Unicycle hockey
Unicycle Hockey is a ball sport that is exerted on the unicycle.
Regulate
Two teams play against each other, in each there are four field players and a goalkeeper who, however, has no special rights. He may at any time be changed. In the teams players and players may each gender and age play together.
It is played with hockey sticks and a tennis ball or street hockey ball to ice hockey goals. The playing field is surrounded by a gang. A game lasts between 2 × 10 minutes to 2 × 20 minutes. In competitions a shorter playing time is also often used with only one half- time in the preliminary round. Physical contact is prohibited, and therefore no special protective equipment is needed. However, many players use simple gloves with open fingers caps to protect the palms that grip the club. Some players also use knee pads, with soft knee pads are from the volleyball and not hard, about from skate equipment used.
Open to unicycles with wheel sizes up to 24 inches.
Unicycle Hockey in Germany
Probably the oldest documentation of this sport in Germany is a brief scene in the movie Vaudeville (1925 ), demonstrate the two men on stage unicycle hockey. In the 1970s, the Japanese Takafumi Ogasawara brought the unicycle hockey in Germany. Since 1995 there has been a Unicycle Hockey League, which in a tournament mode plays off the German unicycle hockey champion every year since 1996 the first German Unicycle Hockey League ( EDEL ). Only 13 teams set up this. In the 2005 season, already 51 teams were then involved in the 2009 season, there are 49 After an initial free-for - all mode 1995, the table is made since 1996 on tournaments, like the world ranking in tennis. At the end of the season, the championship will be played in a final tournament between six teams. Eligible for this tournament are the four best teams from the table and the two best teams from a qualifying tournament - again allowed to compete, the teams with room 5 to 10 from the table to the.
In Germany there are two unicycle hockey strongholds: the Ruhr area and the area around Frankfurt am Main.
Unicycle Hockey International
In Switzerland, there are some good unicycle hockey teams. Since 2003, the annual Swiss Championship "Swiss Unicycle Hockey League " there is discharged. 2003 was also the first time a Swiss team European champion. Before all European champion always came from Germany. In the United Kingdom (UK ), France, Denmark, China, Japan, Canada, Australia, the USA and Sweden played rather irregular. In the UK there is since 2007 a league. In Asia, since 2004 held regular games between Hong Kong and Singapore. Since 2007, Korea is playing with on the international stage.
By the summer of 2004 was always a team from Germany gain the world title in the world every two years held Unicon (World Championship riding a unicycle ). In July 2004 came with the victory of Switzerland, the first non - German title. In July 2006, won the Swiss Power Team, the World Champion title on the UNICON XIII. The UNICON XIV in 2008, the title went back to Germany. The EHC Bochum sat in a German -final against the Gauls from SKV Mörfelden by. In 2010, at the UNICON XV in Wellington ( New Zealand) World Champion title went back to Switzerland after the Swiss team defeated the German team deserters in the final. The UNICON XVI in Bressanone ( Italy) 2012, the newly formed Swiss team defended the world title successfully against the German team Baukau Boogaloos.