Lifetime Unit Review

Badminton
Trivia & History:
 Based on a children’s game, known as battledore and shuttlecock.
 Named after an English Duke, the Duke of Beaufort.
 First played in Gloucestershire, England.

Rules & Regulations:

 Played in P. E. class as doubles (partners)
 Volley for serve
 Serve is underhand
 The birdie must cross the net and reach the service box.
 The player serves the birdie from the right service box and it must cross
diagonally to the opponent’s service box.
 Each time that a team wins the serve and point, the server moves from the right
service box to the left service box (even # scores are served on the right and odd #
scores are served on the left).
 Points can be made only if you are the serving team.
 Games are played to 5 points
 Only one hit of the birdie is allowed on each side.
 Boundary lines are red and yellow.
 You cannot reach across the net to hit the birdie.
 The “smash” is a hard, aggressive shot that should be hit down towards the
ground of the opponent’s court.
 The “clear” is a shot that travels upward and forward, in a high arc. The birdie
drops on or near the back boundary line.

Pickleball
Trivia & History:
 Joel Pritchard created the game in 1965.
 He created the game by using a sawed-off badminton racket, a wiffleball, and a
net.
 Pritchard named the game after his dog “pickles” because he kept stealing the
wiffleballs.

Rules & Regulations:

 The equipment includes wooden paddles, a wiffleball, and a net.
 The boundary lines are red and yellow.
 Played in P.E. class as doubles (partners)
 Each serve is underhand, directly off the paddle or you can bounce the ball (once)
and hit it over the net.
 The serve must cross the net and enter the opponent’s service box.
  The ball must bounce (once) in the opponent’s service box, cross back over the
net and bounce again (once) on the server’s side (double bounce rule).
 After the official “double bounce,” you can hit the ball off of the bounce or out of
the air.
 Each time that a team wins the serve and point, the server moves from the right
service box to the left service box (even # scores are served on the right and odd #
scores are served on the left).
 Only one hit is allowed on each side and the ball must cross the net.
 You can only earn points when you or your partner is serving.
 Games are played to 5 points.

Ping-Pong
Trivia & History:
 The game of ping-pong began in 1891.
 The game was originally played with a rubber ball, called “Gossima.”
 In the years of 1900-1904, ping-pong spread in popularity to the United States and
other countries around the world.
 Ping-pong has been an Olympic sport since 1988.

Rules & Regulations:

 Played with a table, net, paddles, and a small plastic ball.
 Games are played to 21 points and you must win by 2 points.
 Each player serves 5 serves in a row. Either player can earn a point on any given
serve.
 If the ball is served and hits the net on the way over, falling into the opponent’s
side, a re-serve is awarded.
 If the serve hits the net and falls back on the server’s side, a point is awarded to
the opponent.
 The ball may only bounce once and be hit once on each side.

Bowling
Trivia & History:
 Games similar to bowling were discovered at Egyptian gravesites more than 7,000
years ago.
 Bowling games such as bocci ball, quills, skittles, candlepins, fivepins, and lawn
bowls became popular in Europe and the Middle Ages. These games all involved
rolling balls at targets.
 Bowling was brought to North America during the 1620’s, with the Dutch settlers,
in the form of ninepins.

Rules & Regulations:

 Highest score possible is 300 points.
 On a score sheet, there are 10 frames in which you mark your score.
 Each turn you are allowed 2 throws of the ball.
 If all 10 pins are knocked down with one ball, it is called a “strike.”
  A strike is worth 10 points, plus the next 2 bowled balls (pins totally knocked
down in your next turn).
 If you knock down all 10 pins using both balls that are rolled, it is called a
“spare.”
 A spare is worth 10 points plus one more ball of your next turn.
 The “lanes” are created in the gym with orange and black tape lines.
 There are 10 total pins. The pin in the front is called the head pin.
 In a real alley, the lanes have gutters that the ball can fall into and no points are
gained or deducted. This is called a “scratch.”
 Most bowlers take 3-4 steps for their approach to the game.
 Your foot cannot cross the foul line.

Shuffleboard
Trivia & History:
 Originally called shoveboard, it was developed in England in the 15th century.
 Henry VIII banned the sport among his archers because they would spend too
much time playing the game, and not enough time on archery.
 In 1913, shuffleboard was introduced at Daytona Beach, Florida. Later it was
modernized in St. Pettersburg, Florida.

Rules & Regulations:

 In P.E. class, the games are played to 50 points. Official games of shuffleboard
are played to 100 points.
 Partners (doubles) stand opposite of one another.
 The tool that is used to push is called a cue.
 The objects that are pushed can be referred to as discs, stones, or rocks.
 There are 2 colors, black and red (maroon).
 The black team always starts the game.
 After each push or round, the team with the highest score goes first.
 Each team alternates a push of the cue and one disc to the opposite board.
 You must stand and push from behind the board, end line.
 Any disc that lands on the outer lines (green), doesn’t count.
 If a disc lands on 2 of the numbers, you must determine where the majority of the
disc lies.
 You may bump or knock your opponent’s discs off of the board during a push.