Roller Hockey

Roller Hockey is a form of hockey played on a hard dry surface with wheeled skates. Most professional Inline hockey games take place within an indoor or outdoor athletic court which is a type of plastic interlinking tiles used to make a skating surface. Otherwise, any dry surface may be used to host a match, typically a macadam, roller rink, or even cement. The expression "Roller hockey" is frequently used interchangeably to refer to 3 variant types of roller hockey, mainly differentiated by the gear used. There is conventional "Roller hockey", also called Quad hockey, Rink hockey which played with quad skates and a ball, "Inlinehockey", performed inline skates and puck and "Skater hockey", played with quad skates or inline skates along with plastic ball Combined, roller hockey is played in nearly 60 countries worldwide. Roller hockey has been played in almost 60 countries.

Differences between quad hockey and inline hockey

Roller Hockey is played both quad skates and inline skates, but have different rules and gear, and demand several kinds of skating but share the name roller hockey. Roller hockey (quad) is performed with traditional quad roller skates, devoting greater manoeuvrability to the participant - that result in matches full of fancy footwork, tight manoeuvring, and is more like soccer or basketball. The rod/stick is more or less same as in shinty and bandy. Roller hockey (inline) bears close similarity to ice hockey and can performed on inline skates, uses an ice hockey stick and carries a great deal of fast "rushing back and on" activities. Inline Hockey goalies use a catcher (a type of glove) to capture shots made on goal, and a mitt known as a blocker that's used to divert shots on goal. The Quad hockey goalie uses a flat batting glove that provides rebound characteristics when blocking shots on goal.

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Inline hockey

Inline hockey very similar to ice hockey because aggressiveness, ability and teamwork are required. Excepting the use of inline roller skates instead of ice skates. And most of  the roller hockey’s gears are very similar to that of ice hockey. Like ice hockey, Inline hockey is a contact sport consequently body checking isn't penalized. Also, it's referred to by many names worldwide, such as Inline hockey, Deck hockey, Ball Hockey, Roller hockey, Deck hockey, Long stick hockey, Street hockey and Skater hockey depending on which region of the world where it's played.

Two teams play the game, Comprising one goalie and four skaters halves by a center line with one net at each end of the rink. The game occurs on a smooth asphalt surface outside, when played more informally. The sport is played in three 15 minute periods or it is played 20 minutes at each of the three periods if it is higher standard. The sport rules differ from ice hockey in a couple simple ways: there is no icing and it's played to 4 player format rather than 5.

Normally, only competitive level Inline hockey is bound by the rules of the governing body. Hockey leagues may make alterations to particular aspects of the rules to match local requirements such as dimensions of rink, duration of the time periods and penalties.

Quad hockey

Quad hockey Is a variant of roller hockey. Roller hockey is your overarching title for a roller sport which has existed long before inline skates were"re-invented" from the 70s. Roller hockey was played on quad skates, in many countries worldwide, and so has many names. Sometimes the game is called Quad Hockey, Rullbandy, Rolhockey, Rollhockey, International Style Ball hockey, Rink hockey, and Hardball hockey, based on which region of the world it's played. Roller hockey has been a demonstration roller sport in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.

Inline Hockey and Quad Hockey are the two main type of roller hockey. Inline hockey and Quad hockey have different rules and equipment, and involve different types of skating techniques. Nevertheless, as a whole Roller hockey is one of the most popular sport in western and European countries.