The ball of balls is a one-man game played with paddles and embedded balls. Using a flat paddle with a small rubber ball mounted in the middle through an elastic strap, players try to hit the ball with consecutive oars as much as possible.
Paddles are similar in size and shape to table tennis rackets. Usually made of wood or plastic, although other materials can be used.
Video Paddle ball
History
Created and patented ( U.S. Patents 1,529,600 ) in the 1920s, the rowing ball was one of the more bizarre products to follow the soft rubber invention.
In 1937, the Fli-Back Company was established in High Point, North Carolina with ball-rowing as their only product. The paddle logo depicts a cowboy playing a rowing ball while riding a wild horse bucking. The first successful mass marketing of this toy allowed the company to diversify into a number of other toys including yo-yo and spinning tops. In 1972, Ohio Art Company, the popular maker of Etch-A-Sketch, bought Fli-Back Company. They continued to create Fli-Back rowing games at High Point until 1983.
In 1931 the toy was featured on Newsweek .
In 1950, Duncan Toy Company produced "Hi-Li Paddle Ball Toy" which sold millions of units. The paddle reads "Officially Hi-Li Duncan, Reg. US Pat. Off., No. 99 Winner."
In 2000, Yomega received a trademark for "Extreme 180 Â ° APB", their paddle ball featuring cable length and customizable balls.
In 41st A Portrait of My Father, former US President George W. Bush reported that his father, former President George H. W. Bush, often played paddleball with Mississippi Congressman Sonny Montgomery.
Maps Paddle ball
In movie
In the initial demonstration of the 3-D effect, carnival rakes in House of Wax were shown performing tricks with rowing balls to gain the attention of potential customers.
In the movie The Misfits Marilyn Monroe is depicted swinging the ball in a provocative way while wearing a polka-dot dress in Reno saloon.
In Blazing Saddles, Mel Brooks (in a cameo as governor of the eye) and Harvey Korman used a ball of oars for a great comedic effect. The Korman character did the trick with relative ease and handed the oars to Brooks, who could barely manage a single blow. This is a deliberate anachronism, since a rowing ball will not be found for fifty years after the film (mostly) is installed.
In the animated movie Pixar/Disney WALL E there is a short scene in a montage where the robot loses control of the rowing ball and is hit repeatedly in the head. Rowing winding pads in the pile of "Do not Keep".
Recordings
The most simultaneously controlled rowing ball is 7 and is achieved by Steve Langley aka The Paddle Ball King at the set of Lo Show Dei Record , in Milan, Italy, on April 8, 2011. Langley controls all the oars for 10 seconds with all the balls bounce simultaneously.
Most people who controlled the rowing ball is 443 and achieved by Steve Langley aka The Paddle Ball King, O.P. Earle Elementary School and Landrum Middle School (all US) in Landrum, South Carolina, USA, on 30 November 2012.
Most people in a rowing ball relay are 162 achieved by a team from Nike Digital Sport (USA) in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, on February 20, 2013. This effort is held at the Fashion Show Mall plaza in Las Vegas Peeling. Each participant must have full control over their device before the next person is allowed to start.
See also
- Bolo Bat
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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