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underwater hockey

what the ... ?

Last change: October 19th, 2007

Underwater hockey (uwh) is an intensive sport played at the bottom of a swimming pool. What you basically do is:

Take the little round thing
Swim and put it in the big long thing
Do it more often than the bad guys
<optional> Try and avoid the bad guys on the way
<optional> If your team mates are screaming at you, turn around and swim towards the other big long thing

. You can find a more serious explanation on the website of ZPV Piranha: here.

golden snorkel tournament 2009	Last change: August 30th, 2009
We kicked off the underwater hockey season this year on August 29th 2009 with the Golden Snorkel Tournament. After years and years of being beaten by our old members ('the Bastards') we finally managed to beat them. We even made second place! Good weather and many smiling faces. [more].

training 28 april	Last change: April 28th, 2009
A brief photo shoot during our training on April 28th. Not a high turn-up but a nice match nonetheless. [more].

golden snorkel tournament 2008	Last change: April 17th, 2008
On march 22nd 2008, we organised our yearly Gouden Snorkel Toernooi (or Golden Snorkel Tournament). Because it was eastern and because all Dutch national teams were training elsewhere, the amount of participating teams was meager. The GST was fun though, however, the Piranha Bastards won the GST yet again. [more].

barcelona	Last change: Juli 25, 2007
An underwater hockey tournament in Barcelona. Nuff said... [more].

golden snorkel tournament 2007	Last change: April 17th, 2007
On april 15th 2007, we organised our yearly Gouden Snorkel Toernooi (or Golden Snorkel Tournament). Eight teams participated, 4 from The Netherlands, one German team and three Piranha teams. Clearly, one of the Piranha teams consisted of the elderly :). The only downside in this tournament was that the Piranha Bastards actually managed to win the Golden Snorkel. [more].

competition 1 april	Last change: April 4th, 2007
Photos shot during the last day of the Dutch NOB competition underwater hockey. These photos were taken while playing a nice match against GOV 2 from Bussum. We managed to beat them 4-1. A good closure of our competition! We played with white sticks and caps, the yellow 'c' is me :) [more].

training 29 march	Last change: April 4th, 2007
Yet again, the underwater camera was present at one of our trainings. [more].

training 26 march	Last change: March 27th, 2007
The underwater camera I used yesterday was used extensively during today's training to. The result: a lot of nice, yet disturbing pictures. [more].

competition 25 march	Last change: March 26th, 2007
Some underwater photos from the Dutch ladies competition on March 25th, 2007. Four ladies from ZPV Piranha traveled to Zeist to have some underwater fun. [more].

munchen bier und prezen 2007	Last change: March 5th, 2007
A lot of photos from the Bier und Prezen Pokal tournament in Munchen, March 3rd 2007. Piranha played together with a German ladies team, we won the trofee: Deutscher Meister Unterwasserhockey! [more].

competition november 12	Last change: Februari 6th, 2007
Some photos that were taken during the underwater hockey competition match against GOV 2 and OSV Piranha. The matches ended in a loss of 0-12 and a 6-5 winn, respectively. We played both matches with black caps and sticks. [more].

in the media

Last change: Juli 24th, 2006

In march this year we were invited to participate in a tv series on students' life in the east of The Netherlands. A team member of ours (Jan Willem) made hours and hours of video and we also filmed some of our trainings with an underwater camera. The result is found below (download the movie or just watch the pictures below) and I must say; it gives a very nice overview of underwater hockey as a sport; thanks Jan Willem!

download the movie (Windows Media Video format - 4.5 MB) [more].