Unicycle Hockey

Playing Unicycle Hockey is an excellent way to improve basic unicycling skills. It helps with speed and manoeuvrability and leads to more instinctive control of the unicycle. The game is based on Ice Hockey but with a lot less contact.

Main Rules

1. There are five players per team. There are no specific rules relating to goalkeepers. I.e. the goalie is treated the same as any other player.
2. The ball can only be played when a player is riding the unicycle. i.e. not touching the ground.
3. Putting your stick under or through someone else's wheel is a foul.
4. A goal can only be scored from within your opponents half.
5. You can play the ball with your hand but you cannot score a goal like that.
6. Each half starts with the referee throwing the ball onto the centre spot between one player of each team.
7. After a goal the non-scoring team restarts by playing the ball over the half way line.

Safety Rules

1. The bottom of the stick must not be lifted above hip height.
2. One hand must always be placed at the top end of the stick. You can swap which hand is at the top and play either one or two handed but the stick should not be handled with the top end uncovered.
3. The stick must not be released or thrown intentionally.

More details can be found in the International Unicycle Hockey Rules.

Proposed rules for the UK Unicycle Hockey League are here. These rules are currently in use but are evolving as the league develops.

There are many clubs around the country who play Unicycle Hockey, take a look on the clubs page, or contact us to find a club near you.

UK Unicycle Hockey League Table 2007/2008

Team	Tournaments Played	Points
Lunis	4	30
EMU (East Midlands Unicyclists)	4	30
Tholthorpe	4	22
Severn Wheelers	5	21
Stockton	3	18
Horsham	2	13
Cardiff (CUT)	2	12
SWUM (South West Uni Meets)	3	9
Cambridge	3	6
Hackney Freewheelers	2	5
Southampton Penguins	4	5
DUC (Denton Unicycle Club)	1	4
Calstock	1	2

Tournaments and Results

The following is a list of tournaments and results for the current season, April 2007 to August 2008. It includes both league tournaments and scratch tournaments.

Upcoming Tournaments

Tholthorpe Unicycle Hockey Club - 19 April 2008 - League Tournament

12-6pm at Oaklands Leisure Centre, York, YO24 3DX.

This will be part of the British Unicycle Hockey League and there is space for 8 teams only. Places will be allocated to the first 8 teams registered. If 8 teams are not registered by 5th April, we will fill the remaining places with scratch teams. Please contact us if you are interested in playing in a scratch team.

Games will be 10 minutes duration with a 2-minute turn around.

Cost - £30 per team, or £6 per person if member of scratch.

Contact Information : Please register by email initially to mikewood13(at)talktalk.net by March 29th. See the website for details.

 

Southampton Unicycle Hockey Tournament & Freestyle Workshops - 11 May 2008 - League Tournament

12-6pm at Cantell Maths and Computing College, Southampton, SO16 3GJ.

We have one hall so can accommodate 8 hockey teams, we also have a smaller hall where Connie Cotter will be running freestyle workshops [schedule to follow]. We will also run kids hockey games in this hall if there are enough kids there.

Cost - £6 per adult, or £4 per child under 12.

Contact Information : Please email annaats (at) googlemail.com to reserve your place. See the website for details.

 

Results

The results given below are for league tournaments only.

Billingham Unicycle Club - 9 February 2008 - League Tournament

12-6pm at Billingham Campus Sports Centre, Marsh House Avenue, Billingham, Stockton on Tees, TS23 3HB.

This will be part of the British Unicycle Hockey league and there is space for 10 teams only. This will be strictly allocated on the first 10 teams registered. Games will run simultaneously in the two halls for 6 hours, with a 2 minute turn around between games (this will be explained fully on the day).

Place	Team	Points
1st	EMU (East Midlands Unicyclists)	6
2nd	Stockton	5
3rd	Tholthorpe	4
4th	Severn Wheelers	3
5th	SWUM (South West Uni Meets)	2
6th	Cambridge	1

South West Uni Meets (SWUM) - 5 January 2008 - League Tournament

Riverside leisure centre, Cowick st, Exe Bridges, Exeter EX4 1AF.

A Unicycle Hockey tournament in the South West. Come along with friends in a team and enjoy an afternoon of as many hockey games as we can fit into 2 pitches and 6 hours.

Place	Team	Points
1st	Lunis	9
2nd	EMU (East Midlands Unicyclists)	8
3rd	Cardiff (CUT)	7
4th	Stockton	6
5th	Tholthorpe	5
6th	SWUM (South West Uni Meets)	4
7th	Severn Wheelers	3
8th	Calstock	2
9th	Southampton Penguins	1

Denton Unicycle Club (DUC) - 10 November 2007 - League Tournament

Liverpool Hope Park University, Hope Park, Childwall, Liverpool, L16 9JD.

On the 10th November the Denton Unicycle Club (DUC) will be hosting a league hockey tournament and will be primarily for organised teams only. We're expecting all team places to be taken for this event, but If we fall short then the remaining places/s will be made up of scratch teams.

Place	Team	Points
1st	EMU (East Midlands Unicyclists)	10
2nd	Tholthorpe	9
3rd	Lunis	8
4th	Stockton	7
5th	Severn Wheelers	6
6th	Cardiff (CUT)	5
7th	DUC (Denton Unicycle Club)	4
8th	Cambridge	3
9th	Southampton Penguins	2
10th	Scratch Team	1

Southampton Penguins - 29 September 2007 - League Tournament

Itchen College Sports Centre, Itchen College, Middle Road, Bitterne, Southampton, SO19 7TB.

Place	Team	Points
1st	Lunis	8
2nd	Horsham	7
3rd	EMU (East Midlands Unicyclists)	6
4th	Severn Wheelers	5
5th	Tholthorpe	4
6th	SWUM (South West Uni Meets)	3
7th	Hackney Freewheelers	2
8th	Southampton Penguins	1

Lunis (London Unicyclists) - 9 June 2007 - League Tournament

Westway Sports Centre, 1 Crowthorne Road, London, W10 6RP.

On the 9th June, the Lunis will be hosting another hockey tournament. This will be the first tournament of this year's British hockey league and will be primarily for organised teams but let me know if you are interested in forming part of a scratch team.

Place	Team	Points
1st	Horsham	6
2nd	Lunis	5
3rd	Severn Wheelers	4
4th	Hackney Freewheelers	3
5th	Cambridge	2
6th	Southampton Penguins	1

Previous Seasons

The following is a list of tournaments and results from past seasons, or it will be one day...

UK Unicycle Hockey League - Proposed Rules

General

The League year runs from BUC to BUC.

The League is separate from the BUC tournament. The BUC tournament winners get the UUU Hockey sheild. The league champions get the UUU Cup.

Every Club should attempt to host one league tournament per year.

Clubs may not host more than one league tournament per year.

The league rules will be reviewed annually at BUC.

Rules

Games will be played using IUF Hockey rules except where established UK practice is different.

Games will be played with a dead tennis ball

Points

The format of each tournament will be "round robin", where every team plays every other team.

At the end of the tournament the club teams will be ranked from winner through to last runner up based only on the games where club teams played. Games involving scratch teams will not count towards the ranking of teams for league points. Points will be allocated from the bottom of the ranking starting with 1 point for the lowest placed club team, 2 for second lowest etc.

For a tournament with 4 teams the points would be as follows

1st Place - Team A - 4 points
2nd Place - Team B - 3 points
3rd Place - Team C - 2 points
4th Place - Team D - 1 points

This scoring system rewards all teams with 1 point for turning up plus 1 point for each team beaten.

Points will be totalled up over the year and the winner of the league will be the club team with the greatest number of points.

Initially points from all tournaments will count towards the total for each club team for the year, however if this leads to big gaps between teams this may be changed to the best X results for each club team where X is less than the number of tournaments played in that year.

Club Teams

A club team can contain any number of players, but only 5 of those players may be on the pitch at a time

Each player may only play for one club any season, if a player moves club during the year they must either play for their old club until the next BUC or they may play in scratch teams until the next BUC. This rule may be waived if the majority of players at the next tournament agree that the move is fair

Scratch Teams

To encourage participation by smaller clubs and individuals each tournament will allow entries by scratch teams formed from players from more than one club.

A scratch team may only play together for one tournament. If more than 3 players from a scratch team play together at more than one tournament then they will be treated as a club team and will be subject to club team rules.

Games involving scratch teams will not be counted when calculating league points, but will count towards the results of the tournament, i.e. a scratch team can win a tournament, but this will not affect the number of league points awarded to club teams.