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Street Hockey
People playing street hockey in an outdoor enclosure (outdoor rink).
Highest governing body
International Street and Ball Hockey Federation (International)
Canadian Ball Hockey Association (Canada)
Nicknames
ball hockey (worldwide)
dek hockey (United States)
road hockey (Canada)
shinny (Canada)
Characteristics
Type
Outdoor games
* indoor games are more commonly floor hockey variants
Equipment
Required: - ball or a puck - a hockey stick - 2 goal nets
Optional: - shin pads - gloves - helmet
Street hockey (also known as shinny, dek hockey, ball hockey, road hockey) is a collection of team sport variants played outdoors either on foot or with wheeled skates (either quad or in-line), using either a ball or puck designed for play on flat, dry surfaces. The object of every game is to score more goals than the opposing team by shooting the ball or puck into the opposing team's net. All games are derivatives of either the sport of ice hockey, floor hockey, bandy, and/or field hockey.
Wheeled variants involve the use of inline or roller skates.[1][2] and variously qualify as either inline hockey or rink hockey (also known as "Quad hockey").
Street hockey in "pickup" form is generally played under the following guidelines since there are no "official rules" for local pickup hockey:
Physical contact between players is extremely limited to avoid injury.
Minimal or no hockey equipment is worn by the runners, depending on players' preferences.
Players agree whether or not to allow slap shots and raising of the stick, both of which can incur serious injury to players, as there is minimal or no equipment worn.
Players determine whether to use a hockey ball, a tennis ball, or a street hockey puck.
There is no referee except when agreed upon by both teams.
Street hockey is commonly played on an outdoor surface (often a street,[3] parking lot, tennis court, or other asphalt surface), which the genesis of the name street hockey. Teams are selected by various methods but usually are selected by captains via alternate selection of available players. Alternatively, all the players put their sticks in a pile and the sticks are tossed out of the pile to opposing sides. In more formally organized play, it is played in rinks often designed for roller hockey and can be indoor or outdoor rinks. There are also rinks built specifically for hockey played on foot, and they are referred to as dek hockey or ball hockey rinks. Such rinks can also be used for roller hockey games.
^Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "Roller Hockey (1950)". YouTube.
^Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "Roller Hockey (1950)". YouTube.
^Zakrajsek, D.; Carnes, L.; Pettigrew, F.E. (2003). Quality Lesson Plans for Secondary Physical Education. Human Kinetics. p. 431. ISBN 978-0-7360-4485-1. Retrieved January 12, 2017.
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Global Information
International Street and Ball Hockey Federation (International)
Canadian Ball Hockey Association (Canada)
dek hockey (United States)