Field Hockey is a very aerobic sport, so it promotes healthy weight, heart health, good metabolism, etc.
It also contributes to good eye/hand coordination and peripheral vision.
For the player, benefits include keeping fit and active, being in a good social environment, and the chance to get recognition (and a paycheque) if they are good enough. For the spectators, the obvious benefit is that they have something to watch. For the community, benefits are the increased money going into the economy associated with tournaments, sponsorships and regular takings and publicity from having good teams or promoting the sport in the area.
Ice hockey is not played on a field. Other than the odious "Winter Classic outdoor games. Anyone have the info for field hockey?
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Exactly when is hard to tell, but the first women's field hockey club was founded in 1887. The first women's field hockey national association was in Ireland in 1894.
You can win a gold medal in hockey only by playing hockey. There are two kinds of hockey events: ice hockey (winter) and field hockey (summer).
Depends on who you are.
From the ice, floor or field, depending on the surface in which you're playing on.
Hockey. Pucks were invented for ice hockey, and if it hadn't developed, more people would simply play field hockey (the original way of playing hockey).
Person 1 Field hockey is just as hard as any sport, it all depends on the amount of dedication you put into it. Person 2 I've played some field hockey and a lot of ice hockey, and I found field hockey much harder. For one thing, it is unfair to those of us who are left shots. Because of the types of sticks in field hockey, we all had to shoot right. Also, a ball on grass is much harder to handle than a puck on ice. I didn't enjoy playing field hockey at all.
ice hockey is a rink and field hockey is just a field
Playing floor hockey helps to develope eye-hand coordination, balance, agility, and physical fitness. It also requires teamwork.
Sorry to disappoint you but no, there isn't. But please, don't be discouraged! Out of my six years of playing field hockey , I have had two friends who play but they are left handed.
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