Balle à la main is a traditional Picard sport. It is a team sport with two teams of seven players on a called field "''ballodrome''". It is a game of gain-ground' as Longue paume, which takes place in

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. Balle à la main is played on a rectangular field of 65 meters by 12 meters. As all the ballodromes of the games of gain-ground, the field has a line of fire and a rope.

Rules

The ball is made with a lead pit, surrounded with wool and covered with leather. The diameter is about 4,2 cm with a weight about 43 g. The game takes place according to the rules of the games of ''gagne-terrain'' (gain-ground) with in particular the use of the "''chasses''". We play bare handed. Points for a set count by "fifteen" (15, 30, 45 and set), with possible advantage in the tie-break. A match takes place in 7 sets. Maillot-balle-a-la-main-Aubigny

Sources

* Lazure, Marcel, ''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,

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, France, 1996.

External links

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Fédération Française de Balle à la Main
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Inventaire du Patrimoine Culturel Immatériel des jeux traditionnels français
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