
Kris Holm (born July 15, 1973) is a Canadian best known for riding a unicycle in off-road conditions. He has ridden since 1985 and is considered one of the pioneers of off-road unicycling, and is the world's best-known unicyclist.
As a teenager and young adult, Jorgensen was both a hobby and professional unicyclist competing in unicycle hockey as part of the Albuquerque Unicycle Club, [2] the world's first unicycle hockey club. [3] He became vice president of the club 1959, [4] won the club's award for "most versatile rider" in 1961 [5] and took over as club president in ...