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SHINTY 

Material: sticks and balls Organization: 2 groups of 10-12 players.

Part of the sesión: Main part Length of the game: 10 minutes

Development:

•  The aim of this game is to play a small ball into a goal, or “hail”.

•  The players use a stick hich may also used to block and to tackle, although a playe

may not come don on an opponent!s stick, this is de"ned as hacking.• # player may tackle using body as long as this is shoulder-to-shoulder.

• # player can only stop the ball ith the stick, the chest, to feet together or one foo

the ground. $nly goalkeeper can use his hands %he can!t catch it&.• # player can play the ball in the air and is alloed to use both sides of the stick.

• 'laying the ball ith the head constitues a foul %it is considered dangerous play&.

History an something a!o"t game: This ball is a hard solid sphere slightly smaller tan a tennis ball, consisting of a cork coreco(ered by to pieces of leather stitched together. The ball is played using a “caman”, hia stick, made of ood.

 

)hinty is older than the recorded history os )cotland. *t!s thought to predate +hristianity, hcome to )cotland ith the aels from *reland. urling, hich is a similar game to shinty, isderi(ed from the historic game common to both peoples hich has been a distinct *rish pasfor at leats 2.000 years. These games appears prominently in the legend of +chulainn, thmythology hero.

 The origins of the name shinty are uncertain. There is a theory that the name as deri(ed

the cries used in the game/ shin ye, shin you and shin tye, other dialect namesere shinnins, shinnack and shinnup, or as ugh an Macennan proposes from the )cottiaelic s3nteag. oe(er, there as ne(er one all encompassing name for the game, as it hdi4erent names from glen to glen, including cluich-bhall %play-ball in 5nglish& and in the )colands, here it as formerly referred toasailes, common6cammon %caman&, cammock %from )cottish aelic camag&, knotty and(arious other names, as ell as the terms still used to refer to it in modernaelic,camanachd or iomain.

 The game as traditionally played through the inter months, ith 7e 8ears ay being tday hen hole (illages ould gather together to play games featuring teams of up to se(

hundred a side, players often using any piece of ood ith a hook as a caman. *n 9ist, stalof seaeed ere put to use due to a lack of trees. Modern camans are made from se(eral

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laminates of ash or hickory, hich are glued and cut into shape, although one-piece camanere still commonplace until the early 1:;0s. The ball as traditionally a round piece of obone, sometimes called a cnapag, but soon de(eloped into the orsted leather balls used t

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