This document discusses several sports including hockey, badminton, and table tennis. It provides details on the origins and basic rules of each sport. Hockey originated in Nova Scotia in the 1850s and is now played on ice with a puck. Badminton was brought to England from India and is played with a lightweight birdie over a net. Table tennis began as an indoor recreation in 1880s England, mimicking tennis, and is played with a ball and paddles on a table with a net.
This document discusses several sports including hockey, badminton, and table tennis. It provides details on the origins and basic rules of each sport. Hockey originated in Nova Scotia in the 1850s and is now played on ice with a puck. Badminton was brought to England from India and is played with a lightweight birdie over a net. Table tennis began as an indoor recreation in 1880s England, mimicking tennis, and is played with a ball and paddles on a table with a net.
This document discusses several sports including hockey, badminton, and table tennis. It provides details on the origins and basic rules of each sport. Hockey originated in Nova Scotia in the 1850s and is now played on ice with a puck. Badminton was brought to England from India and is played with a lightweight birdie over a net. Table tennis began as an indoor recreation in 1880s England, mimicking tennis, and is played with a ball and paddles on a table with a net.
- MIKE BEAUCHAMP - KAYLA MCGUIRE - RYLIE HAYES - JESSEY MOREAU
Hockey is one of are nations most played sports, it is played in
so many different ways. There is ice hockey, ball hockey, field hockey, road hockey, and much more. Ice hockey was invented in the 1850s in Nova Scotia, by the British soldiers. They used a rubber ball initially for the first games of ice hockey, and only a few basic rules. Later in the 1879 at the university of McGill in Montreal, the substituted the plastic ball with a rubber puck. Ice hockey is played on ice, there is boards surrounding the area of play. The object of the sport is to put the puck or other object, in the opponents net. When happened, it is called a goal. At the end of the game, the team with the most goals would win.
The picture to the left, is of the object
that is used in the average game of ice hockey. It is made of rubber and weighs around 1.0lb.
The picture above is an
average look of the area that hockey is played. It is called an ice surface. The different lines are for different rules and regulations that affect the game play. For example, the blue lines in both halves of the surface may affect the rule of offside.
The picture to the right, is
one of the most hardest objects in the world to win, The Stanley Cup. NHL (national hockey League) teams from all over Canada and the U.S.A play for this cup in over 87 games a season. The cup is named after Lord Stanley and has been around for a really long time.
-Badminton was originated from a Indian game called Poona. It was
brought into England by the army where the original rules were changed to the ones we are familiar with now. The first game of badminton was played by the Duke of Beaufort at his house party. -The game can be played in an indoor or outdoor court, You can choose to play singles or doubles. The game is played by hitting a light birdie with a racquet over the net to your opponents side. The object of the game is to not let the birdie fall on your side if you let it fall the opposing team gets the point. First team to 15 wins the round best 2 of 3 wins. -There are many rules in badminton so of them include It is a fault if server completely misses the birdie on the serve, A serve may not be delivered until the receiver is ready and No player may receive two consecutive serves in the same game.
Table tennis originated in England in the 1880s
as an after dinner amusement for the upper-class Victorians. Mimicking the sport of tennis in-doors. Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is played with 2 or 4 players at a time. The object of the game is to hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth until a player misses the ball, or a foul is called. The player who didnt cause the foul or miss the ball would get a point. The game takes place on a hard table with a net in the middle of the table. The play is fast and demands quick reactions.
To the left is a picture of a typical
ping-pong table and the appropriate dimensions for game play.
Above is a picture of traditional
Ping-pong paddles and ball used to play the game all over the world.