This was played at our high school in Oamaru New Zealand, in purpose built coarts. Mostly played bare handed with a tennis ball. Only saw the hard ball and gloves when the seniors played tournaments. Older school boys could kick the younger ones off the court by calling "shark !". I had a feeling the game had its origins in England, our High School was very much modeled on oldy English Universities. Love the extra obstacles built into these courts, ours where just the three concrete walls with the sloping top side walls.
The game is just called "Fives" and at least 600 hundred years old. The usual elite private schools (eg Eton, Rugby etc ) started to play at the end of the nineteenth century , and , as in the case of this video , each claimed ownership
Nothing special, at Bablake School, Coventry we knocked a plastic ball up a against a wall, in a sequence of upto twenty players, it got really quite exciting.!
This was played at our high school in Oamaru New Zealand, in purpose built coarts.
Mostly played bare handed with a tennis ball.
Only saw the hard ball and gloves when the seniors played tournaments.
Older school boys could kick the younger ones off the court by calling "shark !".
I had a feeling the game had its origins in England, our High School was very much modeled on oldy English Universities.
Love the extra obstacles built into these courts, ours where just the three concrete walls with the sloping top side walls.
I learned about this game from chapter two of Nabokov's Lolita.
The game is just called "Fives" and at least 600 hundred years old. The usual elite private schools (eg Eton, Rugby etc ) started to play at the end of the nineteenth century , and , as in the case of this video , each claimed ownership
Discovered this game via P.G. Wodehouse. In “Wodehousian” terms I suppose the lads in this video are “old Etonians” now. Looks like fun.
I used to play this at Highgate school ….. ridiculous game!
At Wellington College NZ we played without gloves
We used to play fives at Sloane Grammar school in Chelsea.
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What is the difference between this game and handball as played in New York City?
its the same, but the elite establishments in the UK , such as Eton, want to claim a kind of ownership
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Nothing special, at Bablake School, Coventry we knocked a plastic ball up a against a wall, in a sequence of upto twenty players, it got really quite exciting.!
Cool I was going to babylake but I went to KES instead
So Fives is essentially racketless squash with a plummy accent
As well as plenty more features on the walls and a quite hard ball which hurts like hell to strike for a newbie
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