Quidditch through the ages!

Quidditch has developed us; Quidditch unites witches and wizards from all walks of life, bringing us together to share moments of exhilaration, triumph, and (for those who support the Chudley Cannons) despair.

7 Team Players - Each team is comprised of 7 players that ride on broomsticks. The Goal Posts are located 50 feet in the air and the action takes place 10 feet to 120 feet in the air. The Quidditch field is called the Pitch.

Players: 3 Chasers, 1 Keeper, 2 Beaters and 1 Seeker.

Equipment - 1 Quaffle, 2 Bludgers and 1 Golden Snitch.

Scoring - Quaffle through a hoop scores 10 points each time. When the Seeker catches the Snitch, 150 points is added to the team score and the game immediately ends.

The Play - Each team has one Seeker. His/her job is to seek out the small, hard to find, Golden Snitch and capture it by any means possible. The Golden Snitch is a bright gold ball with little fluttering silver wings and is extreamly fast. The first seeker to catch the snitch wins 150 points for their team and the game ends.

While the Seeker is looking for the Snitch, there are two bludgers, which are big, heavy balls that rocket around trying to knock all the players off of their brooms. Each team has two Beaters, equipped with large clubs. The Beaters zoom after the Bludgers trying to knock them into the opposing team players in addition to protecting against bludgers aimed at any of their team mates.

There are 3 Chasers that pass the Quaffle to each other and try to put it through any one of the opponents 3 goals in order to score. Each team has a goal keeper that protects the goals.

In addition to transportation, brooms are an essential item to play the popular game Quidditch. Without a broom, a wizard and/or witch would be incapable of playing the game. Some spectacular plays that can be performed with a broom are:

Bludger Backbeat: This is a move where the beater strikes the bludger with a backhanded club swing, sending it behind him/her rather than in front. Difficult to bring off with precision but excellent for confusing opponents.

Dopplebeater Defence: Both beaters hit a bludger at the same time for extra power, resulting in a bludger attack of greater severity.

Double Eight Loop: A keeper defence, usually employed against penalty takers, whereby the keeper swerves around all three goal hoops at high speed to block the quaffle.

Hawkshead Attacking Formation: Chasers form an arrowhead pattern and fly together towards the goal posts. Highly intimidating to opposing teams and effective in forcing other players aside.

Parkin's Pincer: Two chasers close in on an opposing chaser on either side, while the third flies headlong towards him/her.

Plumpton Pass: Seeker move: a seemingly careless swerve that scoops the snitch up one's sleeve.

Potter's Gulp: Seeker nonchalantly catches the snitch with his/her mouth.

Porksckoff Ploy: The chaser carrying the quaffle flies upwards, leading opposing chasers to believe he/she is trying to escape them to score, but then throws the quaffle downwards to a fellow chaser waiting to catch it. Pinpoint timing is of the essence.

Reverse Pass: A chaser throws the quaffle over ones shoulder to a team member. Accuracy is difficult.

Sloth Grip Roll: Hanging upsidedown off the broom, gripping tightly with hands and feet to avoid a bludger.

Starfish and Stick: Keeper defence; The keeper holds the broom horizontally with one hand and one foot curled around the handle, while keeping all limbs outstretched. The Starfish without stick should never be attempted.

Transylvanian Tackle: This is a fake punch aimed at the nose. As long as contact is not made, the move is not illegal, though it is difficult to pull off when both parties are on speeding broomsticks.

Woollongong Shimmy: This is a high speed zigzagging movement intended to throw off opposing chasers.

Wronski Feint: The seeker hurtles towards the ground pretending to have seen the snitch far below, but pulls out of the dive just before hitting the pitch. Intended to make the opposing seeker copy him and crash.

Are there anymore beater moves? If not, then I'll have to make up my own...i certainly don't know anymore!

any more chaser moves?

i need all the help i can get

lol

be creative, think up some moves to get extra points,

It is much better to create some of your own moves as mcfly said as you are more likely to be pointed higher when you put them to use!

i have the book quidditch through the ages. im planning on trying out for quidditch and it would be helpful

Thanks for the list of terms! If we make up our own chaser moves or something, will points be taken off? Would we have to explain them in parentheses?

Hey,

Quidditch through the ages is a must read. Just get your butt in the comfiest chair in the common room and read away lol. I won my copy by sending away tokens from the back of an Owl-Os cereal box and I got a cudley canons bookmark free (though I support the Holyhead Harpies, I mean hello, the only all female quidditch team in britain)

LucyXX