Fear of failure is one of the biggest inhibitors to learning for hockey players at all levels – here we look at why making mistakes isn’t an unwanted fact of life in sport, it’s an absolutely necessary one.
SFH sat down with two of Munster’s greatest ever hockey players, Karen Bateman and Rachael Kohler, to discuss their successful comebacks to top-level sport with their beloved Cork Harlequins, balancing those commitments with family life and comparisons between the game they left and the one they returned to.
With forums being held in the coming days to debate the concept of a full Irish Hockey League, Southern Fried Hockey canvassed the opinions of players and club people in Munster, Leinster and Ulster to investigate the key talking points.