what is the difference between basketball and tlachli (aztec basketball)?

Question

Please help me! Thanxs Alot

Answer 1

For starters I don't know what the hell is tlachli.

Answer 2

This is what I found:


Forms of athletic competition with great religious significance, played by most Mesoamerican cultures. Ball courts of various kinds were constructed in cities and at ceremonial sites throughout the Mesoamerican region to provide stages for the games, which were called tlachtili by the Aztec and pok-ta-pok by the Maya. In Monte Alban, an independent city-state, the ball games were called lachi. Every ball game was linked to cosmological tradition. The Maya maintained a tradition that the Hero Twins played a ritual game for their lives. The Twins defeated the evil team from Xibalba, the Maya underworld, and became the sun and the moon. In later eras, the ball game symbolized a cosmic duel between good and evil deities.

Players of the games used rubber balls, some weighing as much as seven pounds. This made it necessary to wear protective covering. Players were also outfitted with yokes, U-shaped belts with carved designs. Other padded protections included the palma, a ball-throwing aid adorned with images of human heads and other symbols. Players could not use their hands during the games. The ball, bounced from the knee, elbow or hip, was propelled through stone rings (mercadores), fastened to the sides of courts, which were painted or represented by stone disks. In some games the hacha, carved stone heads, had a specific role.

Courts used for the ball game varied in size. Some were rectangular, with raised sides and spectator areas. It is believed that the games originated in Veracruz, the source of rubber for Mesoamericans.

Answer 3

Ahhh the difference is in basketball you get to play another day.
In tlachi, you may not get to play the next day. you get whacked.

The Aztecs and Mayas were very warlike; they believed in violence and blood and thus, their traditions and games were for hard players; weaklings needed not to apply in Mayan or Aztec society. Their sports were indeed a reflection of those social values, and the ball game known as Tlachli was not an exception. The rules of the game are not entirely known, but essentially it was played by two teams of variable numbers of players who would have to kick but never grab a hard natural rubber ball. Athletes wore protective bands over their legs and arms but if the ball hit someone in the chest or head, it could kill the person.

It was a fast game, much like today's basketball and perhaps, this latter sport appeared as a development of tlachli, being the biggest obvious difference that in basket the ring is horizontal, while tlachli players had to aim at a vertica ring made of stone. another differnce is that while in basket you are allowed to bounce the ball, that was not the case of the ancient mesoamerican sport.

http://www.andinia.com/b2evolution/index.php?blog=6&s=tlachli&sentence=AND&submit=Search

http://www.andinia.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=7301&sid=581129544a9aff296d178605701cf8d7

Answer 4

Well basketball was first played in side and shot the ball through a peach basket.....and tlachli they use their elbow to get the ball through a verticle hoop. and heres the punch line you ready for this....

They behead the winners as a symbol of honor......can you believe that they chopped the winners head of for glory sakes. i think thats when the term point shaving was first invented.....hell if i was playing aztec basketball i'll point shave more then chirs webber times 100 just to make sure i loose the game.

Answer 5

From what I remember during my 4th grade field trip the the Smithsonian History museum... I believe the Aztecs played with human heads, and the losing team was killed. Perhaps we should bring that rule back to avoid teams like Boston purposely blowing it at the end of the year to get the #1 pick, but we all know how that turned out..

Answer 6

The Mesoamerican ball game was played with a solid rubber ball. The hands were not used; it was kicked more like soccer. The goal is perpendicular to the ground, not parallel like in basketball.
Supposedly sometimes one team was sacrificed at the end of the game, but whether it was the winners or losers isn't known.

Answer 7

Unlike modern day basketball, the losers of the ancient Aztec game did not have to come up with excuses on why they lost.

They were simply killed after losing. End of story.

Answer 8

Not 100% sure, but rumor has it Kobe Bryant has demanded a trade to the Teancum Sun Gods of the tlachli league because he feels they are dedicated to winning and he can be a star that will never need to pass the ball or sacrifice any attention. They lead the league in sacrificial beheadings and spears to the jugulalr last season, so Bryant is optimistic about there winning attitude.
Also I don't think tlachli has a salary cap.

Answer 9

The aztecs played with human heads.

Answer 10

The hoops were turned side ways and it was just the team captain that got his head cut off, not the whole team!!!

I think it gives a new meaning for trying to motivating your team!!!

Answer 11

The hoop was turned sideways. They did not need to dribble the ball. A player can move anywhere on the court without dribbling. But if he stops moving his feet, he can't walk again or it would be a travel. He has to shoot or pass.