Boys and Their Balls - Part 29

 Croquet

Croquet involves hitting balls through hoops (sometimes called wickets in the U.S.) with a wooden mallet on a grass court.  The modern game emerged in England in the mid-1800s, though similar games were played in Europe as far back as the late Middle Ages.

There are several variations of the game with slightly different rules.  It can be played by two players, where each player has two balls – two croquet balls, that is.

Other variations allow four or six players.  These photos were taken while making the 2016 Warwick Rowers naked calendar.

Above are some excerpts from a "making of" video about the 2016 Warwick Rowers calendar.  The location was an English country estate near the University of Warwick.  The mission of the Warwick Rowers calendar is to fight homophobia in sports.

And now for something completely different, here's a clip from a video about a frat initiation where the pledges have to form naked human croquet hoops.  Maybe they got the idea from the croquet sequence in Disney's Alice in Wonderland, except in this version the live croquet hoops aren't quite as G-rated as the Disney version.

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