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The Year of the Youth Huddle is an online conference by FIH Academy. On September 22, 2021 the conference set up 8 different webinars for leaders in youth hockey from around the world. Hosted by the hockey leaders of tomorrow chosen from the European Hockey Federation Youth Leadership Panel we hosted 4 morning and 4 evening sessions. Sessions with top players, top coaches, top umpires and some of the most entrepreneurial young people in the world of hockey. All sharing their experience with the youth who will manage the game of hockey in the future. In the third episode Helen & Cedric from the EHF Youth Panel talked to Carla Rebecchi from Argentina (Las Leonas) and Tom Craig from Australia (Kookaburras). Both players have got Olympics and World Cups under their belt. Carla stopped playing for Las Leonas just before Tokyo because of family life and is currently playing in Belgium. For Tom the Tokyo Games were his first. He is playing in the Dutch Hoofdklasse at the moment. Episode 45 was produced by Studio.Hockey for FIH Academy & The Hockey Site. It was recorded on 2021-09-22 & published on 2021-10-01. Host: Helen Windsor & Cedric Vermeiren from the EHF Youth Panel Guests: Carla Rebecchi & Tom Craig Podcast: Studio Hockey

The Year of the Youth Huddle is an online conference by FIH Academy. On September 22, 2021 the conference set up 8 different webinars for leaders in youth hockey from around the world. Hosted by the hockey leaders of tomorrow chosen from the European Hockey Federation Youth Leadership Panel we hosted 4 morning and 4 evening sessions. Sessions with top players, top coaches, top umpires and some of the most entrepreneurial young people in the world of hockey. All sharing their experience with the youth who will manage the game of hockey in the future. In the second episode Helen & Cedric from the EHF Youth Panel talked to Laurine Delforge from Belgium and Peter Wright from South Africa. Both coaches just went to the Tokyo Olympics. Laurine was the first ever umpire who had the honour of umpiring the final at the Olympics on her debut at this event when she went to Rio. She confirmed her status as one of the best worldwide by again umpiring the Olympic final in Tokyo. Episode 44 was produced by Studio.Hockey for FIH Academy & The Hockey Site. It was recorded on 2021-09-22 & published on 2021-09-27. Host: Helen Windsor & Cedric Vermeiren from the EHF Youth Panel Guests: Laurine Delforge & Peter Wright Podcast: Studio Hockey

The Year of the Youth Huddle is an online conference by FIH Academy. On September 22, 2021 the conference set up 8 different webinars for leaders in youth hockey from around the world. Hosted by the hockey leaders of tomorrow chosen from the European Hockey Federation Youth Leadership Panel we hosted 4 morning and 4 evening sessions. Sessions with top players, top coaches, top umpires and some of the most entrepreneurial young people in the world of hockey. All sharing their experience with the youth who will manage the game of hockey in the future. In the first episode Helen & Cedric from the EHF Youth Panel talked to Katrina Powell, the head coach for the Australian women team or Hockeyroos. As well as with Pasha Gademan, the head coach for the men of Canada. Both coaches just went to the Tokyo Olympics. Episode 43 was produced by Studio.Hockey for FIH Academy & The Hockey Site. It was recorded on 2021-09-22 & published on 2021-09-25. Host: Helen Windsor & Cedric Vermeiren from the EHF Youth Panel Guests: Katrina Powell & Pasha Gademan Podcast: Studio Hockey

**Estimated reading time: < 1 minute** The Bovelander Foundation uses sports, especially hockey, to support children, young adults and their communities in developing their personal, social, athletic and educational skills to improve the quality of their lives. Former Dutch international player Floris Jan Bovelander fell in love with India during his playing days. So when opportunity came knocking, he used his […]

Now that lockdown restrictions slowly get lifted in most parts of the world, hope returns our sport will be able to take back its place in our lives. But we have to be realistic… For a certain time it will not be as it was.  I believe… I have to believe we will be able […]

Talking Tokyo is our 6-part podcast series ahead of Tokyo 2020 by Studio Hockey. We take 1 player from each team and match him up with an opponent from the opening game at the Olympic Games. The Olympic Games will start on July 24th… we hope. That’s why from now on every month on the […]

Siegfried Aikman is an experienced Dutch coach with family roots in Suriname and India and for some years now the head coach for the Japanese men or Samurai. Now who says hockey isn’t a global sport?

Talking Tokyo is our 6-part podcast series ahead of Tokyo 2020 by Studio Hockey. We take 1 player from each team and match him up with an opponent from the opening game at the Olympic Games. The Olympic Games will start on July 24th. That’s why from now on every month on the 24th we’ll […]

Colin Batch, coach of Australia & Shane McLeod, coach of Belgium are the guests in this podcast. The coaches of the current first and second team in the world ranking. The finalists of last years maiden edition of the FIH Pro League and the two biggest favourites for gold in Tokyo. With the FIH Pro […]

A year ago, in November 2018, the FIH had its global congress. An event where several important decisions regarding the future of our sport were communicated. Also more or less a year ago we spoke with the “new” CEO of the FIH Thierry Weil, before the global congress on some my worries for the future […]

So it’s the middle of November. In Lausanne, Switzerland where the FIH is based first snow has arrived. But that did not stop FIH from launching a couple of press releases in recent days. Announcing some novelties following the meeting of their executive board last week. In today’s podcast & column here we will only […]

The one with Marijke Fleuren, president of EHF and executive board member at the FIH. Within these organisations but also within IOC she is known to be the champion for #EquallyAmazing and all matters related to gender balance in sports. Because “together we are better“! Every day during the European Championships we published a new podcast before […]

The one with the marketeers behind our sport… Every day during the European Championships we will publish a new podcast before 8am about #EHC2019 ! In our 11th episode we talked hockey, business and “doing things together” with Bob Verbeeck, CEO Golazo – a renowned expert in making sure sports and sports events are able to reach their audience […]

The one with Adam Commens. But before we hear from the technical director of the Belgian hockey federation, listen to the post final comments by Red Lions captain Thomas Briels and his team mate Alexander Hendrickx. Every day during the European Championships we will publish a new podcast before 8am about the day ahead at #EHC2019 ! In our […]

The one with Michelle, Lidewij and Nike. Every day during the European Championships we will publish a new podcast before 8am about the day ahead at #EHC2019 ! In our 9th episode we spoke to Michelle Struijk from Belgium, Lidewij Welten from the Netherlands and Nike Lorenz from Germany.Join us also tomorrow for yet another […]

The one with Adam Dixon and the happy Belgians. Every day during the European Championships we will publish a new podcast before 8am about the day ahead at #EHC2019 ! In our 8th episode we first spoke with Adam Dixon, captain for England following their victory over Ireland. Following this is Simon Gougnard from the Belgian Red Lions after […]

The one with the striker, the coach/columnist and the defender. Tom Boon from Belgium, Todd Williams – an Aussie coaching and writing in the UK and Dutch defender Margot van Geffen. Every day during the European Championships we will publish a new podcast before 8am about the day ahead at #EHC2019 ! In our 7th episode we first spoke […]

The one with Mats Grambusch, Kenny Bain & Marc Salles. A German, a Scot and a Spaniard walk into a bar and… No it’s not a joke. It’s the 6th episode of the EHCdaily

The one with not one… but two legends. Every day during the European Championships we will publish a new podcast before 8am about the day ahead at #EHC2019 ! In our 5th episode we host two legends of the game because there is no other description worthy of both Taco van den Honert and Jamie Dwyer. Discussing the differences […]

The one with Shane McLeod and Maddie Hinch. Every day during the European Championships we will publish a new podcast before 8am about the day ahead at #EHC2019 ! In our 4th episode we spoke with Shane McLeod, coach for the Belgian men and Maddie Hinch, goalie for the English women. McLeod was recorded before the start of the […]

The one with Xavier Reckinger and Thomas Briels. Every day during the European Championships we will publish a new podcast before 8am about the day ahead at #EHC2019 ! In our 3rd episode we spoke with Xavier Reckinger, coach for the German women, Die Danas and Thomas Briels, captain of the Belgian Red Lions. Both talk about their expectations for […]

The one with David Harte and Abi Raye. Every day during the European Championships we will publish a new podcast before 8am about the day ahead at #EHC2019 ! In our 2nd episode we spoke with David Harte, the goalie for the Irish men’s team. Unfortunately he’s injured and will not be playing. Our 2nd guest however will feature on […]

The one with Marc Coudron… and Miki Delàs! Every day during the European Championships we will publish a new podcast before 8am about the day ahead at #EHC2019 ! In our first episode we spoke with Marc Coudron, the president of the Belgian hockey federation and as such the host for this EC. We talked […]

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 […]

It seems to be the mantra for FIH president Batra in all of his endeavours: overpromising and underdelivering! We’ve seen it with the HIL and the FIH Pro League. 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. […]

The CEO from FIH, Thierry Weil, told the world about his ambition for a dry artificial turf for elite hockey at the Olympics in Paris 2024. We can all see the thinking and logic behind eliminating the waterbased pitches. But is it realistic? Studio Hockey asked industry expert Arnoud Fiolet from Recreational Systems International about […]

Sometimes you just have to kill the unicorn… before it kills you. No, do not fear… We haven’t gone off topic. We’re not doing fairytales, nor are we in the business of animal cruelty. A unicorn in this context has been defined by experts in innovation as one of these idea’s during a brainstorm session […]

Once again the EHL lived up to its reputation… In Eindhoven the hockey family came together over the Easter weekend and celebrated our sport.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 is the sports director for the FIH. He joins me, Ernst Baart, on our Studio Hockey podcast talking about some recent developments following a FIH board meeting in March of 2019. The end of the FIH Series, new qualification paths to the FIH World Cup & Olympics, more importance given to the continental […]

A monologue about Hockey5s. 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 […]

Mike Joyce, director at The Hockey Foundation and the FIH talks to us about Hockey2024, the newest global strategy for hockey development due to launch in 2019. 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 […]

Let's start by congratulating Belgium for their amazing progress resulting in a well earned silver at the Rio Games in 2016 and a first gold medal at the most recent World Cup. The secret to their success is a simple formula : a stronger domestic league + an ambitious long term plan/vision not just on paper but well executed + patience and a lot of hard work for many years = gold and a 1st place on the global ranking ! Mind you, the simple formula is not a guarantee but it will offer you a fighting chance to make the dream come true. 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 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/studiohockey/message

Let’s start by congratulating Belgium for their amazing progress resulting in a well earned silver at the Rio Games in 2016 and a first gold medal at the most recent World Cup. The secret to their success is a simple formula : a stronger domestic league + an ambitious long term plan/vision not just on […]

My thoughts on the FIH congress, hosted in New Delhi last weekend. Where the state of hockey and its future was discussed and decided... Read the column here : be-hockey.com/the-proof-of-the-pudding-is-in-the-eating/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/studiohockey/message

My thoughts on the FIH congress, hosted in New Delhi last weekend. Where the state of hockey and its future was discussed and decided… Read the column here : be-hockey.com/the-proof-of-the-pudding-is-in-the-eating/

Let the Hockey Revolution change the way we show hockey instead of the way we play it! 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/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/studiohockey/message

Let the Hockey Revolution change the way we show hockey instead of the way we play it! 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/

Hockey is coming home. It's the FIH slogan for their newest event about to start in 2019 and meant to be instrumental in the Hockey Revolution, the 2014-2024 strategy for the FIH. We're half way their 10 year plan and entering Money Time. Let's recap where we stand today... Prefer reading to listening? Check out our blog post at be-hockey.com here... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/studiohockey/message

Hockey is coming home. It’s the FIH slogan for their newest event about to start in 2019 and meant to be instrumental in the Hockey Revolution, the 2014-2024 strategy for the FIH. We’re half way their 10 year plan and entering Money Time. Let’s recap where we stand today… Prefer reading to listening? Check out […]

Friday 2018-09-14 we talked hockey with some South African hockey legends… Austin Smith, Lloyd Norris-Jones, Rassie Pieterse & my co-host for the occasion Tyron Barnard, sports writer and hockey enthusiast from South Africa as well. We discussed all things hockey such as the Premier Hockey League, South Africa’s version of the HIL more or less. We […]

The EHL is back…almost… We talked to the voice of European hockey Nick Irvine for our podcast ⬆︎ about the EHL returning to the city of Barcelona and Thursday 2018-09-06 at 11am CET (that’s 10am in London, 5pm in Perth or 6am for the early risers in Buenos Aires) we were also LIVE on our facebook page with […]

Talking hockey with some of the best goalies in the world: David Harte from Ireland & Kampong (NED) and Tobias Walter from Germany & Dragons (BEL). If you prefer you watch it as a video at studiohockey.com as well ;) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/studiohockey/message

Talking hockey with some of the best goalies in the world: David Harte from Ireland & Kampong (NED) and Tobias Walter from Germany & Dragons (BEL). If you prefer you watch it as a video at studiohockey.com as well

Monologue or should I say rant (don't worry, it's just a short podcast) about how the FIH made a mess of it mixing up Hockey5s and real hockey and not being clear about the future of our game of hockey... Listen to it here or read about it here on be-hockey.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/studiohockey/message

Monologue or should I say rant (don’t worry, it’s just a short podcast) about how the FIH made a mess of it mixing up Hockey5s and real hockey and not being clear about the future of our game of hockey… Listen to it here or read about it here on be-hockey.com.

The year 2018 is a World Cup year for hockey! The women's world cup is done and dusted by now and the men's is just around the corner. We'll make some time for a more thorough evaluation of the women's world cup when the dust has settled and we've had time to discuss it with those involved. But for now we'll make some time for a quick recap of the good, the bad and the ugly about hockey in the world today. Read the blog post here... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/studiohockey/message

The year 2018 is a World Cup year for hockey! The women’s world cup is done and dusted by now and the men’s is just around the corner. We’ll make some time for a more thorough evaluation of the women’s world cup when the dust has settled and we’ve had time to discuss it with […]

Monologue by Ernst Baart on the so called "end of hockey"... or at least the end of hockey as we know it. Read all about it at be-hockey.com, as well as the answer from Thierry Weil, CEO at the FIH. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/studiohockey/message

Monologue by Ernst Baart on the so called “end of hockey”… or at least the end of hockey as we know it. Read all about it at be-hockey.com, as well as the answer from Thierry Weil, CEO at the FIH.

Robert van der Horst from HC Oranje-Rood talks about the EHL and the upcoming Final 4 for them. Mats Grambüsch from HC Rot Weiss Köln was supposed to join in but had some technical difficulties. Presentation by Floris Geerts and Ernst Baart. Also available on video : https://studiohockey.com/video/hockey5tv/robert-van-der-horst/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/studiohockey/message

Robert van der Horst from HC Oranje-Rood talks about the EHL and the upcoming Final 4 for them. Mats Grambüsch from HC Rot Weiss Köln was supposed to join in but had some technical difficulties. Presentation by Floris Geerts and Ernst Baart. Also available on video : https://studiohockey.com/video/hockey5tv/robert-van-der-horst/