Although the sport is traditionally played on an ice surface, events are also held on tarmac in summer.

Ice stocks have a gliding surface, to which a stick (ca 30 cm) is attached.

The sport is mostly practised in southern Germany, Austria and Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol in Italy.

Ice stock has been demonstrated at the Winter Olympic Games on two occasions.

The most recent world championship for Ice stock has been the 2022 Ice stock sport World Championships for Women and Men, held on February 22–27 February 2022 in Ritten, Italy in the central village of Klobenstein (Collalbo).

First written mentioning of ice stock sport as messengers arrive to bring news of the capture of Richard Lion-heart to Leopold V, Duke of Austria, who was playing ice stock on the frozen river Danube by Vienna shortly before Christmas 1192.

[clarification needed] Source: Vatikan Library, Rom (Pope Celestine III excommunicated Leopold V), and University Library of Karlsruhe at a time when it still was publicly accessible There are several disciplines in ice stock sport, of which teams target shooting, individual target and distance shooting are contested in international championships.

One of the two teams starts the game by trying to play one of their sticks into the target field through the so-called measure.

1st round: 6 attempts are made on the middle target rings, in which the player's stick should be brought as close as possible to the center cross.

4th round: 6 attempts are played on a target stick, which is placed in the marked circles A, B, G, H, E and F in sequence.

In attempts 3 and 4, the aim is to hit the shooting stick so that it comes to a standstill as close as possible to the center cross.

The funnel can be extended as desired, which is also necessary when you consider that the world record is 566 m (achieved by Manfred Zieglgruber , SV Unterneukirchen (D) on Lake Seeon ).

He has space to run out up to the 7 meter line, which is not a matter of course due to the momentum and the kinetic energy acting on the athlete.

From the spectator's point of view, this discipline has the advantage that even a layperson can judge whether an attempt was successful or not.

During the winter season, icestock sport uses a sheet of ice with areas marked off for play.

The IOC Session acknowledged by their vote today the significant development of IFI in the years since the provisional recognition was achieved.