Talk:Field hockey

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Regarding the introduction, I'm not sure whether field hockey is that much more common than ice hockey in Korea. I'm Korean, and I've often wondered myself which sport Koreans think of when they hear the word "hockey". It might even be that more people think of ice hockey when they hear the word, in spite of the fact that our field hockey teams are infinitely better than our ice hockey teams. Or it may just be because my high school was an ice-hockey-playing school. For now I'll add Korea alongside Germany there... --Iceager 10:32, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I think trying to identify the finer points of language usage in Korean, Hindi, Urdu, Dutch, German, Afrikaans, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and so on is kind of getting irrelevant to the article, so I restated the original point. The Korean usage would be very relevant to the Korean-language Wikipedia, of course.

By the way, Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi! :)--Robert Merkel 10:48, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Here Here, go aussie

I removed the bit about it being the Indian and Pakistani national sport. By any sensible definition, cricket is the national sport of both countries, as anybody from a fellow cricket-playing nation who has spent 30 seconds talking to a citizen of either country would know. They are not that strong in international competition either since the widespread introduction of synthetic fields in the 1980's. --Robert Merkel 22:10, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] What about some kind of history

I think it lacks a kind of history: Persian origin, big evolution of the rules (I remember, my grand-father used to throw the ball with the hand the put the ball back into to the pitch !), introduction and spreading of synthetic fields, ... I will start something that way, if everybody agrees. Any ideas welcomed. Lvr 08:41, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Definitely, though be careful about claiming an exclusively Persian origin; I believe there were a number of similar games in a number of cultures throughout history and dating to prehistoric times. I'd also suggest you add a seperate section on "history and rules evolution" to avoid cluttering up the description of how the game is played today with too many digressions on how the game was played in the past (except in a few rare cases where the information might be helpful). Anyway, great idea and I look forward to working with you on this. --Robert Merkel 13:42, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I will begin with some kind of separated page to avoid confusion while working. Do not hesitate to check my spelling. However, don't expect to have something quickly. As mentionned on my page, I'm a slow paced wikipedian ! Lvr 15:09, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I have written the first two chapters of history, at Field hockey history. Do not hesitate to rephrase my poor English. Lvr 14:46, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] "Field Hockey" page history

They are a couple of stuff that were removed from this page:

a diagram of the pitch,
links to other wiki

Why has this been removed. Shouldn't it be convenient to bring it back. See: this old page. Lvr 16:43, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I don't know why they were removed, they shouldn't have been, I've added them back in again, it isn't hard to add in again, and next time just be bold and do it yourself!

I was wondering about some copyright problems (for the image at least) ! Lvr 10:57, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

As the image description page says, I created it and placed it into the public domain. --Robert Merkel 13:49, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I'll be bolder next time ! Lvr 14:46, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Other "would be nice" topics

I have plan to add a section with

the leading countries. I should not change too often !
- Added - need to start work on getting web links for each one, and possibly where there's enough info, content about hockey in each country - for instance it would be quite easy in the big players, as you can show league info etc? Nunners 10:15, 12 Jun 2006 (UTC)
indoor hockey (If somebody has facts about latter issue (such countries where it is played, national competitions, ...), I'll be glad to have them).
international hockey - list of current rankings, tournaments etc? Nunners 09:15, 12 Jun 2006 (UTC)
Other things that are missing ???

Lvr 14:46, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I've put in a proposal to create a hockey portal - that way we can get all the hockey articles into one format etc. If anyone has any suggestions, then lets all get our minds together and work it through! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Portal/Proposals#Portal:Field_Hockey Cheers Nunners --Nunners 20:14, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Summer Sport Category

I removed this Summer Sport Category. I guess it depends of the general weather of each country. Here in Central Europe, we won't play hockey during the summer because it's too hot ! We play it in automn, winter (except for a few weeks) and lent. Lvr 09:14, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Agreed. That category is misconceived anyway as I've argued at length, and I've placed in on Categories for deletion. --Robert Merkel 12:56, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] A Dominant Sport??

Hi there,

i am from northern ireland and i am a keen player of the sport.I have been playing since I was very young along with my family who also play. My brother and I have got to a good standard,my brother represented ireland and under age levels and i got a trial for under 16. But the sport here takes a back seat to other sports like rugby and I feel that when I have watched my brother play against teams like the dutch, spanish and germans that they are far superior and wonder is this due to hockey being a popular sport or that the players are just simpply better and have good coaching from a young age? Jc22 19:08, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Hockey is very popular in the Netherlands, as far as I can say. Lvr 09:00, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

While hockey's not a "dominant sport" anywhere in the world it seems to be most popular in those countries that you mention, as well as Australia, India, and Pakistan. By the law of averages the best players from a larger pool will tend to be better than those from a smaller pool, all other things being equal. In addition, those nations you mention have strong leagues where the best players play against each other regularly and are expertly coached. Finally, they spend money developing their very, very best players for international competition. So the answer to your question is probably "yes", to both popularity and better coaching. --Robert Merkel 12:30, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Spain or South Korea or Malaysia

I agree with 155.69.5.235 modification to replace South Korea by Spain. In the FIH ranking for September 2005, Spain is 4th (men) en 10th (women), while Korea is 7th (men), 9th (women). I reput Spain instead of South Korea, which is already listed further in the artile. Lvr 09:38, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Regarding Malaysia, please check the above FIH rankink link: Malaysia is merley 14th in the world for men and is not ranked in 12 first nations for women ! If we include Malaysia, we should include beforehand other countries like South Korea, Poland, ... even my own Belgium !

[edit] External link for Stick History

This external link has been moved to the field hockey history article. Please don't add it here again. Lvr 09:19, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Metrification and field of play

The conversion to metric units is slightly more complicated than given here. The dotted line is 5m from the circle line, not 5 yards (4.55m), similarly new pitches, or remarking of existing pitches, is supposed to give the attacker's and defender's PC marks being 5m and 10m from the inside of the goal posts, rather than 5 and 10 yards, and the long corner mark is 5m from the backline. Also the marks 5m from the sidelines on the 23m lines and centre lines are no longer required. See pages 14-17 of the FIH Rules of Hockey I'm not sure how best to word this (which is why I haven't edited it), perhaps something along the lines of units were originally in whole numbers of yards, these have generally been changed to the exact metric equivalents, with the exception of some 5 and 10 yard distances which have been increased to exactly 5 and 10 metres

I think the best way of wording this is to give the actual and offical measures instead of the old ones and to update the picture. I think to mention the change in this page is not relevant. Only the latest rules should be described here. The rules modifications should be mentionned in the second section of the field hockey history page. This is still in a list state, but we are trying to get enough valuable data before writing something neat.

I can cope with modifying the picture if Robert Merkel (who did the original drawing) doesn't do it. Lvr 11:37, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

I see an anonymous user has removed the imperial measurements, but not changed the preceding paragraph that refers to them, which makes a bit of a mockery of it, plus it now uses the word "times" when describing the dimensions, rather than × which looks ugly in my opinion (i.e. using ht eword rather than the character is ugly). David Underdown 11:32, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dangerous play

As an umpire I can see no justification for the 3m distance given for deciding on dangerous play on shots at goal, the only references in the rulebook are to 5m. I've not edited immediately as the whole concept of danger as related to shots on goal can get a bit heated, as can be seen on any of the hockey web forums. David Underdown

Please edit appropriately. I'm not up on the latest interpretations; my understanding as a fullback has been if I'm anywhere near the goals forward are free to regard me as a target :/ --Robert Merkel 11:52, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Well that's precisely the idea that causes most of the arguments on the talk boards, there are those who say that the defender accepts any danger by standing on or around the goal line, and those that find that rather hard to square with how the dangerous play rules are actually written. Anyway, the main point was that the only "cut-off" distance mentioned is 5m, e.g. "If a defender is within five metres of the first shot at goal during the taking of a penalty corner and is struck by the ball below the knee, another penalty corner must be awarded.

If a defender is within five metres of the first shot at goal and is struck above the knee in a normal stance, the shot is judged to be dangerous and a free hit must be awarded to the defending team."

Still not entirely sure how to edit it without heading towards POV. I'll think about it some more. Just realised I hadn't signed this originally, or above comment. David Underdown

Well, since an anon had made some changes to this anyway, I have made a few changes myself now. In doing so, I've also realised that we don't currently explain what a hit, push etc are and the differences between them, don't want to end up copying large chunks of the rules though. David Underdown 16:04, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Popularity?

"Field Hockey is the second most played sport worldwide after football/Soccer"

Is this really true? I've never seen it on tv, and I personally know only one person who plays it... a source would be nice. - Jacen Aratan 21:00, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

It was unverified, and I'm skeptical as well (I'd think tennis and golf would be amongst the most popular participant sports, particularly in the developed world). So I removed it. That said, I gather you're from Denmark. Denmark is the world's 57th-ranked hockey nation, behind such powerhouses as Gibraltar and Zimbabwe. So just because you've never heard much about it doesn't mean it's not a bigger deal elsewhere. I don't suppose Australian rules football is a big deal in Denmark either. --Robert Merkel 03:08, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

I asked to the guy how wrote that sentence to give me his sources, but I haven't received any answer yet ! So you did well . Lvr 09:34, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

I am from England and Hockey is very popular in my school, the sport is underestermated and should be given more of a chance to shine. p.s i have seen it on t.v alot, not just major events i.e olympic games

[edit] Penalty corner section

I call a penalty corner a short corner does anyone else?? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.128.100.89 (talk • contribs) .

In the Belgium, we call it "PC" for "Penalty Corner" or "Petit Corner" (in French "Short Corner"). Thus yes, we call it this way too. But Penalty Corner, is the most common name for it. Lvr 22:19, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

I call it a short corner but the correct technical name is a penalty corner. Does anyone think that there will be any cahnges to the rules about drag flicking a short corners? (JP Hoogma work)

Well they can't really change the rules regarding Drag Flicks because technically, Drag Flicks are push shots, and are legal to go anywhere in the goal. RandomGuy7 11:41, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

The rules board can change the rules if they feel like it, as they did about a decade ago when they got rid of the offside rule. --Robert Merkel 12:54, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Playing countries

It seems to me that having the complete list of countries in this article unbalances it a bit. Perhaps it would be better added to the FIH article, or adopt an approach similar to that of football (soccer) and have an equivalent of List of national football teams. David Underdown 15:57, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi David, I Agree - it was jsut a first attempt, and I'll try and clean everything up as I go along this week - I'm also trying to get much more content in general on here anyway - see suggestions above.--Nunners 19:15, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Zulu Start?

I note that there's no information about the tradition of the 'Zulu Start' in hockey, that being where the game is started by placing the ball on the centre spot and having each goalkeeper run from their goal to hit the ball. Not used in professional hockey anymore, I believe, but certainly popular on tours and at local level. Dangerous, mind !

This should be a local tradition ! I've been playing hockey through Europe for many years and I've never seen this ! Lvr 13:08, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

It does happen on tours, I think I even participated in one when playng in the Banks tournament in Barbados a few years back. I'm not sure it's really notable enough for inclusion. Since in some variants it involves the keepers starting from the "wrong" end of the pitch it is probably technically against the rules anyway, David Underdown 13:23, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Well, yes, but it's certainly a wide-spread tradition; and after all, it's not as if informal leagues in any sport always follow strict rules.

[edit] other interesting local starts

In the 1970's, field hockey was sweeping the Canadian prairies, one school at a time. At one point, someone in Birtle [1](a small town in Manitoba) introduced the game to her students. Relying on the rule book, the new field hockey players commenced the game by striking sticks in a wild rural way - about 3 feet above the ball! This method became known as the "Birtle Bully".

[edit] Nations

I'm not sure what i want form for nations name in tournament page. Should i type "Spain" only, or type "Spain national field hockey team", just like soccer. Think about it and have a good answers for me. Thank you. --Aleen f1 05:26, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] PHF web page

As per my edit summary, I don't think we should be linking to individual national federations from this article, there are over a hundred federations, and we can't include all of them. Links from this page ought to stick at the FIH page, as the overall body for hockey, and links to sites about hockey in general. Why not create an article about the Pakistan Hockey Federation and put the link there, in the same way that there is an article on England Hockey which link sto its webpage. David Underdown 12:43, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I agree ! Lvr 10:20, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

So did they apparently since we now have Pakistan Hockey Federation. However, most of it seemed like a cut and paste job from the history page of the website... I've had a go at cleaning it up (both from the copyright point of view, and removing some of the more tortured english), but perhaps you'd like to cast an eye over it too? David Underdown 10:28, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Member nations

Isi't suitable to put member nations in this article? In my opinion, it is more suitable to put in International Hockey Federation article. --Aleen f1 09:22, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

You're probably right. Mariano(t/c) 09:27, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

I thought the same thing, see comments a bit further up (Talk:Field hockey#Playing countries. But I've never got round to doing anything about it. If you have the time, feel free. David Underdown 09:29, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hockey / Field Hockey

Shouldn't it be mentioned near the beginning of the article that the sport actually seems to be called just 'Hockey'?

In the International Hockey Federation only 7 out of 116 member countries call it 'Field Hockey' - Azerbaijan, Latvia, Moldova, Romania, American Samoa, Canada, U.S.

while at the Olympics it's just called 'hockey' (http://www.olympic.org/).

Compare association football and soccer. The U.S. and Canada (& 1 or 2 other countries) officially use the name 'soccer', but this doesn't determine general usage. Hakluyt bean 16:53, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Did you read the second sentence of the article? --Robert Merkel 01:33, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Heh, well, there are occasions when I might comment on an article and miss the point :) but, yes I did read it: In most countries, especially those in which ice hockey is not very prominent, it is simply known as hockey.. To me, that sounds like it's a courtesy to use the name hockey. It actually appears to be the formal name of the sport irrespective of which country one is in. Hence my point about the Olympics and the International Hockey Federation. It would be more accurate to say that the sport is internationally known as hockey but in 6 countries (and in some encyclopedic references) by way of differentiating it from ice hockey which is more popular in those countries it is called "field hockey".Hakluyt bean 22:01, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

So rephrase it then. --Robert Merkel 02:54, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Ok :) I've had a bash at doing that Hakluyt bean 16:32, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Hockey being far older, the problem is the title, which should be Hockey, with Nth. Americans the only english-speakers who need a disamb. to the ice game (both perfectly valid).FasterPussycatWooHoo 14:10, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

It isn't comparable to the soccer vs. football thing, since soccer is the usual name for that in most english-speaking countries outside the UK.FasterPussycatWooHoo 14:13, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Demphasise US specificities

I've taken the liberty of deemphasising some of the US-specific aspects of this article. While they are of some interest, the USA is a fairly small player in the world of hockey. The USA women's team ranks behind New Zealand, and the men's team would lose to many Australian, German, or Dutch club teams. --Robert Merkel 06:19, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

The only problem with moving it down like that is that people (NCAA and High School players in particular) are going to be reading it and thinking "hey , that's wrong" and editing the article before they get to the explanation - which is why I added it in the first place. The wording on goggles is better, I agree. I'll leave it for a bit and see if we get an increase in the number of edits which put the rules in US terms... David Underdown 09:27, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough - if the NCAA kiddies keep on tweaking the rules section clearly we'll need to put the explanation more prominently. But what are the differences? As far as I can tell the main one seems to be clothing and equipment rules (which are subject to national bylaws in the various jurisdictions anyway), and a timeout rule (offtopic: what a stupid rule...just what I'd want, a crucial stage of the match and then you'd get a bloody cheerleader invasion...) --Robert Merkel 09:34, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

OK, and NCAA players all have to wear the same coloured underwear. Weird...--Robert Merkel 09:38, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

I think the NCAA rules are generally being brought more in line with FIH rules (although I'm not sure how metricated they are), it's the High School level where there are more changes 7 yards at free hits etc etc. By the by, could you help me keep the copyright images out of the article which Felix Portier keeps trying to add. David Underdown 10:29, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] re: Warnings and suspensions

Whilst SheffGruff is arguably correct in stating that you could receive a green card after a yellow, since the guidance that was in the rule book up until 2002(-03), "- once a yellow card has been awarded to a player, that player should not be awarded a green card." has now been deleted, I've yet to be coached that this would be a good idea, and only one person on teh various messageboards I frequent has argued for its application and then in only very limited circumstances, I've re-worded the para again to leave it theoretically open, but hopefully clear it's unlikely to happen in practice. Similar guidance relating to the impossibility of upgrading a penalty corner to a penalty stroke has similarly been deleted, and although I've floated this on a few occasions, again no one seems to think that the FIH actually intended to allow such an upgrade (which reminds me, I don't think we've any mention of Up 10/upgrade in the article at the moment). David Underdown 22:13, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

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