An original name invented on the same night as Octopush an original sport was invented


 


 

THE FIRST 4 PLAYERS OF OCTOPUSH [U/W HOCKEY]

John Ventham
Alan Blake
Jack Willis
Frank Lilleker

 

As time is going by, it is necessary to provide for the record a definitive account of the circumstances and conditions that caused the creation and subsequent evolution of Octopush and Underwater Hockey. A sport that has spread to many countries with an unknown development or future requires suppositions clarified or corrected. To fully understand it has been necessary to take you back to the time when resources were slender and primitive compared to the present 'accepted norm'. So a little of my early involvement in diving, the conditions, and 'how and why' there's a sport called

OCTOPUSH

 

Credits:

Page designed by Peer-Olaf Siebers

Text written by Alan Blake

 

 

Thanks to:

Anastasios Dinas

Lilian Blot

Yunlung Chang

Mohamed Aljunaibi

Martin Lussing

Aitor Oyarbide

Teresa Moreira

 

 

 

 

 

Last updated

17/02/2008