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Croquet Books Give-Away!
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A wealthy croquet enthusiast has worked hard for several years to develop and test refinements for the relatively fast-moving games now increasingly favored by croquet club members, and has recruited some top-level help in refining, testing, perfecting, and distributing them. These are NEW BOOKS, newly developed and well tested by top-ranked players at the USCA's National Croquet Center. This announcement is addressed to serious croquet players around the world via croquet's Nottingham Board.
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Croquet Genesis
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"Ten Years of the Open" is the way Mike Orgill titled this piece, published in the 1993 San Francisco Open tournament program. We agreed it was a work of genius, from the long-ago when croquet really was "the fastest growing sport in America."
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Croquet in the time of Covid
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With three lawns and regulations limiting lawn capacity to four players, club innovators are designing events that fit into the space and time allotted; the plan at Tunbridge Wells features shorter games, for everyone.
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Quantifying Golf Croquet
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With the Cowing Performance Analysis tool an improving player can continue to progress in Golf Croquet by measurable increments in practice, and in tournament results.
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Quadways in America
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This remarkable hoop system is now accessible to top players everywhere, so the question now becomes: Will it see widespread adoption in local clubs around the world?
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Synthetic surfaces
in New Zealand
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Chris and Jenny Clarke try out a new artificial court in a Christchurch retirement community that plays well, even for jump shots.
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GC or AC:
A peace proposal
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The global schism between Golf Croquet and Association Croquet endangers the future of the sport; a radical interim solution is proposed.
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The story of deadness
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After decades of scholarship, research, academic reports, and speculation on the subject, a magazine writer brings together all the elements into a rationally conjectured complete narrative.
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Backyard genesis story
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A typical and absolutely unique happenstance in Colorado sparks the creation of a croquet club on "found turf" in the desert.
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Slow-motion video refereeing
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It's still in the trial-and-discussion phase, but one American Rules tournament has found it surprisingly useful and easy to do.
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"Aussie Croquet" catching on?
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A surge of popularity in the new game has led to further clarification in the rules and the first club championship, in North Carolina.
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AUSSIE CROQUET
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No national association sanctions it, but its popularity is growing, and we can explain why.
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The out player
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The self-described mascot of the losing British players at the recent world teams discovers an added element of entertainment in one of the world's slowest sports.
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Re-Languaging the rules
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The merging of two separate streams of development in the 80's created a polyglot of persisting differences in Golf Croquet and Association Croquet.
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How old is "too old"?
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Statistically, it's just a number. Individually, most aging champions continue to compete in events that test not only their skill but also their motivation and endurance.
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Reading Lord Tollemache's Croquet
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Mike Orgill pays tribute to a Brit who epitomized Edwardian croquet, advocated controversial changes in the game, and penned the definitive croquet book of his time.
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Painting the boundaries
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The shift from string to paint not even imagined in North America just a few years ago is now gaining national momentum.
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History of Golf Croquet
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Ray Hall compiles existing English-language sources and adds new details in a still-incomplete account to encourage more research.
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The First Sextuple
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The legendary John Prince of New Zealand describes the first one ever done in competition, more than 15 months before Wylie wowed the British with his own.
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Golf Croquet Update
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It's still working--for local clubs and resort communities, if not for the USCA; and the Management Committee is determined to find a way for this recipe to work out for everyone.
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Creating CroquetScores.com
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In this interview with its Australian founder Tim Murphy, the IT specialist talks about the continuous development of his ground-breaking website and the effect a 2012 stoke has had on his life and career.
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Building the Croquet Court
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With plenty of land and no club close by, it seems like a great idea. Gail Arkley reports from Oregon.
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Will downtown croquet work?
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When the young people seduced in Adelaide's Victoria Square "try out" croquet on regulation SACA headquarters lawns and either join or not, we'll know how big a story this is.
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The ideal Golf Croquet mallet
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Egyptian-made mallets are exclusively for Golf Croquet. An American maker has now adapted their design parameters to his two Golf Croquet mallets.
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The slo-mo revolution
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The hand-held slow-motion camera, allowing one to see clearly and unequivocally what actually happened, could be the most significant advance in refereeing in a century.
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Backyard Revival
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The game may still be languishing, but the nine-wicket setting is an increasing presence in the backyard of the world's largest croquet facility.
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Compact Croquet
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When scarcity of time and space prevent simultaneous play of your whole group--whether advanced or novice--reduced courts with adjusted rules are a good solution.
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GOLF CROQUET:
BENEFIT OR BANE?
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A distinguished panel of top-level players and organizers--Clarke, French, Nel, and Hall-- consider the long-term import of the growing influence of Golf Croquet.
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Terrain at the Top
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Keith Wylie and others have proposed "radical" shifts in the game in the past; this proposal is less radical and more practical.
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Croquet in Denmark:
How do they do it?
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In a country of scarcely more than five million, more than 5,000 pay annual dues to a national association, and 220 clubs compete locally, regionally, and nationally.
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Hawkins book
released by Crowood
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In 174 uniquely illustrated pages, it leads players from the rudiments of break play all the way to the esoterica of advanced Association tactics and strategy.
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Origins of croquet reconsidered
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In the year of Darwin, the likely evolutionary paths of modern croquet are traced, along with the footprints of its more primitive cousins.
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Croquet comes to college
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The University of Oregon blazes a trail for a sport that adds a huge portion of "mental" to "physical" in the Physical Education curriculum.
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Playing Gateball in Japan
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A British croquet player transplanted in Japan reports on the spreading popularity of the miniaturized hoop-and-ball game from the country that started the buzz.
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2008 revisions in the laws
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Consequential changes in the play of Association Croquet are outlined and explained, with pointers to the precise wording and interpretations in the new edition.
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Introducing the "Book of Puzzlers"
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These situations in American Rules croquet put you in the shoes of the player who has to decide what to do next - quickly! Can you figure out the right answer?
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New American Rules clarify many issues
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Stuart Lawrence outlines the import and much of the rationale behind the substantive changes made in the new 2006 revision of the American Rules, taking effect in late November.
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Is the game too easy?
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A strong case is made for changes in both American and "Association" play, but don't expect them any time soon.
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When mallet hits ball
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The science of physics reveals all the elements of the perfect stroke
coming together at the moment of impact.
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Basic break play
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It's the essence of croquet and the title of this chapter from Geoffrey
Naylor's new book "Play Better Croquet"
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NEVER! Well, hardly ever
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An obscure Ozzie coach spells out the thirteen things you should NEVER do
in International Rules play.
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Referees - where are we going?
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Australia's national referee examines the role of this official in both
mundane and elite-level play and makes some modest proposals
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The Willis Setting
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The shape of the modern court was first proposed in 1904, amidst heated debate on many "remedies" for making the game more difficult and interactive. |
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