To play hockey you will need the following equipment:
- Mouthguard
- Shin guards
- Hockey Stick
- Club uniform
- Drink Bottle
- Runners
Mouthguards are essential as they can protect you from some serious sporting injuries, such as broken jaws, fractured, cracked or knocked-out teeth, cut lips and tongues. A custom-fitted mouthguard works by absorbing and spreading the impact of the damaging blow, and is fabricated based on an impression of your teeth and jaw taken by your dentist. A mouthguard that is custom-fitted by your dentist is far superior to an over-the-counter mouthguard because it’s specially designed to fit the exact contours of your mouth, is resilient, balances your bite and allows speech and normal breathing. If properly used, stored, and checked by your dentist every year, a custom-fitted mouthguard should last several seasons.
Shin pads or shin guards need to provide the best possible protection while at the same time be not inhibiting to your hockey performance. There are numerous types of hockey shin pads in the market today to meet customer playing needs and pricing demands. Unlike yesteryear where soccer and hockey shin pads had parallels the technology of today’s hockey shin pad is made to be sport specific.
Getting your child a good quality stick that is the right size will improve your child’s performance.
To train you will not need a uniform but before you can play in the competition organised by Hockey Victoria you will need to purchase a uniform click here to see the club uniform order form.
