TAMBOURELLI

The Tambourelli is a court game invented in Galloway (in Scotland) in the 1970s.

Since then int has spread all over the world, with networks of players who have active clubs in England, Scotland, ermany, Japan and Sweden.

Share many players, coaches and fans with Tamurello and Tambeach.

The game can be played outdoors or indoors.

In the spirit of Tambourelli, all players must bow to their opponent at the start of each game.

A player serving the wheel to the opponent´s court starts a point. The opponent returns the wheel and the play continues until one of the following incidents occurs.

• The player lands within the bounds of the court on the side of his opponent´s net.
• Your opponent´s shot falls outside the bound of the cour.
• The shot of your opponent does not pass the network.
• sice his shot, his opponent hits the wheel before he crosses the net to his side of the curt.

Tambourreli is played in a rectangular court 9.14 by 4.1 meters. The net, which bisects the court across its width, should be 1.73 meters.

 

 


Score:

• It concludes a game when a player or double pairing accumulates 21 pints. In the case of tie, the first to advance by 2 points wins the game.

Lets:
It should be granted when:

• Any disagreement arises on the outcome of a point.
• When the steering wheel hits the roof during a rally.

"Double hit" lets:
Durin the game, a situation may arise in which a pair of doubles finds it necessary to hit the wheel twice to return it through the net. This "double hit" can be plyed twice by player or once by each player.

If both pairs of pairs use the "double hit" to win the rally, the will only be granted a permit. This is called a "saved point".

If both pairs of doubles use the "double hit" within a rally, the let opinion is canceled so that point is vailable to be won by any of the pairs of doubles.

A doubles match can not use a second "double hit" during a rally until the first has been canceled by a "double hit" counter.

Service:

• During the act of service, the bat can not be raised above the shoulder height f the server.
• A foot should be touching the baseline.
• If the first service does not succeed, a second service is granted.
• If the second service is not completed, a "double failure" will occur, and a point will be awarded to the opposition.

Single service:

• In singles, service can be done from any position along the baseline to anywhere on the opponent´s side of the court.
• The service is rotated every 5 pints. This does not include repeated point.
• If the score reaches 20-20, the service alternates every 2 point.

Playing for the service:

• Before each game starts, players must "play for service".
• To "play for service", a rally starts and the layer who wins this rally has the option if service or the choice of extremes. This rally must be longer than 3 strokes.

Double service:

• In doubles, the court is divided into 4 rectangles.
• In service, each player has ints own rectangle.
• With a foot in the baseline, the service must serve in the area diagonally through ints area.
• Once each player has had a series of 5 services, the pair of doubles that is now receiving service exchange positions.

TAMBEACH

History:

Tambeach emerged 45 years ago (1969) on Sicilian beaches. 

It is in 1996 (important year for the FIPT) when the first official Tambeach championship is organized taking advantage of the centenary of the Italian championships. 

IMPORTANT PLAYERS

IMPORTANT MATCHES

Tamburello inititation exercise

MOST IMPORTANT TAMBURELLO COMPETITIONS

Material Tamburello

The evolution of this sport has been marked by the developement of the material used, during the course of the years it has evolved from the animal skin in its origins to plastics or synthetic cloth at present. 

As we already know, the Tamburello is a sport of implement-ball in which two teams face using tambourines (tamburellos) and battoirs or mandolins (special for the serve), all of them are racket-like striking instruments, but with a stretched cloth instead of a string, and the striking point being much closer to the hand than in a tennis racket for example, which facilitates learning. 


The ball: 

It is red or white, rubber, and is 6.1 cm in diameter and 7.8 grams in weight. We can find two types: 

• Slow: low pressure.
• Fast: used for large field competitions. 

The tamburello: 

It has a circular shape, and measures between 24 and 28 cm in diameter. Formerly it was made of wood and nowadays it is made of plastic reinforced by a copper thread on which a synthetic fabric is tensed (formerly it was made with animal skin) that allows hitting the ball.

The grip is made by a leather grip.

The "battoirs" shovel

It measures 18 cm in diameter and the handle measures between 70 and 100 cm. 

Currently, its use has been abandoned since it is complex and few players know how to use it properly, which is why few specialist players continue to use it.

The "mandoline"shovel



It is similar to tamburello but with a shape similar to a drop of water and the grip is located at the narrowest end. 

It is used only for the serve and allows to reach further with greater ease and effect on the ball. 

Its use in France is scarce while in Italy it is used more frequently.

The rules of Tamburello

The Tamburello is a team sport of divided court playing 5 vs 5 (open air) or 3 vs 3 (indoor).

It is a sport that is played on smooth terrain from ground or asphalt, but also can play indoor adapting its rules of procedure.

Then we are going to the measures of the track, the shovel and the ball.

The shovel measures:

It has a diameter of 28 cm and there are two types: a for the throw-off (“battoirs” or “mandoline”), and another for the game.

The ball measures:

It weighs 78 grams and measuring 6.1 cm in diameter

While the outdoor ball is rubber, and hardest, indoor ball is similar to a tennis court but with less pressure

The field measures:

• Outdoor Tamburello: 80m long and 18m wide (or 20)

• Indoor Tamburello: 34m long and 6m wide

In both cases, the field is separated by a line called "basse" or "corde". Lines which limit the land are part of the same and measure 10 cm wide.

At Tamburello indoor the lines are in the same way as in Outdoor but adding two lines more each in a field located 2 m from "corde".  These lines mark the area that the opposing team must overcome to make the throw to be valid. 

Rules of the game:

• The score of the game is counted in the following way: 15, 30, 40, 50 = Game.

• The winning team will be the best 13 games.

• Teams change field every three games

• The throw-in is always done from the bottom line, must go beyond the midfield line, and only allows a boat in the field.

Points:

Knowing that the ball can be returned with one fell swoop by team, it loses a point if:

• The ball is not returned to the opposite field.

• The ball lands outside the limits of the land.

• The ball touches the central line

• Any player touches the ball with another part of the body that is not the forearm that holds the “tamburello”

• Two players of the same team are touching the ball consecutively.

• If a player enters the opposite field.

• If the server touches the baseline or penetrates into the field during the service.

History of Tamburello

The Tmburello is a former sport whose origins are lost in time. The Greeks and Romans ere great lovers of ball games. They have come down to us remains of "pila ludere", what you know how to "play the ball",

But in the Renaissance, with the Giuoco Treaty, we get the firs official information related to this emerging sport: with games like the "brazalete" "pallacorda" anda especially the "paleta" inwhich the ball is hit with a knife with a strip of leather around the handle.
Over time, the tool changes into a wooden frame on shich an animal skin stretche.
The game was ther alternative "poor" the game of the "brazalete", which provied a costly equipment and was reserved for the nobles.

In the mid-19th century, the Tamburello began its history agonistic, becoming popular in the province of Verona and Mantua, extending in 1850 to Liguria and Tuscany, and then to Piedmont and Lombardy.

In those years, the leathers used for tambourine were veal or pork, stretched on wooden frames; at the end of the century spread of horse skins (replaced by synthetic materials a few tens of years ago).
Balls, first were leather with a diameter of 38 mm and a weight of 50 grams, but were replaced from 1879 by the rubber.

However, the crucial year in the history of the Tamburello is the 1890, year in which is recognized, as a game, by the Federation of Gymnastics Italian (born 1869).
The first official Champinship was held in 1898; involve 4 teams, and it is won the company Nicolo Barabino of Genoa.

Not al were partakers of the Tamburello to become Olympic discipline.
In fact, in 1903, De Coubertin decided to organize the Olympic Games of 1908 in Rome, it was the first contacts with the King Vittorio Emanuelle and pope Pío X, that convinced him that idea was feasible.

The project of the gymnastic Federation provides as well (March 16, 1903) the presence of the Tamburello along with other 20 disciplines. The idea of the Roman Olympic Games fail, and with it, the Olympic dream of the Tamburello.

After 15 years, discipline revives the hope of at least entering squadron of demonstration sports at the Olympic Games in Amsterdam. The attempt does not succeed, however. 

In 1926, some Florentine fans had called on Italian sports clubs interested in the tamburello to found a Federation dedicated to this sport, to promote its development and promote the events, protecting and coordinating different companies and different player. 

On 14 November in Florence, are boards 39 major companies Tamburello, who founded the Federazione Italiana Gioco Tamburello, whit based in the Tuscan capital and being its first president Pietro Pucci.

The new body is appreciated and joined the Federation Pallone: FIPT, Italian Pallone and Tamburello Federation become the 33rd Federation of Coni. 

 After the results in Amsterdam, Mussolini, disappointed with the games for the lower than expected results, ade the President of Coni Ferretti replace Commissioner Augusto Turati, who, newly elected, will eoliminate some federations and abolish the FIPT.

After the war, in Bologna, has recovered the FIPT. Therefore, activities resumed with enthusiasm in Ovada, Verona, Milan and Genoa.

Thus, if in 82 the Tamburello was played only in intalia and France, today, has spread in most of Europe, America, Asia and Australia.

Today, the tamburello is culture and tradition, but also sport: challenging and spectacular.