Rules of the game:

6. Tackling

Players may be tackled but not struck by a one handed slash of the stick; exceptions are two handed jabs and strikes. Jersey-pulling, wrestling, pushing and tripping are all forbidden.

There are several forms of acceptable tackling, the most popular being:

i. the block, where one player attempts to smother an opposing player's strike by trapping the ball between his hurley and the opponent's swinging hurley;

ii. the hook, where a player approaches another player from a rear angle and attempts to catch the opponent's hurley with his own at the top of the swing;

iii. the side pull, where two players running together for the sliotar will collide at the shoulders and swing together to win the tackle and "pull"(name given to swing the hurley) really hard.