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 People playing street hockey in an outdoor rink. | |
| Highest governing body | International Street and Ball Hockey Federation (International) World Ball Hockey Federation (international) Canadian Ball Hockey Association (Canada) |
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| Nicknames | United States = ball hockey, dek hockey / Canada, Europe, Asia = ball hockey (some parts of Canada call it "road" hockey) |
| First played | Fitchburg |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | Primarily outdoor, indoor |
| Equipment | Required = A ball or a puck (most players use a ball but a small percentage use a puck), a hockey stick, a net. Optional = shin pads, gloves, helmet. |
Street hockey (also known as shinny, dek hockey, ball hockey, road hockey) is a variation of the sport of ice hockey where the game is played outdoors on foot, or with inline or roller skates[citation needed] using a ball or puck. Both ball and puck are typically designed to be played on non-ice surfaces. The object of the game is to score more goals than the opposing team by shooting the ball or puck into the opposing team's net. 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.
In its most pure form, street hockey is always played on an outdoor surface (very often a street,[1] parking lot, tennis court or other asphalt surface), which the genesis of the name street hockey. Teams can be 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 organized forms, it is played in rinks which often were 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.
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