Paleta Frontón Paleta Frontón Paleta frontón is a Peruvian sport that was born in the capital, Lima, in 1945. This sport has its roots in the "pelota vasca" brought by the Spanish conquerors, and the domestic "pelota mano", called "handball" at that time due to English influence. Paleta is typically played on the high peaks of their mountainous terrain. A wooden, carbon fiber or glass fiber paddle and a black rubber ball are required to play paleta frontón. The court contains a concrete wall high by wide. There are lines on the court limiting the play area and marking the reception zones,
Basque rural sports frontenis), Florida and the Philippines. As such it has been an Olympic exhibition sport in Paris, Mexico and Barcelona. It is called "pelota vasca" in Spanish and "pelote basque" in French. Basque arm wrestling follows broadly the same rules as anywhere else. A form of bull-leaping called "errekorteak" in Basque and "recortes" in Spanish, is practiced in parts of the Basque Country, especially Navarre. The name of this sport literally translates as "snout rope" ("soka" "rope" and "mutur" "snout"). It is "vaquillas" ("calves") in Spanish. It derives from a tradition where cattle destined for slaughter were led through the town