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Patball!!!!!


Could involve several players, all you need is a tennis ball and a wall!


The first player "serves" by boncing the ball off the ground and against the wall, then other players take turns to hit the ball with the palm of their hands, hitting it so it bounces once then hits the wall. The next player needs to hit the ball BEFORE it bounces, and after leaving the hand, it must bounce only once before hitting the wall.


Advanced players can employ special shots such as the "low cut".


Many a playtime / lunch time was spent playing patball in the first couple of years of secondary school!

Yep, so did we, so it had to be rebranded. I got a rib broken in secondary school playing "cops & robbers", but this wasn't the harmless "tag" based game of the same name! ;-)


There was another one called "Chinese" (I have no idea why). I never played this one, but it was popular for a while, and involved the thrower of a ball getting many "beats" if the ball was caught one handed or somethign like that.

use to like "stuck in the mud" when I was a kid - when tagged you had to stand still (stuck) with your arms out until someone ran under them unsticking you... felt like we'd play it for hours...


Softy pants. We had to crawl through the legs to unstick someone.

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> use to like "stuck in the mud" when I was a kid -

> when tagged you had to stand still (stuck) with

> your arms out until someone ran under them

> unsticking you... felt like we'd play it for

> hours...

>

> Softy pants. We had to crawl through the legs to

> unstick someone.



We were quite innocent back in Suffolk!

  • 2 weeks later...

Ahh, but was it "bundle" or "pile-on" you used to shout as you jumped on each other in the playground...


Clackers were banned from playgrounds as well as British Bulldog - all those smashed up wrists... - and I take the mickey out of them in a book I've co-authored, along with many other things retro. (Check out: www.thecrapolddays.com if you're interested in humorous books!)

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