Hey There! And Hockey!

[przed]

As my first official DW post, I thought I'd put up the pic I was going to post on LJ before the TOS thing happened.

It's a pic from the final day of the Learn to Play hockey class I took, along with a bunch of other lovely women. (I'm the short one in a teal and black jersey in the back row.)

Comments

[solosundance]

I am very impressed, and great pic! When we talk about hockey in the UK we're generally thinking of the non-slidey version. Not that there aren't ice hockey teams and leagues and so on but it's not a big sport here either professionally or in school/college. Mind you, hockey itself here has a 'jolly hockey sticks' image, ie a sport only played at posh girls' schools, but the national women's team did pretty well in Rio. No idea why I'm rambling about hockey - I've never played any version *g*

[przed]

The slidey version of hockey is all encompassing here. Which I knew before Ros (and I) got into it, but I didn't really know.

Before this year, I'd only played the field hockey version, and my memories of it are of getting my fingers and shins whacked with a great bloody wooden stick. Not my sport at all. (At least for slidey hockey you're wearing so much gear it's difficult, though not impossible, to get hurt in a friendly game.)