hockey equipment

Ice hockey equipment:

Ice hockey has evolved dramatically from the days of playing on an ice pond and with home made skating shoes and home made sticks. Nowadays just about every part of your body is protected with highly designed protective gearing. With the puck traveling around at 100mph it is little surprise players are fully padded before diving around on the ice.

Field hockey equipment:

Although there is less equipment worn in field hockey it is still just as dangerous, the solid rubber ball travels around at high speeds and at short corners you will find many outfield players wearing protective masks as well as a cup. For the rest of match, apart from the keepers the players will merely have a mouth guard and shin pads as form of protection.

Despite both these forms of hockey being almost different in every way the same basics apply, safety towards the players. Nowadays players have a huge choice in what type of equipment they want to use with different companies offering different specifications depending on the players requests. In field hockey one of the main differences are in the sticks, whether you choose a wooden hockey stick or a composite hockey stick.