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Octopush is a sport that is played in almost every English speaking country. It was started in 1950 when a group of sub-aqua divers decided that swimming up and down a pool was a boring way to keep fit. First they tried to push the puck along with their snorkels but this resulted in broken equipment. A puck is lead weights with a plastic covering and is a short cylinder about the size of a teenagers hand. Octopush has developed a lot since then and the Orkney club was started in 1991. I have been playing for three years.

Usually, Octopush is played in a 25 metre pool with two teams and two goals. Equipment needed are flippers, mask, snorkel, hat, glove, bat and swimming gear. Most beginners start by pushing the puck along the bottom and that takes a long time to get to the oppositions goal. The bats are shaped so that it is poss

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To most people Octopush would seem strange. standing on the puck, this is obstruction. It is always a challenge to improve and get better because there is always someone faster, stronger or a better player than me, but it is fun at the same time. This makes it possible to pass to someone a couple of metres away or to score a goal without having to swim right up to the goal. ible to flick the puck through the water.

Octopush is one of the most enjoyable sport that I have ever taken part in. It is also good to play against different players.

There are important rules to the game.

To play Octopush a person needs high fitness level and a high stamina, because having to keep playing for even 20 minutes can be quite tiring.

Orkney Octopush team is well known down South as we have won several competitions and have the best youth teams in Britain on a regular basis. When the puck is flicked it shouldn't go near another players head. If someone stopped a player from getting the puck when the were not in play e. The game has been humorously described by a journalist as "like a shark frenzy, only with less blood. No deliberate contact between players is allowed though this is quite hard to maintain in a game.

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