Why do people think it's a sport for fairys? (Hockey - General)

Member Name: mahan_69

Product:	Hockey - General
Date:	27/07/01 (47 review reads)
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Advantages: having a hooked stick, smacking a ball as hard as you can

Disadvantages: not as fun as football, hard to find hockey facilities

When you mention the sport hockey, many people will give you a strange glare and think that you're either a posh boy or a pansy. This definitely isn't the case as hockey can be one of the most dangerous and competetive sports around. Just think about it, twenty-two competetive players on one field or astro-turf armed with hooked sticks and wearing no real protection (apart from goalkeepers of course although if they didn't wear pads then the game would be even more entertaining) and they're all chasing one, very hard ball!

Hockey is not too dis-similar from football apart from the fact that there are no offsides, the ball is in the air a lot less and you can only score once you're in the 'D'. Otherwise the tactics and approaches to the game are very similar top that of football with good movement and sharp accurate passing being the key.

I too was guilty of being very critical about the sport before actually trying it for myself and over the years I have become very fond of it and even found myself participating in the Oxford Hockey Festival against some of England's best young players. It is a relatively simple sport to learn but very difficult to master, especially where stickwork is concerned.

I can understand why sports such as football and tenis are more popular than hockey as I personaly would rate them as more entertaining games, but what I can't understand is the enormous size of the popularity gap between the sports because hockey IS a fun game.

If you have never played before and are thinking about giving it a go then my advice is do so because the chances are that you will enjoy it to some extent.

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