Floorball News Statistics in floorball: diving into player, goalkeeper and team stats [final part] Welcome to the third and final part about statistics in floorball. In the previous articles, you’ve been able to read about how floorball analytics can help you win the game and how you can become a better floorball player by sitting behind the computer. In this final part, you’ll get to see more of the […] Written by Daniël Nicolai June 29, 2019June 29, 2019 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Floorball News Become a better floorball player by sitting behind the computer [part 2] Continuing our miniseries about statistics in floorball, here’s part 2. We started off with an extended introduction and now, David Schenker would like to give you some more illustrated examples. How is the image below helping you a in floorball game, one might wonder. It’s not clear at all what all dots mean and how […] Written by Daniël Nicolai June 25, 2019June 25, 2019 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Floorball News How floorball analysis can help you win the game [part 1] The next weeks, we’ll have a few guest articles by David Schenker (Floorballytics), who will lead us through the world of analytics in floorball. David was assistant coach for SV Waldenburg Eagles, and, in 2017, he already wrote a few articles for FloorballToday (for instance: the differences in goal scoring in Sweden/Finland). Now there’s time […] Written by Daniël Nicolai June 21, 2019June 21, 2019 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Floorball News IFF decides to take time-out in ‘Grip Gate’, changes might be withdrawn After a storm of protest, the International Floorball Federation (IFF) has decided to put the announced rules on the same stick and grip on hold for the time being. The federation will take the time to reconsider the decision. Last week it was announced that the IFF wanted to make it mandatory that stick grips […] Written by Daniël Nicolai June 18, 2019June 18, 2019 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Floorball News VIDEO: How to properly change the grip of your floorball stick This week’s focus word is GRIP. The whole floorball world reacted heavily towards the new restrictions on grips. Now Hugo from FG Floorball teaches how to change your grip in an emergency video. Emergency? Yes, the grip he changes will soon be highly illegal and only sold in dark and shady city corners. Written by Anne-Jan Hempenius June 14, 2019June 14, 2019 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Floorball News Grip gate: how the floorball community responds to the new grip rule Earlier today, we wrote about the new IFF rule which states your grip has to match your stick brand. On social media, you let us know what you thought of these rules. Here’s a selection of the reactions. Many of you were indignant and upset with the new rule, as can be seen below as […] Written by Daniël Nicolai June 11, 2019June 11, 2019 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Floorball News “The main reason behind the proposal is to secure the business for the manufacturers” This morning the IFF announced another update of the Material Regulations with a controversial regulation added: from 1 July 2020 the brand of the grip has to match the one of the stick. We contacted the IFF with your most burning questions and we were answered by Secretary General John Liljelund. The first question is […] Written by Anne-Jan Hempenius June 11, 2019June 11, 2019 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Floorball News BIG CHANGE: From 2020 the brand of your grip and your stick has to match! The IFF Central Board meeting has taken place and perhaps the biggest change will be that from 1 July 2020 every player will be required to have the brand of their grip match the brand of their stick. In the most recent edition of the IFF Central Board meeting, the CB of the IFF approved […] Written by Anne-Jan Hempenius June 11, 2019June 11, 2019 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Floorball News (Proud) Czech U19 team captain Josef Juha: “We used their hunger against them.” On the 4th of May the Czech U19 team set foot on Halifax, Canada after a long and tiresome flight. Eight days later, the team wrote history by winning the first U19 WFC gold medal in the history of Czech Republic. Only two days later, we would get a hold of the team’s captain Josef […] Written by Anne-Jan Hempenius May 15, 2019May 15, 2019 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Floorball News VIDEO: 17-year old Filip Langer humiliates Sweden with insane solo run in U19 finals Only 17 and on his second U19 WFC, Filipa Langer shows why he is said to become the next Czech superstar showing his skill and scoring a crucial 3-0 goal against Sweden in the U19 WFC finals. READ: The Future of FloorballToday [YouPlaySinglePlayer video=”922,853,262636″ ap yot yod yos ] Written by Anne-Jan Hempenius May 13, 2019May 13, 2019 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
PRO (Patron Only) Forward Bootcamp Pt. 2 – Key points for forwards (including Pylsy, Zaugg, and Sjögren) Welcome back to our Forward Bootcamp! In part 1, I explained to you what to do when you or your team has the ball (chapter 1) and what to do when the opponent has the ball (chapter 2). In part 2, I’ll explain what to do in the ‘in-between moments’: the moment your team wins […] Written by Daniël Nicolai August 7, 2020July 31, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
PRO (Patron Only) Strategy Floorball Bootcamp for Forwards: Part I You can only win a floorball game by scoring at least once, but actually: the more, the better. Usually, it’s the forwards that score the goals, although of course, this is not always the case. Featured image from Per Wiklund. By the end of this bootcamp, I will have given you all the tools so […] Written by Daniël Nicolai July 10, 2020July 10, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Blogs PRO (Patron Only) Energy, Work & Power – How physics in hockey can help you with your SLAPSHOT | PRO When executed well, the slapshot is the fastest shot in floorball. Where do the speed and power come from? That’s what I’m gonna dive into today, helped by ice hockey and… physics! Fact: in 2011, the record for the hardest ice hockey shot was broken: Denis Kulyash (Russia) managed to shoot with a speed of […] Written by Daniël Nicolai July 10, 2020July 10, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
