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Anyone for Tchoukball?

Looking for a game that combines all the excitement of Basque pelota, handball, and volleyball--without the "corporal aggression" characteristic of most sports? Then you may want to take up tchoukball, the brainchild of a Swiss doctor, Hermann Brandt, who sought to create a sport that would be "open to players of all degrees of competency" but exclude all "striving after prestige, whether personal or collective." At this website, you can get a historical background on the game, print out a set of rules, even read the tchoukball charter, a set of guiding principles that reads like a Soviet farming manual. The site also supplies contact information for tchoukball organizations across Western Europe and Thailand, the vast majority of them in Switzerland.

Fri, 14 Jan 2000 04:40:08 -0800