The Hockey Games

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In today’s Physical and Health Education class, we will be learning about The Hockey Games

The Hockey Games

Because football and basketball are some of the popular sports games played in Nigeria and Africa as a whole, hockey games may sound very new. One of the interesting things about hockey games is that it is an outdoor game. 

An hockey game is an outdoor game played between two teams of 11 players who use long curved sticks to hit a small ball and try to score goals.

Hockey is a term used to denote a family of various types of both summer and winter team sports which originated on either an outdoor field, sheet of ice, or dry floor such as in a gymnasium. While these sports vary in specific rules, numbers of players, apparel, and playing surface, they share broad characteristics of two opposing teams using a stick to propel a ball or disc into a goal.

Other games derived from hockey  include the following:

• Air hockey is played indoors with a puck on an air-cushion table.
• Beach hockey, a variation of street hockey, is a common sight on Southern California beaches.
• Ball hockey is played in a gym using sticks and a ball, often a tennis ball with the felt removed.
• Box hockey is a schoolyard game played by two people. The object of the game is to move a hockey puck from the center of the box out through a hole placed at the end of the box (known as the goal). The players kneel facing one another on either side of the box, and each attempts to move the puck to the hole on their left.
• Broomball is played on an ice hockey rink, but with a ball instead of a puck and a “broom” (actually a stick with a small plastic implement on the end) in place of the ice hockey stick. Instead of skates, special shoes are used that have very soft rubbery soles to maximize grip while running around.
• Deck hockey is traditionally played by the Royal Navy on ships’ decks, using short wooden L-shaped sticks.
• Floor hockey: a variety of games with different codes usually played on foot on a flat, smooth floor surface, usually indoors in gymnasiums or similar spaces.
• Floorball is a form of hockey played in a gymnasium or in a sports hall. A whiffle ball is used instead of a plastic ball, and the sticks are only one meter long and made from composite materials.
• Foot hockey or sock hockey is played using a bald tennis ball or rolled-up pair of socks and using only the feet. It is popular in elementary schools in the winter.
• Gena is a field hockey sport played in Ethiopia, with which the Ethiopian Christmas festival shares its name. The equipment consists of a strong stick curved at one end, and a ball of two kinds: either called  (made out of a rounded piece of hard-wood) or tang (made by weaving a long strip of leather into a rounded shape).
• Gym ringette is the off-ice floor variant of the ice skating team sport of ringette rather than ice hockey. It is not a direct variant of the style of floor hockey which helped inspire ringette.
• Gym hockey, also known as floor hockey, is a form of ice hockey played in a gymnasium. It uses sticks with foam ends and a foam ball or a plastic puck.
• Hurling and Camogie are Irish games bearing some resemblance to – and notable differences from – hockey.
• Indoor hockey is an indoor variant of field hockey.
• Mini hockey (or knee-hockey), also known as “mini-sticks” is a form of hockey played in the United States and Canada in the basements of houses. Players kneel, or crouch, and use a miniature plastic stick, usually about 15 inches (38 cm) long, to maneuver a small ball or a soft, fabric-covered mini puck into miniature goals. In England ‘mini hockey’ refers to a seven-a-side version of field hockey for younger players, played on an area equivalent to half a normal pitch.
• Nok Hockey is a table-top version of hockey played with no defense and a small block in front of the goal.
• Pond hockey is a simplified form of ice hockey played on naturally frozen ice.
• Power hockey is a form of hockey for persons requiring the use of an electric (power) wheelchair in daily life.

In summary, Hockey games are outdoor games played between two teams of 11 players who use long curved sticks to hit a small ball and try to score goals.

 

Evaluation

What are Hockey Games?

 

Reading Assignment

How many players are required in a Hockey game?

 

Weekend Assignment

Explain five other games derived from hockey.

 

We hope you enjoyed today’s class. In our next class, we will be talking about the Racket Games (Table Tennis).

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