About the Match

Hi bloggers. Today, we are going to talk about how to play a match in “Pelota Valenciana” with the modality of “Raspall”. How we talked in others posts, “Raspall” is a modality that play with a direct style mode and we can play it in a ball court or in the street. The matches can be with one vs one, two vs two, three vs two or three vs three. About score, in the ball court and in the street play seven games (35 points). The winner of each game receives 5 points. The score between games is “15, 30, Val, Joc”. If you get those 4 points in the game, you win the game and your team already adds 5 points in the overall sum of the game.

At the beginning, two teams comes to the middle of the field (local team with red t-shirt colour and the visitor team with t-shirt blue but both teams wear sports shorts). After, professional players make a photo to the press to publish with the newspaper the next day.

To continuo, the referee do a raffle to choose the part of the ball court or the street or to choose beginning with the serve.  

After that, begin the match. The team that choose the serve, go to the part of the field that there are a square (part of the field known how “Dau”) and the gods of the “dau”. The other team go to the part of the field that there is a god of the “rest”. When the team that have chosen a serve go to serve, before do the serve, the ball has to bounce inside the “Dau” so that afterwards it can be hit it. After I hit it, the ball has to bounce before a line, this line is know how “Línea de falta”.

When the serve has been made, the ball can make many bounces since only point will be get:

- When the ball hits any part of the body other than the hand or the forearm.

- When the player raises his hand and says fifteen.

- When the ball touch the "tamborí".

- When the line of the die crosses the ground.

- When the ball is hung in the box above or in "the gallery of the Dau".

- When the ball enter to the "llotgeta", touching the floor, chair, person or any mobile element, even if it comes later.

- When the ball bounces, touch the bouncing wall and the ball is not played without it bouncing.

- When the ball goes directly to the rebound wall and is not played before the ball hits the second pot.

In addition, there is a rule that is a stopped ball. When stopped ball during the match?

- When the ball climbs the ladder or hits any fan on the ladder. Professional player do the stopped ball with the dominant hand and the hit is with specific technical gesture about this modality that is “la Raspada”.

During the game, always do the serve the same team until finished it. As we have said before, the team that do the serve will be in the part of the “Dau”. After, when the game is finish, change of field and do the same.

Bibliography:

- Modalitats, T., & Valenciana, P. (n.d.). Tema 3. modalitats, terrenys de joc i proteccions pilota valenciana. 3.2.

- Nombre : El raspall Materiales : Descripción : Normas : Jugadores : Variantes : Competencias : (n.d.).

-  Educaci, R., Profesor, S., Gandia, B., Valenciana, P., Valenciana, L. P., Valenciana, C., … Romano, I. (1994). La pilota valenciana.