Gain-ground

Games of gain-ground
	French championship of Ballon au poing; 2009 - Amiens
Characteristics
Team members	2 per team - 7 per team
Presence
Olympic	Longue paume was part of the Paris 1900 Summer Olympics; Real tennis in 1908

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 are counted as in tennis: 15, 30, 40 and set.

Games of gain-ground

Two games in "Jeu de paume":

These sports are practised in Hauts-de-France and Belgium:

Ballon au poing
Balle à la main
Balle pelote
Balle au tamis

but also in Spain :

Llargues , rebot , laxoa

or in the world:

International game

Ballon au poing
Amiens, France
Balle à la main
Denain, France
Balle pelote
Silly, Belgium
Tamis
"Ballodrome" (1894)
Llargues
Valencian Community, Spain

Sources

(in French) Benoît Goffin, LA BALLE PELOTE au cœur de notre région, éd. Aparté, Namur, 2006. ISBN 978-2-9303-2715-0.
(in French) Marcel Lazure, Les jeux de balle et ballon picards: ballon au poing, balle à la main, balle au tamis, longue paume, Centre régional de documentation pédagogique de Picardie, Amiens, France, 1996.
(in French) Marcel Lazure, Les jeux de balle et ballon picards, Sports de France, Amiens, p. 96. , (1981)
(in French) Luc Collard, Longue paume et ballon au poing, revue EPS, n° 274, p. 72-75, nov-déc 1998
(in French) H. Civilio, Le jeu de balle en Belgique, Louvain, ( Mémoire en Education physique, Université Catholique de Louvain ), (1966)

External links

Confédération Internationale du Jeu de Balle (C.I.J.B.)

Footnotes