Croquet isn't all Beer and Skittles, in fact it isn't ANY Beer and Skittles, it can be quite skilful after you have mastered the art of hitting the ball with your mallet you then go on to learn how to put your two balls together (ouch) and send them off in opposite directions. Then you have to learn to 'load a hoop' meaning to put your ball in a position to go through a hoop and put another ball on the other side of the hoop to use when you get through! Are you still with me?
When you get REALLY clever you can do what this bloke is doing in the photos, he is making one ball jump over the ball in the hoop, without touching it, so that he scores the hoop, and not the other bloke, whose ball he has just jumped over!!
Anyone for a game?
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