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From the Canary Islands

The history

Bola Canaria

     This game spread from the peninsula, but there is no certainty about the time of entry in the Canaries. Probably, this game has, like playing pelotamano as a French root and also virtually the Spanish pair. To reinforce the first hypothesis, we say that the Islands are conejeros or Lanzarote, the most famous players and traditionally considered of higher quality. 

     Regarding the second hypothesis, we say that the game ball was one of the most popular recreational demonstrations in mainland Spain in the fifteenth century.


Lucha Canaria

     In 1527, following the birth of Philip II, they were held in La Laguna few games, where the fight is included, which already an elementary aspect of the present structure of the Canarian wrestling is appreciated: take two falls or beat twice.

     Until the end of the first third of this century the organization of the fighting corresponded to a natural evolutionary model consisting of the competition of towns or sides (north-south) against each other, or some other islands off.

     Interestingly, the fight spawned its first regulation in Matanzas (Cuba) in 1872 and was most recently in 1960, with the General Regulation Organic, when a common regulation for all the islands was agreed.

Salto del Pastor

The special topography of the Canary Islands has meant that rural residents had to seek ways and techniques to navigate and overcome obstacles, sometimes large canyons, bluffs and cliffs. With this need arose the Salto del pastor, who by a long wooden stick, called astia, spear, cudgel, tin, horn, etc., which is placed a metal tip, the tip, exceeds ups and downs of slopes, slopes and crags. Attempts to discover the origins of this custom have not yielded clear results, even if they are documented in texts different historians. Indeed, there is abundant historical references to its use by the Guanches at the time of the Spanish conquest and subsequent.

Billarda

The background of this game date back to the Middle Ages, when Where a structured and very popular game , as we know from the Book of Apollonius (anonymous) and Las Cantigas the Virgin ( Alfonso X the Wise ) , two works of the thirteenth century . Moreover, in the version of game boys , today we find traditional game As in other Spanish regions like chirumba (Salamanca ) and La Tona ( Aragon).

Pelotamano

 This game have French root but there were similar games in Peninsula like the pelotari in País Vasco. The first fact of the game in the Canary Islands is found in Teguise (Lanzarote ) in a deed of 1616 , where is mentioned a sale of houses that are next to a support of a ball game.

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