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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 ...
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 ...
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Despite there being self-balancing unicycles and concept vehicles built by hobbyists prior to Wood's invention, he is attributed as the first to make one available commercially. Wood is the founder of Focus Designs, a company that distributes the self-balancing unicycle that Wood invented. [1] He spent more than two years developing the technology.
[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."
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 ...
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