Epic Win: Wall Ball
Submitted by WerewolfCyote
Apparently, after checking the Wikipedia article, we discovered that there are a lot of different ways to play Wall Ball. Some people have no bounce rules and some have rules that you must bounce before it hits the wall. Reading comments on the above YouTube reveal that it seems to change from school to school and there’s a lot of contention over who’s game is the purest. We don’t care if you played a classic set of rules or you had a crazy home-court set, we want you to post them below so we can try them out. Our spankin’ new red rubber ball just came in the mail and want to try them all out.
we called this handball in my day.
We still do at my old school.
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yeah same. lots of fun!
Wow. We played it with a tennis ball where I live, and you catch it; not throw.
We used a tennis ball and usually a ball glove as well. You had to throw the ball at the wall without it bouncing…if you dropped it while trying to catch it, you had to run and touch the wall before someone else picked the ball up and hit the wall with it. If the ball beat you there, you were OUT and had to stand in front of the wall while the person that got you out was allowed to throw the tennis ball at you! It was also called “Suicide” at our school.
I played that game too!
Those are exactly the same rules we played at my school!
Fire ball:
throw tennis ball at wall catch with one hand off the bounce,
if you miss a catch you get to stand against the wall and be pelted!
Best game ever
We played with similar rules, except that we used a raquetball and no glove. Also if you threw the ball and it bounced bthen hit the wall, you got yourself out. Sometimes there were three outs before getting pelted. You had to get the ball after someone else threw it and it rebounded off the wall, and throw it from where you were standing. If you dropped it or it hit you and then the ground, you had to run for it. Sometimes one person would drop it and then whoever went to get them out would drop it and there would be multiple people running for the wall. Good times.
Similar rules at my school… but used a red rubber ball. If while on the wall you were able to catch the ball you could come back down. And Suicide was a term used… But don’t recall how.
thats how we played it at our school just not with gloves
We did that too, only it was a raquetball and without the gloves. One bounce.
We called that “Butt’s Up.” I don’t know why, we just did
That’s what we called it, too.
Yeah, that was Buttball back where I come from. If you were “out” you took a letter, and if you spelled BUTTBALL you had to get up against the wall while all the other players got a shot at you.
‘Twas a vicious game.
We call it Buttball, too! Only, we didn’t have the spelling rule, you just had to get “out”. I know all the schools here still play it, and all the versions are very similar. I know it was extremely complex, and I had only played it a few times because girls playing was frowned upon, don’t know why. It’s the 21st century, for gawd sakes.
I will also never understand why Catholic schools, who wouldn’t let us touch the snow at recess for fear we’d throw snowballs and kill eachother, were perfectly fine with this game.
We used to play it off the front steps. It had a different name. Anyone remember the name?
That was stoop ball and was played with a Spalldean
We called it ‘handball’. Which sounds oddly sexual on reflection. Also, there was a rule that if you smashed someone in the back with the ball you automatically win.
That was banned from my school, because the band kids taught it to the delinquents, and kids were bleeding on a daily basis.
It was banned at my school. The first time I sent a petition around and got it unbanned but than it was anned again and again. (Because we kept playing it anyway!)
RULES AS FOLLOWS:
1) Throw the ball against the wall. If it bounces on the ground you’re safe but it someone catches it out of the air you need to run to the wall. If you are pegged before you reach the wall (Or someone throws it at the wall if you’re playing WALL PEGS) then you are out.
2) If you touch the ball and dropped it (Or kicked it by mistake) you need to run to the wall before outed. If you touch it again before hitting the Wall it is called a DOUBLE TOUCH and you are out automatically.
3) Three outs and then you are eliminated from the game.
SPECIAL RULES:
RELAY: We only used this when the ball hit the fence and rolled around the corner so it was impossible to hit the wall (And even then we might not play.) You can throw the ball to someone and they throw it at the wall without an out.
WALL PEGS: Depending on where we played we used this rule. Instead of you being outed by being pegged yourself, people would out you by throwing the ball against the wall before you go there.
We used to play like this too this way you either need fast hands or fast feet
These are the exact rules we had too. You left out one vital part. Once you touch the ball, by either catching it or scooping it up, you cant take anymore steps and must throw it from where you stand. This is where TAG UPS (throwing to a relay man) would come into play if you at a horrid angle or way too far away for a 9yo. lol.
If you played with people that wanted you hurt it was a better idea to try to make the awkward throw than rely on their relay catch as they would miss it on purpose leaving you out to the wolves.(The way we played both people involved in the relay had to touch the wall before the ball beat them there or it was a “stitch” / “strike”)
This game had so many names at our gradeschool. Wall Ball/Murderball/Redass & Smeer the Queer are a few.
it was played by throwing a tennis ball at a wall. If the ball bounced before it hit the wall, the thrower had to run and tag the wall before the ball hit the wall again. if they did it, they were safe.if they failed they were put up against the wall so others had something to aim at as they threw the ball against the wall (thus the name, RedAss). once they got pegged they were able to come back out onto the play area.
very simple. as little kids we still played it but we used a jail square instead of putting ourselves on the wall. in the jail you had to wait till the ball came close to catch it and get out of jail
We had a rule in middle school that we called no relay, which basically meant you had to throw it from where ever you caught it even if it was on the other side of the gym
In a gym? Wussy! We played it outside on asfault agasint a brick wall.
Think about getting hit in the head, most often the ear, in freezing cold weather!
gym because i live in the desert and most of the balls when playing outside ended up on the roof of the gym anyway so it didn’t matter
our wall ran along the handicap ramp so you had to leap up and over the 3″x6″ lip to get to the wall, depending on you place on the wall the ramp was of course higer.
Copy pasta from my earlier post.
Wall ball was sort of like American Handball, except played with the same kind of ball as kick ball, and you would have to punch the ball to make it bounce then hit the board before the next player hit it.
What constituted for a out was double bouncing, and making the ball hit the board without making it bounce first.
Our version was similar but different, depending on how old we were
We played this on the wall next to the band room (nice big wall, not frequented by authority figures except other band people, who didn’t care)
We had ‘zones’. You tried to hit the ball as high up as possible. You couldn’t catch it, but whoever caught it got points for how high the ball went up. If nobody caught it, you got the points. There was no bouncing allowed (either to the wall or from the wall). If the ball bounced before you caught it, no points. The asphalt we played on wasn’t big enough to play no relay, but when we played inside we played no relay (when you caught the ball you had to throw), and also if you held the ball too long you lost points. You miss the ball three times (trying to catch it) and you were out. In order to get back in you had to suicide (catch the ball before it hit the wall),
Butt Ball!!! It was a famous past-time of the band and was also usually played on the wall outside of the band room. The rules were the same as quoted above, although we really only used this one:
“1) Throw the ball against the wall. If it bounces on the ground you’re safe but it someone catches it out of the air you need to run to the wall. If you are pegged before you reach the wall (Or someone throws it at the wall if you’re playing WALL PEGS) then you are out.”
I still play it like this:
BASIC RULES:
Take the rubber ball, and throw it against the wall. If it hits the ground first, you must run and touch the wall. If it hits somebody on the way their but still hits the wall, the person that was struck has to touch the wall before the ball does. If it strikes somebody and falls to the ground, BOTH people involved must touch the wall before somebody throws the ball to hit the wall. If this happens, the player(s) are OUT. 3 outs and you are ejected from the game.
On the rebound, depending on what the group you’re playing with says, you can “ace” the ball by catching it on the rebound before it hits the ground. This is equal to throwing the ball against the wall. If anybody who has touched the ball without hitting the wall is automatically out. Some people call aces, and others call a no-aces game. Also, if anybody fumbles/kicks/touches the ball without picking it up firmly, they must touch the wall, etc. etc.
If you pick up the ball you must throw it from where you are standing. If the ball is very far away from the wall, you can elect to drop the ball, however, you must run to touch the wall before somebody with a stronger arm throws it to the wall. Beware, though, I suggest not tossing the ball, but rather placing/throwing, because once I was aced when I tossed it behind my back. That, since, has been deemed unfair.
Yarg. Stupid boys would play this against the wall my class had to line up next to before school… I got hit in the face so many times because of those little assholes.
Where we played it, there was no windows and nothing back there. Everyone knew it was the wall we played it on but this girl used to run across every damn day and cry if she got so much as knicked on the leg.
Did anyone called this SUEY sometimes? We used to call it that but by the end of grade school it was just WALLBALL.
we played with a huge bouncy ball or lacrosse ball at my school, shattered a fire alarm one day
I was immediately reminded of a different game that I played on a few occasions, which we called walley ball. We played it because we had access to a small secondary gym that was the size of a volley ball court, but enclosed on all sides. It was very simply a game of volley ball in which players were able to utilize the side walls in returning shots.
I remember Wally-ball (Wallie-ball?) as Edward does…same rules as volley ball but there was no “out.” Side and back walls were all playable, unless of coure, the ball hit the ground.
I also rememeber something we called “battle-ball” which essentially had the same rules as “dodge-ball” (which I don’t see mentioned here), but the balls were somewhere between the size of a tennis balll and a 12-inch softball.
I think we called it “walley ball” too. I don’t remember too much about it, except that there were different names for all the different hits. A “Straight A” was when you hit it against the wall without bouncing. A “Waterfall” was when it bounced up and down between the ground and the edge of the roof.
I chipped my front tooth in elementary school playing this game. I was bleeding everywhere and I have had two caps fall off in my lifetime. My tooth is still chipped to this day and I will never forget this game. We called it “butts-up” at my school because you had to put your butt in the air when you were up on the wall.
Anyway, I dropped the ball, had to run to the wall, tripped, did a face plant into the concrete wall, and that was that. Chipped tooth for life.
Fuck wall ball.
The playground is a cruel cruel mistress.
We called this “Handball” but apparently that’s a totally different game
We called it Red Ass.
Usually played with a tennis ball, basic rules. If you dropped or touched the ball with out catching it, had to run to the wall. If the ball beat you there, you got a letter. When you spelled ‘Red Ass’ you were dropped from the games. Last one standing was the winner.
Suffice to say, due to the length of the word we used, hardly anyone every got ‘out’. I think we just liked running after the ball.
We called it butt-ball cos you threw a tennis ball and if you failed to catch it when it bounced back (dropped it or went for it and missed) you had to run to the wall before someone else could grab the ball and throw it at the wall. If you couldnt, you stood against the wall (Facing it) and you had a tennis ball thrown at your ass.
I dunno how many times we’d get a tennis ball stuck on the roof and then tag someone to bring the next one. We kept having to move our game place though. The kids who played football would always yell at us to move and so would the teachers.
The rules were so fun. Every so often you’d yell out “Wall ball, no tag backs!”
My favorite was to chuck it at someone’s back then make a run for it to the wall.
When I played wall ball in school, we used a tennis ball, and you had to catch it on the first bounce. We didn’t use gloves. We did however, use a wet tennis ball. If you missed the ball you had to run like hell for the ball. If someone hit the wall with the ball before you could touch the wall, then you had to assume the position. This usually entailed standing facing the wall like you were being frisked by cops. Then, everyone got a chance to hit you one time each with the ball, throwing it as hard as they could. I usually went home with a lot round bruises, and round mud stains on the back of my shirts. My mom never could understand WHY this game was so much fun.
Wall ball at my school was
- throw the ball at the wall.
- catch it when it comes back.
- if you fumble it and touch it without holding it, you got pegged with the ball until you touched the wall.
Another way we played was called carilla (ca-ree-ah pronunciation. It’s a Spanish word)
Instead of getting pegged with the ball, all the players beat the shot out of you until you touched the wall.
well we used to call it “suicide” its the same concept but i think how we played it was more brutal than any of those.
the object of the game was everybody would stand away from the wall, we would have atleast 5 to 10 people playing, if not more. whoever had the ball threw it against the wall, so once the ball would bounce off the wall somebody else would attempt to catch it and throw it back against wall. ok this is where it gets bad. if the person attempting to catch it touches the ball but it falls to the ground, thats when everybody would start punching the person, i mean full swings here, until got up to the wall and touched it. this is the same rule, if you throw the ball and miss the wall, or if you get hit with the ball. one big rule was if the person fell down, you could not kick them or punch them. and also no hitting in the face. thats how we played in elementary and middle school
That game with the tennis ball is not wall ball, it was called Butt’s Up where i live because if you don’t touch the wall before someone throws the ball at it, you were supposed to stand with your face to the wall and they throw the ball at your butt.
Wallball (or handball) i played a ton of and the general rules were fairly simple. We would play with those red rubber balls or a volleyball generally, and the ball needs to hit the ground, then the wall when you swing at it. You can either let the ball bounce once, or take it on the fly after it comes off the wall to you. The main way to win was by ’slicies’ where you hit the ball as low to the ground as possible, even putting some spin on it so it goes straight to the ground.
couldn’t have put it better myself.
We played a soccer version of this, where you had to kick the ball (obviously a soccer ball). Also we played it with points. There was a Wall with windows to look throuh to the other side of the it and a door to walk through. In the beginning you had a certain amount of Points, if you managed to shoot through the window, you earned a point but if you shot through the door you lost one. You also lost a point if the Ball reached a wall in the back. If you shot over the wall, you were instantly out, but if you hit a small light located on top of the wall and the ball came back to the game field, you intantely won.
Played a somewhat brutal version of this game in a narrow auditorium. We used both walls and everyone that wanted to play brought a tennis ball. Standard, no bounce rules. You could outright peg someone with a ball, but if that ball touched the ground before hitting a wall (even after bouncing off of someones head), you were fair game and everyone with a ball was expected to peg you as you ran for the wall farthest from you. If you bounced or dropped any of the 10-15 balls in play, you were fair game. If you were throwing at someone who was making a run for the wall and hit the ground instead, you were fair game.
The winner was the last one to quit.
We called it handball. We played exactly like they did in the video, but outside, against the gym wall. We always used a big red ball, although some people did play butts up with a tennis ball.
We always hit the ball, usually with a fists, it was against the rules to throw it. It had to bounce before it hit the wall and bounce before you could hit it. We always had things like “White Magic” and “Black Magic” which was alternative to hitting the ball back against the wall. If you called “white magic” you ran your hand over the ball after it had bounced off the wall the first time, and it became the other player’s turn, which basically meant they had to run really fast as it bounced away. “Black magic was the same idea, but using your foot inside of your hand. We also had underdoggies, where you ran under the ball instead of hitting and touched the wall, again turning the ball over to the other player.
i also agree with this. also, you could play “elimination” where it was a free-for-all, or you could play singles or doubles. one of the nifty innovations was that you could play doubles but call “life”, in which you play as a team of 1 but if you get out you have another “life” to play. don’t forget “pops” where the ball hits the ground and the wall at the same time, this usually resulted in do-overs.
Played in highschool with a group of 10 or so people before it got crazy to an upwards of 20 or more people in a round.
1) If the ball is heading in your direction you must make an attempt to snag it (No ducking/avoiding)
2) If your attempt at the ball ends in a failure and you drop it/hits your body/you avoided it, you must run to the wall before another player grabs the ball and throws it at the wall.
3) If you touch the wall during a dropped ball before a player is able to throw the ball to the wall, you are safe. If you are unable to make it to the wall in time, you are out for the round.
4) If your attempt at the ball ends in failure AND your body hits the ball AGAIN after the ball bounces off the ground, you are put up against the wall to ‘assume the position’ and will be pelted by a player (1 throw). The game resumes after the hit as if the person was the wall.
5) If the ball is caught before it bounces after hitting the wall, the person who threw it is out.
This was played with a racket ball
In our school its called watermelon. You use one of those medium kickballs, but weve also played with anything from beach balls to superballs. You have to hit the ball at the wall, essentially the same as in the game, but you can also watermelon it. A watermelon is when the ball goes over your head, or you duck under it, and call watermelon. This automatically makes it the next persons turn.
i believe we called it “red butt” at my school
We had two wall-ball-type games, one was simply called “handball”. It was played outside with a blue racquetball. The players would be given titles of ace, king, queen etc. The ace bounces the ball against the wall and the king bounces it back, etc until someone misses and gets an out, and moves to the end of the queue. We also had optional rules. One was, before bouncing the ball back to the wall, you could hit it up in the air to set up a shot. For some reason this was called a “chinese”. The other optional rule was the same as a chinese, but then letting the ball drop to the ground before taking the shot, called a “drop”.
The other popular game was called “suicide”. Also played with a racquetball. This is the game where if you touch the ball without catching it you had to run and touch the wall or else get pegged.
I remember those days when I was running to the wall praying to dear God that I live to see another day. No kid wanted to go down with a blow to the head.
i love this game its hella sick
We called it Wall Ball, but our rules were way more complicated. There were rules about hopping on one foot and bouncing the ball twice before catching and alot of other nonsense. I think it was mainly a way for the nerds to beat out the jocks, beacause only the nerdiest of nerds could ever remember all of the rules.
What the hell that is me in that video… I was the one in the brown. Thats hella weird. and in Northern California we play Wall Ball and Butt Ball. This video is wall ball and Butt Ball is played with a small rubber ball that you have to throw directly at the wall with out letting it hit the ground. if it hits the ground after you touch it, before you touch the wall, then you get a letter and you spell BUTTBALL.
we even played it in Belgium this way
think we called it smashen, long time since I saw this game
Ha ha! I called this Redass back when I played it.
there is a difference between wallball and handball. we didnt have bounce rules. just had to hit it over a certain part of the wall
throw ball against the wall, if ball is caught off the wall you get an out.
if you bobble the ball or throw it short, you much touch the wall before the ball does or you get an out. 3 outs and you are out till the end.
alt. “buts up”
if you get three outs, stand facing the wall. the last person to get an out on you throws from about 10 ft away to peg you. If you are hit, you’re out for the game