Noodle Hockey

- Introduction
-Equipment
-How to play
-Rules of the game
-Faults
-Referee
-Skills and Techniques
-Tactical elements
-Players
-Formations
-Terms and figures used
-Glossary
 Introduction
• Noodle Hockey is a
recreational sport like floorball
(unihockey or minihockey),
adapted from the hockey
sport, but it’s played with
noodles sticks.
• Noodle rules are similar to
Unihockey but some of these
have been changed. We can
also adapt the number of
players (4:4 without
goalkeeper or 6:6 with
goalkeeper), field dimensions,
material (pucks, balls), playing
time (2x8’,3x20’) and other
rules.
Equipment
• Noodle stick (Pool
foam noodle): tube of
polyethylene foam
commomly used
during swimming
(1-1’20 metres large x
7cms diameter).
• Floor balls (plastic
holed ball, weighs 23
grams, 72 mm
diameter and 26 holes
in it) / Beach ball /
Puck.
• Unihockey Goal (or
plastic cones)
• Hockey Court (Gym)
Noodle Hockey Court
How to play Noodle Hockey
• Noodle hockey is a team
sport, played indoors.
The object is to get a
plastic ball into the
opponent’s goal using a
pool foam noodle.

• To start a game, use the

Face Off, an official
drops the puck/ball on
the floor between the
noodle sticks of 2
opposing players. It’s
also used, to restar if
after a goal has been
scored or a rule has
been broken.
Rules of the game
• No purposely hitting an opponent with the noodles
(especially in the head or face). No striking or handling
an opponet.
• You can’t touch the puck or the ball with your hand or
your feet.
• The ball olny be hit with the noodle. You’ll use the
noodle for picking up, shooting, carrying trhowing the
ball.
• No swinging the noodle above the waist.
• Each time a rule is not followed, it will result in the
team losing possesion of the ball.
• No scoring from behind the middle corut line.
• If physical harm was intented by hitting someone with
a noodle, that sutdent is remove from play.
• If a ball go out of the bounds, the opposite team star
again the game.
• The defending team must retreat five step when the
puck is put into play after a foul.
Faults

• Free hit: are awared to the non-offending side for

infringements, are taken where the offense occurred.

• Corner hit: is taken by an attacker on the goal line or

sideline within 5 steps of the opponents corner flag
nearer where the ball crossed the line.

• Penalty stroke: is awared againts defenders inthe circle

for an intentional foul, an unintentional foul that prevents
a goal.

• Penalty corner: are awared againts defenders for

deliberately playing the ball over the goal line.
Referee
Skills and Techniques

• How to holdgrip the stick

• Ready position
• Carrying the puck/ball / Dribbling /Stick-
Handling
• Passing /Receiving
• Stopping
• Pick-Up
• Throwing / Batting
Tactical elements
Cooperation and Opposition Sport
• Players with the ball
(attack)
- Keep the ball
- Progression of the ball
and players towards
the opposing goal
- Score a goal
• Players without ball
(defense)
- Retrieve the ball
- Preventing the
progression of the
opponents and the ball
into the goal itself
- Protect the goal to not fit
a goal
Players
• Goalie (G)
• Defensemen (right and left) (D)
• Forwards or Wings (right and left)
(RW,LW)
• Center (C)

RW RD

C
G

LW LD
Formations (Defensive Tactics)
• In noodle hockey 6:6, are 2 basic distributions
- 3:2 (3 guards and 2 forwards)
- 2:3 (2 guards and 3 forwards)
- Other:
2:1:2
2:2:1
1:2:2
1:3:1
• In 4:4 or 5:5
- Square
- Diamond
Terms and figures used
• Moving whithout ball
• Passing
• Moving with ball
• Shooting
• Offensive player with ball
• Offensive player without ball
• Opponent without ball
• Cones
 Glossary
• Noodle the stick you use to hit
• Ball the basic puck
• Knot Bundle when all of the team on one side is in a large group
• Noodle Flop when a player's noodle unknots or drops
• Goal a player scores Ingoal when a player makes a goal, but injures themselves
• Inhit when a player hits, but injures themselves
• Thwacker when a player hits, but misses
• Thwinger when a player hits and hits another player
• Thwinger Thwacker when a player hits, misses, and hits another player (VERY RARE!!!!!)

• Action Quad a group of one to three people gathered in a cluster, battering at the ball, but
doing nothing
• Action Circle a group of four a more people gathered in a cluster, battering at the ball, but
doing nothing
• Blibber Bubble when almost the whole team or the whole team is in a cluster, battering at
the ball, but doing nothing
• audience ball a ball that goes into the audience
• bleacher ball a ball that goes into the bleachers
• baloon ball a ball that hovers in the air for a while bamasher when one player falls
• bamcrasher when two players fall at once
• bammyslash when three or more players fall at once
• blowy when coach ends the game with a shrieking whistle
• transation station when players drop thier noodles, run off court, and get ready for next
game
• toss-up when coach tosses up the ball
• Assit. A pass or preliminary play to a teammate that enables them to score a goal.
• Face-off. The means of putting the puck in play. The referee drops the puck between two
players, who then attempt to gain control of it with their sticks.
• Save. The act of a goalie stopping a shot.
References
-http://www.ehow.com/list_6149912_games-using-pool-noodles.html
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floorball
-http://quizlet.com/213786/noodle-hockey-definitions-flash-cards/
-http://es.scribd.com/doc/2190949/Floorball-Individual-
Technique-and-Tactics
-http://www.indezine.com/powerpoint/freetemplates/1881.html
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• Note: This material was prepared by Victor E. Rodríguez Rodríguez for
the BilingualSection of Physical Education (English) of the IES. A Guía,
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added their reference. In this work, I have also included portions of the
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end of the text . This material was elaborated for exclusively educational
purposes and non-commercial uses.

• Nota: Este material foi elaborado por Víctor E. Rodríguez Rodríguez

para a Sección Bilingüe deEducación Física (inglés) do IES. A Guía de
Vigo. Utiliceí imáxenes de lugares web (http://www.flickr.com/ e
http://www.google.es/imghp?hl=es&tab=wi ) e en todas elas engadín a
súa referencia. Neste traballo, tamén incluín porcións de texto de
diferentes páxinas web, reflectidas na bibliografía ao final do texto. Este
material foi elaborado con fins exclusivamente didácticos e sen uso
comercial.