Jack Belvedere

I highly recommend this. I was lucky enough to be invited to the pre-opening night performance and it was one of the most amazing things I have seen in 7 years of SL. I took a lot of photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/puckhead289/sets/72157628001038540/

I highly recommend this. I was lucky enough to be invited to the pre-opening night performance and it was one of the most amazing things I have seen in 7 years of SL. I took a lot of photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/puckhead289/sets/72157628001038540/

GOHA Ice Hockey is preparing to enter its 13th season of providing entertaining, realistic team sports to the SL world. We have a large community of active players and participants which is open to all to join. Everything is free, including your equipment, games, or just coming to watch. We have participated in SL birthday celebrations, Winterfest, Showcase and many inworld activities. Some of our members did not know a thing about hockey or even think they liked it before joining, so don't let that stop you! We invite anyone of all skill levels and the community is very welcoming. We have players who deal with real life handicaps who are thrilled to be able to participate virtually in this competitive sport and the game script is simple to master. You can be a player, captain, fan, cheerleader, help participate in event planning, and more. GOHA provides a stable social community for SL members new and old. The game itself is professionally scripted, and we play on 3 beautiful rinks spread across 8 sims. You can check them out by contacting me for landmarks or just search for GOHA in Places inworld. All equipment is available by the rinks' player entrances. For rookies, we have an excellent Rookie Training division run by Katia Ixtab. Participate in a few rookie games, learn the basics, and you're ready to be drafted onto one of our 12 teams. We offer both North American and European Divisions. GOHA has a strong code of conduct as we expect participants to conduct themselves in an adult manner to provide a fun and drama-free environment for our league members. Rules, Mission and Conduct information is available on our website, along with a season schedule, player forums, league history and more. Our league also has detailed and professional automated statistics. http://www.globalonlinehockeyassociation.com We also offer Ski Jumping now at Chamonix City! Check out the Breakaway sim and try out the ski jump. Creator Marjan Tomba is organizing events and competitions. You can also join the Chamonix Ski Jump group inworld. Coming soon, you can also try out bobsledding! GOHA is involved with a project with other sports groups inside Second Life with a goal of promoting sports throughout the SL world. If you participate in another sport and want to join a supportive group of sports managers across the grid, please let me know and I can direct you where to go. Hope to see you inworld! Don't hesitate to contact me with questions. 

GOHA Ice Hockey is preparing to enter its 13th season of providing entertaining, realistic team sports to the SL world. We have a large community of active players and participants which is open to all to join. Everything is free, including your equipment, games, or just coming to watch. We have participated in SL birthday celebrations, Winterfest, Showcase and many inworld activities. Some of our members did not know a thing about hockey or even think they liked it before joining, so don't let that stop you! We invite anyone of all skill levels and the community is very welcoming. We have players who deal with real life handicaps who are thrilled to be able to participate virtually in this competitive sport and the game script is simple to master. You can be a player, captain, fan, cheerleader, help participate in event planning, and more. GOHA provides a stable social community for SL members new and old. The game itself is professionally scripted, and we play on 3 beautiful rinks spread across 8 sims. You can check them out by contacting me for landmarks or just search for GOHA in Places inworld. All equipment is available by the rinks' player entrances. For rookies, we have an excellent Rookie Training division run by Katia Ixtab. Participate in a few rookie games, learn the basics, and you're ready to be drafted onto one of our 12 teams. We offer both North American and European Divisions. GOHA has a strong code of conduct as we expect participants to conduct themselves in an adult manner to provide a fun and drama-free environment for our league members. Rules, Mission and Conduct information is available on our website, along with a season schedule, player forums, league history and more. Our league also has detailed and professional automated statistics. http://www.globalonlinehockeyassociation.com We also offer Ski Jumping now at Chamonix City! Check out the Breakaway sim and try out the ski jump. Creator Marjan Tomba is organizing events and competitions. You can also join the Chamonix Ski Jump group inworld. Coming soon, you can also try out bobsledding! GOHA is involved with a project with other sports groups inside Second Life with a goal of promoting sports throughout the SL world. If you participate in another sport and want to join a supportive group of sports managers across the grid, please let me know and I can direct you where to go. Hope to see you inworld! Don't hesitate to contact me with questions. 

Mine is intermittent. I was able to get into SL using V2 yesterday, but today again it is stuck at "Loading World" and never rolls over. So I can get in only with 1.23. Weird.

No luck for me yet, even with a reinstall. I also get this when trying to install. On a second attempt, I did not get those messages, but it still gets stuck at "Loading World" and will not go any further.

Hiya Claw! I'm having same issue. It gets stuck at "Loading World" and won't go any further. Also had a lot of weird installation issues, popup boxes. No resolution yet but I'll post if I find out anything.

Nice!! Good luck and have fun, Gladiola, glad to see this option being started. I will mention it around to other sports groups I know, too.

Global Online Hockey Association (GOHA) is getting ready to start its 13th season of exciting inworld ice hockey. GOHA was established in 2006 and continues to offer the virtual world exciting, realistic ice hockey, professionally scripted and a joy to play.  The GOHA community is a large, established and friendly place that happily welcomes new members. The fall season will start soon. Everyone is welcome to join, and we'll help you through the rookie process with 1-on-1 training. It's quite simple to learn. It doesn't matter if you've never played or watched hockey--we'll help you through it. As a GOHA member, you'll enjoy instant entertainment and a big circle of new friends who get together not just for hockey but other social activities as well. We hold games every day and have two competitive seasons a year, along with a laid-back Summer Season. Team captains are chosen by their peers. At the end of every season, we have a large Awards Night for which peer-voted trophies are awarded to players. The league offers active North American and European divisions, so whatever time zone you live in, you are sure to find some new friends. --EVERYTHING IS FREE --FREE TO PLAY AND JOIN --FREE TO WATCH --FREE UNIFORMS AND EQUIPMENT You can find our 3 beautiful rinks and free equipment at the following sims inworld: Empty Net, Jericho Hill, Blueliner. If you are looking for an active community that offers many social activities in and around the sporting world, look no further. Contact Jack Belvedere, Katia Ixtab, Kerry Gretzky, or Marjan Tomba for a tour of the 8 sims where GOHA lives and plays together, or any league/group member for further information.

I'll get in touch with you guys inworld later and see if we can get something brewing.

Anyone interested in doing an organized Sports Fair over the summer? I can provide a sim and host, advertise and help staff it. What I was thinking was: Booths, free info and sports-related freebies, live music, fair-type setting, special guests and demonstrations. I can start a group for it. Hit me up inworld if you might be interested to join in, it would be cool to get as many sports groups as possible involved.

It looks great, nice work!

Hey Redlag!! Nice, thanks for posting the event, but just now saw it--will it continue this week also?

RacerX ROCKS!! Go snail racing!!

Some residents do not realize that there is a large and varied sports community inside Second Life. Sports in SL provides a great opportunity for friendly competition and big social settings with a wide variety of activities. Some of the options include football, soccer, hockey, snail racing, car racing, wrestling, simboarding, golf, fishing, and skiing. There is a lot of pleasure in being able to participate in the sports world in SL--active games we have created ourselves and the wide opportunities to meet people around the world. In order to help promote sports in SL, some of the sports managers have joined together to help cross-promote and increase the visibility overall of sports in SL. Terrell Merryman from the SFL founded the Virtual Sports Bureau (group) to help keep contact with each other with a wider goal of expanding sports in the virtual world. If you are the owner of a virtual sports group and would like to talk with other owners and work on ways we can help sports in SL reach its potential, as well as being a great source of support for each other, please feel free to contact me, Terrell Merryman, Alistar Snook, Calvinizm2g Quan, or RobsterRawb Jaxxon and we can give you more info.