Catching the ball three times in a row without it touching the ground (touching the hurley does not count)

An official Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) sliotar, as used in top level hurling competitions such as the National Hurling League or the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championships is subject to strict regulations as regards its size, mass and composition. [3] Ever since its prehistoric foundations, hurling has been played with two fundamental instruments; a hurl and a ball. The Sliotar's composition has included various components including wood, leather, rope, animal hair until the modern molded synthetic Cummins Sports version that will be used this week in the All-Ireland final. To deliberately throw the ball up and catch it again (the ball must touch a hurley or other body part)

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There are three additional Smart Sliotar licensees which have passed the sliotar specification tests and are available for the U20 and Minor Inter-County Hurling Championships, in addition to Green Fields and O’Neills - Junior – this level is for players who haven’t gained a place at Senior or Intermediate level. Junior teams can be divided into Junior A, Junior B, Junior C, and Junior D. As we reminded you this week, the only thing 'new' about the yellow ball introduced for the 2020 championship is its colour, which is intended to make it more visible in front of floodlights, cloudy skies and goalposts. Valerie Kennelly, an Optometrist who is a world leading authority on sports vision, pictured speaking during the 2014 GAA Coaching Development Conference. It's kind of like the elephant in the room. It's so obvious that people think it can't really be that important. But when the penny drops you'll have people say to you, 'Oh my God, why didn't we think of this'. But then they often don't follow it up the way they should.

King, Seamus J. (1998). The Clash of the Ash in Foreign Fields: Hurling Abroad. p.85. ISBN 978-0-9533513-0-5.

Wall Balls - The wall balls are little lighter in weight and hence is being used widely for training and practising catching and striking by hitting against a wall. These are manufactured by using artificial leather which is moisture resistant. 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. What does a “hand pass” mean in hurling?

A lot of times players think their vision is okay and they can see the ball with no problems, but they may not be aware that their eyes are not working together optimally, that there might be a small deficiency that's affecting their accuracy.Research led by the author, Prof Dermot Brabazon and Dr Fiachra Collins from DCU started to examine the mechanical characteristics and design of sliotars in far more detail using a specially designed testing rig. It was able to launch balls at up to 80 miles-per-hour and used a very high-speed camera and force plate to determine how much the sliotar deformed during high impacts, and how fast (and far) the sliotar would travel. A ground strike is when a player hits the sliotar on the ground. Are you allowed to throw the ball in hurling? A chip is embedded in the core of each Smart Sliotar which can be read by an app on a mobile phone and is used for sliotar verification purposes in Senior, U20 and Minor (U17) Inter-County Official Games. Irish immigrants began arriving in Argentina in the 19th century. [21] The earliest reference to hurling in Argentina dates from the late 1880s in Mercedes, Buenos Aires. However, the game was not actively promoted until 1900, when it came to the attention of author and newspaperman William Bulfin. Under Bulfin's patronage, the Hurling Club was formed on 15 July 1900, leading to teams being established in different neighborhoods of Buenos Aires and the surrounding farming communities. Concerns that many of the sliotars coming from outside Ireland were not meeting the specifications set and bearing counterfeit stamps - not to mention suspicions they were being produced with child labour - have led the GAA to pursue a digital sliotar for games, which will only be produced by approved manufacturers.

The first ever hurling game played in the Scottish Highlands was played at Easter 2012 between CLG Micheal Breathnach and Fir Uladh, an Ulster select of Gaeiligoiri, as part of the Iomain Cholmcille festival, na Breathnaich coming out victorious. New regulations aim to put end to 'codology' over sliotars". irishexaminer.com. Irish Examiner. 1 August 2006 . Retrieved 2 September 2019. Just like many sports, hurling matches are played as part of a league, championship, or as a challenge. A challenge match is another term for a friendly match. At intercounty level, a hurling match consists of two 35 minute halves. At club level, each half is 30 minutes. How big is a hurling pitch? Sliotars are hard solid balls used in the game of hurling. They are also known by the name of sliothar or only hurling ball. The regulations and standards of the balls are inspected by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). The balls should be manufactured by thorough supervision or it will hamper the strike rate of the players. The players are required to hit the sliotar with the aid of a hurley and aim inside a goalpost. These balls are also used in other Gaelic games like shinty, camogie and rounders. Manufacturing of Sliotar and its DimensionsPeople would claim the same thing has happened in golf, and the ball has been a contributory factor, but you just can't pin everything on the ball. About 80 per cent of the population are right-eye dominant, right-handed, and right-footed or else left-eye dominant, left-handed and left-footed. Leaving 20 per cent of the population to be cross-dominant which means either right handed but left-eye dominant, or left-handed but right-eye dominant. King, Seamus J. (1998). The Clash of the Ash in Foreign Fields: Hurling Abroad. p.129. ISBN 978-0-9533513-0-5. There really needs to be a big educational campaign, I think, to bring that to people's awareness really. Hurling has been played with a white sliotar for so long that the thoughts of moving away from that will be anathema for some.