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Written by Bernie DeKoven
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Monday, 10 May 2010 |
 If you can kick a ball, you can play it. If you can roll a ball, throw a ball, bounce a ball, you can play it. You can play it in the sand. You can play it in the snow. You can play it in the dirt. You can play it like golf, you can play it like croquet, you can play it like both games simultaneously. You can play it with kids, you can play it with seniors, you can play it with kids and seniors and anybody who wants to play. You can create your own course. You can make it very hard. You can make it just easy enough to make you want to keep playing. You can play it seriously, you can play it for fun.
It’s Wicketball (watch this video from Bob Zoller) again (see Wicketball), not a Junkyard Sport necessarily, but very much in the same spirit. And now that we've finally had a chance to play it, even more enthusiastically recommended for your serious consideration. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 17 May 2010 )
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Written by Junkmaster
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Wednesday, 10 February 2010 |
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 Art Golf takes the spirit of Junkyard Golf Teambuilding and makes an art out of it. It was a project of a group called Because We Can, developed for the Maker Faire held in Sebastapol, CA. They were given a budget of $1500 per hole.
From the site, it looks like it was a great success, both with kids and adults. The only differences: they used real golf clubs instead of clubs people made out of things like brooms and sneakers, the holes were created by artists at a cost of $1500/per instead of teams of adults and kids with no budget and a semi-random collection of scrap and junk and stuff. Not that I'm suggesting that one event was better or more fun than the other. Just pointing out that both events looked like a great deal of fun. One was created by artists. One was free. The success of one validates and demonstrates the viability of the other. Discuss this article on the forums. (0 posts) |
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Written by Bernie DeKoven
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Friday, 05 February 2010 |
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 Sportpong "is an interactive physical computer game. The field is projected on the floor, two or more players can fight in teams against each other. With a paddle on each foot you hit the ball to the goal or to defend your goal. Not only smartnes and reactivity let you win, also geometric appreciation and teamplay is required...a reflector on each foot is the only physical tool to interact with Sportpong. The interface is integrated in the field which is projected on the floor. The players control the game with their feet, nothing else."
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Last Updated ( Friday, 05 February 2010 )
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Written by Junkmaster
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Sunday, 10 January 2010 |
 Soccette is a combination of soccer and basketball - it's like basketball because there's a basket. It's like soccer because you can't use your hands. It's like neither because there's only one goal/basket. It looks different. And, most important, it looks like fun.  Soccette was reportedly invented in Africa. Cuju is yet another soccer-like sport, featuring yet another innovation - a volleyball net with a hole in the middle. Cuju was invented in China. "..archeologists discovered a book in China on Cuju entitled, "Twenty-Five Articles on Cuju" which was written during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 24). In this book, Cuju is explained as being played by two teams on a field with goals, and the matches were officiated by referees who followed prescribed rules. " |
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Written by Bernie DeKoven
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Thursday, 24 December 2009 |
 All you need are a bunch of friends, a place to play, "a soccer ball (size 5, preferably the Brine Matrix 100), two street hockey nets, two lacrosse (goalie) stick, and eight cones" - and you've got your basic Andyball. Andyball - a genuine, certifiably sportly sport, with teams and leagues and stats and uniforms and devoted fans and a meaningful invitation to serious, all-out, competitive fun.
How did it all come to pass? Divine intervention? Exhaustive plotting and planning by the National Commission for Athletic Events? Actually, according to their historical synopsis, it went something like this:"On July 14, 2003, four bored teenagers from Quincy, Massachusetts met to do something. Having been turned away from the Shaw’s NBA Summer League at UMass Boston, where they had hoped to see a young LeBron James take the floor for the Cleveland Cavaliers, the gang regrouped back on the concrete tundra of Dayton Street in Quincy. The foursome, made up of Joe Griffin, Steve McDonagh, Andrew Potter, and Brandon Ranalli, would quickly find themselves down a man after Brandon’s mom made him come home for dinner. Steak dinner. Left with a treacherous trio, Griffin, McDonagh, and Potter, batted around ideas of how to enjoy themselves on a fine summer evening.
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