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Full Contact Spoons, (or FC Spoons for short), is sort of like rugby, but with no teams, only one goal, and almost no rules.
It is a lot of fun, and great exercise as well. It is also probably the single easiest sport to learn.
Its a great game to play on the spur of the moment when you and some friends are at the park, because it requires almost no equipment, and you can use any kind of a ball (or even an empty plastic soda bottle).
This game is like the card game called spoons, except that there are no cards and no spoons. There is also a goal, and full contact is allowed.
See Step 6 for a video of the game in action.
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There is a card game called Spoons.
In it, everyone sits in a circle, and there in the middle is a pile of actual spoons.
The kind you dig food with.
There is one less spoon than there is players (like in musical chairs. Except with spoons)
Cards get passed around, and when someone has 4 of a kind, they grab for a spoon. If you see anyone else grab for a spoon, you grab one too, and whoever is slowest and doesn't get one is out.
Well, we were playing this game, but inevitably, two people would both grab for the same one, and fight over it.
And that was kind of fun, so we decided to encourage that element of the game.
Little by little, the game evolved into Full Contact Spoons, which has nothing in common with its namesake other than the name.
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You play spoons, the card game but with only one spoon in the middle, regardless of the number of players. The rest of the spoons are placed somewhere else, top of the stairs, another room, outside, really anywhere that forces players into or through a narrow space or through obstacles so it's not just a contest of speed. When one player grabs the spoon in the middle then your FC rules apply to everyone else trying to get to the other spoons.
It was very painful. We never played again :P
If you try it, feel free to put a link to this instructable in the ad ;)
the down side to being 6'4" 350lbs .. not alot of people want to play full contact sports with you
What we used to do is, if there was one guy who was much bigger than everyone else, we would institute a goalie rule:
If any one person makes more than 2 goals in a row, they must play goalie for the 2 games.
I should add that into my instructable. I think I will. Right now!
I'll try to remember to invite you next time I hold a game.
They are usually at Ohlone Park, across the St from North Berkeley BART
I like this, I really do. I commend you and your mates for the way of playing, in all the video I did not see anyone trying anything dirty and all the grabs were correctly done like a gent should.
Two thumbs up and thank you for sharing my friend :)