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does anyone have any numbers on calorie burning, much like the squash entry?

The number of calories is largely dependent on how hard you play and your style, but I have read it can be about as high as squash.

Contents 1 Three Wall Rule 2 Hitting the ball 3 Handball Disambiguation 4 Does anyone know... 5 Service 6 Picture? 7 Minor Edit 8 Deleted text

[edit] Three Wall Rule

A Serve which hits the front wall, followed by two sides walls before hitting ground is a fault (commonly called three-wall serve). [1]

Jcgarcow 18:58, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hitting the ball

A ball is returned by hitting the front wall, hits the back wall without bouncing and then bounces and hits the front wall without being touched. Can it now be hit off the front wall before it bounces or is it a dead ball once it hits the front wall?

Yes, it is still a fair hit. It only becomes a dead ball if it hits the ground twice. It can touch the walls as much as its speed allows. If it touched the ground after touching the front wall in your example, then it would be a dead ball.

• BUT, only if the rally is already started. Such a condition on a serve would be a back-wall hit, and therefore a fault serve. And, while I'd love to be contradicted, I've never seen this happen - I wonder if there's enough power to get from front to back to front in one hit without touching ground using regulation equipment. (And please remember to sign posts with four tildes!) 74.134.100.173 (talk) 03:17, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

FOLLOW-UP Question... Who would be responsible for the next hit in this situation? Is it the player that did NOT last hit the ball or does that second touch on the front wall count as this same player's return and is therefore the original hitter's turn to hit it again?

• No it doesn't count as a return. It's the next player's shot. Archer3 04:37, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Handball Disambiguation

I've moved the handball link to the disambiguation page to American Handball. To my mind it is the best fit - please change if not. Ideally not back to the disambiguation page! LeeG 16:40, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Oh, on Joe Sobek, I have removed the link to the disambiguation handball page, as we have already referred to the American Handball page. If Mr Sobek was a player of Team_handball rather than American_handball please correct. LeeG 16:45, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

If anybody's watching this page, I was responsible for the anonymous deletion today. I didn't realize I wasn't signed in. The paragraph I removed was poorly written and irrelevant.--Btwied 06:26, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Does anyone know...

... what is the correct way to proceed when the ball hits the crack(joint) of the floor and any of the walls, including the front wall? When it hits there, it tends to shoot straight outward, just a few inches off the floor, and is impossible to return. Is this considered a lucky kill shot, or a dead ball? Since it involves simultaneous contact with the wall AND the floor, I'm just not sure. Thanks.

• It's a live ball. Concerning the front wall, it's actually what you strive to get: a rollout. Archer3 04:34, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

• This is not true; after being struck, the ball must hit the front wall first. If the ball hits the front wall and the floor simultaneously it is a dead ball. If this occurs on a serve it is a side-out.

• However, if it hits off the front wall crack and when it hits the floor again and it bounces nearly straight up, the ball hit the floor first hence an out and the opponent of the server gets the serve. Mac

Does anyone know...(if you do please edit the main article) Is a shot during a rally that hits the front wall and then the back wall before hitting the ground "in" or "out". The main article says that on serve this is a fault, but what about after the serve?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.111.106.50 (talk) 16:15, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Service

Question regarding the article which states "There are also service violations that result in an out." Perhaps we mean a "service fault"? Or maybe it is an "out"? However, I though an "out" means that you lose your serve immediately (even if you had a second service) but that a "fault" means you may be able to take your second service (if applicable of course) --FR Soliloquy 16:58, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

An out does mean you lose your serve immediately. That was intended there, as those serve examples result in loss of serve. I believe that those serve cases (not including second fault serve) are considered more extreme or larger mistakes and thus warrant the immediate loss of serve. RRLevering 17:15, 11 June 2007 (UTC)RRLevering

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I think a hinder and a screen (or is it called a blind) should be included in the article. From my understanding, a hinder is when a player unintentionally gets in the other player's way resulting in not returning the ball effectively or at all. It is a simple redo. A screen happens when the server blocks the receiver's view by serving from the middle of the court, toward the middle of the front wall, resulting in passing very close to the server and blocking the receiver's view of the ball till after is passes the server. Also a redo.

[edit] Picture?

What is with the tiny tiny picture? 87.192.130.223 22:08, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Minor Edit

In the world championships section, I changed the United States' description from "best" historically to "winning and hosting the most tournaments" historically. No offense, I love my country, but "best" seemed a little patriarchal. 74.134.100.173 (talk) 03:12, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Deleted text

Someone added "a game only gurls play". I removed it. --Sparkticus (talk) 20:06, 23 January 2008 (UTC)