Hockey sport
Hockey (old French: hoquet , "shepherd's stick ") describes a group of sports in which two teams play against each other and try to push a ball or puck into the opposing goal with a hockey stick . Starting from traditional hockey , other sports have emerged, of which ice hockey is the best known.
In Germany, "hockey" means the sport that is played on the field and in the hall. In contrast to this, the word "hockey" in Canada and the USA describes the more popular ice hockey there. In Switzerland too, “hockey” often means ice hockey.
Hockey (field and indoor hockey)
Hockey (also land hockey in Switzerland ) is an Olympic sport that is practiced in many countries. The global umbrella organization FIH consists of five continental and national associations from currently 127 nations. The most successful teams used to be India and Pakistan . Australia , Argentina (women), the Netherlands, and Germany have been the leading hockey nationssince the 1980s. Hockey used to be played on turf, but today it was played almost exclusively on artificial turf.
Besides hockey on turf ( field hockey ), especially in Central and Eastern Europe in the winter months in the hockey is Halle ( indoor hockey ) played. The field is only limited laterally by ten centimeter high bands . Field and indoor hockey are played alternately: in summer on the field, in winter in the hall.
ice Hockey
When hockey is with five field players and a goalkeeper on a 60 m long and 30 m wide ice surface played. The aim of the game is to get a puck into the opponent's goal . The game is generally very physical: Using so-called body checks , it is possible to push the opponent to the side in order to conquer the puck. Ice hockey is the fastest team sport . The puck moves at up to 190 km / h. A hockey ball can reach speeds of up to 147 km / h.
Ice hockey originated in Canada between 1840 and 1875 , where British soldiers played the Scottish Shinney on snow and ice.
Ice hockey is organized internationally by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). The world association has 64 member associations to date. The North American National Hockey League (NHL) is considered the best ice hockey league in the world .
Roller hockey, inline skater hockey and inline hockey
Roller hockey is practiced on roller skates and is based on indoor hockey. Five players face each other and try to get a small ball into the opposing goal . The English roller hockey association was founded in London as early as 1886.
In addition to this disembodied variant of hockey, which is played on classic roller skates, there is also inline skater hockey , which is played like ice hockey with physical effort , which is optionally played on roller skates or - predominantly since the late 1990s - on hockey inline skates with a ball the disembodied inline hockey with puck, which is more based on ice hockey in terms of equipment .
Floorball / floorball
Floorball (in Switzerland floorball , Swedish innebandy , Finnish salibandy ) is a relatively young team sport from the stickball family. It comesfrom hockeyvia Bandy , from which roller hockey and ice hockey also emerged. Floorball was developed jointly in Sweden, Finland and Switzerland in the 1970s. It is a game similar to indoor or ice hockey, but it can also be played behind the goals. Floorball is currently most widespread in Sweden , Norway , Finland , the Czech Republic and Switzerland . Floorball is viewed as a trend sport that is gaining increasing popularity and is being widely accepted in physical education,especially in schools. Due to the dynamics of the game with the rapidly changing game situations on the field , floorball is one of the fastest indoor sports , is easy to learn and requires only a few pieces of equipment, which are also very inexpensive to purchase.
Overview of hockey sports
Individual evidence
- ^ Austrian Roller Sports Association
- ↑ Swiss Roller Sports Association
- ^ Federation Suisse de Rink Hockey
- ^ Swiss Polo Association
- ↑ International Committee Electric Wheelchair Hockey ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ German unicycle hockey league
- ↑ Swiss Unicycling Association ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ ATB - Association for Sport-Leisure-Traffic
- ^ International Unicycling Federation
- ^ Austrian Ballhockey Association
- ^ Swiss Street Hockey Association
- ↑ International Street & Ballhockey Federation