Pelota mixteca

Pelota mixteca ("Mixtec-style ball") is a team sport similar to a net-less tennis game.

Today, the game is played in the Mexican state of Oaxaca and Guerrero and in emigrant communities including those in the Mexico City, Los Angeles and Fresno areas.

To serve, the ball is first bounced on a flat stone, and then struck on the rebound.

[1] Although the ball was traditionally made of wool,[2] a wide variety of materials are used today: The game is claimed by many writers to be a descendant of the 3000+ year old Mesoamerican ballgame, perhaps the particular version shown on reliefs at the Mixtec archaeological site of Dainzu.

[7] Heiner Gillmeister, on the other hand, has argued that pelota mixteca may instead be descended from a Franco-Flemish ancestor of real tennis, likely through intermediate games similar to the Basque pelota or Valencian pilota, and from there brought to New Spain[8] and this would put the game's roots back 412 years ago.