INDOOR HOCKEY

1. INTRODUCTION

2. AIM OF THE GAME

3. BASIC RULES

4. INDOOR HOCKEY COURT

5. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OUTDOOR AND INDOOR HOCKEY

6. USEFUL VOCABULARY

Hockey is one of the oldest sports in the world. Previously it was played in Asia,
America and Europe.

There was a game in Japan called buli, and it is thought that it was the first
development towards hockey.

Nowadays we can find different ways to play this game like ice hockey, roller
hockey, outdoor and indoor hockey.

Indoor hockey is a version of outdoor hockey to allow hockey players to

continue enjoying their sport in winter.

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AIM OF THE GAME

Two competing teams try to score more goals than the other.

The sport is played with wooden sticks and the same ball as outdoor hockey.

Indoor hockey is played in the same court as five a side football.

The court sized 44 by 22 meters at most, and the goals are like in handball.

Two teams of six players compete against each other trying to score a small,
hard and coloured ball.

BASICS RULES

- Every team has a goalkeeper and the other five are field players, so they can
play as attackers or defenders.

- Every player has a stick and they can control, pass, and shot but only with
the flat zone of the stick.

- It is not allow touching the ball with the feet, except the goalkeeper inside the
goal area.

- Players can not lift the stick above the waist height.

- There are only certain ways to score a goal: field goal, penalty stroke and
penalty corner.

- Field goals may only be taken from the “shooting circle”, a semi-circular
area. If a ball has been shooted from other part, doesn’t count as a score.

- A penalty stroke is taken when a defender foul an attacker player inside the
goal area, the shot is taken from 7 meters in front of the goal.

- An indoor hockey match last 40 mts, broken into two halves of 20 meters
each.

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INDOOR COURT

- The field (court) is rectangular, not less than 36 meters long and not more
than 22 meters wide.

- It has side boards, back lines and centre line.

- Penalty spots are marked at 7 meters from the goal and the shooting circle
at 9 meters from the goal line.

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TERMINOLOGY (Look up the following terms in a dictionary)

Field player Push

Goalkeeper Attacker

Defender Shooting circle

Penalty stroke Penalty spot

Hit: not permitted Tackle

Scoop Offence

Flick: not permitted