Hockey

Alisson Bifarini

WHAT IS THE HOCKEY?

The hockey is any of a family of sports in which two teams compete by trying to maneuver a ball, or a hard, round, rubber or heavy plastic disc called a puck, into the opponent's net or goal, using a hockey stick.

We have differents things about the hockey

Field hockey

Ice hockey

Roller hockey (inline and quad)

Street hockey

Field hockeyField hockey is played on gravel,

natural grass, sand-based or water-based artificial turf, with a small, hard ball. The game is popular among both males and females in many parts of the world, particularly in Europe, Asia, Australia, and South Africa. In most countries, the game is played between single-sex sides, although they can be mixed-sex.

The governing body is the 116-member. Men's Field hockey has been played

International Hockey Federationat each summer Olympic Games since 1908 Modern field hockey sticks are J-shaped and constructed of a composite of wood a flat surface on the playing side and curved surface on the rear side. While current field hockey appeared in the mid-18th century in England. The first club was created in 1849 at Blackheath in south-east London. Field hockey is the national sport of India and Pakistan.

Ice hockeyIce hockey is played on a large flat area of ice, using a three

inch (76.2 mm) diameter vulcanized rubber disc called a puck. This puck is often frozen before high-level games to decrease the amount of bouncing and friction on the ice. The game is contested between two teams of skaters. The game is pIce hockeylayed all over North America, Europe and in many other countries around the world to varying extent. It is the most popular sport in Canada, Finland, the Czech Republic, and in Sweden.

Roller hockey Roller hockey is a form of hockey played on a dry surface using skates

with wheels. The term "Roller Hockey" is often used interchangeably to refer to two variant forms chiefly differentiated by the type of skate used. There is traditional "Roller Hockey," played with quad roller skates, and "Inline Hockey," played with inline skates. Combined, roller hockey is played in nearly 60 countries worldwide.We can find 2 exemples of hockey:

Quad roller hockey Quad roller hockey

Street hockey

Street hockey (also known as Road hockey, deck hockey, ground hockey, or ball hockey) is a type of hockey played usually on an outdoor surface with or without skates.

Hockey equipament

History

European immigrants brought various versions of hockey-like games to North America, such as the Irish sport of hurling, the closely related

Scottish sport of shinty, and versions of field hockey played in England. Where necessary these seem to have been adapted for icy conditions; for example, a colonial Williamsburg newspaper records hockey being played in a snow storm in Virginia. Early paintings show "shinney", an

early form of hockey with no standard rules, being played in Nova Scotia. Author Thomas Chandler Haliburton wrote in a book of fiction, about

boys from King's College School in Windsor, Nova Scotia, playing "hurley on the ice" when he was a student there around 1800. To this

day, "Shinny" is a popular Canadian term for an informal type of hockey, either on ice or as street hockey. These early games may have also absorbed the physically aggressive aspects of what the Mi'kmaq

Aboriginal First Nation in Nova Scotia called dehuntshigwa'es .

Somebody famous (Robert Esche)

Robert Esche (born January 22, 1978 in Whitesboro, New York) is an American professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for the Kontinental Hockey League's SKA Saint Petersburg.