Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License and the GFDL; additional terms may apply. Your challenge as a forward is to break free from your marker and be on the goalside of your marker. Camogie is an Irish stick sport played by women that’s similar to hurling, with slight differences in the rules and equipment. 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.

The hurling training balls are made with 100% hand stitched sliotars, two hard leather sliotars are stitched together with hands in a way to be visible clearly in the air while catching or passing it to your team mate. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The objective of the hurling is to progress the ball up the field to score one of two ways through an H-shaped goal post: through the upright posts for 1 point, or in the net for 1 goal, which is worth 3 points. The hurling balls are containing hard cork core inside the ball stitched with two leather layers, cork core inside the ball makes it heavy enough to move it quickly, the cork inside makes it hard, harder than a tennis ball, because of hard cork material inside the ball it has a capacity of 150 km/h or 93 mph in speed and 110 meters or 361 ft.

Wide range of hurling balls available for training and matches including wall balls, from Go Games sliotars to Senior hurling. 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.

However, a defender who is doing their job correctly won’t allow you to do this which is why you’ll often find yourself on the non-goalside of your marker. The construction materials also meant that the ball was only about half as heavy as Treston's version. When holding a hurl, your dominant hand should always be placed on top and be used to power your swing. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. 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.The etymology is uncertain, with some connecting it to sliabh ("mountain") and thar ("across"), after Cúchulainn's story of hitting a silver ball across a mountain.

There are two different sliotar sizes for adults, based on whether you’re playing hurling or camogie. The man credited with initial standardisation of the sliotar is Ned Treston (1862–1949) of Gort, County Galway.A poc around (or puck around) is a casual hit-around between a group of players, in a non-gameplay setting.