Jai Alai

“Jai Alai” is a game based on the Basque Cesta Punta (from the Basque “zesta-punta”, also called Jai Alai which roughly translates as “joyful party”), a sport original from the Basque country which is very popular in the whole Spain, but also to a lesser extent in some regions of the United States since the early XX century, the times of the European migrations, and in Mexico, Philippines and France, for example. While Jai Alai is one of the names of the game, it is also often used to refer to the gameplay zone, the court or “frontón”, specially around southwest USA.