Tamburello
Tamburello or pallatamburello is a traditional sport of Italy since 16th century. It has this name because they play with a roundish and oval tool named tamburello or tambourine in English language. Various forms of tamburello are popular in several nations of the world currently.
Forms
Tamburello open
This form is also named classic and each team regularly has 5 players in open playing field 80 metres long and 20 large. Players use roundish tambourines during actions and they serve with oval tambourines. A rubber ball of 88 grams is used and the team which wins 13 games is final winner of the match: each game consists of 4 points. Professional Italian tamburello league is top level of competitions: in 2002 14 teams competed.[1] A variant is played in a kind of stadium, with lateral wall, named sferisterio or sferodromo in Italian language.[2]
Tamburello indoor
Three players regularly form a side in indoor shorted courts.
Tambutennis
Two players regularly form a side in courts divided by a net like tennis.
Tambeach
One or two players regularly form a side on beach courts divided by a net like beach tennis.
Related pages
References
Other websites
- Italian manufacturer of tambourines Archived 2008-03-07 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian)
Video
- Open or 5 players a side Archived 2008-02-14 at the Wayback Machine
- Indoor or 3 players a side Archived 2008-01-27 at the Wayback Machine
- Tambutennis or 2 players a side
- Tambeach