What size hurley should you use?

Using the incorrect hurley will affect your playing skill by up to 50%, to measure a hurley, stand up straight, stand the hurley up alongside your leg and up to your waist. Straighten your arm down over the hurley. The correct size hurley is where the butt (end) of the hurley is in line with your wrist bone.

The Locked Position. For right handed players place your right hand just under the butt and place your left hand under your right hand. (For left handed players place the left on top and right under the left.) This is the locked position, used for striking the ball from the hand or off the ground.

The Ready position

The ready position is where the right hand is just under the butt and the left hand is placed on the handle of the hurley.

In the juvenile section of the club our players start from as young as 4-5 years old. All our training focuses on the basic skills the children will need to progress in the game, the aim is to have fun whilst learning.

The skills for hurley are how to strike the sliothar (on the ground and in the air), how to hold the hurley, how to hand pass, blocking, tackling, how to work together and how to play safely. (No player can play a match without wearing a helmet).

The Go Games are a series of football and hurley matches played on a Friday night against up to 3 different teams. Two Fridays are football, one is Hurley and the fourth Friday in the month is training on your own pitch. These games are a great way of bringing the kids on, as they much prefer to play than to train. In as little as 3 weeks of playing these games you can see a vast improvement in the players as they have to learn fast to compete in a fun environment. The referee does not keep the score as he emphasis s not on winning but on participation and enjoyment.

We post a match report in the Bray People each week and the star players get a mention, so keep an eye out as all the kids get into the paper at some stage.

Check out the photo gallery for picture of the training and practise matches.