RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - A new sport is gaining popularity in the Richmond area.

Floorball is similar to hockey, but trade out pucks and skates for plastic balls and sneakers, along with a few other key differences.

“There are no sticks above the waist, there’s no checking, you can’t touch the ball above your knee,” Nick Baldaino, the President of the Richmond Floorball Club, said.

The sport originated in Sweden in the early 1970’s, making it’s way to the US around twenty years ago.

Just last year, the Richmond Floorball Club was founded.

“We have one of the largest communities in the country in floorball,” Nick Baldaino, the President of the Richmond Floorball Club, said.

The club partnered with the Powhatan Ice Den for summer programing this year.

Among it’s biggest events yet w

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