Studio Hockey

The one with Adam Commens. But before we hear from the technical director of the Belgian hockey federation, listen to the post final comments by Red Lions captain Thomas Briels and his team mate Alexander Hendrickx. Every day during the European Championships we will publish a new podcast before 8am about the day ahead at #EHC2019 ! In our 10th episode we spoke at length to Adam Commens, technical...

The one with Michelle, Lidewij and Nike. Every day during the European Championships we will publish a new podcast before 8am about the day ahead at #EHC2019 ! In our 9th episode we spoke to Michelle Struijk from Belgium, Lidewij Welten from the Netherlands and Nike Lorenz from Germany. Join us also tomorrow for yet another podcast. Every day a new episode until the champions are known! We hope yo...

The one with Adam Dixon and the happy Belgians. Every day during the European Championships we will publish a new podcast before 8am about the day ahead at #EHC2019 ! In our 8th episode we first spoke with Adam Dixon, captain for England following their victory over Ireland. Following this is Simon Gougnard from the Belgian Red Lions after their epic win versus Germany and some short Belgian sound...

The one with the striker, the coach/columnist and the defender. Tom Boon from Belgium, Todd Williams - an Aussie coaching and writing in the UK and Dutch defender Margot van Geffen. Every day during the European Championships we will publish a new podcast before 8am about the day ahead at #EHC2019 ! In our 7th episode we first spoke with Todd Williams about hockey in the UK and about choices &...

The one with Mats Grambusch, Kenny Bain & Marc Salles. A German, a Scot and a Spaniard walk into a bar and... No it's not a joke. It's the 6th episode of the EHCdaily ;) Every day during the European Championships we will publish a new podcast before 8am about the day ahead at #EHC2019 ! In our 6th episode we host German captain Mats Grambusch after beating the Irish, Scotsman Kenny Bain who w...

The one with not one... but two legends. Every day during the European Championships we will publish a new podcast before 8am about the day ahead at #EHC2019 ! In our 5th episode we host two legends of the game because there is no other description worthy of both Taco van den Honert and Jamie Dwyer. Discussing the differences between today's hockey and the game from when they started playing and a...

The one with Shane McLeod and Maddie Hinch. Every day during the European Championships we will publish a new podcast before 8am about the day ahead at #EHC2019 ! In our 4th episode we spoke with Shane McLeod, coach for the Belgian men and Maddie Hinch, goalie for the English women. McLeod was recorded before the start of the tournament and we discussed the goals for this European Championship, bu...

The one with Xavier Reckinger and Thomas Briels. Every day during the European Championships we will publish a new podcast before 8am about the day ahead at #EHC2019 ! In our 3rd episode we spoke with Xavier Reckinger, coach for the German women, Die Danas and Thomas Briels, captain of the Belgian Red Lions. Both talk about their expectations for this event. With Briels describing his love for the...

The one with David Harte and Abi Raye. Every day during the European Championships we will publish a new podcast before 8am about the day ahead at #EHC2019 ! In our 2nd episode we spoke with David Harte, the goalie for the Irish men's team. Unfortunately he's injured and will not be playing. Our 2nd guest however will feature on the pitch as well. Starting by singing a capella her new anthem in fr...

The one with Marc Coudron... and Miki Delàs! Every day during the European Championships we will publish a new podcast before 8am about the day ahead at #EHC2019 ! In our first episode we spoke with Marc Coudron, the president of the Belgian hockey federation and as such the host for this EC. We talked about the rise of Belgian hockey. About gender balance. About what would make this tournament a...

FIH Pro League did not fail. Batra failed! Or did he…? A monologue with some quotes in between based upon the opinion piece published at be-hockey.com after the first season of the FIH Pro League has come to an end... A critical take on the declaration of success by the FIH for their first edition of the Pro League... and my opinion on the reasons why... Don't agree or want to add your own opinion...

It seems to be the mantra for FIH president Batra in all of his endeavours: overpromising and underdelivering! We’ve seen it with the HIL and the FIH Pro League. And it’s the same for  FIH.live  so it seems. The platform and app were announced during his FIH congress in November 2018 and launched in January of 2019. As you can read in my column following the announcement of FIH.live entitled “The...

The CEO from FIH, Thierry Weil, told the world about his ambition for a dry artificial turf for elite hockey at the Olympics in Paris 2024. We can all see the thinking and logic behind eliminating the waterbased pitches. But is it realistic? Studio Hockey asked industry expert Arnoud Fiolet from Recreational Systems International about the possibility to replace waterbased turf with a dry artifici...

Sometimes you just have to kill the unicorn… before it kills you. No, do not fear… We haven’t gone off topic. We’re not doing fairytales, nor are we in the business of animal cruelty. A unicorn in this context has been defined by experts in innovation as one of these idea’s during a brainstorm session that should not be followed through upon. In this case we're talking about the FIH Pro League ! R...

Once again the EHL lived up to its reputation… In Eindhoven the hockey family came together over the Easter weekend and celebrated our sport. Listen to my monologue following the 2019 EHL edition or read all about it at be-hockey.com ... Recorded at 2019-04-23. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/studiohockey/message This is a public episode. If you'd like to discu...

Jon Wyatt is the sports director for the FIH. He joins me, Ernst Baart, on our Studio Hockey podcast talking about some recent developments following a FIH board meeting in March of 2019. The end of the FIH Series, new qualification paths to the FIH World Cup & Olympics, more importance given to the continental championships and especially about the new world ranking being tested behind the sc...

A monologue about Hockey5s. In 2013 the FIH gave birth to hockey’s own Frankenstein’s monster. Contrary to the monster created by dr. Frankenstein this one has a name. We call it Hockey5s.  Very much parallel to the fictional character from book and movies, I’m convinced some of you will have grown to like the monster. As I’m sure the monster will do some good along the way. Though I fear, as in t...

Mike Joyce, director at The Hockey Foundation and the FIH talks to us about Hockey2024, the newest global strategy for hockey development due to launch in 2019. The strategy has been presented at the recent FIH congress and will be officially launched in January of 2019. Check out the podcast to learn more about it from one of the co-writers of this strategy to help grow the game of hockey in the...

Let's start by congratulating Belgium for their amazing progress resulting in a well earned silver at the Rio Games in 2016 and a first gold medal at the most recent World Cup. The secret to their success is a simple formula : a stronger domestic league + an ambitious long term plan/vision not just on paper but well executed + patience and a lot of hard work for many years = gold and a 1st place o...

My thoughts on the FIH congress, hosted in New Delhi last weekend. Where the state of hockey and its future was discussed and decided... Read the column here :  be-hockey.com/the-proof-of-the-pudding-is-in-the-eating/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/studiohockey/message This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access...

Let the Hockey Revolution change the way we show hockey instead of the way we play it! While hardly anyone is noticing it, I do think the future of our sport will be decided in the years to come. We are at a turning point… Prefer to read about it? Check out :  be-hockey.com/real-revolutions-do-not-follow-the-downtrodden-path/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stu...

Hockey is coming home. It's the FIH slogan for their newest event about to start in 2019 and meant to be instrumental in the Hockey Revolution, the 2014-2024 strategy for the FIH. We're half way their 10 year plan and entering Money Time. Let's recap where we stand today... Prefer reading to listening? Check out our blog post at be-hockey.com here... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters...

Friday 2018-09-14 we talked hockey with some South African hockey legends... Austin Smith, Lloyd Norris-Jones, Rassie Pieterse & my co-host for the occasion Tyron Barnard, sports writer and hockey enthusiast from South Africa as well. We discussed all things hockey such as the Premier Hockey League, South Africa's version of the HIL more or less. We also had a chat about Hockey5s and how it mi...

The EHL is back...almost... We talked to the voice of European hockey Nick Irvine for our podcast ⬆︎ about the EHL returning to the city of Barcelona and Thursday 2018-09-06 at 11am CET (that's 10am in London, 5pm in Perth or 6am for the early risers in Buenos Aires) we were also LIVE on our facebook page with 2 legendary strikers about the EHL next month in Barcelona. Hola Barcelona! Hola EHL! :)...

Talking hockey with some of the best goalies in the world: David Harte from Ireland & Kampong (NED) and Tobias Walter from Germany & Dragons (BEL). If you prefer you watch it as a video at studiohockey.com as well ;) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/studiohockey/message This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get...