What is krachtbal? I can hear you ask. Krachtbal is a belgian sport. It was invented more than 30 years ago by E. Schotte. The meaning of the game is to throw a ball in 3 or 4 times in the goal of the other team That can't be that hard I can hear you think, but the ball varies in weight between 1 and 4 kilograms. One kilogram is meant for the little ones, and than each time more weight until 4 kilograms for the adults. A 'krachtbal'field is a large field of 26 on 14 meter. On the field are 2 horizontal and 5 vertical lines. These points to the sidelines, the goalarea, the penaltyline and the middleline. Between the goalarealine and the penaltyline is an area of 4 meter. A krachtbalteam excists of 4 fieldplayers and an number of spareplayers The players can be changed without limits, but you don't have to excagerate. The four fieldplayers are : 1 frontplayer, 2 sideplayers and 1 behindplayer. When one team can throw the other one tries to catch the ball without it touching the ground. A team can throw when the other team has scored, has made a foult, threw the ball out of the field or if they could catch the ball. The scoring in krachtbal is easy. - 1 point : if a normal throw falls in the goalarea. - 2 points : if a backwards throw falls in the goalarea. So now you know a little bit about krachtbal. But there are a lot more small rules. However, what you know now is good enough to understand the game.