Lacrosse

By: Jimmy Holcomb

Table of Contents

• Introduction• Chapter One: Gear• Chapter Two: Positions• Chapter Three: Rules• Chapter Four: Day in the Life of A Lacrosse Stick• Conclusion• Glossary• Sources

Introduction

Lacrosse is the best sport on earth. It is a combination between soccer, basketball. and hockey. This book will include the Positions, Rules, and Gear. This sport gives kids and adults something to do and something to live for. This game was the first ever sport with a ball to be played.

Shoulder Pads Helmet

Gloves Elbow Pads

Gear The pads you need

In the game of Lacrosse you need a whole lot of proactive gear so you don’t get hurt. The gear is Helmet, Shoulder pads, Elbow pads, and Gloves.

Shoulder pads

You need shoulder pads because you don’t want to get hit straight on the shoulder without gear. You want to get the right size so you have your whole shoulder covered or they are not doing their job.

Helmet

There are a lot of different types of helmets, but they all do the same thing. They protect you from getting hurt when you get hit on the head. Some helmet brands are Cascade, Brine, Schutt also patterned with Stx, and Riddell.

Elbow pads

They make three different sizes of elbow pads. There are defense, middie, and attack. The defense ones are the smallest. They are worn because It is rule. But the middie ones go from about half way down your arm and just past the elbow. Attack players wear ones that go from the gloves to the shoulder pads.

Gloves

They make good and also bad gloves the gloves that are below $75 are not very good quality, they will hurt your hands. The ones above $75 are better and will not hurt your hands when you wear them and that is what you want.

Middie Defense

GoalieAttack

PositionsThere are four positions: attack, middie, defense, and goalie. These are all

important jobs.

Middie

This position calls for the most running. They have to run up and down the field every time you get or loose the ball. If you want to play this position you better be in shape or you will get tired easily.

Defense

This position is the one with the least amount of stick skills. But you have to learn your position of your feet. Also you have to move by shuffling your feet and running sideways. And if you are playing a zone you want to know your position so you don’t get yelled at.

Attack

Attack is the offensive position. You have to have a hard fast shot and an accurate one. You also want to have some dodges do you can get around you’re your defender to shoot and score.

Fogo

This stands for face-off/ get off. At higher levels you might have a person on your team that has a scholarship just for this position. That’s because face off are an important aspect of the game.

Goalie This position takes the most brave person. Because at college you might get hit with a lacrosse ball coming at 100 miles per hour. That might hurt.

RulesThere are lots of rules in the game of lacrosse, some of the

main ones are offside's, crosscheck, slash, crease. I will also mention other rules and explain them in a short sentence. Off sides is when you don’t either have 3 players on the offensive side or four on the defense side of the field. You also can’t have less than 7 players on the field so that means no more than there people can go to the penalty box. There are two types of penalties non-releasable and releasable one is worse than the other. The home team has to supply four balls on both sides of the field behind the goal five yards off the end line. Also you need to have four at the scorers table. Once you are up by 12 or more points in the second half the clock does not stop unless of a timeout. A crosscheck is when you have your hands separated and you extend your stick and hit them. A slash is when you hit someone and not their stick at all. Crease is when you step into the other teams goalies crease.

Side Wall

Mesh

Shooter

Top String

A Day in the Life of a Lacrosse Stick

One day my mesh sidewall shooters top string head and shaft were on the rack for sale then were all bought. Then the kid that bought me started to string me and my pals into his head. He first folded the mesh so it would have the right number of holes. Wow that hurt! Then he started to do the top string he was knotting it and it was winding my top string up and pulling me tighter. After that he went to do the sidewall he was knotting it into the wall and pulling me tighter on both sides. Then he went to tie off the bottom and he tied it off. When he was done with that he started to wind in the shooters. Finally he was done and he left me and I got to relax and get comfortable like this because this is how I will stay.

Conclusion

This is all you need to know about lacrosse to be a beginner at lacrosse. We learned that you need to wear elbow pads, shoulder pads, helmet, and gloves to protect your self from being easily hurt. We also talked about the rules and the skills sets needed to play the different positions of the game. I hope this book went over the basic rules and made you want to play this great sport. If you are interested in playing, you can get some pads and start playing with a community team for the first few years because you want to get better and not on a very competitive team. You can get on a travel team when you think you are ready.

Glossary• Releasable penalty: when you go to the box and you don’t do

something too bad so that when the other team scores you can come out of the box.

• Non-releasable penalty: this is when you do something so bad even when the other team scores you stay in the box

• Crease: the place where no one but the goalie and his own team.• Elbow pads: something you wear to protect your elbows so they

don’t get hurt.• Helmet: worn to protect your head from getting hurt.• Gloves: something you wear so you don’t break your hands• Sidewall: a string you use to tie your mesh to your head on the side• Top string: the string you use to tie the mesh to the top of the head• Mesh: the stuff you use to catch the ball• Shooters: what makes the ball come out of your stick the same way

every time• Head: the thing you string everything into• Shaft: that pole you put the head on when it is all strung

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