The objective of the game is to send the ball over the sparring net making it bounce on the surface which is perpendicular to the ground, trying to get it into the opponent’s side. Each player must have the same kind of racket, a beach tennis racket, a tennis racket or some other type with which they will hit the ball.
Sports of "Riviera Beach Games"
This game was officially created on the beaches of Copacabana in Brazil in the early sixties. It seems that the reason for this was the ban placed by the local police on playing with a ball on the sand.
Beach volleyball came about as a variation of the game of volleyball and is now to all intents and purposes an Olympic sports as this game of simple recreation on the beach has evolved to become a professional sport in a number of countries around the world. This version is not played indoors on hard surfaces, but rather on sand courts.
Calcio balilla is a game that was invented by the Galician (Spanish) Alejandro Finisterre and which simulates a soccer game on a table in which the players move the small footballers (called men or little men) on rods inserted through the side panels of a special table trying to hit a ball and push it into the opposing goal.
