Talk:American handball

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I would like to include a link to a very popular handball related, non-profit commercial-free web site: The Colorado Handball Association Gene Waldvogle Webmaster for COHandball.com Genewald 21:38, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

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I'm not a native english speaker and therefore I don´t feel myself able to edit anything here in the english version of wikipedia, but I definitely think that this should be somehow added to the article. What you call 'American Handball' is played proffessionally here in Spain and other countries. --Iluntasun 20:52, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] National champions

It would be nice if we had mention of the great players. Kdammers 07:59, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

I don't trust many of the great players mentioned in the main article, considering that anyone can freely edit the article and vandalize by putting their names in as great players when in fact they're not. I'd only trust those players whose names are highlighted in blue, although, some names highlighted in red are reputable, like Satish. Readers should use their own judgement.

[edit] block

Strangely enough, the word block is not defined in the USHA rule-book, only "blocking." The definition of blocking uses the word bolck.

In our Wik article, block is explained in terms of "another player" - this should be clarified: any other player? opponent? team-mate? Kdammers 01:16, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] feet vs meters

I'm sure there's a wider wikipedia guideline at work here, but since American handball is American, AND the measurements originated as feet and are even feet - 20 feet (and uneven meters - ~6.1 meters), can we show feet first (and parenthesize meters) ? If no complaint I'll make the changes. --Justfred (talk) 18:35, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

40 feet (12 m) long by 20 feet (6.1 m) - Can't we be consistent? 6.1X2 =?12 Kdammers (talk) 01:26, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure if you corrected to this, or corrected from this, but there are not only 2 feet in a meter. I think it's a little more than 3 feet in 1 meter. Don't remember the exact number. See meter (unit of length) ~ GoldenGoose100 (talk) 02:37, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

I didn't make any corrections. I was just pointing out that in the same description, we are claiming that a meter is 40/12=3.3 feet but also 20/6.1=3.28 feet. If we say 20 feet are (about) 6.1 m, then why do say that double that is 12 feet instead of 12.2? It's okeh by me to round off, but let's be consistent. I don't know what Your reference to 2 feet in a meter is about. Kdammers (talk) 03:01, 25 May 2008 (UTC)