Must be a city thing. it's 21, but no 3s or FTs. Everything is a 2. Get ready to be mercilessly fouled.
Ha I remember playing wall ball in HS at lunch. Hadn't thought about that in years. There was always like 40 people playing and 3+ balls going. Honestly it was kind of a rush if you dropped one and had to run to the wall
We used to play a game that we called kick and catch at the playground in elementary school. There really weren’t any rules. Basically you just picked a side and tried to catch the ball someone from the other side kicked. You’d pretty much fight with your classmates as to who caught the most balls during the recess period. It ended up getting banned shortly after I finished elementary school.
I remember playing wall ball with a kid who later got a scholarship to pitch for UF. What an idiot I was
Wall ball got banned after one kid ran head first into the brick wall trying to grab and throw the ball at another kid. Knocked him out cold. I think it was 3rd grade, and I remember the amount of throw up that kid puked all over the classroom floor while trying to keep awake was impressive. I don't think even the school nurse knew what a concussion was back then
Whenever I played everything inside the three point line was worth 1 and beyond the line counted as 2.
Yes, that is how pick up games are scored. We are talking about 21/32 and other every man for themselves type games.
Wall ball was where the throw just had to hit the wall first before the person running, it was the woke version of butt ball where you threw it at the person
No you threw it at the person who touched and dropped the ball until that person ran and touched the wall. If you have multiple balls going this becomes quite the gauntlet.
We played wall ball differently. It was just dodge ball with everyone except the thrower against a wall. Lots of heads got banged off the wall until they put a stop to it.
We played it this way. And if you didn't touch the wall before the ball did, you had a stand still against the wall and let someone take a free throw at you.
The wall ball we played was throwing tennis balls or usually racquetballs against a wall and then catching it and throwing against the wall and on and on. If someone touched a ball that then hit the ground, you got drilled with balls until you went and touched the wall.
We never played wall ball because nobody seemed to be able to effectively explain the rules, just like what this thread is experiencing
We played a dodgeball variation in middle school called “Pins.” It was basically dodgeball, but each team had four cones with tennis balls resting on top spread out along their baseline. You could win by eliminating all the other players or knocking over all four pins.
We used to make up all kinds of ridiculous games where causing injury to someone else was the primary objective. My favorite, and it still makes me laugh today, was GuardYourBalls. Break up into two groups, each group lines up shoulder to shoulder about 30 yards or so from the other group. Take turns throwing a vortex (with the whistle) at the other group. You have to stand still, eyes closed, and are only allowed to "guard your balls." We once played after a spring training game in Orlando and had a crowd of people watching and laughing their asses off. Simpler times.
I think we gave an elementary school classmate epilepsy from getting knocked out at recess. Happened once getting her head banged off the brick wall playing our version of wall ball, another time getting clotheslined playing Red Rover, and at least one more time where the specifics escape me.
wall ball = bouncing the ball against a wall off the ground, 1v1 no waterfalls. could other rules that i don't remember their names (like going under the ball = their turn again, no palming, etc) definitely wasn't throwing the ball at people. that was just dodgeball.
basically when the ball skims down the wall rather than bounces off of it. the way to get people out was mainly from power shots (deeper hits) and then running them side-to-side, not with stuff up against the wall that doesn't really bounce back. this was with a red inflated ball, btw. same ball as a kickball. realizing itt and via google that many others played with tennis balls or smaller balls.
That is wall ball(played with the same type of ball you used for kickball) Butts up(we had to call it buns up in elementary school) is when when you use a tennis ball(or something like it)and throw it against the wall, if the person who tries to catch it drops it/muffs it, they have to run and touch the wall before someone else throws it back against the wall. If you don't make it, you stand against the wall, ass out and someone throws it at you.
when i was in high school we would play "wiffle war" at my friend's house because he had a bigass backyard and a pool. literally it was just us shirtless throwing wiffle balls at each other as hard as we could. jumping in the pool was really the only way to escape getting pelted by a dozen wiffle balls if the other team had all of them. there wasn't really any objective to it. we weren't very smart.
We played “scar pong”, which was ping pong, but whoever lost each of the 5-point sets had to take their shirt off and the set winner got a free hit as hard as they could into the opponent. Good times.
Throwing wiffle and ping pong balls at each other seems a lot more tame compared to some of the other stories itt.
Lol yeah. That's what it was. I guess kids bodies are a marvel because it's amazing no one ever fucked up a shoulder or worse running full speed from 30 yards away
Less than 10 years ago my friends and I would play pool for staples. Loser took a staple gun to the ass cheek.
Have the The Wood on in the background while I doom scroll (loved it when it came out) and had no idea the actress that played young Alicia is actually older than the actress that played grown up Alicia.