Unicycling tennis

nope
sounds incredibly hard though
might wanna play doubles to have a decent game

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I've done the same with a basket ball. I think tennis could be played if
you could ride backwards and iddle well.

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mcnuggets300 said:

nope
sounds incredibly hard though
might wanna play doubles to have a decent game

yea you would have to play doubles someone should try it i would but i
dont know 1 other unicyclist who is local to me nether mind 3🙁

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I was thinking about this a few days ago when my wife made me hit some
balls with her. She said that there's competitive wheelchair tennis,
and the main difference is that two bounces are allowed before the ball
is hit. So, I guess uni-tennis would be possible with the two bounce
rule if you are good enough at unicycling and tennis.

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NO, but I have played PingPong on my unicycle. On the 20" uni's you can
Idle there and play. Ill try tennis one of these days.

EDIT: just thought Id add..so far Ive done football, frisbee, pingpong,
hockey, and basketball on my uni.

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I think tennis wouldn't work very well on a unicycle. You can't move
laterally, which really affects your ability to react to a volley
coming at tennis speeds, and it's even worse when you're idling. Balls
sports work on a unicycle if they are slow-paced enough that you don't
need to react to the ball immediately.

I don't see how the two-bounce rule would help much; the ball will be
moving faster than you can ride, so if you can't get to it on the first
bounce, you won't get to it.

Maybe it would work if you slowed it down by playing it over a
volleyball net rather than a tennis net.

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Similar experience to tholub; you have to change directions awfully
quick, which makes tennis a lot less fun than basketball or hockey on
unicycles.

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you know what's real fun, unicycle paintball. 😄

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kerosian said:

you know what's real fun, unicycle paintball. 😄

I have to try that someday. I'll tell my friends to lend me 1 of their
MUni and we'll play paintball. 😄

Another would be unicycle football

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kerosian said:

you know what's real fun, unicycle paintball. 😄

It'd give your uni a cool paint job at least
but yeah, id love to give that a try, shame i only know one other
unicyclist 🙁

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tholub said:

I think tennis wouldn't work very well on a unicycle. You can't move
laterally, which really affects your ability to react to a volley
coming at tennis speeds, and it's even worse when you're idling.

It seems reasonable to me that any ball sport that can be done in a
wheelchair could be adapted to unicycling. Unicycles are just as
manoeuvrable, and you don't have to use your hands to propel yourself.
Would you really be idling at all when a ball is in play?

Also, I don't think you'd have to worry about typical "tennis" speeds
because it would be very difficult to get the same extension and
leverage that you can get when playing on your feet.

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