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Posted on 30-10-2013 09:36
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It's floorball because indoor hockey is field hockey but indoor.
In Germany we call it Unihockey but also floorball but not indoor hockey.
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Ian Butler |
Posted on 30-10-2013 09:40
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Very off-topic, but Rin I love your avatar |
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TheManxMissile |
Posted on 30-10-2013 09:41
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The Hobbit wrote:
You guys actually call it floor ball, it's guard ball or indoor hockey. Back in my day if ya called it floor all they'd clean the floor with ur own innards, then cut them out and make a mop for ease of use.
You're British right?
In which case Indoor Hockey is a very different sport to Floorball.
Indoor Hockey is just Field Hockey played on an indoor court. Or Roller Hockey played indoors.
Floorball is a totally separate and awesome sport. I have heard it called Guard Ball though, once, by someone who didn't really know what Floorball was...
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The Hobbit |
Posted on 30-10-2013 10:54
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Lol at every one who took that post seriously. Also, never heard the term floorball, or indoor hockey being used in the sense you describe Manx, for me it's always been an ice hockey esque thingy with special sticks and a special ball (but we normally use a puck) which appears pretty similar to this floorball. As is guard ball, which is a more formal and useful term for what I have just dewcribed, as it differentiates from normal hockey played indoors (not that I've ever done so, sounds dangerous...). And what makes you think I'm British, I'm quite clearly from Antarctica. |
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SSJ2Luigi |
Posted on 30-10-2013 21:41
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Ian Butler wrote:
Very off-topic, but Rin I love your avatar
Classic is best it seems
edit: what the hell am I thinking that's the Crystal sprite, I'm using the Emerald sprite
on-topic: my hopelessly bad soccer team has tied 4-4 with the oppenent getting two off-side goals needless to say we switched the linesman immediatly
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TheManxMissile |
Posted on 03-11-2013 12:11
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First League game of the season yesterday (took fucking 2 hours to get there, but oh well) up against the best team in the league.
Lost 29:27... But goddamn close game. Never more than 4 goals between the two teams at any stage, and in the end just a bit unlucky.
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The Hobbit |
Posted on 03-11-2013 12:25
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My team won 7-1 today, that's 5wins out of 5 this year... I almost scored my second Begovic-esque goal this year, but a good save from their keeper denied me. I was promptly told not to waste the ball and rolled it out next time |
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SSJ2Luigi |
Posted on 03-11-2013 18:08
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well my (soccer) team offically sucks and not even a little. how the living fuck can a group of ~20 years lose against some high 30/low 40 old guys. twice in a row |
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The Rider |
Posted on 03-11-2013 18:12
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SSJ2Luigi wrote:
well my (soccer) team offically sucks and not even a little. how the living fuck can a group of ~20 years lose against some high 30/low 40 old guys. twice in a row
I'm guessing the older guys weren't faster but maybe stronger, which is usually the case with the older guys? If that is the case you guys should hit the Gym or buy some gym equipment for your home, I recommend that as it saves loads in the long term. |
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SSJ2Luigi |
Posted on 03-11-2013 18:17
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The Rider wrote:
SSJ2Luigi wrote:
well my (soccer) team offically sucks and not even a little. how the living fuck can a group of ~20 years lose against some high 30/low 40 old guys. twice in a row
I'm guessing the older guys weren't faster but maybe stronger, which is usually the case with the older guys? If that is the case you guys should hit the Gym or buy some gym equipment for your home, I recommend that as it saves loads in the long term.
no not even that, we were 1000 times better on every field, they seriously had only had 2 penalties (no contact and self defence) and two actually scoring chances of which 3 went in. we had like 34 chances but none of them went in |
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Posted on 04-11-2013 22:52
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Preparing for floorball on saturday, really looking forward to it! As a newbie my shoot is really improving, I'm finally able to get the ball into the air most of the times and control the shot (more or less). My shoots er still weak, but it takes time to be good. Really hard training today, we did lot of interval excercises.....Hopefully I can continue my streak of making 1 point per game |
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SSJ2Luigi |
Posted on 05-11-2013 19:45
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SSJ2Luigi wrote:
The Rider wrote:
SSJ2Luigi wrote:
well my (soccer) team offically sucks and not even a little. how the living fuck can a group of ~20 years lose against some high 30/low 40 old guys. twice in a row
I'm guessing the older guys weren't faster but maybe stronger, which is usually the case with the older guys? If that is the case you guys should hit the Gym or buy some gym equipment for your home, I recommend that as it saves loads in the long term.
no not even that, we were 1000 times better on every field, they seriously had only had 2 penalties (no contact and self defence) and two actually scoring chances of which 3 went in. we had like 34 chances but none of them went in
found my problem, we try to play like Ajax and we are succesfull. (high ball possesion but no points ) we even have our own Frank de Boer |
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Posted on 06-11-2013 01:53
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My football team won our game last Friday against Shiner, Texas to qualify for the state playoffs for the 8th year in a row (only 2 per district of 8 get in)
Gig 'em Aggies
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TTtheGladiator |
Posted on 06-11-2013 03:03
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I've taken up playing ultimate in a local league. I'm pretty new, and I kinda suck, but it's good fun. We're sitting about half way down the ladder, and have a chance at making finals, although there is a team that hasn't lost a game yet at the top... They slaughtered us last time we played em, 14-3. I have another game tonight, will post results (if I remember )
Edit: Including tonight, there's only 3 more games until finals...
Edited by TTtheGladiator on 06-11-2013 03:04
When you can't decide between two options, flip a coin. Not because the result of the coin will choose for you, but because, in that split second before the coin lands, you'll know what side you want it to fall on.
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Rin |
Posted on 06-11-2013 11:09
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I have absolutely no idea which sport I should engage to next year
Every sport has it's up and downside.
For me important:
Should be a sport which allows me to train endurance and some muscles.
With some I mean really some (shaping/defining) and not being the next Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Shouldn't be very boring sport plus shouldn't be a very dangerous one expecting to be beheaded.
But with that pretty much every single sport falls out
Football/Soccer , swimming, table tennis and extreme sports just no.
I find Rugby very interesting plus in Germany there are some clubs and Rugby I guess one of the fastest growing sports in Germany.
50% during the last 10 years which is I think a lot with absolutely no funding or even presence of Rugby in TV/media here in Germany.
Also there isn't just 1 club near my place but 5 other clubs.
But the injury risk is high. I guess even though I guess playing ice hockey like those NHL guys is more dangerous (not european ice hockey).
I wouldn't play forward as I am not 100kg+ but around 70-80kg.
American Football for example well.. Around 1 minute of play at best and around 2 minutes of pause? I would rather watch Stoke City playing.
But might be good to have a lot of pauses
Billard or so (thats also sport I guess) well endurance not needed but more mental endurance.
As examples of the 3 mentioned mine fields.
Ok-ish but nothing where my pants would crush down to the other side of the earth:
Tennis, Handball, anything of Hockey (but not ice hockey) and Futsal, Futsal is football but not that football.
Sports that are ok and probably better than ok but with downsides making it a bit worse than ok:
- Gaelic sports
Well there is really a GAA club near my place but they just do Hurling...
I like Gaelic Football much much more as I played always in football/soccer as a goalkeeper.
So catching and making long kicks from the hand are ok.
But both (GAA sports) have a downside: Who to play against?
Clubs in the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium etc. as here are not so much GAA clubs I guess in the neighbor countries it's the same situation.
So a lot of traveling at own costs. So far I haven't found out so far to make from nothing a lot of money so I could afford it.
- Athletics - Track and Field
My teachers said I should consider Athletics - Track and Field but just the Track stuff as I am not fat enough for shot put etc.
But I find it boring to race against myself.
Hepathlon/Decathlon would be good if there weren't pole vault and high jump. High jump would look like this here:
Looks like a Super Mario jump with the high arm eh?
- Cycling
If cycling then track cycling as near my place is a track.
But once I rode home from a long working day I was overtaken by someone who was jogging.
Don't remember when I felt more humiliated before or afterwards than that.
As a self defence: I had just a heavy and bad mountain bike available. Plus some head wind. Does that count?
So favourites would be at the moment: Rugby with some distance to Tennis and with some distance to pretty much everything (mentioned).
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Ian Butler |
Posted on 06-11-2013 11:12
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Well you should just try out a few things and then you could make an easy decision, I reckon
I sports clubs, you normally should get 1 or 2 free lessons before signing up, so browse around a bit |
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nacho63 |
Posted on 06-11-2013 12:11
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I have been playing Rugby since I was 5 so 12 years now, would recommend it to anyone, no matter who big or small, there is a position for you and you won't get injuried as much as you think just mostly bumps and bruises
Might be quitting rugby though to focus more on Cycling, there is an outdoor velodrome 15 minutes drive for me but may get into road as well, I kinda like the individuality. |
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Posted on 06-11-2013 12:13
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Individual sports (athletics, cycling) take a lot of dedication, self-sacrifice, etc. to get results, since it's small margins all the way.
So, if you're not even sure that it's what you want to do, forget it.
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nacho63 |
Posted on 06-11-2013 12:24
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I trained and raced for 4 months during the summer at the velodrome and it's currently off season now so I have a little bit time to decide, I pretty sure its what I want to do from now on but I'm currently stuck to Rugby due to A Level coursework
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TTtheGladiator |
Posted on 07-11-2013 00:15
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We lost, miserably
That might just put us out of our finals chance, but two more games before then give us a small amount of hope.
When you can't decide between two options, flip a coin. Not because the result of the coin will choose for you, but because, in that split second before the coin lands, you'll know what side you want it to fall on.
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