While athletes from around the world gear up for the summer Olympics, competitors of another sort have been polishing their moves for the national Skee-Ball championship. This weekend in Brooklyn, 64 of the country’s best skee-ball rollers face off at the Brewskee-Ball National Championship, a weekend-long festival of beer, bands, foods and skeeball. Eric Pavony, Skee-E-O and founder of Brewskee-Ball, the first ever national Skee-Ball League, explains what the competition will entail.
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Cardboard tube fighting! Events would include single long (wrapping paper) tube, dual medium (paper towel) tubes, thrown short (toilet paper) tubes, and freestyle.
As a youngster with the motley neighborhood crew, we developed a William Golding "Lord of the Flies" version of capture the flag: hide the flags in the neighborhood, and any captive would be tied up and gagged so as not to reveal the flag location by yelling or kicking something to mark the captive's location. A nationwide league would require elaborate rulemaking!
I would love to see Double Dutch in the Olympics. That would actually be one event that I'd look foward to seeing.
I'd like to see a hacky sack event in the Olympics. This could actually spawn several competitions; freestyle, team, etc.
stick ball. must be under 18. Re-create urban street scenes, cars, rules (off the Chevy automatic double), no gloves, must use sawed-off broom stick.
Denno
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