Hong Kong Hockey

August 27, 2009 | Category: The Wandering Unicyclist

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The Asia-Pacific Unicycle Championships took place in Hong Kong this year over the 21-23 August weekend. Taking to heart the Singaporean sporting spirit, we trooped there and roundly got trounced in the hockey competion – after all, it is the experience, not winning that matters.

This year, the Philippines joined in the merrymaking and South Korea, Australia and Hong Kong (duh.) made an appearance once again. It’s a good crowd considering Unicon’s happening this year as well and that obviously holds priority.

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Everyone else and their dog showed up for the competition. while the Singaporean contingent were as pathetic as could be with just the five of us. When other teams had the luxury of fielding substitutes, we looked on forlornly with much envy.

Hong Kong were great hosts and we were housed at the YMCA with buses that shuttered us from place to place on the two days. We’ve probably played about as much hockey there in that one day as we did in the whole year in Singapore. One of the Aussies brought along a race uni which once again renews my interest to build one although I doubt if anyone at home is going to be happy with having one more of these damned wheels hogging space that could be better used for bonsai or whatever pretty things normal families put in their homes.

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