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  2. Unicycle hockey - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. King Charles Troupe - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] King was inspired by a performance he saw in 1918 of Ringling Brothers Circus, where he witnessed a man ride a unicycle on a highwire. [5] 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."

  4. Albuquerque Unicycle Club - Wikipedia

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    The Albuquerque Unicycle Club Inc was the world's first unicycle hockey club. The New Mexico , U.S. club was informally founded in 1957 and officially registered in 1958, before becoming defunct in 2001.

  5. Unicycle - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. Ted Jorgensen - Wikipedia

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    Jorgensen was a unicyclist who performed at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and in 1962 became the president of Albuquerque Unicycle Club, the world's first unicycle hockey club. He married Jackie Gise in 1963 and fathered Jeff with her in 1964, before divorcing her when Jeff was seventeen months old.

  7. Spaldeen - Wikipedia

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    Modern-day Spaldeen. A Spalding Hi-Bounce Ball, often called a Spaldeen or a Pensie Pinkie, is a rubber ball, described as a tennis ball core without the felt. [1] These balls are commonly used in street games developed in the mid-20th century, such as Chinese handball (a variation on American handball), Australian Handball, stoop ball, hit-the-penny (involving trying to make a penny flip on a ...

  8. Unirally - Wikipedia

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    Shortly after the game's release, DMA Design was sued by Pixar for allegedly copying the unicycle design and concept from their 1987 short film Red's Dream. Mike Dailly, one of the developers at DMA Design, commented, "The problem with Pixar was that they seemed to think that any computer generated unicycle was owned by them".

  9. Unipiper - Wikipedia

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    The Unipiper first found Internet fame in 2012 when a video of him performing The Imperial March went viral. [3] The video featured the Unipiper wearing a Darth Vader mask, while riding a unicycle and playing the bagpipes, and was subsequently featured on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno . [ 2 ]