RULES
The Tauranga Summer Hockey Leagues are about FUN, its important to recognise these leagues are not an extension of the winter season.
Summer Hockey is a place for people new to the sport to give hockey a go, and for those who love the game to knock the ball around and try new things in a safe, fun, low pressure environment - all with a positive attitude!
We also run Umpire Development Programmes alongside Summer Hockey, we encourage anyone to give-it-a-go!
Together we can all focus on enjoying hockey in a fun fair safe way.
Normal rules of hockey apply, except for the following:
- Safety is the highest priority
- Goals can be scored from halfway (if from a free hit, it must be auto-passed or passed to a team-mate first)
- All shots at goal must be safe
- No Hitting is allowed
- No overheads - jinking and skillful elimination skills are allowed
- No Penalty Corners: for fouls inside the circle a free hit to the attackers is awarded outside the circle. The ball must travel 5m or be passed before being played into the circle area
- GK optional
- Ball over the baseline:
- by an attacker; is a free hit to the defending team (known as a '16') taken at the top of the circle, in line with where it went out
- by a defender; is a free hit to the attacking team (known as a 'long corner') taken at the top of the circle in line with where it went out - the ball must travel 5m or be passed before being played into the circle area
- Focus on fun!
- No scores are kept
SAFETY IS PARAMOUNT
SUPPORT PLAYER RULES
- The idea behind this is to allow a team to have some on-field support during the game to assist with player game understanding. It is important that the intentions of this concept are correct. There will be 5 players and 1 support player allowed on the field. If the Support Player is not on, then the team plays with 6 players.
- One Support Player on the field at any one time (Must be over the age of 18)
- Only to play in the backs or half (Not allowed over half way)
- Not allowed to score any goals
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