All you ever wanted to know about RINGTENNIS ...
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History of Ringtennis

Organisation and competition

Technical overview

Here we are (something about us)

Guestbook

Please note that this is the only English page on the site! Of course you will find some scattered links here taking you to German pages!
 

History of Ringtennis

The German history of Ringtennis began early in the 20-th century while the "Bürgermeister" (Lord Mayor) of Karlsruhe was on his trip crossing the Atlantic. There was not enough space on the ocean liner to play the "conventional" Tennis, so they exchanged the ball with a ring, changed some rules, the net, the court and ... there you have it: Ringtennis

Other international names for this kind of sport are decktennis, tenikoits or tenniquoits.

The Bavarian history of Ringtennis began at the end of the 20-th century, when Klaus Riehm, originating from Karlsruhe, and Reiner Mauthe founded our Ringtennis-club in 1993 ...

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Organisation and competition

After WW II the German Ringtennis Board (founded in 1931) assigned the responsability for this kind of sport to the German Gymnastic Association, which also includes other Gymnastic Games, like Indiaca, Wheel Gymnastics (Rhoenrad), Trampoline, Rhythmic Gymnastics or other alike.

We from the TSV Neubiberg-Ottobrunn play Ringtennis in the Southern German Regional League along with other teams coming from Karlsruhe, Konstanz, Pforzheim, Mannheim, Mimmenhausen and Eltingen. Every season teams play each other as follows:

	single 1	single 2	double
Men	X	X	X
Women	X	X	X
Mixed 1			X
Mixed 2			X

Always in the beginning of December, we host a regular event of this League in Neubiberg (near Munich). In the summer season there are no league games, just individual matches organized in tournaments, that are rated over different classes for the national Computer Ranking List.

In 2000 we hosted also the South African national team in a tournament in Munich, where all players here could play against a South African national player.

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Technical overview

To learn Ringtennis, you don't have to begin in your childhood, or spend a lot of money for your equipment. It's more a sport for the whole family: old and young, thick and thin, large and small - everyone will enjoy Ringtennis!

To find out more about this unusual sport, please see the playing rules (en) used in German competitions. Or, for a closer look, go through the Ringtennis Training Series Klaus Riehm is offering you. To make this approach more interesting, you can accomplish the course by solving a quiz (however, you need some knowledge of German :-).

As Ringtennis isn't an olympic discipline (not yet, anyway - what a pity!) there are no standards to play this sport accross countries. The Brasilian teams play different by the New Zealand ones and that also differs to the South African style - hence, some rules for international matches had to be agreed upon. To know how to play Ringtennis in those international competitions, please read the international rules (en).

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Here we are

Our team plays Ringtennis within the Gymnastical Sport Association (TSV) Neubiberg-Ottobrunn. These villages are in the outskirts of Munich, as you can see from the region map. To find out how to get there, have a look at the detailed map, where our training places for summer and winter are marked (see how close we play to Munich's border :-).

Now, maybe you want to see what we look or play like, or our actual ranking in the League, but the most importantly, please don't forget to write your opinion in our guestbook and ...
 

enjoy Ringtennis !

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