Players or teams rally by hitting the ball onto the front wall before it bounces twice. The serve must make it to the back half of the court, and clever placement, spin, and speed win the day. Power houses at the back keep the rally going until an opening is created. It’s attritional stuff! It’s simple to learn, hard to master, and dangerously addictive if you have the hands for it.

Fronton courts are big, often open-air spaces with a towering front wall (frontis), a long floor area (between 30 and 70m - though you won’t get more than 55m if you’re playing with your hands), and when it comes to this a massive side wall and mini back wall too. There’s no side wall on the right. The scale creates huge rallies and crazy angles — the perfect stage for booming rallies and flashy shot-making.

It’s a tennis ball! They’re light, fast, and fairly predictable. The top guys can hit it harder than some tennis social tennis players and that familiar pop off the wall just sounds great.

Scoring is straightforward: players earn points on their serve when their opponent fails to return the ball before the second bounce or hits out of bounds. If the server loses the point, the serving team switches and now your opponent can win points. Matches are usually played to 15 or 21 points - but with solid players at the back games can go on an awfully long time!

Some games might not finish if there’s enough gambling and corruption on it!