Ball and Hockey Sports: Types and Terms
Ball Sports: Terms and Types
Galotxa and Related Sports
Galotxa: Similar to the ladder and rope game, but played on the street (natural or artificial).
Galotxetes: This mode is played in Galotxetes, with a small team of one or two players. A point is scored every time you touch the ball, or the opponent fails to pass the string or insert the ball into one of the caixons (holes in the sides of the Galotxetes).
Long: This appears to be the oldest form, played in the street, and features rays, a kind of mobile half-field. There are several variations such as Palma and the hanger. It has been the basis for regulating the international game of Handball International Championships.
White Ball: A Horta mode practiced in North America, now claimed by the Fallas in Valencia.
Grossa Ball: A modality from Abdet, a precursor to Galotxetes. It consists of playing with a long ratchet.
Brush: Played on the street or ratchet, the name comes from the fact that the player must scrape the ground with his hand to return the ball. It is a physically harder mode.
Terms of Ball
Chord and Scale: As applied to the ratchet with a rope edge 2m. Playing in the middle of separating the two fields above and which must pass the ball, and that gives a special technical difficulty. Along the brush has professional players.
Hockey Sports: Terms and Types
Field Hockey
A traditional team sport that aims to push the ball into the opponent’s goal.
Roller Hockey
An online version of traditional roller hockey, but where inline skates are used. Usually faster than the traditional version, allowing for more similarities to ice hockey.
Artistic Roller Skating
A sport practiced individually or in groups, consisting of performing spins, jumps, and other movements on quad skates in an art form and rhythm, often with music. There are various modalities and disciplines such as figures, dance, free style, accuracy, or group shows.
Speed Skating
Typically uses inline skates consisting of 4 or 5 wheels aligned in one row. Races are conducted on a circuit to achieve the shortest possible time.
Slalom Skating
There are two forms of the sport: freestyle slalom and speed slalom. In both, skaters navigate a series of cones or barriers placed on the floor, similar to skiing.
Aggressive Skating (or Street/Park)
A sport that has evolved since the late 80s, involving tricks using street furniture (ramps, railings, sidewalks) or special enclosures called half-pipes. This form is called street or park depending on the location.
Free Skating
Also known as urban skating, a variant of aggressive skating where the goal is to go from point A to point B as quickly as possible, avoiding all sorts of obstacles.