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The Bankshot Basketball System
Bankshot basketball is a new game of skill and challenge that is often
described as a "mini golf, but with a basketball." Players of
all ages and abilities, even disabled participants, proceed through a
course of angled, curved and non-conventionally configured brightly
colored backboards, banking shots off the BankboardsTM and
through the rims. Bankshot is non-aggressive and entirely
inclusionary.
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A portable Bankshot
Basketball court
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A Bankshot course consists of a varying number of stations-depending
upon the size of the court-each with a uniquely shaped Bankboard. Each
Bankshot requires a different banked shot to score. Some shots demand caroms
off two backboards, some are ricochets and one diabolically maddening
shot has three backboards and two rims. Players use a scorecard to
track their score as they shoot increasingly difficult shots at each of
the stations.
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| A Dunkshot station |
The game was invented by Rabbi Reeve Brenner of Rockville, Maryland in
1981 as the first total-mix, non-exclusionary game that wheelchair
athletes and the able-bodied can play together with neither at a
disadvantage. The inspiration for the game came from a cousin who, as a
wheelchair athlete, is now able to participate with the rest of the
community. The product is owned and marketed by Bankshot Sports of
Rockville, MD. Triad is the manufacturer of the fiberglass
backboards.
"If someone confined to a wheelchair wants to play traditional
basketball or any other running sport against a person without
disabilities, the able-bodied person must get in a wheelchair to
equalize the advantages," says Rabbi Brenner. "Bankshot
eliminates this dilemma. Instead of size, quickness and strength-skill,
intelligence and shooting touch are what counts.
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