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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.
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 player usually stays back ...
Born on 24 December 1855 [1] Starley lived on Church Hill, Walthamstow, London, England. He was the son of a gardener, John Starley, and Mary Ann (née Coppen). [7] In 1872 he moved to Coventry to work with his uncle James Starley, an inventor. He worked with his uncle and William Hillman for several years building Ariel cycles. [citation needed]
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Webb-Ellis carries the ball during a school football match played in 1823. According to legend, this action created the rugby style of play. The sole source of the story of Webb Ellis picking up the ball originates with one Matthew Bloxam, a local antiquarian and former pupil of Rugby. [3]
"Inventor of electric unicycle a L.E.A.P. graduate". McMaster University. 4 June 2008. Archived from the original on 5 April 2010 "Inventor of the week - Ben Gulak". Massachusetts Institute of Technology. August 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-10-02 "Unicycle inventor piques Dragons' interest".
The Rugby School boys still wanted an oval ball produced to distinguish their hand and foot game from association football, so Lindon created a bladder design which allowed a more egg-shaped buttonless ball to be manufactured. This was the first specifically designed four-panel rugby ball and the start of size standardisation.
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 ...