(02-03-2014 10:49 AM)TheRevSWT Wrote: Isn't lacrosse considered like a rich kid's game?
I'm 100% ignorant on the sport other than it involves a stick with a net on it and a ball. Supposed to be pretty violent, though I bet they won't let you use the stick as a weapon.
Traditionally, yes, but that is changing. And as far as using it as a weapon goes, you can hit people with it, but not in the helmet, and only when they have the ball. You have to "play the ball, not the player". You can also do full body checks like in hockey. The most common tactic to dislodge the ball is the poke check, where you furiously poke the player in the bottom hand (or the ribs
) until they drop the ball.
I played Lacrosse back in high school up in Atlanta. The entire state only had about 20 teams, and we were one of the only public schools that played at the time. They had established leagues, had been playing for 6 years by the time they got to high school, and had the best coaches around. We played a rough, physical style game. The private kids played much more of a finesse game.
We all had learned to play over the summer and had a coach that played for Auburn's club team for two years.
The final score of these private vs public matchups would be 17-2, 15-7, etc... but man... those kids left hurting. The best part was watching their mommies yell at us/the refs/our coach for hitting little johnny, even though it was a perfectly clean hit. Apparently we were just a bunch of thugs (from alpharetta) which was pretty funny.
They tried just about every year to get a club team together at Southern while I was there, but it never really took form.