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This
is my 9th year organizing our league the
NASA Lewis Wallyball League. We've been
playing for 10 years, at the Parma Courts,
in Parma Ohio. They have 9 racquetball
courts and 6 that accommodate Wallyball.
We typically have 10 teams in our league.
We
are better than any other league at our
facility, and
most of our players play advanced or
intermediate
wallyball leagues. I rated us
"Intermediated." Several of our
teams could be considered
"Advanced" but we are always
trying to add new players. Usually a
handful every year, so there is always a
learning
curve for those few players. I based our
league rules on Joe Garcia's We've made
changes as necessary.
We have lots of fun and we are semi-coed.
4 players, one of which must be a female
player.
Contributed by,
Alan Hewston
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At
the point of Brooklyn, which kisses
Manhattan, some great wallyball is being
played! All levels; Men, Women, and
Co-ed. Accessible from the West Side
Highway, East Side Highway, , long
Island Expressway Brooklyn-Queens
Expressway, and belt parkway. The
“Eastern Athletic Club”, in Brooklyn
Heights, welcomes wallyballers from the
Bronx, Manhattan, Queens, Staten,
Island, Brooklyn, Long Island, and the
greater Metropolitan area.
We play on Sundays, from 2pm to 7pm
and Monday nights, from 9pm to 11pm.
Contributed
By:
Thom Spennato
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Idaho
Rebuilding Interest:
I am the manager at Ad cope Athletic Club in Lewiston, Idaho. Although,
for years now, we’ve had wallyball
“accommodations”, interest in the
sport tends to wax and wane. Recently, I
have been working to increase interest
and really get the program off the
ground. Interest is steadily increasing.
I have recently scheduled a tournament
for mid November, primarily to increase
local interest. I would appreciate any
suggestions or help you could offer on
how to get my program going.
Contributed
By:
Jill Groseclose....
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Ecuador
Wallyball is Hot:
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For
The past 2 months two Ecuadorian young people have been
working in the creation of the Ecuadorian Association of
Wallyball.
Our
sport is relatively new here. Although it has been
practiced for more than 6 years, officially, we have
never had championships for at least 4 years, with
sporadic character and without any accepted regulation
generally by the participants.
Like
other players of the world, their speed, emotion, and
exigency have turned it into a very attractive sport,
especially between the young people between the 17 and
25 years, although players of all the ages exist.
In
Ecuador, it practices in different leagues, related
generally to sport clubs, like Municipal Tennis Club,
Quito Tennis and Golf Club, the County, Club of Buena
vista Tennis, Sunset Club, Club the Chillos, etc.
Additionally, other deprived institutions exist, of
educative and enterprise the sector, which they count on
particular fields, between which we can count Catholic
University of Ecuador, Tecniseguros (Insurance agency),
Popular Bank of Ecuador
The
number of players at level of the city of Quito, capital
of the republic and main fan center, is very difficult
to determine, because no single fields of Wallyball in
sport clubs and institutions exist as above detailed,
but in particular houses inside and outside the city.
At
the present time at least we can tell two important
championships to the year, in different Clubs from the
city, different several categories (Men, Women and
co-ed) and each one from them in two levels:
For
The past 2 months two Ecuadorian young people have been
working in the creation of the Ecuadorian Association of
Wallyball.
Our
sport is relatively new here. Although it has been
practiced for more than 6 years, officially, we have
never had
championships for at least 4 years, with
sporadic character and without any accepted regulation
generally by the participants.
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Like
other players of the world, their speed, emotion, and
exigency have turned it into a very attractive sport,
especially between the young people between the 17 and
25 years, although players of all the ages exist.
In
Ecuador, it practices in different leagues, related
generally to sport clubs, like Municipal Tennis Club,
Quito Tennis and Golf Club, the County, Club of Buena
vista Tennis, Sunset Club, Club the Chillos, etc.
Additionally, other deprived institutions exist, of
educative and enterprise the sector, which they count on
particular fields, between which we can count Catholic
University of Ecuador, Tecniseguros (Insurance agency),
Popular Bank of Ecuador
The
number of players at level of the city of Quito, capital
of the republic and main fan center, is very difficult
to determine, because no single fields of Wallyball in
sport clubs and institutions exist as above detailed,
but in particular houses inside and outside the city.
At
the present time at least we can tell two important
championships to the year, in different Clubs from the
city, different several categories (Men, Women and
co-ed) and each one from them in two levels:
Nascent (basic level) and Open (competition)
Juan
Carlos Vásconez and Santiago Mosquera, who are
organizing the association, consider that the potential
is enormous. After surpassed the first difficulties of
organization, they face the standardization of the game
styles and its correct diffusion. They hope to increase
the number of fans substantially, through championships
and their entailment to an international association
that foments the competition at worldwide level. Rudy
Morel helped to this initiative directly that we hope
begins to render its fruits as soon as possible.
Sincerely,
Juan Carlos Vásconez
and Santiago Mosquera
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Cobra
Shot!
Q).
What
is a cobra shot and what is a dink. I am
6’0” tall and often am set the ball at the
net and slap it down on the other side. If the
hand is cupped (cobra shot?) is it legal? I am
not tall enough to fist it down. The hardcore
players at our gym give me hell because of this
shot and say that only a closed handspike is
allowed.
Contributed by:
David Lydiard
A).
A
Dink- Usually
a one hand
hit in which the tips of the fingers are
used to hit the ball to an area of the
opponent’s court.
Cobra Shot- One hand hit in which the close tips
of the fingers are used to hit the ball.
Both
shots
are legal.
Open
Hand Serves:
Q).
There
are 6 of us that get together every Wednesday
night at the local YMCA and play wallyball. We
currently have 2 guys who both hit with an open
hand on the serve. One gets a little to moderate
spin on the ball and the other does not get any.
We have considered the one who spins the ball as
illegal, but he feels that since both players
hit open handed, they are the same shot. Which
shots are illegal? Is any type of an open hand
shot allowed on a serve? How much spin is
allowed on a serve?
A.)
The
player in the back position of the court shall
put the ball in play by hitting it with one hand
only or any part of the player’s arm in an
attempt to send the
ball over the net and into
and
into the
opponent’s court.
The serve is good if the ball passes over
the net without touching a member of the serving
team or the net.
A served ball that hits a wall on either
the serving team’s side or the receiving side
is good provided the ball contacted does not
contact two or more consecutive walls before
being played or landing on the floor.
This
Shot is Illegal...
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