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  1. Field hockey sticks were invented over 4,000 years ago by the Egyptians. This is regarded as the world’s oldest sporting equipment. The stick has grown to be a popular game around the world, thanks to its origins in Egypt and widespread use. The stick’s original source was bamboo, but it has since been replaced by fiberglass and wood.
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    The Egyptians made the stick about 4,000 years ago. People believe it’s the oldest sport equipment. The stick was created/discovered in Egypt and now many people play the sport all around the world. The stick was originally made from bamboo and now it is made from wood and fiberglass.
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    The first hockey sticks were made of wood, but today they are made of composite materials such as fiberglass, carbon fiber, or Kevlar. The first recorded use of a hockey stick was in a game of field hockey played in England in the early 1800s. The game was played with a stick that was curved at the end, which was used to hit a small ball.
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    There have been only three parts of a hockey stick ever named in the rules: the head, the handle, and the splice. Originally (until 2004) the handle was the part above the bottom end of the splice and the head was the part below the bottom end of the splice. See more

    In field hockey, each player carries a stick and cannot take part in the game without it. The stick for an adult is usually in the range 89–95 cm … See more

    In 1982 a Dutch inventor, Toon Coolen, patented a hockey stick with a "hook" head. The hockey stick manufacturers Grays See more

    It may be noted from the diagram above that no matter how "tight" the heel bend, reversing the stick head over the ball, with a "traditional" style hockey stick head, always requires both a vertical and horizontal adjustment of the stick head position. This is not … See more

    After centuries of different variations of field hockey (including a version in England, sometime prior to 1860, in which, because of the very … See more

    The first major developments to what was later termed the "English style" stick (and the method of play with such sticks) occurred in India. (The game in its modern form was … See more

    The death knell of the ultra short head was sounded in 1986, due to the introduction of the midi head shape, produced with a laminating process; … See more

    The illustration called 'Stopping and Hitting' shows that when a vertical stick shaft is aligned to the centre of the ball part of the ball protrudes to the heel side, this would happen even if the heel was not a bend but a 90° corner and the only way to cover the entire … See more

     
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