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Floor Hockey

Floor hockey is an indoor/recreation hockey context on a flat sports-hall floor. Depending on the rule set, sticks and a ball, puck or ring are used; the entry stays separate from IFF floorball and FIH field hockey and remains needsReview because rules vary.

LevelVariant FamilyHockey Family CategoryBall sport

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Classification

Category Ball sport

Family Hockey Family

Level Variant

Getting started

Kurzbeschreibung Floor hockey is an indoor/recreation hockey context on a flat sports-hall floor.

Geeignet für Fits if you mean floor hockey as indoor/recreation hockey, you separate it from IFF floorball and field hockey, you keep rule variation transparent.

Cost Low: school/club often provides sticks and goals. Hall cost, simple sticks/balls or programme fee by offer. School, community centre, Special Olympics programme or recreational league. Clarify locally whether ball, puck, ring or floorball rules are used.

First progress Simple games immediately; clean stickhandling takes practice.

Fitness level easy to medium

Was du brauchst

Sports hall, goals, floor-hockey sticks, ball/puck/ring by rule set, indoor shoes and protection by programme.

First steps

Start with soft sticks, clear zones, short shifts and local contact/goalie/ball-or-ring rules.
Look for Special Olympics programme, school, recreational league, community centre or local indoor hockey programme.

Look for Special Olympics programme, school, recreational league, community centre or local indoor hockey programme.

Start only in the appropriate source-described context and follow local rules.

Weitere Angaben

Tags indoor, floor-hockey, hockey, needs-review, ball-sport, hockey-familie, ballsport

Rules and format

Die Grundlagen

Ziel

Score more goals than the opposition with the stick.

Teilnehmer

Teams; team size by programme and court.

Teamgröße

Variable by rule set.

Spielfeld

Flat indoor floor with goals and local markings.

Dauer

Match time by programme/event.

Wertung

Goals.

Gewinnbedingung

More goals after match time.

Ausrüstung

floor hockey sticks
ball/puck/ring
goals
indoor shoes

Wichtige Regelpunkte

high stick
illegal contact
crease/goalie violation
dangerous shot

Regelquellen

Federations and sources

Federations

Special Olympics (SO)
Special Olympics / local programme rules (SO)

Floor Hockey Special Olympics · official · high
Floor Hockey Sport Rules Special Olympics · rulebook · high
Floor Hockey Resource Library Special Olympics Ontario · regional-guide · medium