Valencian ballMar, Carmen G., Pablo y Valentina

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Installations

The Valencian ball can contest in different places:

Trinquete: it is the most characteristic hint of this sport. It is a closed rectangular place around forty and sixty meters long oraround nine and eleven wide. One of the walls has a singular element, the Scale. These stairs are taken by the public to seatand witness the split.

Calle: Traditionally have contested splits in the street, explaining each village with an especially street for this. Thisstreet had to be flat and had bit minor dimensions that the onesof a trinquete.

Frontón: Of similar characteristics to the frontón vasco. It iswinning popularity in the last times because of the difficulty tocontest split in the street or in the trinquetes.

Galotxeta: This enclosure of twenty meters long and three and half of width use to play the modalidad of "Galotxeta”

Modalities:There are diverse modalidades of Valencian ball although they can divide in two big blocks, direct style and indirect style.

Direct Style:

Both teams are faced, sending the ball to the opposite side of thefield.

Modalidades Of direct style:

-Escala i corda.

-Galotxa.

-Llargues.

-Raspall.

-Galotxetes.

-Internacional game

Indirect Style:

Both teams face throwing the ball to an element called“frontón”. When the ball returns the opposing team throw it.

Modalities of indirect style:

-Frontón

- Fronton with frares

In all these modalities the most famous is “escala i corda” and along with the “raspall” is the only one whith profesional players.

Materials:Balls:There are some tipes of ball depending of the modality:

-Sheepskin ball: Used because of its low Price in aficionated games and games in the Street and because of itslightness for youth training.-Rag ball: It is used n the “Galotxetes” modalty.-Cow ball: They are handmade and they have a very highPrice, for least 30 euros. It is used in the “escala i corda” modality, “Raspall” and “galotxa”.-Tec ball: Used for Valencian ball.

Gloves:

They are used to protect hands striking the ball and do not cover fingers. To fasten they are tied with a couple of linked strikes.

Thimbles:

They are used top lay “Raspall”

Modality “Llargues”:

The game “llargues” is a modality of valencian ball

“pilota valenciana” of direct style. Is the modality

with more similarities to the game that played in the

antiquity.

This modality haven´t got professionals players and

is very practised in all the province of Alicante.

Field:

This modality is played in the street. This street must be smooth, with eight meters of width and with a length usually of eighty meters.

Rules:This modality is played between two teams of three, four or five players.

Players receive a name depending on their position on the street:The banca is in charge of beginning every quinze by serving, from one side of the street.

The rest, from the other side of the street, is who usually replies the banca.

The mitger is in the middle of his midfield; his purpose is sending the ball as far as possible.

The punter is in front of the opposing team or into their midfield; he must block the ball or throw it to the non-protected places.

Every point consists in four quinzes: 15, 30, val, and joc “joc is game in valencian”. The team who wins the game scores a point.

This modality has three principal lines, and these are:Line of service brand the point from where it is serviced her pilotsLine of the lack indicates the place that has to overcome the ball during extract.

Line of the rest indicates the end of the field.

Of the service´s line to the lack´s line there is a distance of approximately between thirty and forty meters, ant between the service´s line and rest´s line there are seventy meters.

The service:

The service is realized throwing the ball to one itself without boat and striking her of down to up “de bragueta", and it has to overcome the line of lack without touching the floor previously. Once it has bounced beyond it her line of lack, there are two possibilities:

1. If the ball has bounced between the line of lack and the line of the rest, the opposite team must return the ball to the field rival with like much a boat, of not being like that commits lack.

2. If the ball bounces after the line of the rest, the team that it has

serviced is annotated a point.

Since it is possible to deduce it is fundamental in this modality an extractor that should possess one extract powerfully since this quality will facilitate very much the attainment of so many people.

The Ball: Llargues are played with a badana ball, which can be played

without any protection. Since this sport is practiced on the streets and the bounce is very irregular this kind of ball almost doesn't bounce. Also, streets have plenty of irregularities such as borders or traffic signals, and many places with a different rebound, that cause strange effects to the trajectory of the ball, those unexpected directions are somehow minimized by the soft rebound of the badana ball since it's made of moulding materials. Another reason to use this ball is its slowness and softness, so that it's proper for amateur or casual players.

It's made of rags with skin of sheep. Weight: 39 gr as much, diameter: 38 mm.