SHINTY

Organization: 2 groups of 10-12 players.

Length of the game: 10 minutes

Material: sticks and balls

Part of the sesin: Main part
Development:
The aim of this game is to play a small ball into a goal, or hail.
The players use a stick which may also used to block and to tackle, although a player
may not come down on an opponents stick, this is defined as hacking.
A player may tackle using body as long as this is shoulder-to-shoulder.
A player can only stop the ball with the stick, the chest, two feet together or one foot
the ground. Only goalkeeper can use his hands (he cant catch it).
A player can play the ball in the air and is allowed to use both sides of the stick.
Playing the ball with the head constitues a foul (it is considered dangerous play).

History and something about game:

This ball is a hard solid sphere slightly smaller tan a tennis ball, consisting of a cork core
covered by two pieces of leather stitched together. The ball is played using a caman, whic
a stick, made of wood.

Shinty is older than the recorded history os Scotland. Its thought to predate Christianity, ha
come to Scotland with the Gaels from Ireland. Hurling, which is a similar game to shinty, is
derived from the historic game common to both peoples which has been a distinct Irish pas
for at leats 2.000 years. These games appears prominently in the legend of Cchulainn, the
mythology hero.

The origins of the name shinty are uncertain. There is a theory that the name was derived f
the cries used in the game; shin ye, shin you and shin t'ye, other dialect names
were shinnins, shinnack and shinnup, or as Hugh Dan MacLennan proposes from the Scottis
Gaelic snteag. However, there was never one all encompassing name for the game, as it he
different names from glen to glen, including cluich-bhall (play-ball in English) and in the Sco
Lowlands, where it was formerly referred to
asHailes, common/cammon (caman), cammock (from Scottish Gaelic camag), knotty and
various other names, as well as the terms still used to refer to it in modern
Gaelic,camanachd or iomain.

The game was traditionally played through the winter months, with New Year's Day being th
day when whole villages would gather together to play games featuring teams of up to seve
hundred a side, players often using any piece of wood with a hook as a caman. In Uist, stalk
of seaweed were put to use due to a lack of trees. Modern camans are made from several

laminates of ash or hickory, which are glued and cut into shape, although one-piece camans
were still commonplace until the early 1980s. The ball was traditionally a round piece of wo
bone, sometimes called a cnapag, but soon developed into the worsted leather balls used to