Het is maar kaatsen, weten Friezen, maar eens per jaar is het veel meer.
Omdat de animo voor het kaatsen sterk was gedaald, besloten vijf Franeker notabelen in 1853 de plaatselijke ‘balverkaatsdag’ nieuw leven in te blazen.
Whereas a regular match of kaatsen may attract a crowd of about one thousand, today, in Franeker, over ten thousand people will be crowding around the pitch.
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The field teams will try whit the serve to score a direct point and the team what is defending there part of the field will try to get whit a right punch to get the bal as far as possible which can not be returns by the players of the field team.
After there has been two "kaatsen" laid down in the field the players have to change field.
For the people who want a activity but don't want to move a lot there is the course archery and they can try to shoot the arrow into the rose.
If you are traveling by boat, make sure you get a program of this because certain lakes or parts of lakes will be closed off, and the waterways towards those lakes will be filled with traveling spectators.
Kaatsen is a sport dating to the middle ages, still being practised in Friesland, the Basque_Country, and parts of southern France.
Warning: Kaatsen is to frisians what cricket is to the english, ie: you will not understand a thing of what is happening.
Gradually, they adopted a ball made of white leather and filled with cow's hair which was used in the local game of kaatsen (hand tennis).
It is possible the kaatsen ball later inspired the Scots to invent the "feathery" sometime in the 17th or early 18th century as a subsitute for the wooden ball which was probably the popular ball of choice of the day.
It is tempting to assume that all of the great tech stuff happened after we found out how to make beach sand into microchips.
Kaatsen, een oude volkssport, gespeeld op het terreintje aan de kerk, veeleer zelfs op straat of gewoon het kerkplein maar de sport is zich van dit imago aan het ontdoen met een aantal schitterende terreinen..
als wij kaatsen in dat op het water met een steen
kaatsen is echt een sport da ge moet kennen, de regels dan, om het te apprecieren, beetje zoals cricket fzo
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But handball is not only being played in Friesland en Belgium (kaatsen, pilote), but also in Italy (pallone elastico), Spain (pelota), Ireland (handball), U.S.A. (handball), Sweden (pärk), and so on.
Therefore foreign websites are also found at this handball page.
From this game are also derived the "Pelote basque" and "Pilota Valenciana" as well as the "Palla toscana" or the dutch "Kaatsen", all these having quite different rules.
In the United Kinddom it is called Tennis or, to distinguish it from Lawn Tennis, Real Tennis or Royal Tennis.
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