Gain-ground explained

Gain-ground should not be confused with Gain Ground.

Games of gain-ground
Team:	2 per team - 7 per team
Olympic:	Longue paume was part of the Paris 1900 Summer Olympics Real tennis in 1908

Gain-ground games are team sports which are played with a small ball or a balloon. They are often outdoors on a "ballodrome" but can also be played indoors.

Among these games, longue paume and real tennis are the most well-known because they are played with rackets. The rules change a little depending on the game, but the basic rules remain identical from one game to the other.

Games of gain-ground are characterized in particular by the use of "chasses". Chasses indicate the limit between both teams or in real tennis a limit to score a point. Points are counted as in tennis: 15, 30, 40 and set.

Games of gain-ground

Two games in Jeu de paume:

• Real tennis
• longue paume

These sports are practised in Hauts-de-France and Belgium:

• Ballon au poing
• Balle à la main
• Balle pelote
• Balle au tamis

but also in Spain :

• Llargues,,

or in the world:

• International game

Sources

• Benoît Goffin, LA BALLE PELOTE au cœur de notre région, éd. Aparté, Namur, 2006. .
• Marcel Lazure, Les jeux de balle et ballon picards: ballon au poing, balle à la main, balle au tamis, longue paume, Centre régional de documentation pédagogique de Picardie, Amiens, France, 1996.
• Marcel Lazure, Les jeux de balle et ballon picards, Sports de France, Amiens, p. 96., (1981)
• Luc Collard, Longue paume et ballon au poing, revue EPS, n° 274, p. 72-75, nov-déc 1998
• H. Civilio, Le jeu de balle en Belgique, Louvain, (Mémoire en Education physique, Université Catholique de Louvain), (1966)

Notes

External links

• Confédération Internationale du Jeu de Balle (C.I.J.B.)