3. Once you are comfortable with the puck on your stick you can start learning tricks, skills and tackles
1. Learning how to empty the snorkle quickly during a game is the most important part of long points.
Most of our players have been trained in this way, this is a very basic guide and isn't true for all teams but this is a basic guide,you learn how to use the equipment and how to get in position, you learn how to flick and a then skills and tackling. Then finally how to play in a team although that normally takes practice playing games.
The main difference this sport has on others is that being in the right position as timing a run or waiting for a pass has to be timed with your breathing, learning how to go down to the bottom of the pool and in the correct position will ensure that you will soon be able to tackle, pass, sprint or intercept. However before learning what to do, you first need to learn how to get there.
Once you are used to coming up from the bottom of the pool, emptying your snorkle you are ready to get into the mix and start learning skills and flicking.
You will learn flicking first until you are comfortable swimming with the puck on the stick, flicking is the same as passing in football and the best teams generally pass upto 1-1.2m across the bottom of the pool. It enables certain tactics such as the switch and the through pass or even basic things like flicking to score a goal. It also helps to ensures that the puck stays with a player on your team when your run out of breathe.
Once you have a solid platform of your own game, you can start to develop your team play game depending on standard formations are 3-3, 2-1-2-1 or 2-3-1.
Now you can reep what you have sown once you have your grown your knowledge of inter team play, delevoped your individual skills and learned how to flick further and can comfortably play a 30 minute competitive game without having issues with your snorkle orany other gear.
As with most sports there are many tricks that can be used, most of them either manipulating your momentum, body position or your sticks position compared to anothers.
learning how to turn with the puck quickly is the basis of most tricks. However knowing how to play in a team, where to expect the other players on your team to be and know how to position yourself either in defense getting ready to tackle or intercept the pass or time your run or use your aquired skills to get past an aposing player.
