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| A permanent Bankshot Basketball court |
Bankshot basketball is a new game of skill and challenge that is often
described as a "mini golf, but with a basketball." Players
of all ages and abilities, including disabled participants, proceed
through a course of angled, curved and non-conventionally configured
brightly colored backboards, banking shots off the BankboardsTM
and through the rims (see How to Play). Bankshot
Sports are non-aggressive and entirely inclusionary. Participants
play alongside, not against, each other.
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| A portable Bankshot Basketball court |
A Bankshot course consists of a varying number of stations-depending
upon the size of the court-each with a uniquely shaped Bankboard (see
Products). Each Bankshot requires a different
banked shot to score. Some shots demand carroms off two backboards,
some are ricochets and some diabolically maddening shots have three
Bankboards and two rims. Players use a scorecard to track their
score as they shoot increasingly difficult shots at each of the stations.
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| A Dunkshot station |
The game was invented by Dr. Reeve Brenner
of Rockville, Maryland in 1981 as the first total-mix, non-exclusionary
sport that wheelchair athletes and the able-bodied can play together
with neither at a disadvantage. The inspiration for the game came
from a cousin who, as a wheelchair athlete, is now able to participate
with the rest of the community.
"If someone using a wheelchair wants to play traditional basketball
or any other running sport against a person without disabilities,
the able-bodied person must get in a wheelchair to equalize the
advantages," says Rabbi Brenner. "Bankshot eliminates
this dilemma. Instead of size, quickness and strength-skill, intelligence
and shooting touch are what counts.
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