Best Sport Ever!

The Best Sport Ever Lacrosse!

Lacrosse, have you heard of it? If you're thinking of the sport with baskets mounted on a pole and you try to score a ball in the net goal thing. Then you're right! That's basically what it is. But there are many verity so between the ways genders and countries play it. I love the sport because of many things such as its a team sport and you get to throw a ball. I lost love how it is played.

What is lacrosse you know it's a sport with a basket on a pole and you try to shoot goals with a ball, but what else is there to it. Girls lacrosse is a graceful sport of stick skills, speed, and agility. Here is a clip of a middle school girls game http://youtu.be/JYLKmw6WxCA. In the video it shows you some of the game and what there is to it. This is not my game.

Boys                                Girls                                                    Both

Boys and girls lacrosse are not the same game. Boy lacrosse they wear helmets, mouth guards, and shoulder and upper body pads. Whereas in the girls game there is only mouth guard and goggles that look like the ones above. There is one more part of the gear that is different that is the sticks the girls have medium length stick that go about up to the waste and that have shallow or not very deep pockets, whereas the boys have deep pockets and varying sticks from the position you play, defence long sticks, offence or attack short sticks, and midfield middle sized sticks. You know the gear is different but what you did not know was that the game is played differently too. To start the game the girls start in a draw which is when the ball is placed between the backs of two sticks and is held there until the whistle is blown and then the ball gets popped in the air and everyone tries to catch it in there sticks. The boys don’t start with a draw though they start with a face of which is the same as a face-off in hockey. The reason all the boys were all that padding is also because they do a lot more checking which is in simple terms hitting others stick and body. Here are some girls rules http://www.playsportstv.com/girls-lacrosse/articles/1921/10-important-girls%E2%80%99-lacrosse-rules-for-beginners

and here is the boys ones http://www.playsportstv.com/boys-lacrosse/articles/1909/10-important-boys%E2%80%99-lacrosse-rules.

My sport is the girls game. I love the skill and grace needed and not the rough and toughness of the boys game. To me the girls game is the better one because it is not about how hard you hit but about your mind skills and you thinking fast not waking fast. Even if I was to where all that padding I would still be scared of getting whacked by a stick or whacking others. Like with many other sports though skill does not come from anywhere it comes from practice. In my lacrosse practices we are play 3v2s and passing with friends and also just practicing little tricks to ourselves. After a few days or so of practicing we have a game or a tournament. In the games we prove we can be great and play hard. Winning is really fun and awesome but it does not happen all the time so when we do win we glory in it and when we don’t we try harder to win the next one.

Works Cited

“Google Images.” Google Images. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Jan. 2016. <https://images.google.com/>.

Middle School Girls Lacrosse Clip. Youtube. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Jan. 2016. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYLKmw6WxCA&feature=youtu.be>.

“10 Important Boys’ Lacrosse Rules.” PlaySportsTV. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Jan. 2016. <http://www.playsportstv.com/boys-lacrosse/articles/1909/10-important-boys%E2%80%99-lacrosse-rules>.

“10 Important Girls’ Lacrosse Rules for Beginners.” PlaySportsTV. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Jan. 2016. <http://www.playsportstv.com/girls-lacrosse/articles/1921/10-important-girls%E2%80%99-lacrosse-rules-for-beginners>.

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