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Caltech pick-up games: Mondays, 9-11pm; Wednesdays 10pm to midnight

Everyone in the Caltech community is welcome to Caltech Floorball Club pick-up games in Brown Gym. Brown Gym is located south of California Boulevard between Wilson Avenue and Arden Road; it's Building 1 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, we start with about 30 minutes of practice, 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.

Winter 2012: During the winter term, we play floorball from 9-11pm in Brown Gym on Mondays and 10pm to midnight on Wednesdays. 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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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)



So. Cal. United Floorball

United States
Floorball Association




Bay Area Floorball (San Francisco, CA)



Innebandy Chicago (Chicago, IL)

Denver Floorball (Denver, CO)

Austin Floorball (Austin, TX)



MIT Floorball Club (Boston, MA)

International


International Floorball Federation


Swedish Floorball Association
Floorball Canada

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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