Dodgeball

Many other schools, however, have taken a more moderate approach, allowing dodgeball by using soft foam balls instead of harder rubber balls. According to Ryan Gee's message board, he is currently engaged to Missy Rothstein. New York followed suit shortly after. The video clip was immediately (and continues to be) widely circulated on the Internet. On November 18, 2002, the state of New Jersey banned the game from public schools. The first 5,000 DVD copies of CKY4 contained a hidden Easter Egg - a two-minute video clip of Bam and his then-girlfriend, Jenn Rivell, having sex. After a series of publicized dodgeball injuries in the late 1990s and early 2000s, many schools have removed the game from their physical-education requirements, and some have even banned the game entirely. Since the end of filming on Viva La Bam, Bam has replaced the red H2 with a blue H2.

In some cases, the rule may be used that a player hit above the shoulders is not out; this discourages the dangerous practice of aiming for the face. Bam bragged that his was the only vehicle of its kind with a sunroof. The aim of the variant King sting or Brandings is to throw the ball at others as hard as possible. The Lamborghini has been modified with help from friend Billy Idol to include a sunroof (a rough rectangle crudely cut with a jigsaw). Opponents of dodgeball have argued that the game provides, for bullies, the excuse to abuse unathletic and unpopular students, by throwing the ball hard enough to cause injury. A recent episode however showed the destruction of the H2 by Don Vito as revenge for constant torment. However, dodgeball has come under attack for failing to meet the needs of precisely those students. Current episodes of Margera's show have shown him to own both a red 2003 Hummer H2 as well as a purple Lamborghini Gallardo and a Mercedes-Benz S55 AMG with a heartagram on the front instead of the mercedes-benz logo.

As well, the game was seen as having a light-hearted and self-deprecatory nature and, therefore, more amenable to non-athletic students. The Dream Seller is a nickname for long-time friend and fellow skater Brandon Novak. Since players normally were not part of a team, no player had to endure the teasing that would fall upon a player accused of "causing the team to lose". He announced another film he is working on called The Dream Seller. Dodgeball, when it emerged, was touted as the "nerd's sport". Margera is currently writing, producing, and directing his new feature film, a sequel to Haggard, titled Kiss a Good Man's Ass. The ball can be passed around amongst teammates in order to try and confuse the other team. Bam has even had himself tattooed with the heartagram.

The bodyguards, because they have three lives, may, as a strategy, form a protective wall around the president and lure the assassins into throwing the ball at them. A fan of, friend of, and occasional video director for HIM's frontman, Ville Valo, Margera has licensed the band's logo, the heartagram (a pentagram with two points curved to incorporate a heart symbol), for personal use. The Presidential Entourage wins when all the assassins have been eliminated. A 2006 sequel entitled Return to Sleepaway Camp will feature the CKY band members in cameo roles as camp counselors. The assassins win when the President has been hit with the ball (though bodyguards may still be alive). "CKY" stands for "Camp Kill Yourself", a reference to the movie Sleepaway Camp (1983), a favourite of CKY band frontman Deron Miller. Once a player's life/lives have been extinguished, he/she must leave the field of play and watch the game. When he was younger he would run into walls and be crazy, and his grandfather would say "Bam, bam, bam, chill out! Bam!" The name stuck, and soon everyone was calling him Bam, even his teachers.

If he/she catches the ball, it must be handed off to a bodyguard, unless all the bodyguards are killed. Bam got his name from his grandfather. Note, however, that the President can catch the ball, but not throw it. In fact, he is featured as a main character in Tony Hawk's Underground (1 and 2). Normal dodgeball rules apply -- lives are lost when one gets hit by a ball or when one throws a ball that has been caught by the opposition. He has also been animated as a character into a number of pro-skateboarder Tony Hawk's video games. The assassins have one life. In the DVD comentary for the seasons 4&5 of Viva La Bam, Margera has said that Element Skateboards pays him two million dollars a year, just for wearing their clothing.

The President only has one life, and the bodyguards all have three lives. (The real LAPD SWAT team helped with this prank). One man in the Presidential Bodyguard side is deemed President, and all other players must refer to him/her as President (insert last name). Ashton Kutcher trapped Margera and his friend inside of a convenience store while staging a terrorist attack. It is preferable that the Assassins have more people, to make the game more balanced. Margera also appeared on Punk'd, in 2005. Two teams are set, Assassins and Presidential Bodyguards. Margera also has a small speaking part in the skateboarding movie "Grind".

PresidentBall is played in a large enclosed room. Margera directed and co-wrote (with Brandon DiCamillo and Chris Aspite) a low-budget independent film called Haggard, starring himself and his friends, released in 2003. The game is won when one team sinks all of the opponent's ships, or if there is a time limit, and at the end of the limit, the team with the most pins up, not ships, wins. He became the 13th known skater to land it, and was the first street skater to successfully land it. All other crew members must stay on the ship at all times, and throw balls at the other team's ships. As a professional skater in the summer of 2005, Margera successfully landed The Loop in Phoenix, Arizona. However, only one person on each ship "crew" may step off the ship, and when he does, he may not throw any balls, and may only collect balls for his ship to use. Before becoming a professional skateboarder, he could be found frequenting the local skate spots, performing at area fairgrounds, and loitering at Fairman's skate shop.

To sink a ship, the opposing team must throw balls and knock over all four of the pins on one of the other team's ships. Margera was born and raised in West Chester, Pennsylvania, a western suburb of Philadelphia. The ships consist of a mat, which is large enough to fit about 5 people, with 4 pins placed at each corner of the mat. Margera's television antics push the generally accepted boundaries of good taste by seeking to shock and offend, thereby creating a large contingent of detractors who charge that he profits from the humiliation and misfortune of others. It is played in teams so that all of one team's ships are on one side and the others` on the opposite. His videos and television shows often include his long-suffering parents, Phil and April, his uncle Vincent Margera ("Don Vito"), and ex-fiancée Jenn Rivell (Margera broke off his engagement to Rivell in early 2005). Battleship Dodgeball is unique in that you aren't actually trying to sink the other team's ships. Margera's crew includes Ryan Dunn, Brandon DiCamillo, Rake Yohn, Raab Himself, and Brandon Novak.

The game ends when one teams` players have all been sent to prison. Brandon Cole "Bam" Margera made his own skate videos known as the CKY quadrilogy, which is also the name of his brother Jess's heavy metal band (see CKY band). When a person is hit, like Prison Dodgeball, they are sent to the back of the opposing team's side, and can escape if they catch a ball out of the air, and hit the other team from behind. His weekly Sirius Radio show is called Radio Bam. In this version to start the game balls are evenly distributed to both teams, then a referee signals the start. He cites Raab Himself as his only reason for attending high school, and dropped out after Raab got expelled. Often the partition is broken apart or pulled out partially for a twist. He grew up in West Chester, Pennsylvania and went to East High School.

In Barrier Dodgeball, multiple barriers are set up on each side of the area you are playing in, preferably a large gym that is capable of being divided in half with a partition. He is also the star of Viva La Bam, and member of the Jackass crew, two shows broadcast by MTV. Barrier Dodgeball is similar to Prison. Brandon Cole "Bam" Margera (born September 28, 1979) is a professional skateboarder, creator of the "CKY" skate / prank / stunt videos, and radio personality. The game can be played with a large group of people playing for themselves, in teams, or one on one. CKY Landspeed - 1999. The winner is the last player left in the playing area. CKY2K - 2000.

A player being hit at or below his or her knees is not grounds for a stoppage of play. CKY3 2001. Stoppages of play result from the ball being hit out of bounds or the ball being caught. CKY4 - Latest and Greatest 2002. This is also the procedure for resuming the game after a stoppage of play. Jackass 2 2006. Any player touching the ball or leaving the wall before the third bounce is considered out. Grind 2003.

After three bounces the ball is in play and the players may leave the wall. Haggard: The Movie 2003. The game is started either by placing the ball in the center of the octagon with each of the players touching the wall, or by bouning the ball and repeating the word "ga" each time the ball touches the floor. Jackass: The Movie 2003. There is only one ball in play at a time in ga-ga. This and other matters of dispute are settled by the game's judges.

Pushing a player into the ball and any other physical contact is also a violation. Hitting the ball out of bounds is grounds for elimination unless it is as the result of a defensive deflection. Carrying, throwing, or catching the ball after a bounce also results in elimination. Touching the ball twice consecutively without the ball touching another player or the wall is grounds for elimination unless that player is attempting to catch the ball.

A player can also be eliminated by having his or her ball caught in the air. That player is then out and must leave the playing area. The objective of the game is to eliminate one's opponents by hitting the ball with either an open hand or closed fist into the region at or below his or her knees. Ga-ga or GaGa is a form of dodgeball which is played within an octagonal enclosure when available, or in any other space that is completely enclosed by walls.

Pin Guard is sometimes also reffered to as Bombardment or Battle Ball. The game is also sometimes played with two pins per team. Players can get out by getting hit in the head and the player who hit the person is out or also if a ball is thrown and a player catches it, the player who threw it is out.There are several variations such as if the game is played in a gym, then if a player hits the basketball hoop's backboard then that team frees all eliminated players, (this only applies if there is one player left on team). The objective is to knock over the opposing team's pin or eleiminate all players on the other team.

Pin Guard is played with two teams each with a pin and balls. In some versions of capture the flag, balls are not used, so it cannot be considered dodgeball. A team wins by either eliminating the other team or capturing all of the flags. No more than one flag can be picked up by a single person in one run.

If a player is tagged or eliminated on his side by a ball, he must immediately drop the flag, which can either be picked up by another teammate or returned to its starting position by a member of the enemy team. While on the enemy side, a player can be eliminated only by being tagged. A player can attempt to steal an opposing team's flag by running across the center line, retrieving it, and returning it back to a bucket in the back of their court. A variation of Trench is Capture the Flag, which is played the same way as Trench except that each team has 8-10 flags in the back of their court (usually on the dividing line between the trench and the team's field of play).

Play continues until one team has wiped out the other team. If a player in the trench catches a ball from one of his teammates, he can re-enter the game and is not a valid target until he is back on his side (but he can be eliminated as soon as he steps over that center line again). Any time a player is hit, he must go stand behind the opposing team in the trench, a designated area, usually the out of bounds portion of that side of the basketball court. When the whistle is blown, players run to grab those balls and a game of standard dodgeball begins, with one exception.

Both teams start on a line roughly 8-10 feet away from the center, where several balls are placed. The dividing line is the center line of one of the basketball courts (imaginarily spread across the gym). Trench is a variation typically played inside of a large gym (spanning two basketball courts). In the non-team version of the game, throwers caught or players struck join the other team; the 1st player struck during the dodgeball phase becomes the sole initial catcher on return to the 1st phase.

When all throwers have been struck or the sticks are reassembled, the teams swap roles and the game returns to the 1st phase. If the ball is not caught after hitting the sticks, the game proceeds to the dodgeball phase, the catchers attempting to strike the throwers while the throwers attempt to reassemble the sticks. If the ball is caught after hitting the sticks, the entire throwing team is out, and the teams swap roles. The 1st phase ends when a thrower strikes the sticks.

If not caught, the thrower goes to the back of the not-out throwers' queue awaiting another turn. If the ball is caught, the thrower is out. One team (the throwers) take turns attempting to strike the sticks with a ball from a fixed distance, while the other team (the catchers) try to catch the ball on the rebound off the wall before it hits the ground. In the 1st phase, two popsicle sticks are adjacently placed parallel on the ground leaning against a wall, supporting a horizontal half-length crosspiece.

Sticks has two phases to the game. It requires very strong anaerobic and aerobic stamina. It is practically the same as the standard version but there are strict time limits on throwing the ball and defending. In the county of Cornwall in England, there remains a regional version of the game called Cornish Dodgeball.

Last one standing wins. If they catch a ball thrown by another player he is not out but they regain one of their "missing" limbs. If they are hit in the head or torso they are out. Players who are hit in the legs or arms lose the use of that limb.

"Army Dodge Ball" Involves no true teams but is more of a free for all. Besides that, the rules are the same as regular dodgeball. You can be attacked from any direction. It is played with both teams on one half of a Basketball Court.

Space Dodgeball is set up like so:(X=Team 1|A=Team 2|O=Balls). When one person is hit they are then out and must join the others around the circle throwing the ball(s) at the other players. Court Dodgeball is played with two people on either end of a circle with one or two balls while everyone else is in the middle. Once out, players stayed out, but continued the game from the rear court until a winner was declared.

Depending on the size of the teams, up to five balls would be in play at one time. Only players in the middle sections could be targeted. They could then throw the ball at the opposing team from behind. Players who have moved to the rear sections of the court could retrieve loose balls, but would have to return to the rear court before continuing play.

Players who stepped out of bounds were also declared out. Players in this area who are hit by the rubber ball (about the size of a basketball) or whose toss is caught are declared "out" and must cross to the opposite end of the court, behind their opponents. Teams begin with all players in the two, larger partitions in the middle. Munkenai is a variation of Prisonball in which teams face off on a rectangular playing court somewhat smaller than a full basketball court and composed of four areas.

Furthermore, in "prisonball," a ball thrown to a "prison," when caught, releases all the "prisoners" to return to their original side. In all except Prisonball though, "prisoners" remain behind the opposing team until the game is over. This puts a lot more pressure on the teams as they can be sandwiched between enemies. To get out of prison, he must hit the opposing team from behind.

Prisonball (also known as Nationball, Battleball, Teamball, Crossfire; King's Court in Canada and Queimada or Queimado in Brazil) is played much like dodgeball, but when a player is hit, he gets put in "prison" behind the opposing team. The winner is the last man standing. If one is struck before getting to the wall then they are out. More often than not the ball is thrown as hard as possible for incentive.

A variation on this is a game termed "Wall Ball"; if someone fails to catch the ball (after an attempt to catch it and touches it without the result of a catch) then they must endeavour to get to the wall before another player strikes them with the ball. When a player is hit, he or she leaves the court and his or her victims return to the game. The ball cannot be carried, but must be bounced off a wall and caught. "German Dodgeball" is a free-for-all game with no boundaries.

If the leader is hit, the game is over. King's Court also involves a leader. Some teams employ a "fake doctor" strategy to throw the opposing team off-guard as to who the doctor actually is. Therefore, it is key for a team to pay attention in order to figure out who the enemy doctor is.

The game ends when one team is entirely eliminated, which would happen a lot quicker if a team loses their "doctor", and another variation of the game ends as soon as the doctor is hit. Dodgeball saves the fallen players, they can get up and play again. When Dr. Dodgeball" to come and save them.

When players are hit, they fall on the ground and waits for "Dr. Dodge) involves a leader in each team who tries to avoid getting hit. Dodgeball (also known as Medic or Dr. Dr.