Bar run

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Bar running is an open-air game that was widespread in Germany through the gymnastics movement until the first half of the 20th century. Nowadays it is only played by youth and boy scout groups . Bar running is a team game that requires speed, responsiveness, tactics and an overview.

history

The origins of the bar run go back to the 16th century. The name comes from French (running to the border lines). At the German Gymnastics Festival from 1885 to 1913, Barlauf was played as a gymnastics game .

procedure

The two teams face each other behind the two short sides, the base lines, of a rectangular field. The long side lines must not be crossed.

It is the job of the player

  • knock off as many opponents as possible
  • to free the prisoners from their own crew
  • to go over the baseline of the opposing team without being beaten.

Points are awarded by the referee for successful moves.

In the game it is important to keep track of which player has the right to hit which other players. A player receives the right to hit the moment he crosses the baseline of his own team, i.e. when he goes onto the field. It refers to all opposing players who are already on the field at this point. The right to strike is completely lost as soon as a player moves back towards his own team. However, he can renew it at any time by moving back behind his baseline and then re-entering the field.

Players who have been beaten off must lie down in turn on the opposing side on the edge of the field. The prisoners can be released by having their own player touch the prisoner's hand at the head of the line.

The winner is the team that was the first to achieve a set number of points through their actions (taking prisoners, freeing prisoners, running through).

variants

Fahnenbarlauf combines the basic idea with the capture and guarding of one flag by the teams.

literature

  • Heinrich Ernst: sling ball and bar run . Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1927, ( library for physical exercises and physical education ).
  • JCF Gutsmuths : Games for exercise and relaxation of the body and mind . 5th edition. Newly published, revised and very completed by O. Schettler. With the extensions of the fourth edition by FW Klumpp . Grau & Cie, Hof, 1878.
  • Friedrich Ludwig Jahn , E. Eiselen : The German gymnastics art . Berlin, 1816
  • Otto Löbbecke (Hrsg.): German game manual 5. The big competition games. Ludwig Voggenreiter Verlag, Potsdam 1929, pp. 103-107

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