GAA Official IRELAND game Sliotar Size 5 hurling ball

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Please allow an additional 2-5 days for personalised and customised products (this includes all club and education items). Wide range of hurling balls available for training and matches including wall balls, from Go Games sliotars to Senior hurling. The balls have been developed round the requirements by GAA Go Game initiative for children up to 12 years of age. We have an incredible range of Sliotars here at Sports Direct, with dozens of different sliotars to be browsed to get ready for your next hurling match or training session. An overhead catch is a method of catching the sliotar in the air and using the hurl to protect your hand from the sticks of opposing players.

Your foot placement should be the reverse of your hand placement, where your non-dominant foot is forward as the planted foot. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Seller has stated it will dispatch the item within 1 working day upon receipt of cleared payment - opens in a new window or tab . When a team is on the attack with the sliotar, a player can score a point by hitting the ball over the crossbar, or beat the goalkeeper by hitting the ball under the crossbar, which is worth 3 points. Offensive players may prefer lighter and shorter hurls, so they run easier with the ball and can have a faster, wristy swing to score.The player who gains possession from the throw-in can maintain possession by either carrying the ball forward or passing to another player.

The man credited with initial standardisation of the sliotar is Ned Treston (1862–1949) of Gort, County Galway. A hurl or hurley is traditionally made from ash wood, but in recent years hurls are also made from composite materials, fibreglass, and most recently from bamboo. A hurl pass is when a player shortens their grip on a hurl and strikes the sliotar out of their hand to a nearby player. A solo run is when a player balances a sliotar on the bas of the hurl as they move down the field with possession of the ball. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.

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Instead, a player must perform a hand-pass, which is to throw the sliotar slightly up in the air and bat it forward with the same hand. From classic white sliotars to brighter winter designs and sliotars featuring the badge and colours of your favourite GAA teams, we simply have every kind of sliotar for sale that you could be looking for.A hurling match is played with any combination of hurling skills, such as solo runs, hurl passes, hand passes, ground strikes, and many other allowed moves to drive the ball up the field. The faux leather with soft padded material ads extra strong grip on the ball while trying to catch the ball in air without worrying about its speed and movement. This size hurl or hurley a player needs depends in part on player preference, but a good rule of thumb is for the hurl to be the length from the ground to a player’s wrist bone. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. A hurling match begins with a throw-in where two sets of two players from either team compete shoulder-to-shoulder for the sliotar which is thrown in at ground level by the referee at the halfway mark.