Tchoukball

The tchoukball is a Sport of team which comes from Suisse. The goal of its inventor was to create a sport without risks or at the weak risks of wounds, and easy to play, to lead people to make pysic activity.

The objective of the play, without going into the details of the rules, is a mixture of Volley-ball, Handball and Squash: One marks points while making rebound a balloon (resembling by its size and its surface a balloon of Handball) on a kind of trampoline, called tallies, which is installed at each end of the ground, so that the adversary cannot catch up with the balloon thereafter.

The “tchouk”, as it familiarly is called, is a sport who becomes extensive in Europe and the Far East because this model of play, where any obstruction, interception or contact is prohibited, promouvoit the respect. The tchoukball also develops in North America and of the Southern like, more recently, in Africa. Its values make that its teaching is quite widespread in the schools of certain countries (Taiwan, Switzerland), but always does not find itself apart from the school framework. Certain students are indeed rejected by the prohibition of the interceptions and the absence of contacts, and are moreover sometimes victims of the use of not-adapted material (for example a trampoline intended for the Gymnastique, and not for the tchoukball), which makes lose much interest to the play.

History

The tchoukball was born from the reflections and research of Dr. Hermann Brandt, begun during the Années 1960. It results from a critical scientific study of the most popular sports of the teams. Dr. Brandt, doctor Genevese, côtoyé throughout his career a great number of athletes wounded more or less seriously at the time of the practice of their sport. He noted that these traumatisms were due to the execution of movements unsuited to the physiology of the individual, like with the many forms of aggression present in certain sports. Its analysis reinforced this concern relating to the educational value of the modern sports, which for him should not lead to systematic manufacture champions, but “to contribute to the construction of a valid human society”. It thus conceives a new handset, the tchoukball, that it exposes within the framework of its “Scientific study of the sports of team”. The tchoukball is presented in the form of a Basque mixture of Pelote (for the rebound), of Handball (since it is played with the hands and that the steps are limited) and of Volley-ball (because the ball should not touch by ground). It is about a sport of ball and of team which is played using two surfaces of reference (executives) and is characterized by the suppression of all forms of body aggressions between the adversaries. By its ludic character, it is conceived to encourage each individual to practice this sport, whatever its age, its sex or its capacities athletic.

Principle

Two teams of 7 people (girls or boys) clash while trying to mark points

a player marks a point when it launched the ball on a tilted trampoline and that this one touches the ground out of the half-circle and in the ground before an adversary recovers it.
a player gives a point to the opposing team if it misses the framework, if the ball rebounds (before or after the shooting) out of the ground (the trampoline being out of the ground)
Each team can indifferently mark points on any of the two trampolines.

Basic rules

1 ground 14x24m and a ball of tchoukball (similar to a ball of handball).
2 teams of 7 players/players
2 frameworks of tchoukball (tilted trampoline) are placed on each side of the ground

Evolution of the play

the player who has the balloon can make 3 pas and the right of dribbler
Each team does not have can make 3 master keys maximum before drawing
When the reception of a master key is missed (the ball touches the ground), the balloon changes camp
the team which does not have the ball should not obstruct the movements of the carrier of the balloon (not of contacts)
It is interdict to play with the feet or the legs
Each team can mark on each of the two trampolines

Charter of Tchoukball

The play excludes any research from prestige, as well personal as collective.

On the personal level, the attitude of the player implies the respect of any other player, adversary or fellow-member, whether it is stronger or weaker. The play being opened with all the capacities, innate or acquired, one will meet all the qualitative levels fatally players; the respect or the consideration, due to each one, obliges any player to adapt his own technical and tactical behavior to the circumstances of the moment. On the collective level, a result, whatever it is, never engages the reputation of anyone and especially does not give right any kind of “sectarianism”. From a victory one can withdraw pleasure, even of the joy, but never a satisfaction of pride. The joy of gaining is an encouragement, the pride of the victory comprises in germ a fight of prestige which we condemn like source of conflicts between human, with all the degrees.

the play comprises a “gift of oneself” permanent: initially a constant monitoring of the circuits of the ball, then objective observation and sympathizer of the players. The gift of oneself is the subjective participation in the events; it has as a result “to mix” the personalities with reciprocal confrontation with the reactions to the play:

the direction of the collective output of the team: it welds the fellow-members the ones with the others; he learns how to estimate, to appreciate their values; he creates the feeling of the unity in the effort of the small group.

the assimilation of the attitudes of group says “adversary” to which it acts to oppose a convenient play but never comprising and to no degree a feeling of hostility.

the major concern for any player must be the research of the good game. The universal experiment in the sports is summarized by the current expression: “The good game calls the good game”.

This frame of mind is the base of the social action of Tchoukball: it makes it possible to be directed towards the perfection and to always avoid the negative action towards the adversary. It is more than one rule of play, it is a permanent code of conduct, component psychic of the behavior, bases social personality. The objective is thus the suppression of the conflicts in an identical intention: the idea of “fair play” being exceeded, it is not a question of concessions made with the adversary, but of united actions binding the teams one to the other where the good game of the one supports and makes possible the good game of the other.

the play becomes an accounting period by the physical-activity: it is a pooling of the means of execution, the best taking the responsibility “to learn” with the least good; there is not a true championship, but of one race to “competence”.

When it is said that “the best gains”, it is necessary to imply that to be the " meilleur" is acquired by the quality of the preparation. It is good whereas the results reward the sorrow that the players are given initially individually, then in an collective effort. Within this limit there, a victory can and must involve a normal satisfaction being accompanied by the respect of the other team. The victory must produce at this other team a stimulation (desire for doing as much of it) and not a feeling of crushing. Gaining must get busy to produce this impression. A healthy satisfaction of the winners is a manner of tightening the hand with the losers to encourage them to continue an effective drive. For these reasons, the concept of “champion” must yield the place to a more modest and better adapted concept: that of “gaining”. To play to improve: it is the feeling which any activity of play must comprise and develop. It is towards this conclusion which the practice of Tchoukball must tighten, of the smallest friendly meeting to most serious confrontation “at the top”.

The beach tchoukball

The beach-tchoukball is played with teams trained of only five players, on a ground of 11m X 22m; all the other rules are identical to those of the version in room of the tchoukball.

Born on the beaches from Brazil, the beach tchoukball is an alternative which the International federation of tchoukball also tries to largely develop. Its estival and festive character, as well as the practical side of a discipline which can be played on sand or even on grass, ensure a great potential of development to him. The first championships of the world of beach tchoukball were held in Geneva (Swiss) in July 2005, bringing together teams of 10 different nations (Suisse, Taiwan, Canada, Brésil, Austria, Hungary, Belgium, France, Great Britain…). A total of almost 20.000 people attended the various tournaments, which were gained by Taiwan among the men and women (with each time a victory finally against Canada), like in the juniors category.

The International federation of Tchoukball (FITB)

FITB, founded in 1971, has its seat with Geneva. It currently counts 13 associated members federations, and 22 others (either a collaboration with 35 countries). In spite of financial and human resources limited enough, it maintains and develops many contacts throughout the world. It supports and advises thus the national federations in their development, as well as the individuals eager to establish the tchoukball in new territories. Just like the organization of international competitions of scale, that aims at developing the teaching and the practice of the tchoukball throughout the world. For example, of recent contacts allowed the integration of this sport the school program of certain areas sénégalaises. The international, continental tournaments (championships of Europe, championships of South America, championships Asian and championships of North America and power station) and world of tchoukball and beach tchoukball are excellent occasions to make known the sport with the new public ones, while creating an additional motivation for the committed players. The FITB in particular aims at widening the televisual cover of these demonstrations. In addition, it will fully integrate the World Games of 2009, which will be held with Kaohsiung (Taiwan).

National associations and other sites

International federation of Tchoukball
Category dmoz '' Tchoukball ''
international Tournament of beach tchoukball of Swiss Geneva
Federation of Tchoukball

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