Roller Hockey Hobby

Roller Hockey Hobby

Roller Hockey Hobby

The hockey or roller hockey skate is a sport activity that is played between 2 teams and 5 players (a goalkeeper and four players), with two goals, in a field enclosed by a fence with a rounded corners or peak shape. All players, move through 4-wheel skates with a brake (parallel) and use a stick or crooked or wooden stick curved to drive a rubber ball with compressed cork.

Roller Hockey Hobby

Game components and equipment :

It is often used combined tracksuit pants with a shirt that allows comfort in motion, sometimes served underwear for comfort or clothing the team

The stick :

The characteristics of the hockey stick (including the goalkeeper), will have to comply with the following conditions:

• Extension of Chueca or "stick", measured on the outside of the curvature:

a) Maximum length 115 cm

b) Minimum length 90 cm.

• All the crooked or "sticks" must be able to pass through a ring of 5 cm in diameter. The weight of each Chueca or "stick" may not exceed 500 grams.
• The "stick", (including the goalkeeper) must be made of plastic , wood or other materials. You must have a prior approval from the International  Rink-Hockey Committee
• No "stick" can be made of metal. It authorized advertising placement adhesive tape, from the top of its curvature
• The bottom of the stick (also called "shovel") must have both sides completely flat.

The ball :

The game ball will weigh 155 grams and must be perfectly spherical, with a perimeter of 23 centimeters.

The ball should have a single predominant color, this may be variable (preferably black or orange), which will be contrasted with:

• The color of the floor of the rink.
• The color of the lines marking the rink.
• The color of the existing boards in the rink.

In all competitions "Official" permitted use "balls" officially approved by the International Rink-Hockey Committee.

In case of discrepancy between the Captains of the teams in the "culling of the ball" the arbitrators chosen which has been approved officially.

Whenever a game is broadcast on television, Organizing entity, with the approval of the International Rink-Hockey Committee, shall have the power to impose the color of the ball.

Roller Hockey Hobby

Skates :

The movement of the players is done by four-wheel skates parallel, correspondingly approved for competition. The skates are elements of leather or plastic depending on the manufacturer, it must pass a rigorous quality control to be approved.

 

Protections :

For players: they allow gloves, shin guards, elbow, shell or "egg cup" and kneepads.

To gatekeepers: helmet, gloves and guards * (are protections for legs), chest and thighs protections, elbow pads and protective collar.