Emerald City Floorball
Emerald City Floorball was created in the summer of 2019. Floorball Is the fastest and most popular version of floor hockey in the world. We began introducing the sport to kids of the Greater Seattle area in late 2019 and through the first few months of 2020. Each event we have done has been met with great turnout and Excitement.
Emerald City Floorball has connected with institutions such as the Boys and Girls Club, Seattle Parks and Recreation, The Edmonds School District and even the Seattle Kraken.
Our Vision and Mission
Our Vision and Mission
Where we started
Kids and families have many options when it comes to playing sports and activities these days. Floorball offers a very unique set of benefits to all kids that sets itself apart from many other activities. Floorball is truly for everyone. Boys, girls, kids of all ages, backgrounds and nations, kids with means and kids without the same financial benefits as others. This inclusivity is one of the core principles of Floorball that has allowed it to become one of the fastest growing team sports in the world. For years we have heard the term in hockey, “hockey is for everyone“.
Floorball truly makes this possible with its low cost barrier to entry, removal of socioeconomic barriers, and with its fun and safe environment. Something that the current hockey world has always struggled with and still struggles today amidst all the accusations coming down on current and former hockey coaches as we speak. Playing without the stress that many kids deal with in today’s youth sports is not only attractive to the young athlete, but to Mom and Dad as well.
Floorball is unique in its stick and ball design. The sharp, colorful looking lightweight sticks makes it easy for new kids to handle the stick and ball, picking up basic skills faster. When you learn anything in life and begin to get better at something, you quickly enjoy it and yearn for more. Today’s game on the ice is all about lighter sticks and equipment. So kids with a hockey background can use Floorball to their benefit to grow their existing skill set. And kids without a hockey background can enjoy Floorball the same way as everyone else and even potentially use it as a springboard to playing ice hockey someday.
Floorball is a wonderful gateway sport to ice if that is a path chosen. The rules are designed in a way that promotes speed, skill, creativity, teamwork and safety to the best of its ability. While there is some contact, the physicality, potential violence and propensity for injury is severely reduced. Take this from someone who played highly competitive Dek hockey on the East Coast for 18 years and has suffered all types of facial injuries, bruises and cuts.
There are restrictions on how high you can carry your stick, how high you can play a ball, and how you use your stick to take the ball away from an opponent. The shortcuts that are eliminated through the rules of Floorball force kids to work harder, use pure effort and smarts to gain and regain possession. Floorball will make you better at hockey or any sport you already play.
These are just some of the things that make Floorball unique and stand out from many other sports and forms of off-ice hockey that came before me and you. And this is just the beginning of why I believe heavily in this sport becoming a thing in the Greater Seattle area and all of Western Washington. This is the future of floor hockey and I am excited to share it with all of you.
Where we started
Kids and families have many options when it comes to playing sports and activities these days. Floorball offers a very unique set of benefits to all kids that sets itself apart from many other activities. Floorball is truly for everyone. Boys, girls, kids of all ages, backgrounds and nations, kids with means and kids without the same financial benefits as others. This inclusivity is one of the core principles of Floorball that has allowed it to become one of the fastest growing team sports in the world. For years we have heard the term in hockey, “hockey is for everyone“.
Floorball truly makes this possible with its low cost barrier to entry, removal of socioeconomic barriers, and with its fun and safe environment. Something that the current hockey world has always struggled with and still struggles today amidst all the accusations coming down on current and former hockey coaches as we speak. Playing without the stress that many kids deal with in today’s youth sports is not only attractive to the young athlete, but to Mom and Dad as well.
Floorball is unique in its stick and ball design. The sharp, colorful looking lightweight sticks makes it easy for new kids to handle the stick and ball, picking up basic skills faster. When you learn anything in life and begin to get better at something, you quickly enjoy it and yearn for more. Today’s game on the ice is all about lighter sticks and equipment. So kids with a hockey background can use Floorball to their benefit to grow their existing skill set. And kids without a hockey background can enjoy Floorball the same way as everyone else and even potentially use it as a springboard to playing ice hockey someday.
Floorball is a wonderful gateway sport to ice if that is a path chosen. The rules are designed in a way that promotes speed, skill, creativity, teamwork and safety to the best of its ability. While there is some contact, the physicality, potential violence and propensity for injury is severely reduced. Take this from someone who played highly competitive Dek hockey on the East Coast for 18 years and has suffered all types of facial injuries, bruises and cuts.
There are restrictions on how high you can carry your stick, how high you can play a ball, and how you use your stick to take the ball away from an opponent. The shortcuts that are eliminated through the rules of Floorball force kids to work harder, use pure effort and smarts to gain and regain possession. Floorball will make you better at hockey or any sport you already play.
These are just some of the things that make Floorball unique and stand out from many other sports and forms of off-ice hockey that came before me and you. And this is just the beginning of why I believe heavily in this sport becoming a thing in the Greater Seattle area and all of Western Washington. This is the future of floor hockey and I am excited to share it with all of you.