NYC Handball is Bigger Than You Think: Urban Recreation | Part 3
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Staying active in NYC isn’t always the easiest but a majority of New Yorkers turn to the recreational sport of handball. Episode 3 of URBAN RECREATION tells the story of New York’s most popular sport - yes, even more than basketball. With more than 2,000 handball courts across the five boroughs and a rubber ball available at any corner bodega, New York is the Mecca of handball. This episode follows three-time U.S. Handball Champion and current number one player in the world, Timbo Gonzalez, as he travels through his old New York neighborhoods to share his view of handball and what it means to New York.
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we play a completely different version of handball in Australia. I was pretty suprised when i watched this.
Hassan Khan YES!! gotta love then slogs, twisting!
havent played handball since high school 5 years ago haha
i was like shit thats not handball/downball/ 2 -square wtf is this??
I'm pretty sure australia's handball is the only real handball
That's just hood squash
X Decadent how do you guys play handball in Australia exactly? I want to know how different it is when I play here in California
@@LifesGoodG well you have 2/4/6.... squares. And you stand in a square and have to bounce the ball once in your square and have it lend in another square. If you don't bounce it in your square, its a fool, if it bounces more than once in your square its doubles, if the handball touches the line then its lines and therefore play on.
This is the original handball I grew up with not that other sport.
omg hey!
Like your vids
Yeah watching the Olympics right now and thinking wtf is this?
@@mattpalmer3258 no bruh wth
@@mattpalmer3258 that “ other sport” is the correct way
I have played racquetball for years and have tried handball a few times but the hand-eye coordination is harder than it looks. Much respect to you guys!
I grew up in NYC, handball courts always packed from sun up to sun down in the city. The ball use to cost 25 cents, they lasted a day or two before they split open. You could wait for hours to challenge someone for a game if you didn't get to the park early. Great game, the best players are lighting fast and often scrap knuckles or palms on the concrete trying to make a shot. Best cardio workout you can get. Try playing this game for 2 or 3 hours on a sweltering 90 degree day in July! You will stay trim!
Yup das facts
My dad would tell me stories how he would come home every night with a bruised hand from playing so much
NYC HANDBALL IS A WHOLE DIFFERENT VIBE 🔥
Absolutely
The best players be like 50 & over & they the Abuelo’s wit a white tank top on & a glove😭😭 I love my city I stg🗽
This shit intense af lmao I remember playing this in high school
Aye red bull I play this shit in my kitchen sponsor me
That's actually Gaelic Handball which has been played in Ireland for decades. The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) is an official league that promotes such games, it's a pretty big league and community.
Isnt there already a game called handball? I play it in gym all the time.
Benjamin DuMez You're talking about handball like where you hit the ball on like squares right?
over in Australia we do that aswell
Naw duhde thats 4 square
Im talking about like in Europe how they have handball like soccer but with your hands
Benjamin DuMez i agree
it's even olympic. why not call this sport hand squash.
This sport is already practiced in Spain for many years.
+Juan Mena “JuanMena17” Pues yo no lo conocía, lo veo un deporte bastante absurdo.
+Ivan Rubi Pues en el Pais vasco es típico y lleva prácticandose desde hace décadas, y respecto a lo absurdo pues nose.....es un frontón pero sin raqueta solo con la mano y una pelota de cuero lo cual le da el doble de complejidad
Este deporte se juega en el pais vasco es llama esku pelota y es un deporte tradicional
+asier perea siento decirte que te equivocas, este deporte se llama One Wall i es un deporte internacional se juega en Italia España Belgica Irlanda EE.UU (que son muuy buenos por cierto)... yo soy campeon juvenil de One Wall por parejas de la Comunidad Valenciana y mi compañero juega en la seleccion y ha viajado al mundial que este año se celebro en Italia. Este deporte aparecio hara unos 3 o 4 años como deporte internacional.
And England it is Hand Pelota in the Basque and Rugby Fives in England
“Wallball/Handball is the greatest sport on Earth,very intense,very physical and it keeps you in superb shape,definitely the sport everyone should be playing.”
Bro you're not lying I played handball in 3 parks for a whole summer or ly bringing water with me I was 300 pounds when I started and I ended up at 185 pounds when it was time to go back yo school the cardio alone is super intense
ikr I really wish it was an olympic sport
1:40 - Milly Rockin’ on the handball court.
I grew up in Queens and, 40 now, and I recall playing "American" handball and "Chinese" handball. In American handball you had to hit the ball directly on the wall; in Chinese style, we had to bounce it first. Any other New Yorkers remember this?
I still play Chinese till this day
Chinese was for rainy days 😂
still play chinese handball every week w a friend, im 20. we played throughout school years on east 96th
imagine him slap boxing 💀
Kiritogaming2 Damn😂
janky o1 aww thanks
Sio lmao
The other guy is fucked
Do what you do , because you love doing it. If you do something because you think it's better than what someone else does, or you think that someone else's passions aren't as good at yours, then you are already behind and losing in life.
i grew up in the bronx watching my parents play this for years , they played every weekend with friends in games of 2 , it was intense and pretty cool to see. Now I'm 19 and live in orlando and no one here knows anything.
I love this I grew up in that side of Brooklyn and played this great game of handball
Thats no handball?! Thats sqash without rackets!
***** lol you are just ignorant^^
+der dendunichtkennst your clearly wrong and haven't got an argument thats why you're resorting to insults.
+Spudly1234567 I was backing you up
+der dendunichtkennst calling someone ignorant is insulting
+Spudly1234567 that made my day
This is a variation of games played in latin america, ireland, england and the basque region in spain, and france. The game known as handball in the united states was brought to the u.s. by irish immigrants in the mid 1800s and was called gaelic handball. Americans have been playing handball ever since. Its a lot older than the team sport known as handball in europe, which has only been around since the early to mid 1900s. there are many variation of handball in the united states, specifically 4 wall, 3 wall and 1 wall. Handball or a similar game in Ireland has been around since the 1500s.
This is really similar to a traditional game played in Spain, “raspall”. It would be cool if the American scene and Spanish scene joined up one day
Handball shown in this video has been around for a long time. It is a very tough sport you have no racquet which extends your reach and the palm of your hand is much smaller than the sweet spot on a tennis or racquet ball racquet. I believe that the ball is similar to a racquet ball but slightly smaller and harder. It is also painful until you get used to it.
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Prince Tae i thought by FUBU
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Prince Tae named timbo
Deadass
Prince Tae I just saw this video & I was peeping the comments. Sponsored by Timbs lol
29:00 The surprise ending kept me waiting to the end and after getting to the end it filled the satisfactory hole in my heart. Thank you
u mean squash with no rackets?
afiq jaffarran u mean shut the fuck up
Alfredo Morales 😂
Shomz you serious?
hand ball is something different outside the US lol-not considered a sport tho
***** I had completely forgotten about that handball lol. I was thinking the handball that you usually play in schools small rubber high bounce balls in squares
respect man. not an easy game.
redbull camera team makes everything so cool...even taking a shit
Handball in Australia is really different. Like, nothing like this game.
Yeah the International version of handball is the only one I've heard of again, I've never seen this before in my life...
It's pretty much only in the US it's popular.
Ikr it's so different, hi from Australia
William Kennedy its like football in the US and the rest of the world
"handball" like in Australia is called "team hamdball" in the US
This kid took recess way too serious
Tell that to Kobe Bryant and LeBron James
Retrocade Podcast huh why would he do dat
Definitely
@@RetrocadePodcast idk how to tell it to kobe
@@lobo7090 Ouija board
Man, I miss handball. I played handball everyday at lunch in high school. Fun times.
id love to see an anime about this
OriginalLuigimon ikr so awesome
yeo imagine a handball anime!!
An Aussie handball anime would be way cooler.
Check out the tennis anime
That would be gay
in the basque country this game is called pelota and handball is another sport that I play.
Yea, right.
'American Handball'.
We don't even call this handball. At least on the west.
Its played in schools in Australia
@Jayden Anderson So... what do you call it?
RealChinese
Wall ball in Cali
@Moonshaake
Thanks !
I played in Bangladesh at St. Gregory's High School Dhaka since 1975 to till 1983 till complete my SCC year. We had total 3 courts that time & it was a great fun to play Handball, still i missed that game & i never found this any where at Bangladesh even i lived in Sydney Australia but did not see any handball court there i really missed this game very much. wish i could make my own in my home someday.....
wow man, this is slightly different from handball in queensland Australia - come down man and show us your stuff and we can show you ours - thousands of kids play Australian handballs every lunch and this will be an awesome learning experience.
This is the Version of Handball that should have been represented in the Olympics.✌🏾✌🏾
This is an Irish Sport! Traditionally played in a court surrounded by 4 walls, 40x20
No the traditionally it was 60x30 and competitions are still held in that format.They changed in the 70s to allow for international competition
stoney71 Lets just agree its Irish
Jarlath Leonard I did not mean to be rude just imparting what i know.Yes its irish.In fact .Not promoted right in this country.Its never on RTE ,sometimes on tg4,but it needs to be promoted better.For the world championships in ireland a few years ago they presented the game very well .City west was kind of transformed into the center court of handball.
hell yeah ! this sport comes from the basque country , we call it esku pilota ,we play it with a ball made out of leather and a stone inside of it ! i never played it with a rubber one, in here we have a line in the wall and if the ball goes lower than that is a point for the other player. i didn't know this sport was played in america, quite interesting.
When I was in elementary school, we'd play a game similar to this. Except we called it "Wall Ball." We used the same ball as these guys but we'd THROW it against a wall. If somebody caught the ball, then the thrower was out. But if the person catching dropped the ball, the thrower had to run and touch the wall. The catcher (if ball was dropped) had to peg the runner(original thrower) before they touched the wall. It was lit.
The Wandering Internet Wizard We called that "sting " in Boston. It has other names though
Ronold Cledor Thats interesting. What's also interesting is how children from around the world who have no connection to each other come up with the same behaviors, slang, and games.
We did that too lol but our main game was aussie handball
I first started playing this game as a teenager in CYA (juvenile prison). Once you play your first game, you're hooked. Alot of fun!!.
This is awesome at a professional level
When I was at high school here in England in the 80s we played this and yes we called it handball. Great game. all you need is two people, a cheap ball and the side of a building. The only difference is we would have a limit to how high up the wall you could go.
Idk what kind of handball that is, but the handball we play in AUS is a bit different. We have squares and in a 1v1 match up, the two competitors get in a square and bounce the ball to each other, using powershots and stuff to get them out, you lose if the ball bounces twice in your square, if the ball goes out of the square or if you simply miss it.
LA2 at for me we call that 4 square
Same as me just in court with 4 squares and 4 players
I’d love to introduce my version of this game to the world. We played it when were kids in school in California. It’s major difference with the “normal” version is it’s full contact and the ball is larger and softer, allowing for harder strikes and more chances for players to utilize erratic deliveries and make the ball do some funky things. Also it has to bounce at least once before you hit it, and bounce at least once on its way back to the wall. If anyone’s interested in learning more let me know!
lmfao @ all these haters outside the U.S.
Yes, it has the same name as other sports and may have been inspired by another sport, doesn't mean it's not it's own sport.
I agree with you but at least they could have called it with another name
Thank You!
Handball’s my favorite pickup, thank god I live in NY and there’s a court down the street from my house
Handball came before all those other sports
@@SoultySnake You hit the ball with your hand hense handball... lol there is no international copyright on the name of the game
Back in 1960's Brooklyn - when I was 13 yrs old - I was unbeatable at handball. I played about 15 games per day and was on the school team. We played with spalding balls. I would be at the school handball court an hour before class and play several games; then at lunch time it was back on the handball court for another hour. After school, more handball. Everyday.
"is bigger than you think" Seeing this video pop up in my reccomended and reading the title, this is the first time i've heard of Handball outside of Elementary school gym class.
BlakejGG lol in elementary i played it at lunch for fun
This is played in every prison and jail in America so it is bigger then you think
My favorite sport i played single or double back in the days late 80s thru early 90s in the BRONX. Those were my good old days. R.I.P. David Santiago (brother in law) taught me well and played a heck of a game.
Love videos like this, good game great idea, love things that bring people together from all walks of life 👌
I just picked up a handball, and use it to work on my baseball pitching. Now, I’m interested in the sport itself.
This is fronton a Spanish sport.
its basque but yeah.
The actual name is "pelota mano" (translated to handball) and it is played all over the north of Spain but mostly the basque country
yea man thats what i said. but yeah i go there alot to visit family and thats like their sport
they dont even play it right in NY haha
The thing is that it is not as big of a deal as this seems to be, and i dont like the fact that the nyc version could be an "olympic sport" before the other is even consider
The modern game of handball originated in Ireland and Scotland. The earliest written record of a handball game is in the town statutes of Galway, which in 1527 forbade the playing of ball games against the walls of the town. On the west coast of Ireland, Galway had many trading links with Spain, especially the Basque regions, where the similar game of Pelota is played. It is highly likely that one game is derived from or influenced by the other. Irish immigrants brought the game to many countries in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. It is still played in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Wales and England.
Never would I imagine a handball video reaching 1M views. Amazing.
i played this all day everyday in prison hahah
I played all day n juvenile hall lmao 😂
Me too buddy
😳
Who always play handball in school with his friend?
I'm from queens. I used to stay in Bushwick growing up so there was handball games on every other court. This was the handball I grew up on so learning that there was another game called handball was mind boggling.
actually it's a traditional irish sport from the past.
still alive and well inireland
Sean Mcilvenna in the past handball is still played nation wide also there is a world championship every 4 years played all over the world
Was it played with potatoes?
Exactly, this game derives from Gaelic handball, which was similar to a sport played in ancient Egypt. This really is the oldest sport, and the first true Handball game.
this game is legit! me and my friend thought wemade up this 10 years ago! this is cool!
this is wallball lol. handball is already a legit sport, and its way cooler than this
I guess its called wall ball or "American" handball. I vaguely remember my dad playing it when I was a little kid.
IMightyL Handball? You mean that sport that you're forced to play in P.E in the 7th grade? If it was so cool, everyone would remember playing this.
Gaelic handball it originated in ireland
Brandon Cosme maybe in the US in Europe it is pretty Big. Biggest Sport after Football. you should watch some videos, it is pretty intense. interesting to watch aswell since there are no long breaks
its not american tho..
Loved this game growing up in Long Island. Can’t tell you how many times we would look for change to go buy a ball and play. Wish it was in more of the us. Moved to NC and we don’t have any courts.
"more intense than any sport out here I believe"
lol wut? It's just Squash for poor people.
100eyes hell nah that shits hard ur the one playing fucking golf
it is an Irish sport
you aint ever play golf stfu shits hard af
Swag Yolo Money Hunna damn you flex hard with your name white boy
lmao u lame af for sayin that made this shit 4 years ago stay in ur lane
it's a very old game played in spain and france... named pelote basque
That's not Handball!! That's slapball
Have you guys ever seen ACTUAL Handball?
Goriaas that is part of handball which comes from ireland and there is several types of Irish handball and this type is the most common in America
I remember playing this when I used to live in the Bronx, it's pretty fun tbh
They're not going to the olympics because this is not handball
Its going to be called wallball
***** Yes ,but i am not sure there is any danger of that game making it to the olympics and being confused with handball.I know of a woman involved in handball in ireland who is trying to get it into the olympics.They are number of associations that govern handball and there are coming together to try and get into the olympics and wallball is the name they are going to use.Outside the olympics they call the sport handball again.
+Ihavejust Roastedu and then theres redbutt where you have to hit the player to get him out, and thats why handball got banned in my school in any form :p
stoney71 i play handball but in a court with four walls not one
potato Its the one wall version they are trying to get into the olympics.The irish are much better at 4 wall than one wall.
PS161 and George Westinghouse HS Brooklyn, NY baby cutting classes and playing hand ball was our thing Wilson Sagardia.
I used to play this in 4th and 5th grade then the teachers banned it because too many kids got hit in the fae
Now this is handball! The other video I saw was soccer with hands 🤦♂️
Aussie high school handball is the official one and only handball bruh, none of this squash/wallball/tennis bs
Agreed!!!!
Ressticle K this is a irish game there are several types of handball such a 1 wall which is shown here and this sport will soon be at the Olympics
oath is a cringe word.
Luca F Ok.
True dat brotha
HE REALLY BE MILLY ROCKIN IN NY
So it's squash without racquets. It's interesting to see all the different version of "hand ball"
It sure it
this is better than bumass squash
Greatest sport, closest thing to martial arts, hand to hand combat for sure, everyone should try
New York is an amazing place
Best handball training facilities are state prisons.
In cuba we play handball combined with baseball, we have the 3 bases plus home base we walk to 1 run to 2 walk to 3 and run for home,we use only 4 people 1 in each base plus the shortstop,amazing game 👌🏻
handball is a actual sport, and it looks nothing like this.
americans love to just name their sports after others with no little respect dont they?
Marco Couto lol this is just ghetto. I play handball with a playground ball and you hit it on the ground and it bounces off the wall. I have nevver seen this handball before it is very wierd
Marco Couto shit never new it was "handball", growing up out here in the Southern California it was just something to pass up time. Kids new it more as a prison sport... we just didn't have money when we were kids to buy recreational balls for actual sports
Marco Couto
Marco Couto we don't go around checking other countries to see if names are the same. It's not a huge deal bro relax. Different cultures have different names.
Marco Couto We get it Brazil is bad and they would love to be As Badass as America
The version I played had to bounce on the ground before hitting the wall. If the ball is hit straight to the wall without bouncing off the ground first, it's called direct and the next person re-serves
this sport is from basque country EUSKADI HAND BALL. AND THE BALL IS NOT PLASTIC
Unai Alberro horixe!!
Unai Alberro ahi ahi
Unai Alberro ahi, bien dicho
Been playing this since i was a kid. We called it Patball in England i guess around the world theres different names for it.
So NYC is taking credit for a game that has been in Los Angeles for many years already?!
word.
This sport started in Ireland I think! It's part of the GAA
It's an Irish sport you gobshite
Paddy Walsh
You think, or you know?
All i know is that the Hispanics in prison have been playing this for many decades.
president camacho where in LA dogg because that shits been here forever.
used to play in upstate NY and always dreamed of being good enough to get on those courts and play. someday maybe..awesome videos...NY rep
This is not handball!! The original game is called "Basque pelot" and it's play in The Basque Country (Spain). Come here to play basque pelot!! Handball is a copy of Basque Pelot!
+Dack PAC Ya te digo macho, con pelotas de goma de mierda encima jajajajaja que vengan aqui a que sufran coño!
+xXabiAlbiXx A estos los traes al Pais Vasco y no duran un asalto, con esa pelotita nose donde está la complejidad del juego....que yo hacía eso con 4 años jajajaja
Basque "Pelota" describes a number of court sports using a racket a bat or ones hand this sport is hand pelota or if your English it is called Fives a game developed by public school boys were you hit a ball against a wall using your bear hand there are two types Eaton Fives and Rugby Fives
No this is handball stupid. And i aint coming out to no other country. Usa is the best!
Anyone from NY can tell you what Handball is. Mad popular in the 80's and even more so today. There are courts everywhere from NYC to the end of Long Island.
I remember in middle school we played a similar game but with different rules, if you didn't hit the wall or the ball it's you and hits the ground then you have to run and touch the wall before someone picks it up and throws it all the wall before you get there. The person that got you out got one chance to then hit you with the ball. I ended up running into the wall and chipping my tooth which quickly ended the game at my school...
preeety sure thats not handball i remember a similar game but we also played handball theyre two different games
Ruben same but we called it wallball
Ruben yeah we called that Red Wall or Red Ass
In Los angels we played a game called suicide.
You throw the ball at the wall and someone has to catch it, if they drop it, run and touch the wall because everybody would start bombing on you...painful game.
We called this butts up in my hood
This is just hood racketball
Why do i feel these are the only guys in this city that like handball this much and redbull needed a cool story..
wallball...
this handball in this video is from ireland and part on the gaa for everyone wondering
But handball is something different....
No it isn't.. this is handball. You're thinking of European Handball
Andrew lol ur wrong this is not handball
in Australia its called downball and usually primary school students play it lol
this is the ghetto version of patball, which is the budget version of fives, which is squash without racquets
I've peen playing this game since I've discovered porn 😑😂
Handporn?
Seems Like A Stress Reliever Handball Game
LOL... "most intense sport ever"
Go to a tournament in NYC and you'll know.
You're thinking, "Oh a ball and a wall and you hit the ball at the wall, haha that's stupid". You honestly have no idea. This requires high fitness and skill. This is also one variation of the sport. Its derived from Handball in Ireland. Look up Paul Brady playing someone as an example in GAA Handball.
love handball. champion many consecutive years. great fitness sport.
Can I play with no hands?...
Yup. it's called football
Jorge Luis lol yea
I mean it was a pretty bad joke but fucking relax lol
Lol I can say that it was the worst joke ever that's why it's funny lol
Bro the only thing that gets me depressed about moving out of New York is not being able to play handball 🥲
Wait this isn't hanball ... oh yea there we see the american cultural imperialism (they did the same with football) : take an european sport : pelote basque à main nu/rugby then change it a bit, give it another european sport name and make it american : handball/football there you have it, it's now american. American culture is so great !!
Leorio it originated in Ireland so... FUCK OFF?
HA! Rugby, Soccer(football), and American Football all stemmed from the SAME sport, and separated at the same time.
-West
***** lol
It's called handball because it's played with your hands. No one over here even knows what your sissy euro version is.
Connor Appel so much ignorance...
People have being doing this in the Vasque country, North of Spain, for a looong time (even today is a big sport)
most definitely not more intense than any other sport out there
hans rockwell it's Ny. He's from ny. They all think and talk like that lol
Malaquias Popocateptl grandoise minds and highten exaggeration
Great video, Red Bull is helping the unknowns as usual.
Search for the original sport: pelota vasca. The ball is more like a small baseball instead of rubber.
Brutal I played with no gloves for about an hour and my hand was very swollen and red by the end. So much so I couldn't even make a fist.
cant really say that pelota vasca is the original sport when hand ball is a traditional Irish sport played since 1527 in Ireland
Well, making a quick research I have just read that this kind of handball was played in Egypt, so I guess the cultural dispute is pointless. But anyway and just for the record, basque culture is pretty old as well, it is one of the oldest ones in Europe, and here this sport goes back to the 1200s. And its variation with a basket (jaialai) became very popular in the states, specially in florida. Cheers to all gaelic fellows!
i remember going out to recess in my elementary school in NY, has a big brick wall and and a hill leadind to it... handball was what we played almost every day
that shit aint naw handball
this is gaelic handball(irish origin)
I actually played this in junior high. But we played it differently. So instead of hitting the ball, we would catch the ball and whip it back at the wall. If you got hit with the ball during or after, you were out so you had to look both ways
You can't just create a new sport and give it a name of an existing sport. Handball has existed for AGES.
Give it a different name.
splashparis the sport shown in the video, which is not new is originary from the basque country and it's called "esku-pilota", search for more info
splashparis football anybody?
splashparis do some research commenting that handball shown in this video is a irish game and has been played longer than the French net ball what ever u call it
ITWASAGOODDAY u have that wrong it originated from ireland Google "gaa handball"
Yeah, an Irish game, with an Irish name. I just find it weird to give sports the name of existing sports - whether they are naming it now or 50 year ago.
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