Salut,
I’ve been at a small unicycle convention in Frankfurt, Germany this weekend and
it was real fun. Prices were very (!) low (if someone has read about the price
for the IJA juggling convention :-), we paid 6-10 DM, depending on your luck in
throwing a dice (Drinks and food not included).
Well, what I wanted to say: We tried a lot of games. First and most of all,
uni-hockey was played. I’m not to say that we “tried” this as many of the riders
are members of uni-hockey clubs, playing for the German Unicycle Hockey League.
So this was the dominating game. Other games were:
- Unicycle Basketball: not new, I know. But fun if you allow one giraffe per
team. - Unicycle Volleyball: this is the most tiring game I ever played on a unicycle.
You idle all the time, theres only limited space to ride and the ball is always arriving at a place you cant reach (like 1 m to the left or directly
to your face). - Unicycle Voelkerball: Hmmm, the game goes like this: You use a field with
two halfes, each team is and stays in its own half. But each team has one of
its players behind the other half (the field-guard, FG). Well, I better draw
a picture:
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FG-A | Team B | Team A | FG-B
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Players from both teams try to hit players from the other one with the ball. If
you’re hit, you leave the field and you join the FG of your team. FGs and
adjoints can be behind and at the sides of the opposite team’s field. You’re
only hit if the ball didn’t touch the ground before and if it touches the ground
after it hit you. If someone is “out” and hits a player from the other team, he
can go back to his field. If there is only one player left in a field, the FG
enters. He has 3 lives. Any time one “outsider” manages to get back to the
field, the FG leaves, but he doesnt’ have his live number refreshed if he has to
come back later. The team wins that hits all the other players. This game is
also big fun, but you have to get the ball from the ground very often. - We did some catching games
- Travel to Jerusalem: Unicycles are spread on the floor, some very high
ones, some very small ones, some with the saddle turned by 90° etc. There
is one unicycle less than there are players. The music plays, everybody’s
dancing around the unicycles. When the music stops everybody’s trying to
catch a unicycle and to ride it. When the music restarts you have to ride.
Those who hadn’t a unicycle or weren’t able to ride it must leave. The
number of unicycles is adapted to the number of remaining players and the
next round starts.
To conclude, it was a fun weekend including also an orientation race with
questions at the navigation points, a night ride through a park without any
light but the moon, juggling, acrobatics and nice people to talk with.