edit: HANDBALL!
Dec. 12th, 2004 01:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockDid anyone ever play that game when you're a kid with the large rubber balls that's basically like four-square, except you play against a wall wiht only two people, maybe 3 tops?
And you had to bounce it once before it hit the wall and it could only bounce once coming back before you hit it-- if it bounced twice or just went past you entirely you lost a point. And it was really hard-core with little tournaments and play-offs and stuff. And there were rules like "no cross-country" (i.e. no deliberately bouncing it to the opposite corner of the wall so your opponent would have to run the length of the wall to get to it and probably hit it out) and other stuff.
And then teachers or other people come out and yell at you to stop banging against their walls. Anyone else play that? What was it called anyway?
Edit: I jsut spent about 20 minutes on google trying to find a name for this game or even a description, and I've found nothing. The closest seems to be rules on Foursquare and rules about dodgeball with people lined up against the wall (which we played too, but to a lesser extent as it was somewhat violent.)
And you had to bounce it once before it hit the wall and it could only bounce once coming back before you hit it-- if it bounced twice or just went past you entirely you lost a point. And it was really hard-core with little tournaments and play-offs and stuff. And there were rules like "no cross-country" (i.e. no deliberately bouncing it to the opposite corner of the wall so your opponent would have to run the length of the wall to get to it and probably hit it out) and other stuff.
And then teachers or other people come out and yell at you to stop banging against their walls. Anyone else play that? What was it called anyway?
Edit: I jsut spent about 20 minutes on google trying to find a name for this game or even a description, and I've found nothing. The closest seems to be rules on Foursquare and rules about dodgeball with people lined up against the wall (which we played too, but to a lesser extent as it was somewhat violent.)
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Date: 2004-12-12 10:42 pm (UTC)Of course, that brought up the whole dumpster-diving issue when a ball went astray...
I remember the wall we played against at my day care (we played at the elementry school too though) was relatively short in length, and one end was just a fence, but on the other end was the flat black top with the basketball courts leading out to the field. So whenever someone missed and the ball went shooting at high speeds but never hit the wall, the poor kid who hit it (I did my share of it) would have to chase the ball down, and it frequently meant running half or all the length of the multiple black-top courts before you managed to catch and trap it. Or until someone stopped it for you.