On the Basketball Courts and Beyond

CourtFinder for iPhone Now Available in App Store

Never a basketball court around when you feel like playing? This brandnew iPhone App helps!

CourtFinder: Screenshot of New York City

Our iPhone App has finally arrived in Apple’s App Store after a bazillion hours of work. But it was worth it. Here are some of the key features:

* See a map of the closest courts to you or look for spots anywhere in the world!
* Each basketball court’s name, address, plus the description on how to get there!
* Add your own photos to court locations! Take a picture of your buddies rocking the rim or taking it to the hole.
* Comment on a court you‘ve visted! Share your opinion about playing conditions and the local competition.
* Upload a new court as you‘re standing on it! Take a picture and add it on the spot.
* Watch YouTube videos of the game action on some of the most popular courts!
* See how many stars a court gets in Courts of the World‘s website rating!

Make sure you don’t miss the intro price of 0.99$, only on 18th & 19th of September.

Download on the iPhone App Store Read the rest of this entry.

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Posted on Saturday, September 18th, 2010 in Updates by Courts of the World | No Responses

The Heart & Soul of New York City

A visual love letter to NYC playground basketball

From K1X and French photographer/streetball documentarist Kévin Couliau comes a beautiful video for Red Cafe’s track “Heart & Soul” that doubles as an ode to the mecca of basketball, New York City.

The clip features action from K1X affiliated tournaments in Harlem (“Together We Chill” and “Kingdome Classic”) and the Lower East Side (“Lower Manhattan Classic”), but it would do the film injustice to dismiss it as just another commercial for a sneaker company.

It is far more than that, it’s NYC streetball in a nutshell: We are introduced to some of the protagonists of the Big Apple’s basketball scene and its courts (“The Cage” and “Goat Park”, among others). Couliau’s camera accurately captures each playground’s unique “personality”, and by embedding the action into images of the locals, the nightlife, subway stations, traffic and corner stores, we are reminded that New York streetball is simply inseparable from the city, its people and history (such as 9/11, symbolized by a fire station). Read the rest of this entry.

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Posted on Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 in Miscellaneous by Courts of the World | No Responses

Searching for the Shadows

The struggle of finding streetball courts in Wales

Another cold, wet, UK winter day, and another 4 1/2 hours left in work! It’s lunch time again, and time to get going on my new favourite obsession. I’m quite new to Courts Of The World, and I guess so far Im the only person in Wales with a profile on here, although, noticing there are only 9 of us from the UK on this site in total! Still, bet I’m the only one with a COTW vest (cheers Stephan and Claas).

So, I work in an office, not the best job in the world, but it pays the bills, and I do get some internet access, if only a very limited amount, but the powers that be haven’t twigged COTW, so other than the odd browse on Wikipedia, I spend most of my lunchtime reading the articles, and searching in the vain hope that I will find someone else from Wales has signed up, and messaged me for a game! Sadly, no avail as yet. Read the rest of this entry.

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Posted on Friday, December 4th, 2009 in Miscellaneous by DiabloJones | 3 Responses

Italian Freestyle Crew on the Rise

DaMove

Members of the DaMove Crew showing off their skills

Members of the DaMove Crew showing off their skills

Right now, the biggest thing in italian freestyle basketball has to be DaMove, a crew that has received rave reviews and has performed more than 500 shows all over Europe since its formation in 2000.

However, they look back on humble beginnings: The Crew was founded by Lorenzo”Aig $cream” Pinciroli and Fabio “K-lean” Mastromatteo when they met at the national finals of the Adidas Streetball Challenge. From that time on, they started to travel all over Italy, meeting other high-flying Dunkers and Streetballers. Addicted to the game, they looked everywhere for tournaments, playgrounds and dunk contests, always trying to find the next challenge or battle. As they got more exposure and got used to travelling on low cost night trains, spending the nights at beaches instead of fancy hotels, organizers started recognizing their skills and began inviting them, even providing them with some money for the journey, food or hotel. Read the rest of this entry.

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Posted on Saturday, October 31st, 2009 in Ballers by coachbrown | No Responses

Moscow Open 3on3

…and the winner is – Ukraine!

For three years now Moscow hosts one of the most representative international streetball tournaments. On the 4th, 5th and 6th of September 17 teams from all over the world battled for the champion title and the main prize of 10K $. Europe, Asia and America all sent some of their best players.

Germany vs. Russia at the Moscow Open 3on3

Germany vs. Russia at the Moscow Open 3on3

Competitors came from Germany, Italy, China, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Croatia, Estonia, USA and Russia. Teams like the S.K.Y Streetball Syndicate took part and when you hear that S.K.Y with its players Spyda, Chris Crump and Erick Price got kicked out by Estonia in the first play-off round, you know how strong the competition was. Read the rest of this entry.

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Posted on Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 in Events by Courts of the World | 2 Responses

23 Tees 4 Free!

We’re giving away 23 sleeveless shirts among new members

courtsoftheworld.com is entering its fourth month online and even though that in itself is no reason for celebrating, we decided to do it anyway. We gathered all our savings and robbed an old woman of hers so that we could offer you this: Everyone that becomes a member from now on until the 23rd of October and adds at least one new court will automatically participate in the drawing for one of our official courtsoftheworld.com sleeveless shirts.

Sleeveless COTW Shirt

We’re giving away 23 shirts in total, which are available in black or white and feature high quality prints on front and back. We will contact the lucky few about their color preferences and shirt sizes. So sign up if you‘re new or tell your friends about us if you‘re already a member!

Thanks for the support!

Update (2009-10-28):
The competition is over, the winners have been drawn and will be notified shortly. Thank you all for your active participation! We will publish the winners in a separate article (with some pictures of themselves wearing a shirt, if they send us some).

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Posted on Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 in Updates by Courts of the World | 1 Response

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