Sponge Hockey

[s Greens 0]

So i get a call today from a buddy askin if i wanna come out and play a game of spongee for his "beer sponge hockey team". Having never played it i thought it wouldnt hurt to try. Needless to say my back is absolutely killing me and even though its a sponge puck, its still hurts like a mother if you block a shot with it. On the bright side, i had an absolute blast playin it

who else on MSH plays sponge?

[Wolfpack_1986 154]

wtf is sponge

[mack 44]

I'm guessing it's the orange (well all the ones I've seen) puck that's made out of a heavy Nerf-ish foam. Not sure how much fun it'd play as the bounces would get annoying.

[Wolfpack_1986 154]

im guessing the puck is still pretty light... how the hell do you get a shot off without it fluttering.

[ScottMan 0]

How do you pass a sponge puck?!

[budro727 0]

Idk about you guys, but up here we have black pucks that are a little bit lighter than a regular puck and bounce around. We use them mainly for outside boot hockey.

[mack 44]

Probably the same as the ones I'm thinking of but in a better colour. These ones are heavy enough to maintain some puck-like physics and still sting if you took a shot from it. You can also shoot some nasty whiffle ball-like sliders with it as well.

[budro727 0]

Yea sounds exactly like what we use. Great for boot hockey.

[topshelf11 0]

We had black sponge pucks as kids and played with them all of the time on the outdoor rinks. We called it shinny, as you could play without pads. The pucks still stung a bit, but nowhere near as bad as a real puck.

One day at the beginning of practice, i found one in the puck bag, and skated in on the goalie while he was buckling his helmet. A ripped one up high and he freaked out, until it bounced off of him and didn't hurt.

[thejackal 46]

it's amazing how much faster you can shoot slappers with the black sponge pucks. we used them for a student tournament in HS and it didnt take that much getting used to.

[s Greens 0]

basically played on an outdoor rink (theres an indoor league too)

Dont wear skates, just soft soled shoes

its almost like a game of street hockey...but on ice with a lighter black puck (it eventually freezes up a bit)

and yea...when you tee up a clapper that thing really flies

[mack 44]

The footing on an outdoor rink sans skates has to be brutal.

[Zamboni 6]

The footing on an outdoor rink sans skates has to be brutal.

Get yourself a pair of broomball shoes-look like running shoes with orange rubber soles....it'll seem like you have snow tires on a 4 wheel drive and everyone else is in car with bald summer tires in a snowstorm :D There is even a spray for tackiness but the rubber on broomball shoes really grips as is.....you will be the only one able to 'cut', deke laterally.

Whatever happened to broomball, my dad played as a kid in a league in the 50's? I had pair of those orange soled shoes in 80's for ball hockey on outdoor ice-going to look for a pair while Xmas shopping.

[Rustpot 1]

Whatever happened to broomball, my dad played as a kid in a league in the 50's? I had pair of those orange soled shoes in 80's for ball hockey on outdoor ice-going to look for a pair while Xmas shopping.

It's still around.

We have a university league of about 2000 players and 3 special-built outdoor rinks. We have our own rules and "regulation" broomball shoes and brooms aren't allowed. Only wood handle corn bristle brooms modified with tape.

D-gel makes the current broomball stuff. Curling shoes work about the same, and I think that's just a rubber slip-on oversole.

[DCott 0]

Same here, BU has a huge broomball tournament

[JR Boucicaut 3801]

Back when I worked in Orlando, broomball had more injuries in one yr than all of the hockey leagues COMBINED.

[Rustpot 1]

Sounds about right. Most people wear the required helmet and not much else and think they're in the NHL. Our league tries to minimize contact as much as possible, but people still manage to slip and fall. On ice. Who would have you need to try not to fall on ice?

Slippery ice + no elbow or shoulder pad = broken arms, dislocated shoulders, a couple concussions, lots of bashed fingers for the people not wearing hockey gloves.

My right index finger doesn't bend all the way after I took a slash to the hand as a goalie 2 years ago.

[Zamboni 6]

Think I recall taking a broomball to the face around 6 years old-no equipment, screwing around at lake. Tears, snow/ice against bloody nose and then game on.

We usually do a dads (few moms) vs kids game btw Xmas-New Years for our team....maybe I'll use half time for a broomball game. Thanks for 'improvised' equipment tip, electrical tape on brooms and a dodgeball should be great fun.

[thejackal 46]

my old HS has one of the better broomball teams in eastern canada apparently, which is weird because all the guys on it were the ones who wanted to play hockey but couldnt skate too well. we used to play that in gym class, brutal stuff when you have sneakers on, thats for sure.

[juiced 0]

The footing on an outdoor rink sans skates has to be brutal.

i work at a local sports store and we have a pair of D-Gel shoes, which are for broomball and sports like that.

http://equipt.ca/ecom/images/BROOMBALL%20SHOE.bmp

They're a normal shoe with about an inch of soft sponge-ish material on the bottom, you can stop on a dime with them.

One a side note however, i can only ever remember us having one pair (size 13's) and we've had them for over two years now.

[thejackal 46]

The footing on an outdoor rink sans skates has to be brutal.

i work at a local sports store and we have a pair of D-Gel shoes, which are for broomball and sports like that.

http://equipt.ca/ecom/images/BROOMBALL%20SHOE.bmp

They're a normal shoe with about an inch of soft sponge-ish material on the bottom, you can stop on a dime with them.

One a side note however, i can only ever remember us having one pair (size 13's) and we've had them for over two years now.

we actually stock those at work. i remember the first time someone asked me for them. i was pretty much like

[juiced 0]

The footing on an outdoor rink sans skates has to be brutal.

i work at a local sports store and we have a pair of D-Gel shoes, which are for broomball and sports like that.

http://equipt.ca/ecom/images/BROOMBALL%20SHOE.bmp

They're a normal shoe with about an inch of soft sponge-ish material on the bottom, you can stop on a dime with them.

One a side note however, i can only ever remember us having one pair (size 13's) and we've had them for over two years now.

we actually stock those at work. i remember the first time someone asked me for them. i was pretty much like

yup, someone called looking for them and i sputtered out "oh ya...um right well uh...we have a pair, what size you lookin for?" but i was in shock. turns out they didn't take 13's. I take 13's and one day i just wore them around the store all day, got alot of funny looks. On the flip side however my agility in maneuvering about the store was greatly improved. :)

[clarke-BOH 0]

Back to the Sponge puck, I played it sunday mornings in the summer with my dad and his friends...It's pretty worked pretty well since some of them couldn't skate to well, and it let everyone have fun

[DBLMINR 0]

never heard of sponge hockey, whats the point?

[thejackal 46]

never heard of sponge hockey, whats the point?

ask your shins :lol: