Roller Hockey Playing Environment

Roller Hockey is a fast paced hockey game which can be performed on hard surfaces and derived from Ice hockey. It's played between two teams as an outdoor game or as an indoor game. Inline RollerHockey and Quad Roller Hockey are the two main types of this game. 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. Roller hockey quad is performed with conventional quad roller skates, devoting greater maneuverability to the participant.

In Roller Hockey, players need to push the ball in to the opponent’s goal post with the help of their hockey sticks. Respective team’s goalies protect the goal post to prevent the opponent player from making a goal. Finally, the team that has scored more goals wins the game after a fixed time duration.

For a beginner, roller hockey isn’t an easy sport to learn because, there are plenty of stuffs are required to be fulfilled to play this sport. The fundamental requirement for Roller Hockey is skating. Also, participants need to be very strong in order to change the direction very quickly, while maintaining the required skating speed during the game. When in games, players need to maintain their balance while on the skates. A Player must have upper body strength in order pass the ball and to play shots and needs some strength and aerobatic fitness to move quickly from place to place.

Rectangular shaped ground, which is usually flat, non-slippery, and is constructed of wood, cement or sports tile surface is commonly use to play roller hockey. Roller hockey playground usually has three standard sizes, which can be a minimum of 34x17 meters or an average size of 40x20 meters or a maximum size of 44x22 meters. The stadium has round corners and one-meter wall is used to encircling it.

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The markings panted on the rink are easy. A center line is drawn in the center of the rink, dividing the ring in to two equal parts. From 22 meters away from the end of the wall, an anti-play line is drawn. This rectangular area has a dimension of 9.00m X 5.40m and placed 2.7 metres to 3.3 metres away from the end tables. A half circle with 3.0 m diameter is drawn in the rectangle and is considered as the goalie protection area.

There are two goal posts and their size differs between the game types that we play. In case of Inline Hockey, the cages are extremely like Ice Hockey cages and in Quad Roller Hockey the goal posts are 170 cm wide and 105 cm high. And the area that is playing is surrounded by A wall of around 6 feet.

Above discussed playing environment are usually used to host a Roller Hockey Match. As Roller Hockey has plenty of similarities with Ice Hockey, and the viewers who love Ice Hockey can find the same thrill and delight from roller hockey. A person, who got a good skating skills can learn and enjoy this game very much. Roller Hockey is popular in countries such as, Portugal, USA, Chile, Italy, Argentina, South Africa, England, Germany, Switzerland, Brazil, Egypt, and France.