Hockey club runs on a Tuesday after school from 3.45-4.45. We start the sessions with activities to improve our ball skills, including manipulation and moving with the ball under control. We take part in independent and team activities, ending in a game to put our skills to the test.
We play an alternative to hockey, called Unihoc. This involves using plastic sticks and has slightly different rules. Read below to find out.
Unihoc Rules:
- The game is played with plastic sticks, shorter than in field hockey, and with a plastic, very light ball or a puck
- Teams have one goalie who must stay within 5 feet of their goal
- At the start of each half the game is started with a face-off. After each goal the team who conceeded start with the ball at the centre circle
- Before the face-off, all players must be on their own sides of the mid-line, and only the player doing the face-off is allowed inside the circle at the centre of that line.
- There is no out-of-bounds unless the ball rolls somewhere completely inaccessible. Just continue to play!
- If someone deliberately hits an opponent’s leg, kicks the ball, or commits a foul a free stoke is awarded. No players are allowed to stand within 2 metres of the player taking the free stroke.
- If there is a disagreement over a foul or goal it will be resolved by the captains
- The winner is the team who scores the most goals at the end of the game
