Talk:Underwater hockey
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Hello, I play underwater hockey and was just wondering if anyone here knows where the next worlds will be? ,Samuri_Jack
Yeah. Right.
- I thk that your first instinct is correct, but unfortunately humans are a far from rational race, and thus the sport does in fact exist. This is perhaps lamentable, but we knew what the world was like, when we signed the document authorizing our own birth, now, didn't we? -- Cimon Avaro on a pogostick 09:37, Feb 25, 2004 (UTC)
Yeah, it exists. I remember seeing a thingie on TV about it once. Spectators found it boring; a British spectator said to a reporter, "On a scale from one to ten: one." So it's meant to be played rather than watched, which I'm noting in the article now. --Furrykef 00:27, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)
It's sad nobody here appreciates it. You can't get much of an experience of anything Jacques Cousteau did, either, without special equipment either to participate or to spectate. This is true of many underwater endeavors. I've seen television shows which depicted the sport positively; indeed, anyone who's approached the pool with an underwater camera has gotten a good review. The world championship venue in New Zealand has transparent sides to facilitate viewing from bleachers, and underwater videography has offered a view of the sport to people who've never been near the pool.
I play UWH at least once per week and will watch this page. It really is fun to play a game in an environment very different from the normal world. You have to work in 3 dimensions and coordinate with your team without talking. It is both subtle and aggressive. How about a video? Tom Brown 06:56, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Have removed some of the overly POV elements.
I play underwater hockey too, and am in a pretty good team (yeh-yeh! Second in Nats! Go us!). Watching this page as well, and I think the next worlds are in SA, although I'm not sure. You'll have to check that. Anyway, it's quite the spectator sport in NZ, especially as at Nationals this year we had underwater video cameras. Even if you don't have those, it's still incredibly exciting. I guess you do need to know a bit about how to play though. And underwater hockey IS a rational sport...kind of...well, it's more rational than Underwater rugby... I also want to add a piccie to this page of Nationals which depicts the sport quite well from the surface, but can't figure out how to do this. Any help/advice?? TBL 21:07, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
