Baskin is basketball for everybody, where disabled and non disabled people play together.
Baskin was invented in Cremona, Italy, in 2003 by Antonio Bodini, an engineer by profession and father of a disabled daughter, and Fausto Capellini, a P.E. teacher at a local junior high school in Cremona. The objective was to create an activity where everyone – girls, boys, men, and womern, the able and those with physical or mental challenges to overcome – could play together and enjoy to the fullest extent of their abilities. It was a simple, yet ingenious idea: a sport clearly inspired by basketball, but with modified rules that allow anyone to take part in the game in a meaningful way. For one time, no longer do disabled people have to adapt to an existing sport, but a sport is adapted so it can fit perfectly with any diversity.
The first local championship was held in Cremona in 2006. Through the years, Baskin started to diffuse in other regions of Italy, all over Europe in countries as Spain, France, Greece, Turkey, Hungary, as well as overseas in Cuba. Only in Italy more than 4.000 people play Baskin through school and teams. The first Italian National Championship was held in Cremona in 2012-2013 season, and won by Monte Emilius Aosta; in September 2014, Baskin Ciuff Borgomanero won the first Italian Cup, held in Ferrara.
Baskin is a new sport thought, planned and developed for everybody: people with and without disability, male and female. To reach this goal, Baskin starts from people's abilities, what a person can do and what is important he/she can do to reach the game's goal: score baskets.
Based on their leftover abilities, people belong to one of five different roles, that goes from people who can't move on a wheelchair (role n° 1) to whom those are able to dunk and plays in every kind of lchampionships (role n° 5).
Every role has common rules and proper rules, and he/she can guard only same or superior numbers role, not against inferior numbers role. All the ten rules are collected in a game guideline and role classification ways in a classification system. Some rules correspond to basketball ones.
Baskin facilities include traditional baskets and two more baskets at the two extremities of middle-court line; it can be used also a basketball of different dimensions and weight for role n°1, who has heavier motor disablement.
Using jerseys with double digit numbers it will be possible to recognize the role of every player by the tens digit. The unit digit will distinguish a player from the other ones in fulfilling the statistical report. At the extremities of the middle-court line it is also present a half-round area where players with low motor capacity can stay. Every action may end in due equival ways: at the traditional basket or at the basket at the estremity of middle-court line (the one at the right of players who are attacking the traditional basket). So the game has two liberty degrees and no one knows in which basket the offense will end. The game is played with 6 players on the court for each team (14 total players for each team). Game time is divided in 4 periods of 6 real minutes each. Two referees officiates the game.