Advantages: Great way to stay fit and have fun Disadvantages: Injuries can happen
. The standard playing/training kit of t-shirt and shorts or a tracksuit belongs in most people’s wardrobe, even if it hasn’t seen the light of day since John Major was PM.
The essential pieces of kit will be a stick, which can be purchased for anything between £20-£25 and £120 upwards. The important thing to consider when choosing a hockey stick is how it feels in your hands. You will be carrying it around for 70 minutes during a game, and you will be waving it around a fair amount, so it is important that you have a stick which you feel happy with. This is purely an individual thing and I would never recommend buying a stick online. The major hockey stick manufacturers are Dita, Grays, Slazenger and Kookaburra. I am using a Slazenger stick at present, but have previously owned both Dita and Grays sticks. I prefer a lighter stick, but ...
Soho_Black 18.04.2003
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Hockey - General
Advantages: Great ffor fitness, fun, socializing Disadvantages: Equipment expensive, alcohol consumption can be high
This is a review of my personal experience of the wonderful sport of hockey ? not really a technical review of the laws of the game! I may get around to that another time.
I am retired now due to family commitments - 2 children and an unco-operative husband. Ah well I have lots of fantastic memories of my 21 years of playing hockey. I only played for one club - Sherwood (who were one of the top clubs in the country), sadly no longer in existence as they have merged with our once great rivals Crimson Ramblers and are now called Highfields and play at the Hockey Centre in Nottingham.
Hockey is quite a technical game and you have to know the rules to play - unlike football. Very basically, it is a game of 11 a-side and played on a pitch slightly smaller than a football pitch. Now most games are played on synthetic surfaces ...
numberthree 25.07.2003 (18.03.2004)
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Hockey - General
Advantages: A great sport to play, really exciting and enjoyable Disadvantages: Injuries do sometimes occur, and they are usually painful, some equipment expensive
Ah, hockey. The sport that if you told most people you play it, you'd get a reply something like, "but that's a woman's sport." And I have to admit it, before I started playing, I used to think the same. I couldn't see the attraction of running around with a funny shaped stick trying to hit a solid ball. I used to think that it had to be much harder than football, because the goals are smaller to score in, the ball is smaller to hit, and you can't use your feet at all. After three years of playing hockey, my opinion has changed an unbelievable amount!
The Pitch
In a lot of ways, the pitch in hockey is very similar to a regular football pitch. There is a centre circle and centre spot, and the pitch is divided into two halves. The pitch is usually around the same length and width of a football pitch. There is also a penalty spot ...
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