Sports and Pastimes of Bon Bon

[Avrie000]

Well Symphony, I think you just came up with a perfect Christmas poster / puzzle / Xray for a future holiday season, As far as I can tell, most of the winter sports were practiced back then just not formally. Speed skating was practiced in the Netherlands for hundreds of years, and local cross country skiing competitions are even older. With the local rivers there would also probably be punting, I think organized sculling came later.

[Avrie000]

Well Symphony, I think you just came up with a perfect Christmas poster / puzzle / Xray for a future holiday season, As far as I can tell, most of the winter sports were practiced back then just not formally. Speed skating was practiced in the Netherlands for hundreds of years, and local cross country skiing competitions are even older. With the local rivers there would also probably be punting, I think organized sculling came later.

[Avrie000]

Well Symphony, I think you just came up with a perfect Christmas poster / puzzle / Xray for a future holiday season, As far as I can tell, most of the winter sports were practiced back then just not formally. Speed skating was practiced in the Netherlands for hundreds of years, and local cross country skiing competitions are even older. With the local rivers there would also probably be punting, I think organized sculling came later.

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[Caroline]

((For winter past-times, wouldn't most of them still be indoors? Other than like sleigh-rides or whatnot? So... wouldn't they be things like cards, billiards, chess, checkers, parchesi, bridge and that sort of thing? Thinking of croquette, what about Polo?

I think this topic has come up a couple of times. I will say in the 1880s-1890s had a big health-kick, and going to the gymnasium was a popular past time. I think it was the beginning of such organizations as the Y.M.C.A.

And, Symphony, I'm not sure when the tennis racket came about... you might still be wearing a leather glove, and be playing a style of tennis that is more akin to modern day racketball. OH! Thinking of that, what about something like Badmitten (sp?) I mean... seriously... nobody thought "shuttlecock" is a funny word?

I do like the idea of the pastoral "winter" scene, with people ice-skating and making snow angels... mostly because I kinda like the idea of one of the fuzzy, hand-warmer-wrap things. I think those are adorable.))