The Israel Roller Hockey League is the biggest Roller Hockey Clubs Championship in Israel.
History and Information About the Israel Association
The Roller Hockey sport was brought to Israel in 1957 by "a handful of fanatics" led by Mr. Aaron Jordan. The association was founded in 1973 by organized skaters, who later grew and developed under the name Association of skates in Israel. Today, the association contains more than 800 members from 30 registered clubs. It also provides guidance and support to union workers, and contributes to the development of skating sports such as figure skating, Rink Hockey, inline skating and roller speed skating. All registered clubs are subject to local management committees consisting of corporate professionals. Each year the organization produces and distributes guidelines to suggest courses of action according to the needs of the area and the international guidelines for the organization. As a full-fledged member of the International Roller Sports Federation and the European Confederation of Roller Skating, the Israeli union is recognized by the International Olympic Committee and maintains a full professional cooperation with the Wingate Institute as well as the Ministry of Science Council of the gambling culture and sports.
The game originated from an ancient Greek sport which involved throwing a ball with a stick, similar to hockey. The remarkable discovery was made in Athens in 1922 and suggests that the sport comes from the East. For example, an interesting sculpture from a wall Themistocles built depicts a team of six athletes, with two players in the center while the other four flank them, waiting to receive the kick start. Native American men and women practiced a similar sport for many centuries. They employed balls and sticks of various materials, such as wood, bone, and deer skin. The clubs vary in length and curvature and are often adorned with various designs. The targets consisted of two poles nailed to the ground at each end, with a separation of somewhere between 50 and 200 meters. Occasionally they would play without poles and simply try to get the ball past the gatekeepers and across a line representing the goal.
The Arabs have also had since time immemorial, a game similar to hockey, is "Kouros", which is played with a ball made of palm fibers tied with spelt and using a stick slightly curved at the end opposite the handle. And the Chileans "cineca", in which an unspecified number of players divided into two camps. Each is fitted with a curved stick at its end, used to throw a ball toward a given point, while the opposing side seeks to prevent it and make it happen contrary to the countryside.
According to a manuscript of Fitzstephen, hockey dates in England since 1175, little more or less. Certainly many objects are available to confirm this. In some windows of Canterbury and Gloucester cathedrals are painted figures representing even player: Canterbury has a stick in his right hand that supports field, and from Gloucester has caught the stick with both hands in attitude drive against the ball. These stained glass windows dating from the thirteenth century.
The English are derived from another hockey game Irish is called "hurley" and also "hurlino", a game that was practiced very hard with many players. The modern hockey made its appearance early in the second half of the nineteenth century, namely ago over a hundred years. Such as hockey was played on a field with a certain size, 150 by 84 yards, a rectangle whose side lines start at 21, 50 and 75 yards. The ball was 5 inches in diameter and weighing 7 ounces. Frames the two posts were separated from each other 21 feet, joined by a bar up to 8 feet above the ground. As can be seen, a large frame (6.40 by 2.44 meters). With such a size the first players had to mark many necessarily so.
Previously, teams were formed at random and did not represent any club or society.
In the year 1875 a company resident in London, called "The Men Hockey Association," that is, associations Men's Hockey, gave a good step to correct the old rules in plan to improve the game, reducing the field, the framework and the number of players, already set in eleven as in football. There was then a dozen clubs who practiced this sport, being the most important Blackheath, Molesey, Wimbledom, Earling, Surbiton, Teddington, Eliot Place School, Blackhead, and Trinity College, Cambridge.