Learn Start Play

Learning the gameStarting up the organisationPlaying in different ways

Table o Content

INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................ 3WHY CHOOSE FLOORBALL? ............................................................................... 4Alternative sport .......................................................................................... 6HISTORY OF FLOORBALL .................................................................................... 7VALUES OF FLOORBALL ..................................................................................... 7BASIC RULES OF FLOORBALL ............................................................................ 10THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SMALL FIELD AND BIG FIELD PLAY ................ 11LEARNING TO PLAY .............................................................................................. 12Holding the stick .......................................................................................... 12Individual technique ................................................................................... 12LEARNING TO TEACH ........................................................................................... 13FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT ............................................................................ 15Goals and Rink .............................................................................................. 15Stick ................................................................................................ 16Ball ................................................................................................ 18Goalkeeper Equipment .............................................................................. 18Eye Protection ............................................................................................... 18IFF Certied Equipment .............................................................................. 19SPREADING THE SPORT ...................................................................................... 20GETTING PEOPLE INVOLVED ............................................................................. 20FINDING FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT ............................................................ 20FUNDING ................................................................................................ 21FLOORBALL FOR DIFFERENT GROUPS ............................................................. 22Floorball or Children and Youth ............................................................... 22Youth Start Up Kit and Youth Programs ................................................... 22Floorball as a School Sport ......................................................................... 23Floorball in Universities ............................................................................. 26Floorball in contact with other sports ...................................................... 27Floorball in Companies ............................................................................... 28Floorball in Exhibitions and Sport Fairs etc. ........................................... 28MODIFYING THE FACILITIES ............................................................................... 30Indoors ................................................................................................ 30Outdoors ................................................................................................ 30With or without rink .................................................................................... 34MODIFYING THE GAME ....................................................................................... 35Floorball Points Master ............................................................................... 35ORGANISING A FLOORBALL EVENT.................................................................. 36GUIDING THE GAME ............................................................................................ 37Reerees ................................................................................................ 37Ocials ................................................................................................ 38SETTING UP FLOORBALL ORGANISATIONS .................................................... 39Setting up clubs ............................................................................................ 39Facilities & Funding ...................................................................................... 39Volunteers ................................................................................................ 39Recruiting ................................................................................................ 39Rewarding ................................................................................................ 39Setting up an association ........................................................................... 40COOPERATION WITH THE NATIONAL SPORTS ORGANISATIONS ............... 43COOPERATION WITH THE INTERNATIONAL FLOORBALL FEDERATION ..... 44Rights and responsibilities o the IFF Member Associations ............... 45IFF Licence System starting rom 2012 .................................................... 45IFF Development Program ................................................................................. 47CONTACTS TO INTERNATIONAL SPORTS ORGANISATIONS ......................... 47

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LEARNSTARTPLAY

INTRODUCTION

The objective o this manual is to provide you as a reader with a comprehensive material in order to help you to start to playFloorball in your school, club, city or country. The material gives you hints and tips how to get started and teaches you stepby step how to get people involved and how to ace and win the challenges when establishing a team or an organisation.Hopeully this inormation will be helpul to you as a guideline or creating the best environment or the sport. This material has been created by Anniina Paavilainen, Emily Koh, Merita Bruun and John Liljelund and edited by MeritaBruun and John Liljelund.We would like to thank all those who provided us with examples and encouragement through the process, especially theollowing Member Associations, which have provided us with their concrete input and experience in dierent elds as wellas illustration:Austrian Floorball AssociationAustralian Floorball AssociationCzech Floorball UnionFinnish Floorball FederationGerman Floorball AssociationGreat Britain Floorball and Unihockey AssociationSerbian Floorball AssociationSwedish Floorball FederationSwiss Floorball AssociationFloorball TurkeyEmily Koh

A teacher and a national team player, Singapore

Anniina Paavilainen

Bachelor o leisure and sports management, Finland

Merita Bruun

IFF Inormation Manager

John Liljelund

IFF Secretary General