Although there are special shoes designed for this game ... Oh, yes, you also need an ice rink. The game is broomball. Although it is not exactly a household word, the game does have a rather ...

Today's broomball requires special rubber shoes for better traction, high-tech, rubber-head brooms, helmets, padding and regulation balls. Knee and elbow pads are similar to those for hockey but ...

Overhead lights shine down on the ice, turning it into a bright white pool. Where bulls and horses once wheeled, broomball players run across the ice in their tennis shoes, slipping and using long ...

Broomball still has a pulse in Newfoundland ... Teams ice five players and a goaltender, and wear shoes with thick, rubbery soles to give them grip on the ice. They wield a modified “broom ...

To the untrained eye, broomball looks just like hockey, but the equipment and gameplay is quite different. "We have specialized shoes. It's kind of like a mix of an egg crate and a suction cup on ...

Players need to bring their own helmets, with a back and chin strip, and boots. No skating is allowed. Similar to hockey, broomball is played on ice, but players wear shoes instead of skate and ...

Boots and a helmet should save you from a nasty ... Also, you’ll need to leave that puck behind because unlike in hockey broomball has a ball. “The broomball is just an inflatable ball.

Bela Fischer/Daily. Buy this photo. Broomball is a game similar to hockey, but without ice, in which players attempt to score goals with a rubber ball and a broom-shaped stick. At Winterfest, teams of ...

It’s called broomball and it uses a taped-up broom and a plastic ball for an experience unlike any other. One league in the Toledo area, Glass City Broomball, is giving girls an outlet.