Welcome to the
Caltech Floorball Club
Pasadena, California, USA

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Caltech pick-up games: Mondays, 8-10pm

Everyone is welcome to Caltech Floorball Club pick-up games in Caltech's Brown Gym. Brown Gym is located south of California Boulevard between Wilson Avenue and Arden Road; it's Building 2 on the campus map. You can come as often or as little as you'd like; no experience is necessary, though we do have some skilled players. Typically, pick-ups start with a few minutes of warmups, followed by games where we put teams together on a random basis. Equipment is available for those who do not have their own equipment. Anyone without a Caltech ID would need $5 to enter the gym; this is the fee charged by Caltech's athletics department for our "guests" to use the gym. We may only have a limited number of such guests each time.

Summer 2009: During the summer term, we play floorball from 8-10pm in Brown Gym. You are welcome to play as often or as little as you would like, but if you plan to come, please email Andrew in advance at bandy@its.caltech.edu. The email tally gives us a better idea of how many players to expect each time.

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Southern California United pick-up games:

We also play pick-up floorball in Anaheim on Thursday nights. The games take place from 7 to 10pm at the American Sports Centers in Anaheim. Please email Erik Larsson if you will be coming to play on Thursday night. Email bandy@its.caltech.edu to join our carpool from Pasadena to the pick-up games.


Rules

We are playing floorball using the rules of the International Floorball Federation. To let you read through the rules faster, here's an excerpt from the complete rules!

Tactical tips

Dr. Andreas Kappler has provided us with packets on floorball basics, offensive strategy and defensive strategy. These pdf files will be helpful to the floorball beginner, and even experienced players might pick up something new. We also have some of Dr. Freddy Hansen's basic tips for play without goalies. Finally, some tactical advice for goalies is available in this excellent pdf file written in German by Laura Tomatisi and Nicola Zamboni. Thank you to Damir Bakonic of Slovenia for sending the file.
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Some of the drills we've tried so far include:

  • Basic passing and shooting techniques.
  • Basic ball handling using cones as a slalom course.
  • Two-on-one attacks.
  • Pass-and-run schemes.
  • Drills with balls of two colours. Each colour has a different meaning.
  • Large-number-of-players teams, in games with two or more balls in use simultaneously.

Equipment

If you are considering buying a stick and a ball of your own, make sure they are in this list of approved equipment. In response to some inquiries, we put together a short list of where you can start looking for your own stick.


US and International Floorball Links:

United States


Triangle Floorball Club (Raleigh, NC)



NYC Floorball Club (New York, NY)



Orlando Tigers (Orlando, FL)




Floorball Clubs USA (Irvine,CA)

United States
Floorball Association





Bay Area Floorball (San Francisco, CA)




Innebandy Chicago (Chicago, IL)

Denver Floorball (Denver, CO)

Austin Floorball (Austin, TX)

Boston Puukadet (Boston, MA)

MIT Floorball Club (Boston, MA)

Floorball California (Irvine, CA)

International


International Floorball Federation



Swedish Floorball Association
Floorball Canada

Toronto Floorball League
and
University of Toronto Floorball Club
(Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

Canada Floorball

For more information:

See our page with Frequently Asked Questions, or send us an e-mail at bandy@its.caltech.edu. Please note that we can't reply to every email, since we receive large amounts from all you floorball players and fans over in Europe.
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