In the summer of the games from beach, between ping-pong, beach-football, beach-tennis, beach rugby and who more beach it has more beach puts, also the biglie return in auge. The preferred entertainment of our infancy with to the castles and the games with secchiello and shovel is knowing one new giovinezza. All in beach, then, children and adults, kneel down to make to you to turn littles ball colored on tracks made to the perfection (traced dragging for the feet someone that “lend” its fondoschiena to the use) that they mean to reproduce the great circuits of the Formula One. If on the littles ball once there were the designs of Bartali or Coppi, hour instead the biglie they reproduce the single-seater Ferrari or MacLaren.
The ancient pastime, practiced already in Egypt, impazza therefore on nostrane shorelines, above all on the coast inhabitant of Romagna. This saturday, as an example, to bath 39 of Rimini the “Italian Federation biglie from beach” organizes the sixth international championship. And to Ravenna some years ago it had been founded even the University of the biglie, frequentatissima from the children. Between the matters Shooting to piffetto, Science of the ballistic trajectories and Technical of construction of bigliodromi taught.
But attention. Who agrees some ago to know that it more does not have to call them biglie. The modern name to use would be cheecoting. To how much it seems this name would derive from the Spanish “Chico” (child): in fact in sunny spiagge of Acapulco the children they were amused to hit to turn the biglie being made them to more fastly ruotare of the adversaries without to exit from the tracing. She would have been a Mexican engineer, Alonso B. Carrillo, to elevate to game sport the ancient popular tradition.
Very beautiful woodwork. I planned to do something like that in the future (the problem is space). For while, I spend my spare time playing guitar and harmonica, reading (this year, I’ve been dedicating to biographies). In the past, painting, mosaic, peruvian weaving, photography. Lately, I’ve been working on the idea of writing a book.
Oooh, lotsa musicians…I’d love to embarass KeithM by telling you all to check out a little YouTube session we did at his house…but I need his shaping racks this weekend. So I won’t. Sorry.
Planning to get back into drums when I have some more time. But, above all, I spend most of my spare time trying to make my beloved wife laugh (especially when she’s drinking coffee…)
Also I do some sideskating (somewhat similar to freeline skating but invented by myself and my brother making it much cooler) http://www.hardcarve.com/
Latest project… making a filament winding machine. to wind fiberglass around a tube to make ultra strong thin walled tubes.