Stander

According to V. Shenderovich , the game got its name from the German “Stand hier!” , Which can be translated into Russian as “Stop here!” Or “Stop!” ^[1]

The players become in a circle at a step distance from the driver (the center of the circle can be indicated in advance, for example, with chalk). In the hands of a ball driver. Throwing the ball high up, the driver calls the name of any player. The one he named must run out to the center of the court and catch the ball. The driver takes the vacant seat.

If a player catches the ball, he becomes the driver and the described actions are repeated. If the ball manages to touch the ground, the players scatter in different directions until he raises the ball and shouts “Stander!” (Or “Stop!”). In this case, everyone freezes at the place where the team found them, and he must “ruin” one of the players (hit him with a ball). Players at the same time are not allowed to leave the place where they stopped (dodging the ball is allowed). The driver is also not allowed to leave the center of the circle for the throw.

The one who hit, becomes the leader or is eliminated from the game by prior arrangement. The game is repeated again.

The area is discussed or outlined (a circle around which players become perimeter), the center (the place of the driver) is marked. The driver is selected with the help of a reader, by lot or in any other way and becomes the center.

If the participants in the game are not familiar with each other, numbers are used instead of names (according to the number of players).

The name should be shouted before the ball is thrown up. The driver has the right to shout “Stander!” Only when he returns to the center of the circle with the ball.

If a participant who is “fouled” catches the ball, he has the right to “foul” the driver or any other player with the ball right there. Holding the ball for a long time is not permitted.

Option S. Yakub, described in the newspaper for class teachers, involves the game “on the fly”: each “settled” gets a penalty point, and after three points is eliminated from the game. ^[2] At the same time, a reservation is made that playing three or four is already difficult and not so interesting, therefore the author advises playing up to five to six penalty points if there are less than ten participants.

If the driver hesitated and the rest of the players managed to run away so far that it would be difficult to hit them with the ball, he could “pass the hand” to another. To do this, the driver must choose the participant of the game who is closest to everyone and ask him: “Do you take a hand?” If he agrees, the driver throws the ball to him. Everyone again runs up, and the one who catches the ball shouts “Stander!” And “takes away” the player who has appeared nearby. Moreover, if the driver inaccurately passes the ball and it touches the ground, the penalty point is awarded to the driver.

• In the book “Raisins from a Loaf” V. Shenderovich nostalgic ^[1] :

This game disappeared and sank into oblivion along with filmstrips about corn - the queen of the fields and cup holders with a satellite flying around the Earth. Corn is not a pity, cup holders are not a pity - punch is a pity. It was a good game ...

• S. Loginov - the story "Shtander" from the anthology "Watch with options." According to the plot, children play the puncher in the distant future.
• A. Rosenbaum - song “Shtander” from the album “Nostalgia”, dedicated to the composer V. Reznikov . In the text there are such words: “And we play in the pavement scatter ...” “Scatter” in the Soviet years called paper balls stuffed with sawdust and tightly tied with thread, on a long elastic band.
• A. Makarevich - song and self-titled album, released in 2007 together with the " Creole Tango Orchestra ". Even the album’s musical release , critics compared it to playing the puncher.

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• V. Volodchenko, V. Yumashev. Go out to play in the yard. - M .: Young Guard, 1984. - S. 86. - 126 p. - ISBN 5-235-00465-5 .
• S. Jakub. Recall the forgotten games. - M .: Children's literature, 1988. - S. 55-60. - 159 p. - ISBN 5-08-001116-5 .
• I. Grinchenko. Game rainbow. - M .: TsGL, 2004 .-- S. 41 .-- 96 s. - ISBN 5-94916-033-9 .
• S. Jakub. Shtander // Classroom management and education of schoolchildren: a newspaper. - M. , July 1 - 15, 2007. - No. 40 (388) .