Here's a professional news video on kid's croquet clinic held over the summer in Georgia.
Read MoreCroquet Video Game Review: Summer Sports Paradise Island (Wii)
Unforgiveable Croquet Sins
The Summer Sports Paradise Island game is older than the Game Party 3 release I reviewed a few months ago. I had actually played this 2008 compilation by Destineer a few years ago, but just recently purchased a copy for review purposes.
Morning Coffee: Shirts by Ben, Beach Club Invitational and February
One of my bigger challenges is keeping the content on this site fresh while producing the monthly magazine in the background. Other than the news clips in the magazine, I try to keep the content for each unique, which means the workload can get heavy. So, I'm constantly tweaking the website editorial calendar and have not yet come up with a final formula.
Read MoreUpcoming Tournaments / February-March 2010
February 2010
Feb 04–06 / Grand Haven Club Championship / Palm Coast, FL
Richard Burns - (386-446-9478) rburns3007@aol.com
Feb 04–07 / SCCC Winter Singles Invitational / Venice, FL
Jackie Jones - (941-484-3206 or 941-416-1009) crokpeople@aol.com
January Croquet Links: Canberra, Nottingham List & Prairie Lights
Canberra Croquet Club -- A beautiful website for this croquet club based in Canberra, Australia. You can also take a fuzzy look at this club on Google streetview as well.
Read MoreCroquet Video: 2010 New Zealand Open Highlights
Awesome movie-style video with highlights from this year's New Zealand Open. Produced by Paddy Chapman.
Read More2009 Solomon Trophy Photo Gallery
The above photo is from most recent digital issue of the Croquet Network magazine and was taken by Genie Hendry. I've posted all of Genie's photos from the event in a gallery you can visit here. Clicking on any of the photos will launch a larger version with a top navigation for the full gallery.
Read MoreCroquet News: Tourney Results and New Zealand MacRobertson Line-Up
Lots of croquet activity over the weekend and most of this I posted in the forum, but I thought I'd consolidate it here for your Monday fix:
New Zealand announced their line-up for the MacRobertson Shield Competition to be held in August in the UK:
Read MoreNew Zealand announced their line-up for the MacRobertson Shield Competition to be held in August in the UK:
Croquet Video: ORAC 2010 Key Largo
There are so many croquet videos that come through, I'm looking at trying this out weekly. This is a great video promoting the 2010 ORAC Invitational to be held February 24-28 in Key Largo, Florida.
Read MoreNine to Six: Part 4 - Wiring
A Clear-Cut Difference
Wiring is pretty simple -- six-wicket has it and nine-wicket does not. Of course, if you haven't played six-wicket, you likely have no familiarity with the wiring rule. For the full details, you can check out this page on the USCA website, but the essence is that when utilizing the opponent's balls, you must leave your opponent a shot when your turn ends.