It is classically considered that hockey sport played with special mallets is a team competition when they enter a struggle for possession of a small solid object (a ball or puck solid hard rubber). The two hockey teams strive to send the ball (puck), as a lot of time in the opponent’s gate.
The main subtypes of hockey are:
Ice Hockey. This is a very popular sport in Canada, USA, Russia, Germany, Switzerland, Slovakia and Ukraine. The game is played on an ice field and is extremely dynamic. Contestants play on skates. Weight is 168 grams of washers. Ice hockey rules permit power struggle, sometimes seriously injured parties are thrown by the puck. Many people when saying the term “hockey” mean particularly ice hockey. However, there are more versions of hockey.
Inline hockey or roller hockey. In this type of hockey they play on a hard surface, using a stick to direct the shape and lightweight plastic washer for better gliding on the surface.
Table hockey is a miniature version of the popular game. There are different standards for the manufacture of table hockey, namely the Swedish standard, American standard and the Czech standard. Swedish Standard, or “Stig playoffs’ are most common. The International Federation of table hockey (ITHF – International Table Hockey Federation) rules improves and promotes the development of the sport.
In field hockey athletes play a round, hard ball and rounded sticks. Covering the playing field, as the name of the sport, is often the lawn. Sometimes they play on the ground. This sport is widespread among the inhabitants of India, Australia, Malaysia and Pakistan.
Indoor hockey is played on the handball court. Indoor hockey rules are very similar to field hockey. The difference is that the matches take place on indoors with artificial turf. There four indoor hockey players.
Russian hockey (bandy) is a sports game that is played on the ice and skating, as in ice hockey. Russian hockey rules are similar to ice hockey. Differences are the goalies which are at the gate without a club, the ball is much lighter puck, players’ equipment is also lighter. From the title it is clear that this sport is most popular in Russia.
Also it is worth mentioning Floorball – Hockey time in the gym. Floorball is played in clubs and plastic hollow plastic or plastic ball. It is played by people with disabilities to hold competitions on a vertical or sledge hockey.
