In search of the perfect mallet
Links
General Croquet Sites
The Oxford Croquet site is the best croquet site by far, run by Dr Ian Plummer. Hugely informative, well-organised and generally indispensable.
Clubs
Norwood Croquet Club
Norwood
Croquet Club, in the eastern part of Adelaide, has happily revived its website at norwoodcroquet.asn.au, but sadly the committee .
Hyde Park Croquet Club
There is a website for the Hyde Park Croquet club, in the southern part of Adelaide, here.
Other Mallet Makers
There are several excellent
mallet makers out there.
Of the makers of traditional
mallets, Wood Mallets are hard to
beat. They are made in
In
In the USA,Ed Roberts' Attack Croquet mallets are highly thought of, and are now supplied with Fenwick Elliott shafts.
There are a
couple of good computer simulations.
The best I have
seen is the one produced by Ian Lines. The
program features rotatable views and zoom capabilities, sound, varying levels
of shooting ability, different lawn sizes, singles and doubles, and even
variable hoop sizes. The program costs $50. For more information contact Ian
Lines at ian.Lines@atkingsglobal.com,
8 Oakwood Lane, Bowdon, Altrincham, Cheshire, United Kingdom WA14 3DL Tel:0161
929 5443.
There is also a good fun program, which is free, called KiwiCroquet: this can be downloaded from www.homepages.paradise.net.nz/rrobinso.
A version of the American game can be played on line at http://www.buus.us/Peri_Damon/Video%20Game%20AMOK/Croquet/Croquet%201.7.swf
High Speed Images
A croquet stroke happens very fast, and images taken
with a high speed camera are needed to show
what is going on.
Jenny Williams
(Department of Physics and Astronomy of the
Associations