Studio.Hockey
By Studio.Hockey
Studio.HockeyJul 11, 2019
Panel talk Eurohockey Championships 2023
Marcos Hofmann - a candidate for president of the EHF
Interview with Marcos Hofmann about his candidacy for the position of EHF president. The interview with the other candidate Peter Elders can be found on here as well. Also check out the opinion piece from both interviews in our columns at https://studiohockey.com/columns/the-choice-between-a-diplomat-or-entrepreneur-for-ehf/
Peter Elders - a candidate for president of the EHF
Interview with Peter Elders about his candidacy for the position of EHF president. The interview with the other candidate Marcos Hofmann can be found on here as well. Also check out the opinion piece from both interviews in our columns at https://studiohockey.com/columns/the-choice-between-a-diplomat-or-entrepreneur-for-ehf/
Dry artificial grass for hockey - panel talk
Following the assignment of the new world cup for 2026 to both the Netherlands and Belgium, the FIH decided this event would be the first for non-irrigated fields. Much to the surprise (again) of most involved. When we talked to players, coaches, high performance directors and other relevant experts most were and are very sceptical. I think all of us agree it is the way forward. Water is a scarce resource and we need to find a solution. But if the timeline for this is a unilateral decision made by administrators, without involving relevant stakeholders, we imagine it could be problematic. So we invited some experts for an open and transparent panel talk about the move towards dry artificial grass for hockey.
In February of 2023 these experts joined me in a panel talk about the move towards a non-irrigated surface for hockey. Listen to the podcast here or watch it on Spotify or Youtube where you’ll find the full and unedited video of this panel talk. Our panel featured the following experts:
- Jeroen Hertzberger 🇳🇱, international player
- Adam Commens 🇦🇺 🇧🇪, former international player & coach – now high performance director for Hockey Belgium
- Stephen Butler 🇮🇪, former international player & co-founder Osaka (stick & shoe brand)
- Colin Young 🇬🇧, global R&D director for Tencate Grass
- Alastair Cox 🇬🇧, Facilities & Quality Programme Manager for the FIH
Listen (or watch) it here and judge for yourself...
World Cup 2023 - Panel Talk 4: Thomas Briels, Sander Baart, Miki Delas & Tobi Walter
The fourth and final panel talk for the 2023 world cup was hosted on January 29, just before the medal games and featured Thomas Briels (BEL), Sander Baart (NED), Miki Delas (ESP) & Tobi Walter (GER)
World Cup 2023 - Panel Talk 3: Danny Kerry, Jeroen Baart, Ben Bishop & Jude Menezes
World Cup 2023 - Panel Talk 2: Xavier Reckinger & Agus Corradini
World Cup 2023 - Panel Talk 1: Mo Fürste, Mark Knowles, Bob de Voogd & Judith Vandermeiren
Women's World Cup Panel Talk
Video from our panel talk hosted by thehockeysite.com during the Women's World Cup hockey. Guest coaches on the panel were: Lucas Judge, Tsoanelo Pholo and Nacho Bergner. Hosted by Ernst Baart.
Recorded live on July 15, 2022.
Indoor Hockey Huddle for the FIH Academy
As the FIH Academy continues to make the most of online opportunities, the next exciting webinar aimed at hockey development across the globe focuses in on the game of indoor hockey.
Despite the cancellation of the FIH Indoor Hockey World Cup due to the on-going pandemic, the Indoor Hockey Huddle is going full steam ahead.
Long recognised as both a thrilling format of the game and a place where real skill development can happen, indoor hockey is going from strength to strength in many parts of the world.
Among the many examples of indoor hockey initiatives are the Pro Series Indoor Hockey Franchise (PSI) in South Africa; Indoor Hockey UK in England; the massively popular Indoor Hockey Championships in the USA; and the club scene in European countries, with Complutense HC in Spain yet another European club that is developing the indoor game alongside its outdoor counterpart.
The Indoor Hockey Huddle gives a chance for participants to tune in and listen to an online debate featuring speakers from all of these examples. Moderated by journalist and founder of The Hockey Site Ernst Baart, the talk will provide both information and inspiration for anyone seeking to develop their own Indoor Hockey offering, whether in a school, club, state or national setting.
It is not just participation which will be at the focus of this discussion. The panelists, guided by Baart, will also examine how the sport, which is renowned for its atmospheric indoor conditions and vocal crowds, can make the most of its appeal to spectators.
Joining Baart will be Ross Willis, who is currently working with Hockey Ireland on its national indoor programme. Willis is an expert in developing the indoor game as he is tournament manager of PSI South Africa. This is a programme of tournaments, clinics and coaching sessions that has brought indoor hockey to more than 25,000 hockey players across South Africa.
Madeline Hoeppner is Director of Events at USA Field Hockey, where the annual National Indoor Tournament has age group competitions ranging from under 10 through to senior and masters players.
William Davey is operations director of Indoor Hockey UK, which is tapping into the appetite for indoor hockey at club and school level in the UK, and Nacho Usoz is Head Coach to the first team at Complutense HC in Madrid, where indoor hockey is developing alongside its outdoor counterpart.
Whatever your level of interest in this fast and exciting game, the webinar will provide ideas, inspiration and a heap of practical measures to introduce or develop indoor hockey in your own environment.
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The video podcast is available at Spotify
Year Of The Youth Huddle #8
The FIH Academy in association with the EHF Youth Panel & thehockeysite.com the Year Of The Youth Huddle. A day of online talks with top players, coaches, umpires and leaders in support of the global youth hockey community. Recorded live on September 21, 2021. The day was split in 8 different sessions...
Year Of The Youth Huddle #7
The FIH Academy in association with the EHF Youth Panel & thehockeysite.com the Year Of The Youth Huddle. A day of online talks with top players, coaches, umpires and leaders in support of the global youth hockey community. Recorded live on September 21, 2021. The day was split in 8 different sessions...
Year Of The Youth Huddle #6
The FIH Academy in association with the EHF Youth Panel & thehockeysite.com the Year Of The Youth Huddle. A day of online talks with top players, coaches, umpires and leaders in support of the global youth hockey community. Recorded live on September 21, 2021. The day was split in 8 different sessions...
Year Of The Youth Huddle #5
The FIH Academy in association with the EHF Youth Panel & thehockeysite.com the Year Of The Youth Huddle. A day of online talks with top players, coaches, umpires and leaders in support of the global youth hockey community. Recorded live on September 21, 2021. The day was split in 8 different sessions...
Year Of The Youth Huddle #4
The FIH Academy in association with the EHF Youth Panel & thehockeysite.com the Year Of The Youth Huddle. A day of online talks with top players, coaches, umpires and leaders in support of the global youth hockey community. Recorded live on September 21, 2021. The day was split in 8 different sessions...
Year Of The Youth Huddle #3
The FIH Academy in association with the EHF Youth Panel & thehockeysite.com the Year Of The Youth Huddle. A day of online talks with top players, coaches, umpires and leaders in support of the global youth hockey community. Recorded live on September 21, 2021. The day was split in 8 different sessions...
Year Of The Youth Huddle #2
The FIH Academy in association with the EHF Youth Panel & thehockeysite.com the Year Of The Youth Huddle. A day of online talks with top players, coaches, umpires and leaders in support of the global youth hockey community. Recorded live on September 21, 2021. The day was split in 8 different sessions...
Year Of The Youth Huddle #1
The FIH Academy in association with the EHF Youth Panel & thehockeysite.com the Year Of The Youth Huddle. A day of online talks with top players, coaches, umpires and leaders in support of the global youth hockey community. Recorded live on September 21, 2021. The day was split in 8 different sessions...
India & the Bovelander Foundation
Nick Irvine: A game of hockey is also about theatre
So how about the EHL?
Talking Tokyo with Lucas Vila and Miki Delas
In our second episode we have met up with Miki Delas from Spain and Lucas Vila from Argetina about their road to Tokyo.
Miki Delas, aged 35, is a Spanish defender from the mythical club FC Barcelona, mès que un club.... As Miki will explain in 2007 he made the difficult decision to leave his own club for Atletic Terrassa where he won 4 titles in 5 years before moving to Belgium where he played for another 5 years for Antwerp before returning to his beloved Barca.
Lucas Vila is an Argentina striker and a very creative player. Aged 33 he is now one of the experienced players in the team defending their gold medal in the next Olympics. Lucas played in his Argentina, in the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Germany.
Both will play their 3rd Olympic Games in Tokyo.... we hope...
Episode 2 was recorded at 2020-03-23 and published at 2020-03-24.
Host: Ernst Baart
Podcast: Talking Tokyo by Studio Hockey
Produced by: OSMpodcasts.com
Siegfried Aikman & his Samurai
Talking Tokyo with Adam Dixon and Austin Smith
In our first episode we have met up with Adam Dixon from Great Britain and Austin Smith from South Africa talking about their road to Tokyo.
Adam Dixon, aged 33, captains the GB squad. Originally from Beeston he also played a year at Rotterdam in the Dutch Hoofdklasse before returning to Beeston in England. He played 3 World Cups and Tokyo will be his 2nd Olympic Games.
Austin Smith is a defender, aged 34, who made his debut for South Africa when he was just 18. After a couple of years at Reading in England he now plays his club hockey for Den Bosch in the Dutch Hoofdklasse. He played 3 World Cups between 2010 and 2018 and Tokyo will be his 3rd Olympic Games.
Episode 1 was recorded at 2020-02-21 and published at 2020-02-24.
Host: Ernst Baart
Podcast: Talking Tokyo by Studio Hockey
Produced by: OSMpodcasts.com
Colin Batch & Shane McLeod about the FIH Pro League & Tokyo
10 questions for the FIH
Jon Wyatt about qualifying pathways & a new global ranking
#EHCdaily 12 : The one with Marijke Fleuren – “Together we are better!”
Every day during the European Championships we published a new podcast before 8am about #EHC2019 ! In this 12th and last episode - a week after the last whistle more or less - we talked hockey, European Championships and gender balance because “together we are better” with Marijke Fleuren.
This will be our last podcast in this series. We hope you enjoyed them all… and rest assured we will come back later with not only season 2 of the Belgian Hockey Podcast (Dutch language only) but also several new episodes of Studio Hockey (in English) about the international game.
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Host : Ernst Baart
Recorded : 2019-08-25
Published : 2019-08-31
Part of : #EHCdaily
#EHCdaily 11 – The one with the marketeers behind our sport
Our second guest in this episode is Tom van Kuyk, manager sponsoring for the Dutch Rabobank, probably the most loyal partner for our game of hockey around the world.
This will be our last podcast in this series. Well... kind off. We will do one more somewhat related to this event which will probably go online in a week or so. We hope you enjoyed them all… and rest assured we will come back later with not only season 2 of the Belgian Hockey Podcast (Dutch language only) but also several new episodes of Studio Hockey (in English) about the international game.
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Host : Ernst Baart
Recorded : 2019-08-25
Published : 2019-08-26
Part of : #EHCdaily
#EHCdaily 10 – The one with Adam Commens
Join us also tomorrow for our last podcast in this series. We hope you enjoyed them all… and rest assured we will come back later with not only season 2 of the Belgian Hockey Podcast (Dutch language only) but also several new episodes of Studio Hockey (in English) about the international game.
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Host : Ernst Baart
Recorded : 2019-08-24
Published : 2019-08-25
Part of : #EHCdaily
#EHCdaily 9 – The one with Michelle, Lidewij and Nike
Join us also tomorrow for yet another podcast. Every day a new episode until the champions are known! We hope you enjoy…
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Host : Ernst Baart
Recorded : 2019-08-23
Published : 2019-08-24
Part of : #EHCdaily
#EHCdaily 8 – The one with Adam Dixon and the happy Belgians
Join us also tomorrow for yet another podcast. Every day a new episode until the champions are known! We hope you enjoy…
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Host : Ernst Baart
Recorded : 2019-08-22
Published : 2019-08-23
Part of : #EHCdaily
#EHCdaily 7 – The one with the striker, the coach/columnist and the defender
#EHCdaily 6 – The one with Mats Grambusch, Kenny Bain & Marc Salles
#EHCdaily 5 – The one with not one… but two legends
Plus we added a bonus post-game reaction by Alexander Hendrickx after his game with the Red Lions vs England.
Join us also tomorrow for yet another podcast. Every day a new episode until the champions are known! We hope you enjoy…
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Host : Ernst Baart
Recorded : 2019-08-19
Published : 2019-08-20
Part of : #EHCdaily
#EHCdaily 4 – The one with Shane McLeod and Maddie Hinch
Join us also tomorrow for yet another podcast. Every day a new episode until the champions are known! We hope you enjoy…
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Host : Ernst Baart
Recorded : 2019-08-15 + 18
Published : 2019-08-19
Part of : #EHCdaily
#EHCdaily 3 – The one with Xavier Reckinger and Thomas Briels
Both talk about their expectations for this event. With Briels describing his love for the game but also what he would change. And Reckinger about the differences of coaching in the Netherlands or Belgium vs in Germany.
Join us also tomorrow for yet another podcast. Every day a new episode until the champions are known! We hope you enjoy…
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Host : Ernst Baart
Recorded : 2019-08-17
Published : 2019-08-18
Part of : #EHCdaily
#EHCdaily 2 – The one with David Harte & Abi Raye
Join us also tomorrow for yet another podcast. Every day a new episode until the champions are known! We hope you enjoy…
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Host : Ernst Baart
Recorded : 2019-08-15 + 16
Published : 2019-08-17
Part of : #EHCdaily
#EHCdaily 1 – The one with Marc Coudron… and Miki Delàs
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Host : Ernst Baart
Recorded : 2019-08-15 in Antwerp
Published : 2019-08-16
Part of : #EHCdaily
FIH Pro League did not fail. Batra failed! Or did he…?
A monologue with some quotes in between based upon the opinion piece published at be-hockey.com after the first season of the FIH Pro League has come to an end...
A critical take on the declaration of success by the FIH for their first edition of the Pro League... and my opinion on the reasons why... Don't agree or want to add your own opinion to this, click here. Or find me twitter, facebook or instagram.
Recorded at 2019-07-11 for Studio Hockey.
Overpromising and underdelivering
And it’s the same for FIH.live so it seems. The platform and app were announced during his FIH congress in November 2018 and launched in January of 2019.
As you can read in my column following the announcement of FIH.live entitled “The proof of the pudding is in the eating” I was enthusiastic though somewhat sceptical from the start. Today we’re 6 months down the road and we have not seen any added value from the new platform yet. So I guess I was right in being sceptical, but maybe that’s just me…
Listen to our podcast or read on at be-hockey.com... In case you would like to watch the video from the presentation at the FIH congress about FIH.live click here.
Recorded in November 2018 and June 2019 for Studio Hockey.
Will we have dry artificial turf by Paris 2024?
Kill the unicorn – monologue
Read all about this at our blog be-hockey.com or listen to it here as a monologue podcast...
Recorded on 2019-05-07.
Monologue: Gotta love the EHL
Listen to my monologue following the 2019 EHL edition or read all about it at be-hockey.com...
Recorded at 2019-04-23.
Jon Wyatt from FIH about the new world ranking
Hockey5s : our Frankenstein’s monster
In 2013 the FIH gave birth to hockey’s own Frankenstein’s monster. Contrary to the monster created by dr. Frankenstein this one has a name. We call it Hockey5s.
Very much parallel to the fictional character from book and movies, I’m convinced some of you will have grown to like the monster. As I’m sure the monster will do some good along the way. Though I fear, as in the story, in the end the monster will come back to destroy its creator.
And about Hockey5s being as ugly as Frankenstein’s monster… Well, let’s just say “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” 😉
Prefer to read all of this? Click through to our be-hockey.com blog for the full text.
Hockey2024 : Start. Play. Stay.
The strategy has been presented at the recent FIH congress and will be officially launched in January of 2019.
Check out the podcast to learn more about it from one of the co-writers of this strategy to help grow the game of hockey in the years to come...
The World Ranking is a joke
But let's talk about this global ranking by the FIH. Rumours are it will change one of these days, as it should with all of the disappearing and new events for 2019 and beyond. Think FIH Pro League replacing the Champions Trophy and the FIH Hockey Series replacing the Hockey World League.
Immediately after the World Cup a new global ranking was made public where Belgium moved to first place. Well deserved... But take a closer look and you will see several strange things. Points being awarded for invitational events, excluding other often deserving nations. Points being awarded, lots of points for continental championships where it's almost impossible to balance the difference in strength between all continents...
For example, the Netherlands finished 2nd at this world cup for a silver medal after qualifying for this tournament in an event where they had to win among 6 of the current top 10 nations. For this they get 650 points. Compare this to 630 points awarded to New Zealand for beating Papua New Guinea in their continental championships. Papua New Guinea barely makes the top 50 on this ranking.Or let's look at Australia winning bronze at this World Cup, earning 550 points for a medal at this level is worth the same as for example Canada beating the USA or Brazil in their continentals...
There is only one word to describe this : unfair !
Not exactly what you would expect or want as the description for a global ranking of an Olympic sport... I'm not even going to elaborate on the issues with countries who earned their spot in a major FIH event but get ruled out because the host nation, usually India, took their spot, even when they did not qualify for the event. Resulting in some free undeserved ranking points for one nation at the expense of another.
Anyway... rumour has it the FIH will soon launch a new global ranking. I hope it will be fair ranking with respect for the true sport values.
Allow me to propose a possible system, just in case the FIH is still thinking on it. I'm not sure this is a perfect system either but at least it will be more fair on all hockey playing nations.
I would propose a system where all games played in a recognised official title or qualifying event will earn the teams points upon result. So no points from friendly games, nor from test series even when recognised as official games by the FIH.
Points will be given for games played during the Olympic Games and the World Cup because these are the two major events in the world of hockey. As well as those games in official and recognised events meant for qualification for either the Olympic Games or the World Cup, such as the FIH Hockey Series or the FIH Pro League, the continental championships (including their qualifiers) and the Olympic or World Cup Qualifiers.
The points system should be very simple and straight forward :
a win earns you 10 points + 5 extra points if the team you just beat is ranked above you
a loss is zero points
a draw earns 2 points + 1 extra point if the other team is ranked above you
For performing well in the two major events , the Games and the World Cup, bonus points on top of these game points can be earned:
gold = +100 points
silver = + 80 points
bronze = + 60 points
4th (semi finalist) = +40 points
losing quarter finalists all get +20 points
participation but not making the quarter finals = +10 points
I'll leave it to the FIH or those who want to give it a go to
The proof of the pudding is in the eating
Read the column here : be-hockey.com/the-proof-of-the-pudding-is-in-the-eating/
Monologue – Real revolutions do not follow the downtrodden path
While hardly anyone is noticing it, I do think the future of our sport will be decided in the years to come. We are at a turning point…
Prefer to read about it? Check out : be-hockey.com/real-revolutions-do-not-follow-the-downtrodden-path/