Talk:History of Official Downball/@comment-110.33.64.175-20130812124359

You are playing it only slightly differently to how we played it. The main difference is that we used a basketball instead of a tennis ball.

1. The "server" would be the person who would start the game. The "server" would bounce the ball onto the wall and the closest person to where the ball bounces after it has hit the wall would have to either catch the ball with one hand or hit the ball back onto the wall.

2. If the closest person to where the ball lands, decides to catch it with one hand, then they are only able to take one step before throwing it back at the wall.

3. If the ball bounces twice before any other player is able to get it, then the closest player is out.

The wall that we used to play against used to have a row of bricks about 1 meter high that jutted out about 3cm, which we called the "buzzer". We called it that because if the basketball hit the buzzer", then it would cause the basketball to bounce quite a bit more than normal. This could catch other players out.

Also, it was the best played when it was wet as the basketball skidded quite a bit and made for some really long rallies. Our rallies, used to have periods of close play to the wall, with small bounces and then switching to large bounces that 15 meters back from the wall could catch players out.