...and more hurling...

[auld argonian]

While questing for info on equipment available in the US, I found this:

"Ingenuity in sports extends beyond technology and equipment to the games themselves. A handful of new hybrid, or "aesthetic," sports are beginning to make inroads into the sporting landscape.

Rutgers University graduate student Tom Russotti developed "Wiffle Hurling" as a softer variation on hurling, Ireland's fast-paced and violent national sport. Using soccer goals, hollow plastic bats, and white plastic balls with holes in them — the equipment used to play Wiffleball — Russotti invented Wiffle Hurling when he was told that the original game was too violent for the uninitiated.

Russotti heats the bats over a flame to flatten them, approximating the shape of the original hurling equipment. His adjustment to hurling's original equipment enables Whiffle Hurling to retain the intensity of hurling while making the game safer for new players."

...an article by a Mike Vogel at this NATO site:

http://nato.usmission.gov/Article.as...6-8C50A24A27DE

So if frisbee golf and regular whiffle ball are up your alley...whiffle hurling?

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AA

[beloitpiper]

His adjustment to hurling's original equipment enables Whiffle Hurling to retain the intensity of hurling while making the game safer for new players.

Whats the point then?