B.C. log rolling world champion Jube Wickheim dies at 91 [Video]

A world-class lumberjack sportsman from B.C. has died, his family says. 

Jubiel Wickheim, better known as Jube, passed away on Feb. 17 at the age of 91. The Vancouver Island man was a 10-time world champion in the sport of log rolling, and an avid outdoorsman. 

Jube grew up in Sooke, B.C., about 26 kilometres west of Victoria. There, he went to school until about Grade 8 — not unusual for those times — and eventually began his career in forestry. 

Log rolling, also known as birling, is a sparring sport where two competitors, each on one end of a log floating on a body of water, try to stay on the log as it rolls. They use all kinds of techniques to try to get the other person to fall.

According to a document outlining the history of logging sports in B.C., written by Jube himself, logging sports, including …