Basque pelota In Valencia, Valencian pilota is considered the national sport; it is also played in Belgium, North of Italy, Mexico, and Argentina. Since its creation, the International Federation of Basque Pelota has standardised the different varieties into four modalities and fourteen disciplines, with fixed ball weights, rules and court sizes. The four modalities— wall, wall, wall and "trinquete"—admit fourteen disciplines, depending the use of bare hand, leather ball, rubber ball, "paleta" (pelota paleta), racket (frontennis) and "xare". Two of the fourteen disciplines are played by both men and women (frontenis and rubber pelota in trinquete); the other twelve are played only
Bare-handed Pelota First League Doubles Bare-handed Pelota First League Doubles The Bare-handed Pelota First League Doubles known as Campeonato de España de mano parejas is the second most important tournament of Hand-pelota category in Basque pelota, after the 1st Hand-Pelota singles championship, known as "manomanista". The teams are formed by a Forward and a Defender, and the games are played to 22 points. The competition was created by the Spanish Federation of Basque Pelota on 1941 at the same time of "manomanista", played every 2 years, but for a lack of interest and agreement the competition was suspended until 1978. On 1973 the two hand-pelota