Basketball in wheel chair

The Basketball in wheel chair, usually called tennis shoe armchair and from now on handibasket, is a Handisport derived from the Basket-ball. It is one of oldest handisports the: it is towards the end of the Second world war, at the same time with the the United States and the hospital of Stoke Mandeville to the the United Kingdom, that soldiers wounded with the war played for the first time at collective sports in Wheel chair. At the United States, motor disabilities immediately started to play basketball, while Stoke Mandeville, under the impulse of Dr. Ludwig Guttmann, they played Netball in wheel chair.

The Side Am Jets, a trained team of the handicapped employees of Side Am, carried out many displacements in the world and largely contributed to the development of the basketball in wheel chair. In 1955, they went to the worldwide games of Stoke Mandeville (ISMG) where they gained the gold medal high the hand, in spite of a controversy on the applicable rules and the number of points to be granted by basket. It was the end of the netball in wheel chair, and starting from 1956 the basketball in wheel chair was essential on Stoke Mandeville. Today, this sport is practiced in more than 80 countries.

Rules

The basketball in wheel chair follows the rules of the International federation of basketball amateur, adapted by the International federation of Basketball in Wheel chair (IWBF - International Wheelchair Basketball Federation).

A part is divided into four periods ten minutes each one. Each team is made up of five members. The goal of each team is to mark the greatest number of baskets.

Equipment and ground

The wheel chairs of competition must be in conformity with precise standards enacted by the International federation of Basketball in Wheel chair. The height of the seat, for example, the height of the Câle-foot S, the diameter of the Wheel S or the thickness of the Coussin are thus regulated.

The basketball in wheel chair is played with a balloon of Basket-ball and proceeds on a traditional ground of Basket-ball (the baskets in particular have the same height).

The player owes dribbler with all the two thorough ones given to the wheel chair.

Classification of the handicaps

The players of basketball in wheel chair are handicapped people suffering from lesions from the spinal-cord, amputations, encéphalite or other handicaps driving.

The athletes motor disabilities are classified of categories according to their functionalities. They receive between 1 and 4,5 points. The player with the most points is that which has the most facility to be driven.

Class 1 : These athletes without abdominal cannot exert an active rotation of the trunk. In a general way, they are the paraplegic of level until D7 and above.
Class 2 : These athletes can carry out a rotation of the trunk and to develop an active stability, is the paraplegic ones of D8 level in L1.
Class 3 : These athletes have a good mobility in the frontal plan, can lean ahead and be raised without making use of their arms. It is in a general way the paraplegic ones of L2 level in L4.
Class 4 : These athletes have an active mobility in all the plans, and can lean on at least a side by sometimes associating a movement of abduction of hips to maintain their balance. They have in general a neurological level L5 and in lower part.
Class 5 : Certain countries place the athletes are valid classifies of them 5.

The full number of points of each team cannot be higher than 14 points (into international) (one adds the points with the five players). On the other hand each country can make its adaptations specific. France classifies e.g. its players handibasket between 0.5 and 5 whereas Germany plays while aligning itself completely with the IWBF (International Wheelchair Basketball Federation)

Competition

The basketball in wheel chair is an official sport paralympic since the paralympic Jeux of Rome in 1960, which are the paralympic first Jeux to be organized.

Manga

The manga " real" is held in the medium of the basketball in wheel chair: several players of tennis shoe become handicapped following various accidents (motor bike, disease, bicycle); the terrible test is seen that represents for each one of them and how they become " accros" with the handi-basketball. One admires their savage will there to gain.

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federal Commission handibasket of the French federation handisport

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