What is Hurling? (part 2 of 3)

Hurling Skills

It is played with a long curved stick similar to a field hockey stick but with a broader and flat end which allows the player to control the ball in the air as well as on the ground. It is made of ashwood which has just the right properties that allow the stick to flex up to a certain point. The end (the buss) is usually slightly bigger on a goalkeeper's stick.The target is the same as in Gaelic Football. There are fifteen players to a team on the field. Up to five substitutions can be made in the game which is played in two halves of 35 minutes each.

Helmets are optional.

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• Ireland
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[limerickandproud]

it's a hurley... that's the official name. end of story.

[dex33]

Looks like an amazing game.

But i REALLY pitty the goalkeepers! I mean, such a big goal, and such a small ball :D

[ARAGORN41]

@renoinabin will you relax with your irrelevant facts. accidents happen in sports it doesnt mean the rules are ignored and christy ring was far from the most athletic person to play the sport even at time he was playing and no im irish

[renoinabin]

@ARAGORN41 my snotter? what are you? english? an dtuigeann tu? Did I say a bit of blood? no I did not, one of the most athletic hurlers ever to play the game lost so much blood he couldnt stand. if the ref isnt watching players do anything.In 2005, C.U.H. and Waterford Regional Hospital published a paper stating that, in two hospitals, 310 hurlers were treated for eye injuries over a 9 year period. Of these 14 ended up with permanently impaired vision and six were left legally blind.

[ARAGORN41]

@renoinabin There was still rules though, you're talking through your snotter. No one has called you on it cause the majority of people watching this video are yanks who don't have a clue. It was not played to the extent that the rules were completely ignored, you're a moron if you think it was. A bit of blood means nothing.

[renoinabin]

@ARAGORN41 rules that were mostly ignored till about 15 years ago. Ever heard of Hells Kitchen kiddo? its what they used to call the tipperary defence, have you ever seen the image of Christie Ring arguably the greatest Hurler of all time, being held up by his team mates barely conscious with blood all over his body after cork beat tipp in an all ireland? did you notice that even though i posted this three years ago no one else has called me on it, and think how cuchullain got named.

[ARAGORN41]

@renoinabin Did you just make that up? There's been rules since 1887...

[CrypticJezuz]

@teaficionado not enough galway haha

[MrFocaleile]

@558Bloc its the most exciting sport ever man

[MrFocaleile]

@GutBusters521 But such a sport that stops every 5 seconds, wears a tonne of padding, excludes players because they are not big enough and that requires little skill ,can not be called a sport at all.

[teaficionado]

I love how 90% of this shows clips of either Tipp, or Kilkenny.

[germanman95]

@397388 I have to disagree that this is the toughest game ever made. Having played American football and Hurling, Ive been left with far worse physical pain/ injury from American football than hurling, I've also seen a lot of permanent debilitating injury from football. The professional injury rate is 100%, many lineman don't live past their 50's because of what they put themselves through. I will agree however, that Hurling requires an amazing amount of skill, and it takes much longer to master