Kwalleballen 2008
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Again a fairy-like event. Sunday 20 April the annual Kwalleballen took place in Valkenswaard. By or other one wondrous I myself was also in the occasion of attending the event. The two weeks before I took part in the Dutch championship play draughts. Two days later I caught the plane to Indonesia. Under a radiating sun hundreds of mud devotees collected themselves. Win was less important, then the entirely dressed pleasure in mud. Itself I had left nothing to the chance. I had bought new clothing and was in a hail blank outfit. Beside my trusted digital photograph camera I had brand-new HD video camera with me. Indeed I succeeded to produce several quiet nice video captures with the higher resolution. Both above blades are not originating from the photograph camera but from the video.
Such as above photograph proves one had been dressed better than ever. This group had been dressed at the beginning of the clashes in every way tidy. Carefully they tried to do something on it. For one or an other reason the boy in the pale blue sweater had been completely soaked already within some minutes, whereas the others of its team still virginal clean were. The boy with black trousers and white sweater played with the boy in camouflage trousers. Camouflage trousers was after pitiful battered. However for the boy with the white sweater it last some games before he had its clothing in a satisfactory situation either. Such as the boy with the sweater is see during playing lay down to the ground on the second photograph. Unfortunately exact on a drier part of the field.
At several moments became there was played somewhat with each other. Generally it concerned participants already complete covered with mud. The only added value of rolling by mud is, then refresh. Instead of black start clothing glow splendidly. The boy above above to the page played about long-term with a teammate. He were draft in the water barge and was relatively clean some moments. But he continues wrestling and become again completely covered with mud. Incidentally also witnesses became the victim. I had not presented myself this year as a participant. But of course I did not have the intention to stay clean. Three times I was taken up with each time other clean clothing and in spite of desperate resistance I was dragged to the water again for soaking and covering with mud.
In the morning I arrived in a brand-new and perfect white trousers. Additionally, I carried a brand-new pullover sweater. It lasted regrettably long for people came to the obvious conclusion, that something unbelievable was expected of them. Perhaps it is the next time more skilful present me as stopgap. The first round as everyone still clean is and most beautiful pictures can be shot, I then contumacy must let go. Also you can step after the first round to a team with the question if they have still stopgaps necessary. I don't know if white trousers is the most convenient clothes. In fact I prefer a blue jeans. White is in fact more the color for Schermerhorn. There it is the challenge for the groups to get the blank dressed lady as clean as possible to the finish.
Traditionally after the final I am dragged to the water barge with or without authorization in the clothing, with which I must to go home. This time I have violently resisted myself to give the occasion to the photographer to take nice pictures of the soil of my attire. After the bath is hardly see more what you had to. Two men were not enough. Just with four men it succeeded them dragging through the mud to the water barge. Earlier that day another group asked me permission for throwing me in the water barge. I was also then in a brand-new jeans and new sweater. The nice color is no longer visible after the bath. There are no better pictures, because the little girl who would film me with my own video camera did not know how she had along with and the shot in back-light took. Of course she would have had walk round. Then she could splendidly have put the complete process of the wrestling in the mud and the soaking. We made already the joke before, that we have to repeat next year, when the pictures were disappointing. Indeed we have...
A component of the day is the mini Kwalleballen. There the youth on smaller fields can practice the noble sport already, before they are ready for the larger work. Invariable you see the participants to the mini Kwalleballen afterwards returning in the real game. Some of them jump already at the beginning of the day very early in the water barge. Others try stay clean as possible. Really successful they are not thereby. Characterizing the boy in jeans and blank-blue sweater is. Afterwards children from public spontaneously play Kwalleballen. I have some film shots. Two boys were soaked in an moment and become unrecognizable by mud. Another what older boy succeeded in to our vexation to stay rather clean. He simply was too large for the others to be run down to the ground.
An example of such youngster is the boy above. At the tent I shot already a photograph of him to be able to bring the transformation of beginning to end well in picture. He underwent already free fast a soaking in the water barge. He has there certain, however, a half dozen time in located. What concerns that he has a large future. Under the events in the first match. It concerned a clearly devotees group. They started with warming up, where some of them already rather fast go down in the mud. The boy in jeans, tshirt and red sweater became just really muddy in the struggling during the game himself. He draws the attention, because he is just something better dressed, then the others.
