Field Hockey

Hockey is one of a family of sports in which two groups try to win by trying to plan a ball, or a hard, round, rubber or heavy plastic disc called a puck, into the challenger net or goal, by a hockey stick.

Field Hockey

Field hockey is played on nettle, natural grass, and sand-bottom or water-bottom mock turf, with a tiny, hard ball. The game is well-liked between both males and females in many division of the world, mostly in Europe, Asia, Australia, and South Africa. In most countries, the game is played between single-gender sides, even though they can be mixed-gender.

The leading body is the 116-member International Hockey Federation (FIH). Men's Field hockey has been played at each summer Olympic Games since 1908 (except 1912 and 1924), while Women's Field Hockey has been played every summer Olympic Games since 1980.

New field hockey sticks are J-shaped and make of a complex of wood, glass string or carbon string (from time to time) and have a bent hook at the playing end, a flat outside on the playing side and bent outside on the back side. Even as recent field hockey appeared in the mid-18th century in England, primarily in schools, it was not until the first half of the 19th century that it turn into firmly well-known. The first club was establish in 1849 at Black heath in south-east London. Field hockey is the national sport of India and Pakistan

Basic Field Hockey Rules

Preface

Study into the past of the Rules of Hockey was undertaken to spot the centenary of the configuration of the Hockey Rules Board and to be familiar with the important part played by the Board in ensuring that hockey players at all stages have been able to enjoy their game under forbidden, reliable, yet accessible, world-wide Rules.

The Game

• Two halve 20 – 25 minutes both with a 5 minute half time.
• 11 players per side, together with the goalkeeper.
• The ball must be accepted or dribbled down the field with the plane surface of the stick.
• A objective is scored when an attacker strikes the ball into the goal from within the striking circle.

Fouls

A player may possibly not:

• Protect or block the ball from a challenger with the body or stick. All players must have a one and the same chance to get control of the ball as it is dribbled or passed down the field.
• Play the ball with the rounded surface of the stick.
• Accuse strike, push or trip an opponent
• Play the ball in a potentially risky way.
• Lift up the stick over the waist in an unsafe way while attempting to play or stop the ball.
• Move forward the ball by any means other than among the stick.
• Stop or ward off the ball in the air or on the land with any part of the body.
• Strike, clasp, clutch or obstruct with and opponents stick.

Penalty Corner

• In a penalty corner, the ball is located on the goal line at least 10 yards from the adjacent goal post. One opponent player strike the ball to a partner just outside the arresting circle line. No shot on goal may be taken until the ball is blocked or get nearer to rest on the ground outside the circle. All opponents must be outside the circle earlier than the strike is taken. On cover, a maximum of five defenders may be at the back the goal line while the remaining defenders must be located beyond the center line.

• Naturally, the opponent player taking the free strike passes the ball to her partner located outside the striking circle. A nasty player will prevent the ball with the stick while another player will strike the ball at the goal.

• A penalty corner is rewarded for the following crimes:

1. Any break of the law by an opponent within the circle that would have resulted in a free strike to the opponent team if the break had happened outside the circle.


2. An intentional strike over the goal line by a opponent from any part of the field.

16 - Yard Hits

• When the opponent team plays the ball over the backline, the resistance receives a 16-yard hit. The free strike is taken 16 yards from the mark where the ball crossed the backline.

The Push-In / Hit-In

• A push-in or Hit-in is honored to the opposition if a player strikes the ball over the sideline. All players and their sticks must be at least 5 yards away from the mark where the ball is place hooked on play.