pick up lacrosse

[ron_burgundy]

does anybody play like modified versions of lacrosse for pickup games? i wanted to make something in an inline hockey rink or something but i would have to work out specifics....anybody got some games they play with their friends?

[Bobsch]

I'm thinking of having a six-on-six tournament on a rubberized mini-soccer field where we practice when we can't get a grass field....kind of like box, but field rules, since there are no boards. It could also be five-on-five. The best thing about it is that it would be near the city center and lots of people who have no idea about lacrosse would see it. The grass fields here are in the middle of nowhere.

[ColtsLax]

if we dont have enough people, we take the goals and use only half the field, but long ways, putting th goals on the sidelines.

[raykessler]

one of the only problems with lacrosse..... with baseball or football its easy to have a pickup game, for baseball all you need is a glove for everyone, one bat, and a ball... everything else can be fabricated, for football all you need is a pigskin, and then you can just play touch, with lacrosse unless you want to play the girls game, theres really no way to just have a spontanious game, everyone has to have pads, and you need at least 1 goal. It is my opinion that if you could play pickup games for lacrosse as easily as for baseball or football it would be a much more popular sport.

[PhilWings24]

i play on a roller hockey rink...we play with a 3 pass rule, no goalie, 1 attack, 2 mids, and 1 defense for each team. nothing special at all

[ron_burgundy]

i play on a roller hockey rink...we play with a 3 pass rule, no goalie, 1 attack, 2 mids, and 1 defense for each team. nothing special at all

that was my idea basically, except more like just 3 on 3 or something (no attack or d). the only problem i could see would be people getting hit with the balls...it would seem like that could be a big problem b/c you are so close together and people shoot like 70+. ever happened to you guys?

[Lacrossejunkie]

my friends and i play like 2 on 2 with just one goal, or even one on one against eachother and we only wear golves and helmets, you can still play contact just dont try to kill eachother

[WoodDuck14]

I'm thinking of organizing an off season kinda thing with my team on a basketball court.

6 on 6: 2 Attack, 2 Defence, 1 Middie, 1 Goalie.

A small goal like a box goal or just a recycleing bin or somthing. we would probly use gloves and hemets, and minimal contact, i.e. small slap and poke checks and pushing with hands together, no big hits.

I'm thinking of calling it street lax, I think its pretty sweet.

[Pitibear]

that's what our entire, new, start-up program is right now: 3v3, plus goalies, in a small inline hockey rink, 56' wide by 88 feet long...

We play no face-offs, scored-upon team has to make one pass into play from the goal crease, opponents start in their own half. Ball over-the-boards restart is throw-in from the place where it went out. you can only score from the offensive zone. call your own fouls, give up the ball, say you're really sorry when you hit the guy in the face...

everybody really tries to shoot around each other, very rarely does anybody get stung with a hard shot...I took one straight in the chest from about 8 feet away last week, hurts like heck, knocked the wind out of me, and not a mark to show for it - no bruise, no nothin.'

we play three periods, anywhere from 8-15 minutes long, just to make the game the better part of one hour long.

other thing we try to do is make the teams as even as possible, so we "designate" teams for each game, rather than choose up sides...

tactically, you need to use the width of the fiels with cuts across lanes, diagonal cuts, ball moving as much as possible, as there is no space to really run in. Defense can ride you into the wall fairly easily...we don't have any limits on checking, but it's tough to really line somebody up, stick checks mostly is all we do.

A lot of inline hockey rink facilities also have some sort of "small rink," in their building as well as their larger, full-size rink. We think that 3v3 Lax could become a very legitimate game.

Have fun, hope to play with you guys someday, out on the blue floor.

[shaOLinLaxxer]

sometimes i play like 2 on 2 in the street on a hockeynet with a wooden cut-out of a hockey goal or we shoot on a kid in roller hockey goalie equipment

[RockStar]

I've got a great idea for a game you can play on an indoor hockey rink:
BOX LACROSSE!

Seriously, why is this even being asked?

[swordsman]

one of the only problems with lacrosse..... with baseball or football its easy to have a pickup game, for baseball all you need is a glove for everyone, one bat, and a ball... everything else can be fabricated, for football all you need is a pigskin, and then you can just play touch, with lacrosse unless you want to play the girls game, theres really no way to just have a spontanious game, everyone has to have pads, and you need at least 1 goal. It is my opinion that if you could play pickup games for lacrosse as easily as for baseball or football it would be a much more popular sport.

No, for football they normally have pads but not with pick-up. However someone came up with a good solution for that whereas noone has for lacrosse. Stop whining, start dreaming.

[swordsman]

If you want to get people on your team to sign up you'd need to be a respected member. AKA a good player.

[aviator]

my friends and i play like 2 on 2 with just one goal, or even one on one against eachother and we only wear golves and helmets, you can still play contact just dont try to kill eachother


me and my friend did that once, but we were the only ones taht played in our town (except these 2 other kids that couldnt come over) so we played 2 on 2 no goalie with a mini goal (its like 3 or 4 feet high lol) and no positions u gotta take it out past a line made by frisbies, our camper, and a tree, to be on offense. we played with some of my siblings so the rule was besides us, u couldnt hit ne one younger, and no really hard checks so like to rub them off the ball and stuff. It was fun even tho i was with a 5 year old, and he was teamed with my sister in 6th (we are both 8th) and i totally kicked there arses!!!! lol gotta do it again only with those other kids...........



oh! lug a hockey net over to a tennis court. play take out to the tenis net, bring it back in and shoot

with like a 3 on 3

[BigKLaxer]

one of the only problems with lacrosse..... with baseball or football its easy to have a pickup game, for baseball all you need is a glove for everyone, one bat, and a ball... everything else can be fabricated, for football all you need is a pigskin, and then you can just play touch, with lacrosse unless you want to play the girls game, theres really no way to just have a spontanious game, everyone has to have pads, and you need at least 1 goal. It is my opinion that if you could play pickup games for lacrosse as easily as for baseball or football it would be a much more popular sport.
Pah, who needs pads. Me and all my friends play full contact pick-up games all the time without pads. Besides, chicks dig scars.

[UNCdefense]

The great thing about pick-up lacrosse games is even if guys bail out, there's plenty of stuff just two people can do....One of my favorite things to do is to run through a town/city doing stupid little tricks & messing around..bounce the balls of walls or objects to each other & just make it up as you go.......but for actual games when we have no goalie (or only have one) we turn a goal upside down so it's the smaller triangle, & then you put a stick in the goal...Depending on the experience level of the plyers you either have to hit the shaft or the head of the stick (obviously more experienced it's the shaft, less the head)...Games go on for a while & it's much more difficult to score, cause you have to get lose enough & hit a shaft...Hitting the shaft doesn't seem hard but it is slightly difficult because it's not in a corner it's where the goalie's body would normally be so many aren't used to aiming there...Plus it's easy for a defender to step in front of goal & block the stick...A high scoring game like this would be 3-2...We also just say screw the pads..Gloves are the only required part, long as defense keeps the "over the head" checks under control & you watch out for stray balls helmet's aren't a problem.....My bro caught one in the neck over summe rin a pick-up game...i thought it was hilarious

[Pitibear]

One of my favorite things to do is to run through a town/city doing stupid little tricks & messing around..bounce the balls of walls or objects to each other & just make it up as you go...

That would be a very cool nike commercial visual..

[hulllaxplayer]

Me and my friends have one goal tipped upside down and you have to shoot through the top triangle...no goalie. And you have to complete three passes before shooting...

[ron_burgundy]

I've got a great idea for a game you can play on an indoor hockey rink:
BOX LACROSSE!

Seriously, why is this even being asked?

b/c we dont want to wear pads and we might not have enough guys.

i wanna get some video of this, it could be like and1 mix tapes.

[laxme]

Would play 3v3 with no equipment, used a smaller goal 3'x3', and a tennis ball. The tennis ball is key, it still helps passing skills but someone can play goalie without fear of death. Usually when on defense form the I with someone playing infront of the goal. We would play on a tennis court or backyard anywhere.

[jimbow]

we just play with gloves and a stick, and a 2 pass rule since there's no goalie. We dont play a certain number, just however many guys are there. We play to 5, no time limit.

[radman]

i ran a mne's pickup field lacrosse games in New York City, specifically Chelsea Piers/Hudson River Park trust. Ran 3-2-2 & a goalie with a sub ion the fly middie.

i t was a short field-73 yards- but considering the various athlethic abilities It wasnt no surprise that some guys ran out of gas after the first two minutes.

But its possible to run a modified field game. :read:

[Buzz1991]

I play lax w/ my friends in my yard. I have flat wooden fences and we check on the fences like box lax.

[wayne8]

yeah we play pick up games, pretty much two on two, with one kid in goal...we play with no pads, and its pretty much just screwing around, making bounce passes and using tricks to get goals...its pretty fun, until serious kids come in and ruin it...its also good for stick skills i think

[Farny]

3 Pipe, at least, I think that's what they called it. You could play with teams of 2 to 4, usually 3.

Basically, to score you gotta hit a pipe. That way, there's not as much rocketing huge shots and more passing to get close. No goalies, of course, and you gotta complete 2 passes before you can score.

[canadianlax13]

We play 4 v 4, 2 attack, 1 d, 1 goalie, we play with mini goals 3x3, mini sticks and gurus with not padding and full contact.