ANST - re: hurling ...

[Mark.S Harris]

j'lynn yeates wrote:
> 
> On  2 Apr 98 at 11:22, Mark.S Harris wrote:
> 
> > Well, there is always hurley (sp?). Hard rubber ball and sticks. But
> > then a while back when a hurley fad ran through this Bryn Gwlad for
> > a short time (courtesy of Robin Solarius) we had more injuries on
> > the hurley field than we had ever had from armored combat.
> 
> if you read the irish historical and literary source, this is the
> norm for hurling ...

Referances or book recommendations? I'd like to add them to my files
and perhaps look at these myself.
...

> so what ever happened to the local hurling fad ??? (want to buy some
> more gear ... great alternative to rollar hockey)
> 
> 'wolf

It was played here for several months, perhaps half a year, but when
Robin Solarius moved up north it gradually died off. He was pretty
much the instigator and the one pushing it. I think the number of
people playing it was also going down as people got hurt and thus
weren't available to play. However during the hieght of the fad,
the number of armored combatants at fighter practice dropped off
drastically because they were all doing hurling. The hurling was
being held during fighter practice.

Stefan li Rous
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