Agreed!

Same. Im a goalie in the UK who plays field and follows ice. More please! Maybe try playing between the pipes?

@@kingofmemes5017 I follow dessert hockey

I have a question.The sticks are soo short doesnt your back hurts?

@@madeinheaven7286 field hockey is similar to ice hockey in the fact that most players start out young so get used to it. However its nor actually about your back in field hockey your supposed to bend your knees as opposed to your back.

K right? Like I don’t understand how this is a sport. How people spend hours training at this! How do you not kill your back?

@jey9 okay…I’m Canadian, my dad is from India… this definitely will hurt your back. It makes sense if you grew up playing you may know a better way to do it. I recognize you can bend your knees, but all that means, is you blow out your knees instead of your back. Again, not for an elite athlete who grew up playing it, but if a regular person wanted to take this up, I don’t think they’d find it very easy

@@pdubcentral your back hurts a lot during first few weeks of training. We used to do 8-10 minute jog in leaning forward position (dribbling position) to get used to it . 5 laps around the field in normal running posture. Small sprints of 3,4,5,6 meters to the cone and back in starting position. Running on 1 feet steps and down 10 times and after few weeks of training you don’t feel any pain and you have a stamina of a horse.

Bro it’s sick

I played it when I was 16, drifted off into golf then.

Haha yeah it’s CRAZY

haha anytime! Its an underrated sport especially in North America. Very challenging.

@@PavelBarber I question why I live here (and Calgary to boot) on the daily, trust

It’s really popular here in the Netherlands

Really depends where in Europe. Here in Switzerland it‘s almost inexistant. Ice hockey and Floorball are the popular hockey variants here.

@@nirutivan9811 Switzeland is founding member of fih( hockey federation ) and its headquarter is in lausanne .

@@navinjanardhanan8578 That might be the case but it still isn‘t popular here. It isn‘t played in schools, in the Swiss media it is inexistant (I’ve never seen an article about it in the media) and I just looked up the numbers: It has around 1700 licensed players in around 20 clubs. As a comparison Football/Soccer has almost 300’000 licensed players, Icehockey, Floorball & Volleyball around 30’000 licensed players, Handball around 20‘000 licensed players. All of them have around 250 or more clubs. Football/Soccer and Icehockey are in the media pretty much every day, Handball, Volleyball and Floorball are in the news when there is a big international tournament with Swiss participation or to tell which team became Swiss Champion. Except Ice hockey all of them are played regularly in schools. For field hockey that isn‘t the case.

Ball hockey?

most of the country refers Hockey as a Field. Field quite famous in Argentina, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Caribbean and Europe

@@sadiqnajwan6214 Like I said: In Europe it heavily depends on the country. There are Countries where Field Hockey is more popular (like for example the Netherlands, Germany, the UK or Spain) and they usually refer to Field Hockey as hockey. But there are also Countries where Ice Hockey is more popular (for example Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, the Czech Republic, Russia or Latvia) and they refer to Ice Hockey as Hockey.

@@nirutivan9811 As a Swede playing hockey Ive never seen or heard about field hockey. Street hockey Ive seen but not this

@@admiralfloofz658 Yeah, that‘s what I‘ve said. I mentioned Sweden among the countries where Icehockey is more popular.

You use less back... it’s more strength from your legs as a base rather than your back. Squat more with a straighter back and it’ll hurt less 😌💪🏻

😂😂😂 I did it FOR YOU

I studied the hell out of that lol

Kind of. But you typically don't have that much time to set it up so theyre primarily used on penalty corners (where the D starts in the net, ball is dragged out from the corner and once dragged out the D can rush out and defend). Pure mayhem.

Kemo

I played team Canada for 5 years. I'm just an amateur compared to him haha

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but how do you not kill your back doing this? Like I notice even just shooting with regular hockey sticks in the driveway especially if you’re doing slap shots, hurts my back after a while or is sore the next day. This looks incredibly painful, I don’t understand how you play with such a small stick, if you have any explanation I’d really appreciate it!

depends, most drag flicks can reach 120 kph but the fastest ever recorded was about 150 kph i imagine that backhands and normal shots could go faster

No. 44 years no back problems

you can do backhand shots but just not use the backside. I think it is for safety reasons.

As a flicker myself that is literally the dream spot 😂

Maybe one day never played it

I didn't like the sport

“Sport”??? 🙄

Roller hockey does have world cups There is team USA hockey for roller

that is because this sport is hugely popular worldwide

hahaha, no mic on me, but yeah introvert

Agreed. I'm honestly not really sure. Only righties allowed too.

This looks like a sport designed by government bureaucrats. It has way too much baggage. I wish they’d replace it by ball hockey in the olympiques.

It's for safety reasons iirc

Safety, the back of the stick will raise the ball unintentionally to o easily. FH players don't wear head and face protection on general play, only on comers.

@@PavelBarber Right-handed grip and stance only, it's not like the sport excluded left-handed people. In fact, having a strong left hand can be an advantage because that's the hand that controls the rotation of the stick while dribbling and trapping.

the thing is the tiny ones are normal hockey sticks for field hockey and, to be honest the game wouldn't be playable with ice hockey sticks

there are plenty of left-handed players

Why? Strong left hand needed for control and tackling

Nah it’s better if you are left handed because it’s your left hand that does all the work

Bro💀

How old are you💀

@@Andy-ye5vv probably old enough to be your father unfortunately

maybe you should try Floorball. No skates, but the sticks and rules are more similar to Ice hockey.

Thanks for your 'don't like it comment', personally I think Baseball, NBA and, what's that game where they play catch, American Catchball, are waste of time, effort and money. Hey we all have our opinion

Fax

That keeper is actually quite good with the ball in the air but needs work with his pads on anything low. Just remember field hockey circle is 16 yards so they were probably shooting from about 12 to 13 yards. At around 100km per hour. That's hard work as a keeper!

"Safety concerns and injury prevention were the primary reasons for banning left-handed sticks from IHF-sanctioned competitions. According to officials, left-handed sticks create too much danger on the field when used in competition against right-handed sticks." That sounds awfully stupid to me...

You would still have to play with a right-handed stance, but left-handers have a strength in the fact that the left hand controls the rotation of the stick so being stronger there means your dribbling may be more controlled and nimble. The downside is obviously that you may lose out a bit on hitting power since that's driven more by the right hand.

there are many left handed professional players- i, whilst not a professional, am left handed. it soon comes naturally

I’m a lefty and playing with a right handed stick isn’t a problem, gives you good control at the top of the stick.

Nah he’s quite decent tbf it’s more like football(soccer) goalie styles they get way less shots per game but the save % is also a lot lower like might get anywhere from 0-15 shots a game depending on level and save lower act goals

No he really isn't

@@GhostAdvance he’s not a world class keeper but u bear in mind that that is a team Canada shooter and ex team Canada like they’re some very good shots so it makes the keeper look worse

@@rivefall6845 I know, I was saying he really ISN'T terrible 👍

He isn’t bad

it is the sport

@@VARMOT123 imagine replying to a 7 month old comment