RU2009667C1 - Splendidball - sport game with ball - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: games in water. SUBSTANCE: use is made of square ground with water level reaching sportsmen knee. Additional load exerted on feet due to water resistance during motion is accompanied by high response, mobility of entire body during ball reception, false movements with ball and powerful throw of ball that in general raises dynamic and entertaining features of game. EFFECT: higher safety of game, high emotional effect of fall, both, of players and ball (excluded special equipment for prevention of traumatism).

Description

 The invention relates to sports games, specifically to collective sports games with a ball occurring in an aquatic environment.

 The sports game in the pool - water polo, in which players fight for the ball, swimming in the pool water and throwing the ball into the goal, is known and gained wide popularity.

 Sports games are known in which players play volleyball standing chest to water in water [1,2].

 In water polo and in volleyball games on water there is no dynamics that provides running on a solid surface, in addition, there is no single combat of athletes, as the teams of athletes are separated by a volleyball net.

 The closest analogue is a game consisting in a competition between two teams of players in a pool with a rectangular playing field [2].

 A sports game called "Splendidball" (which means "Great Ball" in English) takes place on a sports field filled with water to the depths of the knees playing. The depth of filling a sports field with water is set depending on the age and gender group of athletes. In artificial sports facilities, the water level is set and maintained by regulating the amount of incoming fresh water and leaky contaminated water. In natural bodies of water (shallow coastal stripes of the seas, bays, river channels, sections of lakes), the game is played on the site most suitable for athletes by the depth of the water and with a flat and clean sandy bottom.

 The authors chose the depth of water on the sports field "knee-deep" due to the following positive factors: if athletes fall during the game, this layer of water protects them from injuries; this depth of water allows you to maintain high dynamics of the game, as athletes can run around the site with their feet high; water allows you to wash off profuse sweating in athletes during the game, water reduces the body temperature of athletes during the game and improves health, as a water treatment; a layer of water creates an additional obstacle when running, which more harmoniously develops the muscles of the legs and body; this layer of water allows you to use tricks that are not applicable in any other game - a deliberate fall of a player in order to avoid an enemy attack, for example, a technique that can be called a “torpedo” when an athlete running with the ball, moving away from the enemy’s attack, jumps out of the water, flies over some distance in the air, then falls flat into the water, floats a certain distance by inertia, after which it jumps to its feet and continues to run.

 Reducing a given depth of water at the site will not protect athletes from injuries in the fall, and an increase will not allow running, which will reduce the dynamics and entertainment of the game.

 The goal of the game is, despite the resistance of the opposing team, to move across the entire field to a floating rope that limits the opponent’s area and is brought along with the ball behind this rope in the goal zone. The goal is achieved by moving around the court, passing the ball to the player of his team, bypassing the opponent athlete.

 For official sports competitions and for artificial sports facilities, the size of the playing field is regulated within the following limits: the length of the playing field is 40 m, the width is 20 m. For entertaining, domestic games, the size of the playing field and the number of players on it can be unlimited.

 The boundaries of the playing field are indicated using floating ropes, but due to the fact that players will fall at high speeds on these ropes, they must be covered with a thick layer of soft material, such as foam rubber or sponge rubber, or can be made hollow from rubber or from rubberized fabric and pumped with compressed air.

 For the safety of players, the installed layer of water does not end behind the stretched ropes, but continues beyond the side ropes by 4 meters, and beyond the transverse ropes by 5 meters. For the same purpose, in artificial structures, the bottom should not have sharp edges, but should come to the surface smoothly with a slight slope. For greater safety, the bottom in artificial structures can be covered with soft waterproof material 2-3 cm thick, for example soft rubber. Since the installed layer of water, when properly dropped, completely protects the athlete from injury, the rules of the game provide for martial arts of athletes in the fight for the ball, that is, the use of classical, freestyle or sambo wrestling techniques that decorates the game makes it more spectacular, and almost all groups develop in athletes the muscles.

 For safety reasons, the rules of the game do not allow an attack on an athlete with the ball at the same time more than one opponent athlete, as well as holding the athlete’s head under water.

 Despite the protective layer of water, athletes must have a technique of falling, approximately the same as in sambo wrestling. At the same time, the athlete’s inevitable fall into the water at high speed and the splashes of water raised by him will create special entertainment for the game.

 Artificial sports facilities for this game can be made not only in the likeness of hockey Sports Palaces, but also in the places of large resorts on the sea, taken tens of meters from the shore to the sea (where the water is clean), floating on hollow pontoons or on stilts with natural circulation of water from the waves. Vacationers can sunbathe and have fun at such stadiums while watching the game.

 Each team has 9 players and the same number of reserve players. The change of players, as in ice hockey, is done to maintain a high pace of the game. (56) U.S. Patent No. 4,307,887, cl. A 63 B 63/00, 1981.

U.S. Patent No. 3,582,078,
class A 63 B 63/00, 1971.

Claims (1)

SPORTENDBALL SPORT GAME WITH BALL
A sports game with a ball, consisting in the competition of two teams of players in a pool filled with water with a rectangular playing field, characterized in that the game is carried out when the pool is filled with water knee-deep by the players.