What is Floorball?
Floorball originates in northern Europe and is extremely popular in Finland, Sweden and the Czech Republic. It is similar to Unihoc and Unihoc players can make the switch with little difficulty.
The game is played on an indoor rink by two teams. Each team consists of five outfield players and one goalkeeper, although generally these players are from a larger squad and may be substituted at any time during a game. The outfield players use a lightweight stick with a curved plastic blade. The shaft is shorter than an ice hockey stick (at around 99cm in length) and round, which makes it very maneuverable. The goalie wears special equipment incorporating long, padded trousers and shirt and a helmet. There is no puck or heavy ball; instead a lightweight, plastic ball is used. The ball is extremely fast and can be easily lifted, bounced and deflected.
The rules of the game require fair play, do not allow for any high sticking, stick contact or body contact, so the game tends to be less physical and more skill oriented and fast paced. The mixture of endurance, power and precision make Floorball a popular game for people of all ages and abilities.
Floorball is a fun, quick, and active sport.
This description was taken from the Great Britain Floorball Federations site. For more information please visit www.gbff.org.uk
What does our logo represent?
The Dundee Northern Lights logo emcompases a lot about the heritage and history surrounding Dundee. The compass highlights the achievements of Captain Scott and the RRS Discovery that took him on his heroic voyage to the Antarctic in 1901. The war memorial is to be found on top of Dundee's extinct volcano the Law. The law is probaly the most well known landmark in Dundee. The floorball sticks on the compass represent floorball ;-)
What else is in Dundee?
Dundee is located on the north bank of the Firth of Tay estuary in Scotland, where the firth empties into the North Sea. The city surrounds the basalt plug of an extinct volcano, now called Dundee Law or simply "The Law" (174 metres). Dundee is Scotland's only South-facing city, giving it a contested claim to being the nations's sunniest city. The city is bounded by the Sidlaw Hills to the north. Dundee is in close proximity to some of Scotland's notable scenery including Perth (20 miles) and the southern Highlands to the west, St Andrews and north-east Fife heading south and Angus to the North.
Dundee was the first city in the world to have electric street lights, employing bulbs designed by James Bowman Lindsay who demonstrated his invention at a public meeting in 1835. The adhesive postage stamp was invented in Dundee by James Chalmers. His tombstone in the city's Howff burial ground reads: "Originator of the adhesive postage stamp which saved the penny postage scheme of 1840 from collapse rendering it an unqualified success and which has since been adopted throughout the postal systems of the world.