"David Ball (sport shooter) David Ball is a British Sport shooting residing in Banks, Lancashire. He competes in Down-The-Line competitions throughout the UK, having previous competed at the highest level. Over time he has expanded his shooting ability to the focus on training people who are wanting to get into the sport of clay pigeon shooting. He is used by a large proportion of the United Kingdoms top trap shooters. Dave has worked with the son of sport shooter David Waddington, Andy Waddington, and after the training, Andy went on to become the top junior DTL shooter in England in"
"Balle à la main Balle à la main is a traditional Picard sport. It is a team sport with two teams of seven players on a called field "" ""ballodrome"" "". It is a game of ""gain-ground"" as Longue paume, which takes place in Picardy. Balle à la main is played on a rectangular field of 65 meters by 12 meters. As all the ballodromes of the games of gain-ground, we find on the field a line of fire and a rope. The ball is made with a lead pit, surrounded with wool and covered with leather. The diameter is"
"Alley-oop (basketball) An alley-oop in basketball is an offensive play in which one player throws the ball near the basket to a teammate who jumps, catches the ball in mid air and puts it in the hoop before touching the ground. The alley-oop combines elements of teamwork, pinpoint passing, timing and finishing. The term ""alley-oop"" is derived from the French term ""allez hop!"", the cry of a circus acrobat about to leap. The term Alley Oop was first popularized in the US in 1932 as the name of a syndicated comic strip created by cartoonist V. T. Hamlin. In sports"
"Alley-oop (basketball) An alley-oop in basketball is an offensive play in which one player throws the ball near the basket to a teammate who jumps, catches the ball in mid air and puts it in the hoop before touching the ground. The alley-oop combines elements of teamwork, pinpoint passing, timing and finishing. The term ""alley-oop"" is derived from the French term ""allez hop!"", the cry of a circus acrobat about to leap. The term Alley Oop was first popularized in the US in 1932 as the name of a syndicated comic strip created by cartoonist V. T. Hamlin. In sports"
"about 4,2 cm with a weight about 43 g. The game takes place according to the rules of the games of ""gagne-terrain"" (""gain-ground"") with in particular the use of the """"chasses"""". We play naked hand. Points for a set count by ""fifteen"" (15, 30, 45 and set), with possible advantage in the tie-break. A match takes place in 7 sets. Balle à la main Balle à la main is a traditional Picard sport. It is a team sport with two teams of seven players on a called field "" ""ballodrome"" "". It is a game of ""gain-ground"" as Longue paume,"
"Ballon au poing The ballon au poing is a popular team sport in Picardy (France). This game is played by teams of six. It is a game of gain-ground. This sport must not be confused with the fistball. To be able to hit the ball, players surround their hand and their wrist with a strip of canvas or leather. The teams are separated on the ground by a line ( ""la corde"" - the rope) which is mobile during the party. This new limit is shown by a ""chasse"". The purpose of the game is to gain ground by moving"
"the rope. To do it, we try to make the ball """"die"""" in the opposite camp. Points mark by 15, 30, 40 and game. Each 15 August at the Parc de la Hotoie ( Amiens ), the city receives the final stages of Ballon au poing. Ballon au poing The ballon au poing is a popular team sport in Picardy (France). This game is played by teams of six. It is a game of gain-ground. This sport must not be confused with the fistball. To be able to hit the ball, players surround their hand and their wrist with a"
"are counted as in tennis: 15, 30, 40 and set. Two games in ""Jeu de paume"": These sports are practised in Hauts-de-France and Belgium: but also in Spain : or in the world: Gain-ground (game) Games of gain-ground are team sports which are played with a small ball or a balloon. They are often outdoors on a """"ballodrome"""" but can also be played indoors. Among these games, longue paume and real tennis are the most well-known because they are played with rackets. The rules change a little depending on the game but the basic rules remain identical from one game"
"The first tournament was played in La Ciotat in 1910. The first steel boules were introduced in 1927. The object is to throw a ball (boule) as close as possible to a smaller ball, called the cochonnet, (this kind of throw is called to ""faire le point"" or ""pointer""); or to knock away a boules of the opponent that is close to the cochonnet (this is called to ""tirer""). Players compete one-on-one (""tête-à-tête""), in teams of two (""doublettes"") or teams of three (""triplettes""). The object is to accumulate thirteen points. The point belongs to the ball the closest to the"
"Jeu de paume Jeu de paume (; ) is a ball-and-court game that originated in France. It was an indoor precursor of tennis played without racquets, though these were eventually introduced. It is a former Olympic sport, and has the oldest ongoing annual world championship in sport, first established over 250 years ago. Originally spelled jeu de paulme, now it is called ""real tennis"" , court tennis (US) or courte paume (France). In the earliest versions of the game, the players hit the ball with their hands, as in palla, volleyball, or certain varieties of pelota. ""Jeu de paume"", or"
"Flying trapeze The flying trapeze is a specific form of the trapeze in which a performer jumps from a platform with the trapeze so that gravity makes the trapeze swing. The performance was invented in 1859 by a Frenchman named Jules Léotard, who connected a bar to some ventilator cords above the swimming pool in his father's gymnasium in Toulouse, France. After practicing tricks above the pool, Leotard performed his act in the Cirque Napoleon (now known as the Cirque d'hiver). The traditional flier's costume, the leotard, is named after him. In a traditional flying trapeze act, flyers mount a"
"1960s and has little in common with rugby football except for the name. It was recognised by the Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques (CMAS) in 1978 and was first played as a world championship in 1980. Underwater target shooting is an underwater sport that tests a competitors’ ability to accurately use a speargun via a set of individual and team events conducted in a swimming pool using free diving or Apnea technique. The sport was developed in France during the early 1980s and is currently practised mainly in Europe. It is known as ""Tir sur cible subaquatique"" in French and"
"sport is played essentially in France by 2 teams of 3 players on an outside court referred to as ""place libre"" meaning free space in French or ""Cancha"" meaning court in Spanish. The court is 16 m wide and 100 m long with the limit for play being at 80 m from the wall or Fronton and has no side walls. The sport is played with the same glove as the zesta punta. A variant of the above. The basket-glove is shorter and less deep and it is allowed to retain the ball only momentarily. The Basque name ""joko garbi"""
"Gain-ground (game) Games of gain-ground are team sports which are played with a small ball or a balloon. They are often outdoors on a """"ballodrome"""" but can also be played indoors. Among these games, longue paume and real tennis are the most well-known because they are played with rackets. The rules change a little depending on the game but the basic rules remain identical from one game to the other. Games of gain-ground are characterized in particular by the use of """"chasses"""". Chasses indicate the limit between both teams or in real tennis a limit to score a point. Points"
"Boule bretonne Boule bretonne is a sport popular in Brittany, France, similar to boule lyonnaise and to a lesser extent, pétanque. The method of playing varies widely among those that play it. Boule bretonne is very similar to bocce in that it involves one team tossing out a jack, known as the 'petit', and following it with tossing of boules, points being scored for having balls ending up closest to the jack. Games are played with varying teams of various sizes, from one to four players per team. Balls used to play are 92 to 110 mm diameter and weigh"
"Sepak takraw Sepak takraw or kick volleyball, is a sport native to Southeast Asia. Sepak takraw differs from the similar sport of footvolley in its use of a rattan ball and only allowing players to use their feet, knee, chest and head to touch the ball. In Indonesia, and Singapore, it is called ""sepak takraw"". In Malaysia, it is called as ""sepak raga."" In Thailand, it is called as ""takraw"" only. In Laos, it is ""kataw"" (). In the Philippines, besides the borrowed term ""takraw"", it is also known by its native name ""sipa"", meaning ""kick"". In Myanmar, it is"
"a circle of players in a street or park, with the objective to keep the shuttle 'up' and show off skills. In Vietnam, it is known as ""đá cầu"" and is the national sport. In the Philippines, it is known as ""sipa"" and was also the national sport until it was replaced by arnis in December 2009. In recent years, the game has gained a formal following in Europe, the United States, and elsewhere. In English, both the sport and the object with which it is played are referred to as ""shuttlecock"" or ""featherball"". The shuttlecock (called a ""jianzi"" in"
"to ancient Rome, and before that to ancient Greece and Egypt. In France in the second half of the 19th century a form of boules known as ""jeu provençal"" (or ""boule lyonnaise"") was extremely popular. In this form of the game players rolled their boules or ran three steps before throwing a boule. Pétanque originally developed as an offshoot or variant of ""jeu provençal"" in 1910, in what is now called the ""Jules Lenoir Boulodrome"" in the town of La Ciotat near Marseilles. A former ""jeu provençal"" player named Jules Lenoir was afflicted by rheumatism so severe that he could"
"both feet on the ground. The game is normally played on hard dirt or gravel. It can be played in public areas in parks, or in dedicated facilities called ""boulodromes"". The current form of the game originated in 1907 or 1910 in La Ciotat, in Provence, France. The French name ""pétanque"" (borrowed into English, with or without the acute accent) comes from ""petanca"" in the Provençal dialect of the Occitan language, deriving from the expression ""pès tancats"" , meaning 'feet fixed' or 'feet planted' (on the ground). Boules games have a very long history, dating back through the Middle Ages"
"Boules Boules () is a collective name for a wide range of games similar to bowls and bocce (In French: jeu or jeux, in Italian: gioco or giochi) in which the objective is to throw or roll heavy balls (called ""boules"" in France, and ""bocce"" in Italy) as close as possible to a small target ball. Boules-type games are traditional and popular in many European countries and are also popular in some former French colonies in Africa and Asia. Boules games are often played in open spaces (town squares and parks) in villages and towns. Dedicated playing areas for boules-type"
"Pétanque Pétanque (; ) is a sport that falls into the category of boules sports, along with raffa, bocce, boule lyonnaise, lawn bowls and crown green bowling. All of these sports share something in common, in that players or teams play their boules/balls towards a target ball. In Pétanque the objective is to score points by having boules closer to the target than your opponent after all boules have been thrown. This is achieved by projecting boules closer to the target, called a cochonnet, or by hitting the opponents' boules away from the target, while standing inside a circle with"
"Olympic committee to make boules sports part of the summer Olympics. To date, its efforts have been unsuccessful. The organizations were: Boules Boules () is a collective name for a wide range of games similar to bowls and bocce (In French: jeu or jeux, in Italian: gioco or giochi) in which the objective is to throw or roll heavy balls (called ""boules"" in France, and ""bocce"" in Italy) as close as possible to a small target ball. Boules-type games are traditional and popular in many European countries and are also popular in some former French colonies in Africa and Asia."
"In Spanish this game is called ""juego de la rana"" in Spain and Chile, ""juego de sapo"" in Peru and Argentina, ""tiro al sapo"" in Bolivia or just ""rana"" in Colombia. In French it is referred to as ""jeu de la grenouille"". In England, it is known as Toad in the hole. Also a popular sport in the Basque country. There are broadly speaking two categories: A highly popular race, the Korrika, is held once a year in aid of Basque schools and crosses all parts of the Basque Country. The goal is not competition, but the raising of funds"
"top of the net, the vertical jump is an athletic skill emphasized in the sport) as well as ""passing"", ""setting"", and specialized player positions and offensive and defensive structures. In the winter of 1895, in Holyoke, Massachusetts (United States), William G. Morgan, a YMCA physical education director, created a new game called ""Mintonette"", a name derived from the game of badminton, as a pastime to be played (preferably) indoors and by any number of players. The game took some of its characteristics from other sports such as tennis and handball. Another indoor sport, basketball, was catching on in the area,"
"is well documented. The name of the sport in French is jeu de paume, or ""game of the palm"" (of the hand). However, the development of the net is documented less well. In real tennis the net is also referred to sometimes as ""the line."" Palla eh! uses only a line painted on the ground to mark territory, and this is probably all it was originally. The cord was added for pallacorda probably just to keep the players on their respective sides of the court, and a ball that went under the cord, yet across the line, was probably still"
"a number of characteristics of the boules, including the size, weight, and hardness of the boules, as well as the striations (patterned grooves on the surface of the boules). The jack, or target ball, is a small ball made of wood, traditionally boxwood or beechwood, in diameter. In the past jacks were often left ""natural""—unfinished or with a clear finish—but nowadays they are often painted in bright colors. In French, the jack is known by a variety of names, including ""but"" (goal or target), ""cochonnet"" (piglet), ""bouchon"" (""little ball"" in provençal language, not related to the french word ""bouchon"" that"
"International game The International game (, ) is a ball game modality that joins up many sports allegedly derived from the Jeu de paume. It's played in the Handball International Championships by teams from the Americas and Europe. The ""International game"" was created so that players from similar sports could play with some minimal changes in their respective rules by the International Ball game Confederation. In first instance, it was made by European federations of different and until then isolated sports: Later on, some countries from the Americas joined: ""International game"" is played on a rectangular, flat surface (grass), 70"
"Fédération Internationale de Tir aux Armes Sportives de Chasse Fédération Internationale de Tir aux Armes Sportives de Chasse (FITASC) is a type of shotgun sport shooting, specifically Clay pigeon shooting similar to sporting clays, trap and skeet. It involves strategically placed clay target throwers (called traps) set to simulate live game birds/animals- teal, rabbits, pheasant etc. Shooters on each layout or ""parcour"", shoot in turn at various combinations of single and double clay birds. Each station or ""peg"" on a parcour will have a menu card that lets the shooter know the sequence of clay birds he or she will"
"References to a ball game played in northern France known as ""La Soule"" or ""Choule"", in which the ball was propelled by hands, feet, and sticks, date from the 12th century. These archaic forms of football, typically classified as mob football, would be played between neighbouring towns and villages, involving an unlimited number of players on opposing teams, who would clash in a heaving mass of people struggling to drag an inflated pig's bladder by any means possible to markers at each end of a town. By some accounts, in some such events any means could be used to move"
"French Open The French Open (), also called Roland-Garros (), is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks between late May and early June at the Stade Roland-Garros in Paris, France. The venue is named after the French aviator Roland Garros. It is the premier clay court tennis championship event in the world and the second of four annual Grand Slam tournaments, the other three being the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. The French Open is currently the only Grand Slam event held on clay, and it is the zenith of the spring clay court season. Because"
"ball was struck with the palm of the hand in a game called ""jeu de paume"". Rackets were introduced to the game in the early 16th century. This original version of tennis, now called ""real tennis"", was mostly played indoors and popular among the royalty and gentry, while a crude outdoor version called ""longue paume"" was played by the populace. The prominence of the game declined in the 17th and 18th centuries, although there are sporadic mentions of a ""long tennis"" or ""field tennis"" version in the second half of the 18th century. Between 1858 and 1873 several people in"
"a boule include: Strategic considerations involved in the throw of the jack include: Pétanque Pétanque (; ) is a sport that falls into the category of boules sports, along with raffa, bocce, boule lyonnaise, lawn bowls and crown green bowling. All of these sports share something in common, in that players or teams play their boules/balls towards a target ball. In Pétanque the objective is to score points by having boules closer to the target than your opponent after all boules have been thrown. This is achieved by projecting boules closer to the target, called a cochonnet, or by hitting"
"Trap shooting Trapshooting is one of the three major disciplines of competitive clay pigeon shooting (shooting shotguns at clay targets). The other disciplines are skeet shooting and sporting clays. They are distinguished roughly as follows: There are variations within each group. Trapshooting is practiced all over the world. Trapshooting variants include but are not limited to international varieties Olympic trap, also known as ""International Trap"", ""Bunker"", ISSF Trap. and ""Trench""; Double trap also an Olympic event. Other non-Olympic include: Down-The-Line, also known as ""DTL"" and Nordic Trap. American Trap is the predominant version in the United States and Canada. American"