Jianzi

Spring football (also called Shuttlecock ) is a team sport in which an attempt is a ball specially used in this sport mainly to play on the floor ( the spring football ) with your foot in the opponent's half of the field of a badminton field, or to the opposing team to an error force. Mainly three is played against three, but also the variations of two against two, and one on ones are tracked in competition.

History

The spring football comes from Asia, probably China, where he enjoys under the name Jian Zi great popularity. The roots are presumed in Tsu Chu, a sport similar to football today. Thus the story of the spring football dates back nearly 3000 years.

The Hagen engineer Peter of males learned the game during a vacation in 1984 and brought to know spring football to Europe. He put spring football for the first time at the German Gymnastics Festival in Dortmund publicly before and spread the sport since then in Germany and Europe.

Was founded in 1999 in Hanoi, the International Shuttlecock Federation (ISF ) and the World Association. In the same year, the inaugural meeting of the German spring Football Association ( DFFB ) took place in Hagen. The founding members were Volker Hollmann, Harald Felgenhauer, Olaf Völzmann, Barbara Figge, Karsten -Thilo Raab, Peter of males (all spring football club Hagen 1991 eV ), Axel Krüger ( Dortmund TG ) and Nadine Fischer and Ulrich Fischer (both TV Lipperode ).

Peter of males is the first president of the DFFB ( German spring Football Association ) and the SFE ( Shuttlecock Federation of Europe). Spring football is played in some European countries, eg Finland, France, Greece, Austria, Serbia - Montenegro, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary. There are German Open, Hungarian Open, French Open, Austrian Open, European Championships and World Championships.

The first world championships were held in Újszász in Hungary in 2000. In 2002, the spring football club Hagen was 1991 eV from 20 to 26 October host the third World Cup where the national teams from China, Vietnam, Laos, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Hungary, Finland, France, Greece and Germany participated.

Hosted the first European Championships in 2003 was the SKF Weitmar. The event took place in Bochum.

Field

The dimensions and lines of the official game box correspond to those of a badminton field, the lateral boundaries correspond with the dimensions of the played at badminton double field foul line the rear of the rear service line for the double. For dimensions of 6.10 x 11.88 arise meters. The game field is divided in the middle by a net. The net height is 1.60 meters for men, set 1.50 meters for women. At a distance of 2 meters to the network are the lines of attack.

To play the game box around should be at least 2 meters of free space without barriers, and 6 feet above the field.

Ball

The spring football consists of two parts: a spring member and a black rubber foot. The spring part consists of four and halved crosswise constricted goose feathers which are glued into a holder on the black rubber washer. The round, 4 cm in diameter and 1.5 inches in height measured rubber foot is comprised of two rubber discs, which are held together by rubber retainer for the springs. The upper rubber plate is loosely placed onto the bottom and is separated by cardboard or newsprint rings thereof.

The height of the entire ball is approximately 15 cm, the weight is about 15 grams.

Men

A team consists of three people who get similar with the rotation rule in volleyball, positions assigned. Moves the right to serve from one to the other team, so the positions are weiterrotiert.

In addition to the popular team game and the two variants against two and one are played against one. If only two players stand on each side over, eliminating the rotary control. Otherwise, the rules must be applied without changes for the two versus two match.

Although each face only one person on each half of the field, the valid for the team game rules will be applied.

Game History

The one team scores a point, either regular played the ball on the ground in the opponent's half of the field, or if the opposing team commits a fault.

The error of a team are - among others - the following events:

• The ball is played so that it the ground or any object outside the court touches ("Off" )
• The ball is more than 4 times played within a team ( "Five " )
• The ball is more than twice in a row played by the same person ( "Three" )
• A player touches the net
• A player enters the airspace over or under the net
• The ball touches a player on the arm or hand
• The ball crosses the center line is not completely in the air space above the net
• The ball is played with the head active over the net, do not allow to the player in question has completely found behind the line of scrimmage. The player can, however, jump into the air space between scrimmage and network and play there the ball with the head, unless his feet when jumping fully stood behind the line of scrimmage
• Of the impacting player's feet are not fully on impact behind the baseline
• The serve hits the net

Winner of a game is the team that has won first two sets. A set is won when one team reaches 21 points. Points, each side, regardless of the right to serve ( tiebreak ). If the 21 point one team the other team already has 20 points, as is continued playing until one team has two points more than the other. From a score of 20 to 20 while the service alternates regardless of point gain with each impact.

Between each set the side of the field is changed, on the set, the respective teams. In the third set, the page is not changed once during the block as soon as one of the teams reaches eleven points.

Referee

The spring football game is led by two referees. These have to determine the task point gains and mistakes of the teams playing. Your decision is binding.

Referee Hand Signals

To clearly show for the teams and the spectators why a point or other decision has been made, there are a number of referees characters. Some of these are:

• Point gain - an outstretched arm pointing in the direction of the team that has made the point, and thus strikes next
• Ball goes out - The forearms are performed in a parallel stance up to the shoulders
• Ball touches the playing field - An arm has on the ground in each half of the field
• Keep the surface of the hand to the side of the net, where the error happened - Power touched by player
• Triple contact by a player - Three fingers are held up
• Five touches - Five fingers are held up

The hands are generally applied with the hand that is on the side of the fault.