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If your interest is triggered, you want to start a team or you have any questions, the ICEWH can offer a lot more information and support. Please mail to: [email protected] or visit our website www.icewh.org. Here you find all about EWH, like the required equipment and the Game Rules.
Postal Address
IWAS-EWH sport section
Olympic Village
Guttmann Road, Aylesbury
Bucks HP21 9PP, UK
ICEWH
IWAS Committee
Electric Wheelchair Hockey
W www.icewh.org
IWAS
International Wheelchair &
Amputees Sports Federation
W www.iwasf.com
Electric Wheelchair Hockey A fast and exciting team sport!
To play and to watch!
The main tasks of the ICEWH are:
to sanction a regular international EWH
competition calendar with World Championships and Regional Championships.
to develop the sport world-wide, by education
to athletes, referees, jury members and classifiers, by development events and demonstration games
to support (new) EWH-nations.
The dream is to become a Paralympic Sport !
The game, athletes and equipment
Electric Wheelchair Hockey (EWH) is a fantastic sport for people, who use an electric wheelchair in their daily life or who need an electric wheelchair to participate in a team sport. The game is played five against five, on an indoor playing field, surrounded by boundaries with round corners. The goals are placed in the field, so that the players can drive around and the game keeps running. In combination with the speed of the electric wheelchairs and the great skills of the players it makes the sport very fast, and very exciting to play and to watch!
Four field players and a goalkeeper are on the playing field during a match. A team may have five substitute players. Many players play with light weighted Floorball sticks, as the players don’t have that much strength in the hands/arms, because of their severe disabilities.
Other players play with a so-called ‘T-Stick’, a T shaped stick attached to the wheelchair of players who are not able to hold the stick in the hand, because of the limited muscle power. The goalkeeper and at least one field player must play with a T-Stick. The game is played with a light weighted ball, as used in Floorball.
Movement and speed (max. 15 km/h) on the field is a central aspect of the game. The athletes train and play a lot to become very skillful with their wheelchair, stick and ball. From a tactical perspective, tactics, such as screen setting, passing and other offence and defense playing systems from many
other ball sports, are used in Electric Wheelchair Hockey.
Criteria for the severity of functional impairments (”classification”, “minimal disabilities” and “players eligibility”) need to be met in order to be allowed to practice Electric Wheelchair Hockey. Players can use all their physical abilities in this sport. The sport is open for men and women – boys and girls of all ages.
The international movement.
From the 1970’s in different places around the world, independent from each other, people with severe disabilities started to play a game with a ball and a stick. In Germany and the Netherlands it was named “Hockey”, related to Field Hockey, while Finland spoke about “Floorball”. In Canada and the USA the sport was named “Power Hockey”, linked with Ice Hockey. In the 1980’s the first national and international competitions
were organised.
In 2002 the international movement started, organized by the IWAS Committee of Electric Wheelchair Hockey (ICEWH). Since 2005 this committee is a sport section of the International Wheelchair & Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS), the formal founder of the Paralympic Games. Every two years Sport Assemblies are held where international game rules, regulations and policy are approved by the participating EWH-nations.
People can play in their own electric wheelchair, although electric wheelchair manufacturers have developed special electric sports wheelchairs, which are professional,
sportive and fast.
