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.
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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
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