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Conditions of the floorball:

Floorball is very popular game at  our school. Children love this game. Our school gained many prizes, but not only at the regional level but also at the state level. Our female students won Slovak championship in floorball.

Some of our students decided to play floorball after graduating from primary school , so we decided to share this game with you and we hope that you will play this game too.

Floorball is hockey in gym. It is claim, which people use because they do not play it. True is absolutely different. Conditions of floorball are different from hockey conditions. 

Playing field

Floorball is indoors sports, which plays on special surface.Playing field  shall be 40 m x 20 m and enclosed by a board with rounded corners. Playing field shall be rectangular, the measures indicating length x width. The smallest rink allowed is 36 m x 18 m.

Game time

Regular game time shall be 3 x 20 minutes with two 10 minute intermissions, when theteams shall change ends. Exemption for shorter game time however not less than 2 x 15 minutes and/or shorter/longer intermissions may be given by the administrating authority.

Participants

Each team is allowed to use a maximum of 6 players. During play at the most six players in each team, including only one goalkeeper + 5 players. The goalkeeper is not allowed to use a stick. Their outfit is different from players. Their space is goalmouth.

Equipment

The goalkeeper shall wear a face mask .All goalkeepers shall be dressed in  long trousers. A player shall not wear personal equipment which may cause injury. Players have specific floorball stick. Players can wear pads and various equipment sucha s pads , health bandage. Players can use only headband, because another protect is not allowed.

Standard situation( fixed situation)

Fixed situations are face-offs, hit-ins, free-hits and penalty shots.

A face-off shall be taken by one field player from each team. The players shall be facing the

opposing team's short side and must not have physical contact before the face-off. The feet

shall be placed perpendicular to the centre line. Each player shall have both his feet at the

same distance from the centre line. The sticks shall be held with a normal grip and with both

hands above the grip mark. The blades shall be placed perpendicular to the centre line on

either side of the ball, but without touching it.

Events leading to a face-off : When the ball is damaged unintentionally, when the ball is not correctly playable, when a serious injury occurs or an injured player directly affects play, when a penalty shot does not result in a goal.

Hit- in

When the ball leaves the playing field, a hit-in shall be awarded to the non-offending team.

The strike is played from the point where the offense was committed, but it must not be behind the goal line and not at a distance less than 3,5 meters from the small goalmouth. The player must play the strike so that the ball strikes only once. The free stike is allowed to score.

The opponents shall immediately, without summons from the referees, take a position at least 3 m from the ball.

 Free-hits

If advantage is being played, and the game is interrupted because the non-offending team loses control of the ball, the resulting free-hit shall be placed where the last offence occurred.

Penalty shot

When an offence leading to a penalty is committed, the offender shall be penalized.

The penalty shot in floorbal is the most common for offences in goal situations. For example if defending team has interrupted illegaly goal situations or they prevented of such a situation happen. This is for example if the player shifts the goal intentionally or if the deefending player locates at strike in a small goalmouth, goal or the place where the gate originally stood. In the penalty shoot, only the attacking player and the goalkeeper may be on the playing field. When the player will starts the action and the goalkeeper touches the ball, the player can not touch it.

Penalties

Penalties for illegal behavior on the playing area are in our sport enough. Most often referee exclude 2,5,10 minutes (personal punishment) or the end od the match (personal punishment). For 2,5 and 10 minute penalties, the player must be present on the playing field, but must sit on the penalty bench. With a 2 – minute penalty, the penaty is canceled if oponent team shoot a goal. If a goalkeeper is punished, a player must be seated instead of him (for classical punishments). In the foorbal exist too postponed exclusion. This means that the play after illegal operation continues until then the player of the offense team touches the ball.

Goals

When the entire ball passes the goal line from the front, having been played in a correct way

with a field player's stick, and no offence leading to a free-hit or a penalty has been

committed by the attacking team in connection with, or immediately before, the goal.