Time to play Unihoc!

A new sport has arrived to NCTU. It is called Unihoc, and it comes from Sweden. Unihoc is a floor ball game, similar to ice hockey but without ice or skates. At NCTU, the sport is performed every Friday at 7 pm at the basket ball court (¥æ¤jÄx²y³õ).

Unihoc is an indoor team sport, played with plastic sticks where the aim is to put a light ball into the other team's goal. The game is most popular in Sweden, Finland and Switzerland, and is also played in several other places ¡V like Taiwan.

In Sweden, the sport is considered as one of the biggest sports ¡V probably the second biggest after football, in number of active athletes. In Sweden there are 123 000 licensed players in about 1 300 clubs, but around one half million Swedes use to play regularly which is almost the same number as for soccer.

At NCTU, the Chalmers Asia office is organizing training sessions every Friday evening, at 7 pm at the basket ball court of NCTU. Usually, around 15-20 people use to show up and practice the sport. Many are beginners and some are more experienced players ¡V but everyone is welcome to try the new sport.

¡V It is fun to show and share a piece of the Swedish sport culture, says Anders Frick (¦w¼w´µ) who together with Hugo Christiansson (¥Ð«BªG) introduced Unihoc to Taiwan.

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