@Darrenfrehill @offtheball @broadsheet_ie gonna have a game of kerbs tomorrow. Sport at it’s very best. Live streamed too. All I need is some definitive rules if anyone has any?!! Or is it just winged all these years?!!
— RadioMikeOBrien (@radiomikeobrien) March 31, 2020
Definitive rules, anyone?
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It was “paths” where I grew up, the H being optional obviously
very posh
That particular kerb looks like it’s been fowled and the results mashed in.
You’re right of course; fowl can be used as a verb, where it can mean to apply or introduce a chicken to a situation.
lol… Paulus on comedy word patrol..
It’s been waxed and used for grinding / lip sliding by skateboarders probably….
The brown-ish red-ish stain is rust from the metal on the skateboard trucks/axels or other stains from the scraping of the board on the edge…
:-J
are they your legs on that skateboard
Maybe back in the good auld days of fearless youthful exuberance and broken limbs..
Nowadays, only after a few pints… Usually with hilariously painfull results.
– Might take it up again tho, good fun / excercise..
:-J
It’s better with a sharp edge.. simple rules.. play with younger siblings and their friends.. make up the rules as you go along.. win..!!!!
I have not seen kids playing kerbs in a long time!
When I was a kid we had one point for a rebound off the join of the kerb and the road, 2 points for a rebound off the point of the kerb and in the unusual circumstance that the ball rebounded back and hit the kerb of the thrower, 5 points. I never achieved the last one, but I have seen it done.
Another rule was if the ball rebounded and the opponent caught it (such as a a rebound that goes straight up) they got the point.
The spins and twists on the ball when thrown could be fun.
Yes there are strict rules
Players take turns throwing ball from their kerb to the kerb on opposite side. Ball must hit kerb on opposite side and come back in direction of thrower
Player receives 10 points for hitting the kerb from her/his kerb
I’m doing so player moves to centre of the road to take closer shots, each worth 5 points
Every successful hit gains another shot
Bonus 100 points if the ball accidentally smashes the window of the grump bastard who lives in number 29 who never gives the call back
How many points for backwards over your head?
Stylish move sir.. not as hard as some might think.. but always done over the age of 12, to impress a girl and usually signalled the end of the game for the thrower (tosser..?) who moved on to other pursuits..
The first cup is the deepest
Jaysus you gave high points in your area! And we had our own grump b@stard too, so I feel your pain :-)
But fair point – I forgot about the move to centre of the road. Now that I am reminded, where I grew up that was only where the rebound crossed the centre of the road in the clear.
We also played doubles. 4 kids. The trick to pass was to put spin on the ball so a rebound would head in the direction of your partner. I rarely played that, and while I know there were special rules, I do not recall them.
You can be extra technical / scientific if you add a sudden death or flip a coin for who gets to start…
– Useful if your playing till you fail and both players can score big and win to nil from a single go…
Bonus 10 if you catch it on the rebound on or from behind your kerb and 5 from anywhere else..
Bonus 20 if you head the ball on the rebound back for another score and then catch it…
– Add +20 for every header.. until ball is catched. Must be caught or no super jumbo mega bonus can be applied.
+10/ +20 If you throw it over a moving car van bicycle pedestrian and score / and then catch it.
+50 / +100 If you bounce it off a moving car van bicycle pedestrian and score / and then catch it.
I’ve no idea what the game or set score or final winning score should be… can’t remember exactly.
The winner is allowed to slap the loser with a wet fish…. usually a large salmon or pike…
:-J
Joe, I can see you’re not taking this seriously.. there’s always one, messing about and ruining it for everyone else..!!!
What?.. I’m deadly serious.. including the bit about the seafood ending that monty python took for granted.
:-J
You can play one more time but any of that wet fish or bizarre rules and you’re out and I’ll tell yer ma..
great idea to have young people congregate in groups out on streets again I mean it’s been nearly a week it’s stupid to expect people to stay in this long, and tooty-pootkins to the old people who can’t take a joke like a ball going through their window, they’ll all be dead soon anyway.
Every player brings their own ball
You alone must always fetch your own ball
Strictly no touching other players balls
Us culchies never partook in this mythical game. In fact, it was explained to me, in my early twenties, by a townie college friend who was amazed that I had never even heard of it.
We had no sheep to ride though.
they had no kerbs
…cliff edge ;)
This I understand. When I moved as a youngun to outside the Pale I realised there were no kerbs to play.
A few years later they built an estate in my town, and kerbs appeared. I tried to teach my friend the game, but the town being a staunch GAA bastion the only balls were from that game, and the rebound dynamics of a liathróid peile were totally different to those of the balls I used as a youngun.
Which reminds me of a later story, after I learned to drive. A friend who had never driven outside of Dublin came down to where I live in Kildare. She was terrified as there was only a centre line on the road, and the sides were straight into the ditch. She could not understand how we knew where on the road we were with relation to the left side. I had to explain that when the car tipped down, we were too far over. She did not get it.
I preferred 7s
I am not familiar with 7s, other than rugby sevens. Do you mind explaining?
Hand ball against the wall
7 * straight catch
6* single bounce then catch
5* double bounce
4* Under the leg
3* on one leg
2* throw pirouette catch
1* blindfolded
If you caught all them when ‘on’
You went to one handed
Miss and you start over again when it’s you turn
When it got down to using the small bouncy balls you were in the premiere league
That sounds a lot more challenging, and a lot faster! Thanks for the explanation.
I was never good at handball games, so even if this was about I would not have played.
I liked kiss chasing,
or kick the can
Ah.. kiss chase and a push up against the wall..