[Ragashingo]

I was thinking about Underwater Hockey today after reading an amusing post from a member of the NPO viceroy team and I couldn't help but wonder how it would work.

Lets assume that a normalish hockey rink is somehow filled up to the top of the surrounding glass with water, and that it doesn't leak out. The goals would remain on the ice, several feet below the water (because this isn't some puck based water polo...). I guess all the players would have underwater masks and oxygen tanks so they could actually stay on the ice. Hitting a puck underwater would, of course, be more difficult, and the puck wouldn't move nearly as far so I guess games would be more about the moving ability of the players. Body checks would be intended to lift a player off of the ice so they would lost movement ability while floating. I do think it will be extremely difficult to score a goal though, with little puck speed and a short shot range the goalie with have a much bigger advantage as opposed to his regular hockey counterpart.

Now as to popularity, I think this new sport would do decently well. It would be slower than hockey but the fights would be cool. People knocking other people's goggles off, people ripping the air hoses off other people's air tanks. Fights would typically end up obscured by large streams of air bubbles.

So thats my take on the subject. What's yours?

[Kenadian_2006]

My thoughts are this. There's such thing as underwater hockey?

[Audeamus]

I enjoy hockey because it is a fast paced game. If you put that underwater, everything is going to slow down and become far less interesting.

[King Xander the Only]

Ive played underwater hockey. You use a lead puck and kind of push it across the pool bottom. You and your teammates try to coordinate going up for air so that you can do rushes.

I think they have world championships in Minnesota each year.

http://en.wikipedia....derwater_hockey

This post has been edited by King Xander the Only: 09 December 2008 - 03:08 PM

[Mogar]

i'd play it, it sounds entertaining.

[Hell Scream]

Off the crack please.

[Shamrock Rovers]

To make it seem like there are lots of scores, you could count a goal as 10 points and a death as 5. Thats how american football and baseball are

Or

Play European football

[DustyCloud]

My first thought: Badass fights.

My second thought: Drowning

My third thought: Badass fights because of people drowning

My fourth thought: Vicious Circle

Final thought: Why is there 37 people here right now?

[Shamrock Rovers]

DustyCloud, on Dec 9 2008, 09:08 PM, said:

My first thought: Badass fights.

My second thought: Drowning

My third thought: Badass fights because of people drowning

My fourth thought: Vicious Circle

Final thought: Why is there 37 people here right now?

Final Though: Copying into numerous channels

[Baron Lightbeard]

Raga you rock my socks. This thread is so full of

I'd love to see how the fights would play out. Going to the penalty box after removing another players air would be interesting.

They should put a shark in the tank so as to have an incentive not to have bloody noses.

This post has been edited by The Red Baron: 09 December 2008 - 03:15 PM

[Tolkien]

Heh. I can see it now. Move aside Water Polo, Underwater Hockey has come to town.

[Ragashingo]

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Final thought: Why is there 37 people here right now?

Because I might have linked to this in 27 IRC channels simultaneously.

I thought about not having air tanks, but in real hockey you don't rise way above the ice, so why do it in underwater hockey?

[Morte]

I doubt that many people will like it as it seems an unnecessary mockery of regular hockey.

[Ragashingo]

Morte, on Dec 9 2008, 03:20 PM, said:

I doubt that many people will like it as it seems an unnecessary mockery of regular hockey.

Perhaps, but it wasn't my idea

[Lord Rune]

Morte, on Dec 9 2008, 11:20 PM, said:

I doubt that many people will like it as it seems an unnecessary mockery of regular hockey.

I see this as a very necessary mockery of regular hockey.

[Ragashingo]

Lord Rune, on Dec 9 2008, 03:35 PM, said:

I see this as a very necessary mockery of regular hockey.

Nice signature. And I totally agree with you.

[shoe the fifth]

I think this would range from interesting to boring depending on how many carnivorous and/or poisonous fish they put in the water.

This post has been edited by shoe the fifth: 09 December 2008 - 03:56 PM

[Lord Rune]

shoe the fifth, on Dec 9 2008, 10:55 PM, said:

I think this would range from interesting to boring depending on how many carnivorous and/or poisonous fish they put in the water.

Now if the fish could be trained to play hockey...

[SoxNation]

Shamrock Rovers, on Dec 9 2008, 04:07 PM, said:

To make it seem like there are lots of scores, you could count a goal as 10 points and a death as 5. Thats how american football and baseball are

Or

Play European football

really thats how baseball is? Because you do know 1 run = 1 run right?

[Ragashingo]

SoxNation, on Dec 9 2008, 03:57 PM, said:

really thats how baseball is? Because you do know 1 run = 1 run right?

Maybe there is some other less / more well known version of baseball out there, the same as football.