Unicon16 will take place in less than a year. We are quite excited already. Today, we would like to update you some news and organizational issues.

Enjoy reading and feel free to send us some Feedback.

We hope to see you all at Unicon16 in Brixen!

Take care,

the IUF Newsletter Team

Contents:

1. Unicon 16 & World Championship
2. IUF Membership Information
3. UNICON 17 Bid Process
4. International Event Calendar

Unicon16 & World Championship

by: David Weichenberger (Organization Committee)

Unicon16

Unicon16 is a huge unicyclist convention for the whole world, a joyful unicycle festival. Unicon16 brings all aspects of unicycling together in one place: Brixen, Italy.

Here, you will get to know unicyclists from foreign nations, ride together, and play together. The exchange of the different aspects of unicycling is important to us and at Unicon16 there will be lots of time and room for it.

Unicon16 is an event for all unicyclists. You are very welcome to put in your ideas and make it the greatest festival you can imagine.

Unicon16 can only take place with your help. Get involved now by writing an email to us at info@unicon16.it .

Unicycle World Championship

The Unicycle World Championships will be held as part of Unicon16. Following IUF rules, many different unicycling competitions will take place. The winners of each category will be the new world champions.

Registration

We have an all-time registration record for Unicons already. While I am writing this, the number of registered participants is over 1500, of which over two thirds are competitors. That’s twice as much as Unicon 15.

Depending on when you are signing up for Unicon16, prices will vary.

It will help us organize a lot, if you register early. Therefore, it is cheaper the earlier you register. Until December, it is €200 for competitors and €100 for non-competitors to register.

In order to make your decision easy, we will pay you back the fee in case you register and decide not to attend Unicon16 until April 30th 2012.

We are looking forward to host a big Unicon. Thank you 1500 times.

Click here to register: http://anmeldung.unicon16.it

Read more about registration on our Website.

IUF Membership Information

by: Ryan Woessner (IUF President)

Alongside registration for UNICON XVI, the IUF is excited to announce a new membership program.  While membership fees have been collected in the past, our new program will help bring unicyclists together from all over the world. Some highlights of the program:

• Each individual membership will cost 10 Euro and will last for a two-year period.
• Membership is open to any one.
• Any competitor or non-competitor wishing to participate in UNICON will be required to be members of the IUF.
• Membership dues are collected on our website (iufinc.org), which can be accessed via the UNICON XVI Registration Form.
• Individuals not registering for UNICON XVI may become members of the IUF on our website (iufinc.org).

Your membership fee allows for:

• Seed money for UNICON hosts;
• Development of unicycling around the world;
• Furtherance of the convention aspect of UNICON;
• Creation of an IUF Publication;
• Directors & Officers Insurance for the Executive Board;
• Expansion of online resources and database.

Upon becoming a member of the IUF, an individual will:

• Be able to participate in UNICON (if qualified through country method) and other IUF-sponsored events;
• Receive a quarterly electronic newsletter;
• Obtain a IUF Membership card and ID;
• Gain access to a personalized page on the IUF website;
• Connect with unicyclists from around the world through an international resource database;
• Test for the International Unicycling Federation Skill Levels;
• Support the development and growth of unicycling around the world.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact IUF President, Ryan Woessner, at ryan.woessner@gmail.com.  The IUF very much looks forward to continuing the expansion of unicycling around the world through the financial support of unicyclists.

UNICON 17 Bid Process

by: Ryan Woessner (IUF President)

Every two years, the International Unicycling Federation, along with a selected national organizing committee, sponsors UNICON, the World Championships and Convention of Unicycling.  UNICON is the largest gathering of unicyclists in the world.  Since 2000, the number of participants wishing to partake in UNICON events has skyrocketed, with over 2,000 individuals expected in Italy next summer.  The summer of 2014 will mark the 17^th time unicyclists from around the globe will gather with the purpose of expanding the sport of unicycling to more nations.

Organizing a UNICON is extremely time-intensive.  Because of this, the IUF Executive Committee recommends that Candidate Countries develop an organizing committee that contains a multitude of individuals from both the host country as well as other international volunteers.  Additionally, the IUF is here to help you develop ideas and initiate the bid process.  If you are interested in hosting UNICON XVII during the summer of 2014, please submit a bid to the IUF Executive Board by 1 January 2012.

Any national organization or host committee may bid for UNICON XVII.  This includes North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Oceana and Europe.  Please note that since UNICON XVI will be held in Europe (Italy), the IUF Executive Committee will consider diversifying continents depending on the number of candidate countries as of 1 January 2012. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact IUF President Ryan Woessner via email, ryan.woessner@gmail.com, at any time.

International Event Calendar

by: Olaf Schlote (IUF Director)

Originally, I planned to list all events I can get information about and ask around to collect the needed data. Soon I saw, though, that I couldn’t get a lot of useful information because many events are not placed yet or the organizers do not spread the word internationally. This brought me back to an idea we had when realizing late, that EUC 2011 summer edition and NAUCC 2011 were placed at the same weekend. This might not sound like a big problem because one took place in Hungary and the other in the USA, but it affected several riders’ plans. Today, a lot of riders travel a far way in order to take part in good conventions.

So me and a lot of other riders agreed, that there is a need to set up an international convention calendar which is online and accessible by all riders and editable by all organizers. In this calendar, you should be able to sort events by country and by discipline. You should be able to get a short description to each event and find a link to the event website. Best case scenario would be to provide all the information for an event and register right at that website.

In order to realize this project now, we need some good developers to get it started. We already have a sponsor for webspace and a domain. As often though, a lot of people want to use it, but it’s hard to find people who want to develop and run it. However, there is a need to do it. If you can imagine being in the team that creates the calendar, please send me an email: olaf.schlote@iufinc.org.

As for now, here’s a list of upcoming international events:

Winter EUC (Trial, Street, Flat)
Germany, 20.-22. January 2012

SUCK IV (Muni, Trial, Flat)
Slovenia, 28./29. April 2012

Mondo (Juggling, Unicycling)
USA , April 2012

CUT (Muni, Trial, Flat)

NAUCC (US Nationals)

Salzkammergut Trophy (Downhill and Long Distance XC)

Unicon16 (World Championships and Convention)

we got another lot of Feedback and are about to release the next prototypes. If there is not much negative feedback on them, we consider them as final versions.

Here they are:

Extreme
Freestyle (German) – (Graph) – (Graph print)

Jamey’s prototype didn’t change since the last publication. They can be understand as an update to the ancient skill levels with a recommendation to use the new one as the situation in germany has proven they can raise damage to the user. Check the old post for them.

Really cool support from really cool People: Shaun Johaneson and Kelly Hickman are supporting the skill levels with their new company Relentless by Fate. Check out their page, they have a damn lot tutorials right there, that bring you into flatland and street riding. Independently from us, they share the same opinions and background knowledge about how individuals can learn street and flatland. They agreed to align this more with the skill levels. We need to look out for the appropriate changes in the future, but I’m happy they joined in and can’t wait working with them. Thanks very much guys.

Please send feedback:

Discussion at RSU
Newspost auf einradfahren.de
Diskussion im deutschen Forum (German)

Thanks very much.

I hope that you are all enjoying a great start to 2011. I am very excited to announce that beginning in a few weeks, the IUF will begin a new membership program. While membership fees have been collected in the past, our new program will help in the process of bringing unicyclists together all over the world. Some highlights of the program:
- Each individual membership will cost 10 Euro and will last for a two year period.
- Any competitor or non-competitor wishing to participate in UNICON will be required to be members of the IUF.
- Membership dues will be collected on our website (iufinc.org) once the UNICON XVI Registration commences.
- Individuals who are not registering for UNICON XVI may become members of the IUF at a future date, TBD.

Membership fee will allow for:
(1) Seed money for UNICON hosts;
(2) Development of unicycling around the world;
(3) Further convention aspect of UNICON;
(4) Creation of an IUF Publication;
(5) D & O Insurance for Executive Board;
(6) Expansion of online resources and database

Upon becoming a member of the IUF, an individual will:
(1) Be able to participate in UNICON (if qualified through country method) and other IUF-sponsored events;
(2) Receive a quarterly electronic newsletter;
(3) Obtain a IUF Membership card and ID;
(4) Connect with unicyclists from around the world through an international resource database;
(5) Test for the International Unicycling Federation Skill Levels;
(6) Support the development and growth of unicycling around the world.

More information will be available soon.

Thanks again for your support of the IUF and the sport of unicycling across the globe.

Warm Wishes,
Ryan

President | International Unicycling Federation

While the skill level committee members are wrenching their brains in order to create skill levels that fit all types of unicycling, the other committees continue their work as well.

The world record committee, for example, has created some general guidelines for unicycle world records and is now looking into which records the IUF will acknowledge. Once this is done, there will be a database of all the records.

The executive board is developing the IUF’s first competitor limits for next Unicon, which will be held in Southtyrol in 2012. Plus the IUF itself is going to be restructured. In the future, there will be a memberships structure, a new  IUF National and Regional Representative Program and restructured IUF Directorships.

As you can see, there are going to be a lot of changes regarding the basics of our work. So check back regularly!

I just want to inform you, that the Skill Level Development Committee has started working. I will keep you informed about the progress via the IUF Blog. These are the members that will create new skill levels:

• Australia – David Buchanan
• Australia/USA – Jamey Mossengren
• Denmark – Emma Liisberg
• Denmark – Katja Nielsen
• Denmark – Signe Gjerding Jensen
• France – Adrien Delecroix
• Germany – Felix Dietze
• Germany – Thomas Gossmann (chairman)
• Germany – Moritz Hahn
• Germany – Wolfgang Schaper
• Japan – Haruko Matsunaga
• Japan – Mayumi Sakaino
• Japan – Yuka Sakaino
• Japan – Hiroyuki Shoji
• USA – Ryan Woessner
• USA – Connie Cotter

Here is our plan:

1. Requirements phase: We start with 2 month collecting requirements.
2. Prototyping phase: We are prototyping our requirements and listen to public feedback. Hang on the updates of this blog to receive your copy.
3. Implementation phase: Based on the public feedback in the prototyping phase we are ready to finish this package.

What you ever wanted to see in the skill levels, contact one of the members above,  that we receive your requirement.

Best regards
gossi

Cheers,
gossi

Cheers,
gossi