LL-L 'Sports' 2006.06.22 (02 [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L * 20 June 2006 * Volume 01
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From: 'Stellingwerfs Eigen' <info at stellingwerfs-eigen.nl>
Subject: LL-L 'Sports'

Henno wrote:
> What about "klootschieten", played in Twente and neighbouring areas
> And "kolf"

Okay Henno, I know about 'klootschieten' but is it realy LS?
A long time ago also very popular in Fryslân was 'piksmieten' on ice, You
know?
Somewhere around 1950 I saw it played for the last time.
It was played with some coins on a piece of wood (the 'pik').
I play country golf for years (no, I'm not a fanatic) but I never heard
about 'kolf' or the earlier version 'colf'.
Thank You, now I'll never forget. In our area we also know a kind of
'boeregolf'.
It is played with a sort of a wooden shoe (klomp) on a stick and a bucket
(emmer) digged into the ground as a putt.
Another sort of 'wild' golf I know is 'Pitch & Putt' with only par 3 holes.
But Golf also is not realy LS, is it? It should be Dutch (or shall we say...
Scottish?).
Mit een vrundelike groet uut Stellingwarf,
Piet Bult

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From: 'jonny' <jonny.meibohm at arcor.de>
Subject: LL-L 'Lexicon' 2006.06.21 (02] [D/E]

Hi, Piet, Henno,

you asked:
> Okay, no football or soccer then, but it brought me up a question if there
> are (more) very typicial LS sports like f.i. we do have in Fryslân it
> 'fierljeppen' (polsstok-ver-springen), 'keatsen' (some kind of 'jeu de
> pelote') and 'ljip-aaisykje' (kiviets-eierenzoeken). Are there...?

Thanks for your courage to avoid football ;-)! It's a sign of a high-standardized
level of culture and character in these days, isn't it ;-)?

> 'fierljeppen' (polsstok-ver-springen)
Yes, I guess I know this, but less as a sport but more a serious way to jump
about all the ditches we have had in the marshlands. We called it
_Pumper-Springen_, also _Poemper-Springen_ or _Puemper-Springen_. I've still left
one of these 'Pumpers'/'Puempers'/'Poempers' in my garage: a long, strong stick
(ca. 3 to 5 meters) with a board of ca. 10x20 cm fixed at its deepest end. If you
didn't take enough speed at run-up your jump often might end at the middle of the
muddy 'morastic' ditch.

> kiviets-eierenzoeken
I took part in this during my early youth, but again I don't think it to be a
sport in the sense of competition but a welcomed enrichment of people's food.
It's of course strictly forbidden today.

Henno:
> What about "klootschieten", played in Twente and neighbouring areas I
> believe:
> a ball is thrown ("geschoten") over a rough terrain, and whoever achieves > the
> preset distance
> in the last number of throws (you throw the ball from where it landed
> previously...) wins.
Yes, of course. It has become a very famous sport all over the marshlands near
the coasts of the North Sea, but it indeed spread out from the Frisian areas.

Allerbest Greutens

Johannes "Jonny" Meibohm

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From: 'Ben J. Bloomgren' <godsquad at cox.net>
Subject: LL-L 'Sports' 2006.06.21 (04] [E]

Hardly surprising when we realise it is based on Gaelic Football.
Tom, what is Gaelic Football? I've heard of it. Is it a precursor to the
English and hence American (as in the two continents) football?
Ben 

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Sports

Ben:

> Tom, what is Gaelic Football?

My name ain't Tom, but I can offer the answer that it's virtually the same as
Australian rules football, just played wearing skirts instead of skimpy footy
shorts.  It can be quite the spectacle.  It mustn't be confused with
_Klotenschieten_, which is really a yawn fest in comparison, despite its rather
intriguing name.

Seriously, though, Ben, there's a fairly good description here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelic_football

Cheerio!
Reinhard/Ron

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