Noodle Notes

Noodle Hockey - Introduction - Equipment - How to play - Rules of the game - Faults - Referee - Skills and Techniques - Tactical elements - Players - Formations - Terms and figures used - Glossary

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Introduction •

Noodle Hockey is a recreational sport like floorball (unihockey or minihockey), adapted from the hockey sport, but it’s played with noodles sticks.

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Noodle rules are similar to Unihockey but some of these have been changed. We can also adapt the number of players (4:4 without goalkeaper or 6:6 with goalkeaper), field dimensions, material (pucks, balls), playing time (2x8’,3x20’) and other rules.

Equipment •

Noodle stick (Pool foam noodle): tube of polyethylene foam commomly used during swimming (1-1’20 metres large x 7cms diameter).

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Floor balls (plastic holed ball, weighs 23 grams, 72 mm diameter and 26 holes in it) / Beach ball / Puck.

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Unihockey Goal (or plastic cones)

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Hockey Court (Gym)

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How to play Noodle Hockey •

Noodle hockey is a team sport, played indoors. The object is to get a plastic ball into the opponent’s goal using a pool foam noodle.

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To start a game, use the Face Off, an official drops the puck/ball on the floor between the noodle sticks of 2 opposing players. It’s also used, to restar if after a goal has been scored or a rule has been broken.

Rules of the game •

No purposely hitting an opponent with the noodles (especially in the head or face).

No striking or handling an opponent.

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You can’t touch the puck or the

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ball with your hand or your feet.

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The ball only be hit with the noodle. You’ll use the noodle for picking up, shooting, carrying throwing the ball.

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No swinging the noodle above the waist.

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Each time a rule is not followed, it will result in the team losing possesion of the ball.

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No scoring from behind the middle court line.

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If physical harm was intented by hitting someone with a noodle, that student is remove from play.

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If a ball go out of the bounds, the opposite team star again the game.

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The defending team must retreat five step when the puck is put into play after a foul.

Faults

• Free hit: are awared to the nonoffending side for infringements, are taken where the offense occurred. image 9 •

Corner hit: is taken by an attacker on the goal line or sideline within 5 steps of the opponents corner flag nearer where the ball crossed the line

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Penalty stroke: is awared againts defenders inthe circle for an intentional foul, an unintentional foul that prevents a goal.

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Penalty corner: are awared againts defenders for deliberately playing the ball over the goal line.

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Referee ' s Signals

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Skills and Techniques •

How to holdgrip the stick One hand at the top end of you noodle stick. Use a hummer grip.

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Ready position Hold the stick with one hand, the top end of the stick on the floor, knees and hips slighly bent. When on the move, keep your stick below hip level and “heads up”.

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Carrying the puck/ball The puck always stays in contact with the stick.

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Dribbling Move the puck forward out in front of you with short taps “Feel the puck”.

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Stick-Handling Push the puck from side to side in the middle of the top end of the stick.

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Passing Keep your noodle stick square to the target, cup the puck/ball with your stick and don't raise the stick above your waist when swinging it forward.

Forehand Pass / Backhand Pass / Drop Pass / Flip Pass / Pick up Pass

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Receiving Reach toward the puck and absorb its impact. Think “catching” not “stopping”. Relax your grip.

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Stopping

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Pick-Up

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Throwing / Batting

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Checking The skill of taking the puck/ball away from an opponent’s

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Blocking

Tactical elements

“Cooperation and Opposition Sport” – Defending starts the moment you lose the ball.

– Attacking starts immediately after winning the ball.

The main objective when defending or attacking is to: •

Players with the ball (attack)

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Keep the ball

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Progression of the ball and players towards the opposing goal

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Score a goal

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Players without ball (defense)

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Retrieve the ball

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Preventing the progression of the opponents and the ball into the goal itself

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Protect the goal to not fit a goal

Players •

Goalie (G)

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Defensemen (right and left) (D)

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Forwards or Wings (right and left) (RW,LW)

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Center (C)

RW RD G C LD LW

Formations •

In noodle hockey 6:6, are 2 basic distributions

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3:2 (3 guards and 2 forwards)

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2:3 (2 guards and 3 forwards)

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Other: 2:1:2 2:2:1 1:2:2 1:3:1

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In 4:4 or 5:5

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Square

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Diamond

O O O O O O

Diamond

Square

Terms and figures used Offensive player with ball Offensive player without ball Opponent without ball Ball Cones

Moving without ball Passing Moving with ball Shooting Blocking Dribling

Glosary •

Noodle the stick you use to hit

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Ball the basic puck

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Knot Bundle when all of the team on one side is in a large group

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Noodle Flop when a player's noodle unknots or drops

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Goal a player scores

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Ingoal when a player makes a goal, but injures themselves

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Inhit when a player hits, but injures themselves

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Thwacker when a player hits, but misses

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Thwinger when a player hits and hits another player

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Thwinger Thwacker when a player hits, misses, and hits another player (VERY RARE!!!!!)

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Action Quad a group of one to three people gathered in a cluster, battering at the ball, but doing nothing

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Action Circle a group of four a more people gathered in a cluster, battering at the ball, but doing nothing

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Blibber Bubble when almost the whole team or the whole team is in a cluster, battering at the ball, but doing nothing

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Audience ball a ball that goes into the audience

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Bleacher ball a ball that goes into the bleachers

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Baloon ball a ball that hovers in the air for a while bamasher when one player falls

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Bamcrasher when two players fall at once

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Bammyslash when three or more players fall at once

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Blowy when coach ends the game with a shrieking whistle

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Transation station when players drop thier noodles, run off court, and get ready for next game

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Toss-up when coach tosses up the ball

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Assit. A pass or preliminary play to a teammate that enables them to score a goal.

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Face-off. The means of putting the puck in play. The referee drops the puck between two players, who then attempt to gain control of it with their sticks.

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Save. The act of a goalie stopping a shot.

References -

http://www.ehow.com/list_6149912_games-using-pool-noodles.html

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floorball

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http://quizlet.com/213786/noodle-hockey-definitions-flash-cards/

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http://es.scribd.com/doc/2190949/Floorball-Individual-Technique-andTactics

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http://www.indezine.com/powerpoint/freetemplates/1881.html

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Note: This material was prepared by Victor E. Rodríguez Rodríguez for the BilingualSection of Physical Education (English) of the IES. A Guía, Vigo. I used images from of http://www.flickr.com/ and http://www.google.es/imghp?hl=es&tab=wi sites, and in all the images I have added their reference. In this work, I have also included portions of the text of the different sites, which are reflected in the bibliography at the end of the text . This material was elaborated for exclusively educational purposes and noncommercial uses.

Nota: Este material foi elaborado por Víctor E. Rodríguez Rodríguez para a Sección Bilingüe de Educación Física (inglés) do IES. A Guía de Vigo. Utiliceí imáxenes de lugares web (http://www.flickr.com/ e http://www.google.es/imghp?hl=es&tab=wi ) e en todas elas engadín a súa referencia. Neste traballo, tamén incluín porcións de texto de diferentes páxinas web, reflectidas na bibliografía ao final do texto. Este material foi elaborado con fins exclusivamente didácticos e sen uso comercial.