Obscure Sports: How to Play Bossaball?

To find out how to play bossaball, first we must answer to the question “What is bossaball?” Let’s see!

Bossaball is an incredibly spectacular game that was invented in Spain. It consists of many typical moves from various sports, such as capoeira, football (soccer), volleyball and gymnastics. It looks really cool when you see people returning balls with spectacular capoeira moves and bicycle kicks. Unfortunately, online sportsbooks in Spain have not yet noticed the opportunity they could seize by making bossaball betting possible for online bettors, but maybe someday in the near future…

How to play bossaball?

To be able to play bossaball in Spain, or anywhere else in the world, you will have kind of a difficult task buying the necessary equipment. You will need a trampoline of 2 sides, which is split in half with a net. The net’s height shall be adjusted to the players’ heights, whether they are men, women or children.

If you need more information about what ball is used in bossaball, we are happy to help you out with this piece of information: a simple volleyball will be perfectly fine as the bossaball itself is really similar to a volleyball. You will obviously need this to be able to play the spectacular game of bossaball.

Upon having the basic bossaball equipment, you will need to form teams. Each team consists of 4 or 5 players, depending on the tournament. These players will take up a formation and rotate clockwise at every points, so that everyone plays in all positions.

What are the basic rules of bossaball?

Bossaball rules are relatively easy: like in all other sports, here too whichever team scores the more points, wins. Depending on the game, the teams can play up to best of 3 or best of 5 games. One game goes until 25 points except if it is at 24-24. Then one of the teams has to win by at least 2 points.

Teams can collect 1, 3 or 5 points in one hit. It can be because of their incredible skills or because of a mistake by the opponent. The team gets 5 points when the ball is played directly in the opponent’s trampoline area with a soccer touch, meaning without using hands. 3 points are given when the ball hits the opponent’s playing area with a soccer touch.

Similar rules apply to volley touches, but fewer points are given for those: when the ball hits the opponent’s playing area after a volley touch, the team gets 1 point, and if it is played directly to their trampoline area, it means 3 points for the attacking team. Before attacking, each team has a chance to touch the ball 5 times, but the last one must be a touch towards scoring.

Bossaball is not only famous in Spain

Despite the fact that most online betting news in connection with bossaball arise in Spain, the game is not only popular in the Mediterranean country, but in many other places as well. For example, bossaball is pretty popular in Brazil, Belgium, the Netherlands and the United States as well, but there have been several initiatives to introduce the game in smaller countries in Europe, as well as Asia, Africa and South America.

If you want to know where is bossaball played and who can play bossaball, I’ll tell you: anybody can play it, anywhere! All you need is an inflatable trampoline, a bossaball and a few cool people around you who would enjoy playing this amazing game. That’s it. If you have these, you have the necessary equipment for your bossaball team. Start playing and have a lot of fun!