![]() ![]() ![]() Clubs have cropped up at Ohio State University, Harvard University, and the University of Alabama. classes, youth ministries, ultimate Frisbee groups, and even non-lame places like college campuses. sold its first set in 2008-no Toys R Us involved-and by October 2013, the company had grown large enough to allow Ruder to quit his day job selling online advertising. "So we acquired the rights – my brother, my cousin and some childhood friends all chipped in – and we launched it, fully intending to lose our ass because none of us had ever done anything like this," he remembered, laughing. He envisioned a sturdier, more portable set-up, a reincarnation of the Spikeball he'd grown up playing. While playing with his wife and friends at a couple's retreat in Hawaii, Ruder realized the game might have a more universal appeal than his circle of friends. Twenty years went by, his set's duct tape fraying in its old age. ![]() The first two questions were easy to answer, but the third was impossible-Toys R Us only sold it for a short period of time. What's that game? How do you play it? Where can I get one? Back then, the set they played with was from Toys R Us, and Ruder said people would always ask the same three questions. , the curiosity we experienced at the beach has followed him and his friends ever since they first discovered the sport in the late 1980s. First team to 21 points, wins.Īccording to Chris Ruder, the founder and CEO of Spikeball Inc. The object of the game is to hit the ball into the net so that the opposing team cannot return it. Players stand around the net, and each two-man team has up to three hits between the two of them to send the ball into the net, transferring possession to the opponents. Usually played on a beach or lawn, the game consists of a palm-sized rubber ball and a hula-hoop sized, trampoline-like net placed a few inches off the ground. Imagine if volleyball and foursquare (the kid's game not the app, you dweeb) had a love-child, and you've got the concept. Here's the setup: Four people, three hits, two teams, one net. ![]()
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