The first known instance of hockey on unicycles is a short segment in the 1925 film
Variety, which shows two performers on a stage, one using a field hockey stick to push a ball around. and the world. In 1971, the game was being played in Japan. In 1976, a unicycle hockey club called 'Wheel People' was founded in
California and ran for about ten years. In 1985, LaHiMo became the first German unicycle hockey club, based in
Langenfeld. The first British Unicycle Hockey team of the modern era was formed by the apprentices of David Mariner, a manufacturer of DM Unicycles, by the company DM Engineering, in Wimborne, Dorset, U.K. The formation of LUNIS, a north London based team in 1987, meant that competitive Unicycle Hockey matches could be played in the U.K., with a national competition in 1988 at
Covent Garden in London, won by LUNIS. In 1990, Jens Stemminger founded the Uniwheelers in Bremen. Radlos was the third German club, in
Frankfurt from 1991, and others soon followed, leading to the foundation of the German league, still the world's largest. In the early 1990s, the sport was introduced to Switzerland by Jojo Mühlmeyer, a Lahimo/Radlos pioneer. The first European championship was held at the
European Juggling Convention in Birmingham in the United Kingdom, in September 1993. The following year, the first unicycle hockey world championships took place at
Unicon VII in
Minneapolis, in the United States, won by Germany. Every Unicon since has included a hockey championships. The current world champions, from Unicon XIX in
Ansan, Korea, are Swiss Team. == Notable players ==