When to start playing field hockey
Field Hockey 101
people dog fans I'm grace Barrow I'm a
junior and I'm a forward on the Brian hi
I'm Craig and today we're going to be
teaching you guys a little bit about
field hockey
so for field hockey there's two
different services that we like to play
on usually around the world you usually
see us playing on water-based astroturf
so that's what we love to play on so
it's a very short turf there's like no
of the black pebbles that you would see
on like I'm a field type turf so it's
water to that we have like six different
cannons going off before a game making
sure that all aspects of this know
they're nice and water so that it's all
faster while we're playing on it on the
other field is like what we have here at
Bryant it's a field turf so it's longer
turf a little bit slower when we're
playing field hockey and then we have
the black pebbles and it was done and a
lot of the balls that we send one of the
main Rosenfield hook is that you can
only is this side of the field hockey
stick on is this side otherwise it's a
sound one of the most important things
to know as a field hockey player is
actually how you stand a lot of the
times people are confused they see the
sticks they don't really know what we're
doing but the basic field hockey stance
is you want your knees bent you want
your back in a straight position not
hunched over like this but in a pretty
athletic position and you want the ball
a little bit out in front of you so as
you're moving you can scan the field and
you also have the ball right in front of
you a lot of people try to bring it back
here when they dribble that's not being
field hockey position so a good field
hockey position knees bent forward fall
right out in front of you left hand at
the top right hand at the bottom no
matter if you're a righty or a lefty and
you're always looking up so the most
important set of lines in field hockey
is the circle actually so we have a half
circle on each end of the field and in
here is the only place you can score on
the field so you have to make sure that
when you go to hit the ball on cage that
you're inside the circle otherwise that
goal will not count at all floor into
the circle turning trying to get a shot
now so shoot
it's an up although store on the next
set of
as important is the broken circle or the
dotted circle that you see outside the
main circle and that's five yards off
the circle and that's for making sure
that if any foul occurs in there you got
to make sure that we're going five yards
before entering the circle so field
hockey is a little bit different where
we actually have three cards that can
eject the player out of the game we have
a green card a yellow card and a red
card the green card is kind of like a
warning it's a little mini triangle and
when the referee holds it up you are
going off of the field for a few minutes
a yellow card is same as soccer it's a
square yellow card when they hold that
up it is the umpires discretion whether
or not you are sitting as an athlete on
the field as five minutes for ten
minutes
so that's five minutes or ten minutes
off the field and you actually have to
come off of the field and you play with
one player down for the entire five to
ten minute duration a red card you never
wanted field hockey when the umpire
throws up a red card you are completely
ejected from the game you could be
ejected for the next game as well and
again you are playing with a player down
the entire rest of the game which is a
huge disadvantage in field hockey all
right so one of the main roles in field
hockey that you see a lot of the time
that causes a lot of stop and go in
field hockey is actually a third party
obstruction so when you see that you'll
see the official just a hand signal like
this and what it means is when the
defense can't play the ball so in
basketball you can set picks sort of
things and blocks and everything's you
can't do that and feel lucky
so say grace was my defender and frei
here is on my team and I try and Grace
is trying to get to the ball but Freya
chooses to run in the path of the ball
and stop right in front of grace and
grace to no longer gets the ball yeah I
still play the ball that's the
third-party obstruction because grace
cannot play the ball with us so one of
the more important aspects Oh
is when you get an attacking pounce with
wonder if you want to make sure you
insert the ball properly and legally so
inserting the ball is needed pushing the
ball out to the top of the circle so
that they can shoot and score so how to
set up for an instance is my right foot
is behind this black and white line and
then my left forward my left foot is
pointing towards my target which is fire
right now and the foot always points
where the ball wants to go now what I do
with my snitch is basically hook the
ball like so so it's almost like the
very tight grasp on the ball there and
all I'm doing is a transfer of weight so
a lot of times in field hockey the power
comes from your leg and what you're
doing is transferring your weight to
actually move the ball pressure and
backwards on you so I'm loading all of
my weight on my right leg hooking the
ball and then all I'm going to do is
push forward and all of my weight is
transferred on my left leg upwards right
