Drunk (sport)

See also: Drunk, Sioule

The drunk is a collective Sport practiced under the old mode mainly in France. Supposed ancestor of the Football and the Rugby, it approaches the latter, if it is not that the two teams often have same drank some (a said place, a pond), that their composition does not have definite limits (in the beginning the teams consisted of all the valid men of two or several villages) and that all the blows are allowed.

This play is the subject of a homonymous film, Drunk the , of Michel Sibra (1989), with Richard Bohringer and Christophe Malavoy.

One witnesses his current rebirth in Normandy, under the term of " Large Choule" on the basis of rule avoiding violence and mixing a play with the foot and a play with the hand. One also plays in this area with the " choule with the stick ". It is a spectacular sport also, mixing the play with the stick (ball with ground, raised ball or ball struck in the air) and with the foot. The ball must pass in the goal or " viquet" , by any side or to reverse that Ci. The players can hustle themselves (chouler).

Description

Comes to a conclusion choule in Normandy (about the base of modernized rules) and in Picardy (practical traditional), the drunk one is still practiced very regularly in these two areas, including with sticks especially in Normandy where last testimonys former to a resurrection since 2001, go back to the Second world war (Cotentin). Important bonds exist with Roman old sports ( Haspartum then Calcio Florentin in Italy of the Quattrocento ), Scandinavians ( Knattleikr , cf sagas) or with the Hurling and the Football Gaelic Irish (he saw a rebirth since the beginning of XXe), the Scottish Shinty , but also with more modern or less traditional sports: the Australian American footballs and , the Canadian stick (played originally by the Amerindian undoubtedly mixing their play with that of the colonists), and even a traditional play with the sticks in Chile.

Sport primarily played at the time of the festivals of patron saint and at the time of carnival ( cf study of the newspaper of the lord de Gouberville by Madeleine Foisil, plays in old France of JF MEHL, sports and social sciences of Christian Pociello etc ).

History

  • the drunk one is a game played by the villagers in particular but also the middle-class men. source. It is during for the rank and file of the tournament of the knights.

    • 1066 . William the Conqueror takes foot in England. Probable introduction of the drunk Frenchwoman (undoubtedly normando-Picardy) on the other side of the channel.
    • 1147 . First mention written of drunk/choule in France. The play opposes two teams which dispute a balloon that it is necessary to deposit in a enbut. It was certainly virile, very virile even, but all the blows were not allowed, as it is too often believed. The drunk one, which passes today for unmethodical and forces, in fact was very codified and not so barbarian that famous “the letters of remission” imply it. The cases evoked by these sources all, definition, of the legal affairs, with their troops of are wounded and even of deaths giving, wrongly, the image of a violent ultra fray. As announce it thus many plaintiffs, “it is like that only one practices the Drunk one”.
    • the play is evoked in the Romance of Renart: Li vilein which is with cast…
    • 1174 . Publication in England of the Life of saint Thomas Becket of William Fitzstephen which mentions the current practice of the sets of balloons on the other side of the channel (drunk/football).
    • very popular with the Rebirth (cf: newspaper of the lord de Gouberville) testimonys decrease then until the XIX eme century.
    • much of testimonys (photographs and engravings: to see below sites Ci) with the XIX eme century (festival employers', marriages, departure of the last bride of the year, carnival. In spite of prohibitions in the middle of the XIX eme, the play will rather strongly perdurera, in hiding-place, primarily in Picardy, Normandy, Brittany until 1913, then to a lesser extent then to die out with rare exceptions, in the current of the second world war.
    • one witnesses a current rebirth, primarily in Normandy and more particularly in Cotentin.

  • Aujourd'hui it is also a very widespread play at Scouts at the time of large gatherings.

Rules of the game

In Normandy of the rules was written since 2001 and is followed currently that it is for the plays with or without sticks. to see the site jeuxtranormandie below referred Ci.

Except Norman territory, the rule, with many alternatives is laid down as follows:

  • is exploited a ground of surface and unspecified limits. Of each end of the ground, two goals/bases are marked by a fixed object. The duration of the play is also not defined. The players can agree as a preliminary to restrict the ground and the duration of the play. They can also act in concert for designer a referee of which the only goal is to give the kickoff and to stop the play in the event of accident on the ground.
  • the two teams clash to seize balloon, more generally of a ball of rag or clothing of the size of a rugby ball. The goal is to mark the goal by touching with the balloon the base of the opposing party. The remainder of the play is free and allows all the low blows, unless they are not prohibited.
  • the delicate point of this testing play is to contain its violence in order to limit breakage. Generally this play finishes still valid fault of player on the ground.
  • the presence of rescuer in the spectators is advised.

The Calcio Florentin (or Calcio Storico), sport of team and combat still practiced nowadays with Florence in Italy, is the downward direct one of the Roman haspartum, undoubtedly ancestor of drunk/Choule.

External bonds

  • http://pharouest.ac-rennes.fr/e220032R/textcult/soule.htm
  • magene (associative bonds)
  • http://monsite.orange.fr/jeuxtranormandie
  • http://monsite.orange.fr/jeuxnormandsphotos

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