20/01/2011
We always pondered over one main issue in schools hockey. That pertains to basics -- how to select 20 or 25-member team when almost triple number of boys or girls turn up.
Almost everyone of them is new to hockey, and therefore game's skill is ruled out as the selection criteria.
How to then go about? Good physique, sprinting capabilities, grasping hockey quickly and so on.
This aspect came in big measure recently in Delhi. Ashok Vihar's Kulachi M...
19/01/2011
Kanpur is bracing up for the season's hockey activities.
The schools have just reopened after extended winter vacation.
There are 8 schools in the focus area of One Thousand Hockey Legs
Project Officer for the city Mrs. Mithilesh Gupta has contacted the concerned school authorities, briefed them of what is being planned by us for the season.
She has got positive response from the schools
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13/01/2011
Muslim High School, located in the busy Tiruvallikeni area of Chennai, has taken up hockey seriously.
Recently, they completed all formalities to join One Thousand Hockey Legs.
Muslim School, a prominent talent pool for tennis and other Olympic sports in the metropolis, did not have a hockey team right now.
PETs Rahim and Basha could not confirm existence of hockey teams in the school as it was not there in the recent past. ...
01/01/2011
Welcome 2011
The new year marks beginning of third year of ‘One Thousand Hockey Legs’.
It has so far been so interesting and inspiring that we look forward to 2011 as a year of consolidation.
We could convince and start hockey in about 30 schools spread over five cities – Puducherry, Kanpur, Kolkata, Chennai, Delhi -- where hockey was not in the list of sports being practised before we knocked their doors.
That about 30 schools are ...
16/12/2010
One gets hockey news in the newspapers, television channels and websites. They in part gives an idea of what's going on in hockey around you.
Young children may be reading newspapers, seeing the channels but we are not sure how much proper knowledge of hockey they get out of these.
It has been, therefore, our endevour to create hockey literature and make it reach it to young hearts.
Recently, we in the Hockey Citizen Group brought out a bou...
09/12/2010
We are happy to bring the attention of visitors of this site over our recent activity. It deals with spreading of hockey information to younger generation, the students in schools in particular.
We have recently brought out three publications. These are simple tools to realize Hockey Citizen Group’s objective of creating enlightened hockey followers and players....
09/12/2010
Despite rain and unpredictable climate, Chennai and Puducherry, the costal centres of OTHL, witnessed a flurry of activities in November 2010.
These activities have been planned as per the overall vision of HCG.
Here is the recap of these carefully planned and immaculately implemented activities.
1) ‘Feel Turf Chennai’. OTHL runs its flagship One Thousand Hockey Legs in Chennai almost a year. Out of three schools, our part time paid coaches go ...
28/11/2010
It was a big day for One Thousand Hockey Legs.
Almost 2 years back, when we set out on taking Hockey to some 6 schools of the city of Pondicherry - almost all of them never played Hockey in their existence - we had a dream that one day we will have a team that will represent OTHL Pondicherry; a team that will go around and play matches with various other teams in and out of their city.
2 years of toil and endeavor brought us to the day when OTHL Pondicherry team, co...
17/11/2010
The 3 OTHL schools from Chennai:
Don Bosco, Egmore
St. Anthony Anglo Indian School, Egmore
St Bedes School, Santhome
will assemble at 12noon at the Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium, Chennai to take part in "Feel Turf" programme being held by One Thousand Hockey Legs team....
27/09/2010
This academic year the Hockey season started in Pondicherry in July.
Steady practise went on in all the 8 associated schools in the city.
Recently, a knock-out format tournament was concieved by the local coaches and Project Officers....
