WSBocce

ializing with others around the community. If your new to Winston Salem It's a great way to meet other new people or for those locals its a great new activity for you and your friends to play. The original idea behind bocce goes back to Egypt circa 5000BC when the game was played with polished rocks. According to some, bocce is the oldest game known to mankind. The game, like everything else, was stolen from the Egyptians by the Greeks and then from the Greeks by the Romans who then coined the current name of Bocce from the Latin bottia, or boss. It's pretty easy to play. Basically the essentials for bocce are: something to sit on, something to sip on, something to listen to, and the bocce balls. You find a flattish place to set up camp and then start playing. You start by tossing the pallino in the opposite direction from the drinking/sitting area. You can throw it as far as you want to, but obviously the farther away the pallino is thrown the harder it is to reach with the bigger bocce balls. Next one team throws the first of their larger balls.