Bamfaball consists of a fully enclosed, wooden-floored court, three metres wide, ten metres long, and two-and-a-half metres high. On either end, cut in a quarter of a metre on the sides and top was a net, similar to that of a football net. It isn’t in front of the back wall, instead, set into the wall itself. In the middle of the court, dividing it into two halves is an oddly shaped barrier, a metre high in the middle, at its highest, but changing height across. The shape of the barrier was based upon the cross section of a picnic table, the original obstacle that the creators of bamfaball had used. The only markings on the court are a single horizontal line separating the back quarter of the court. The ball used in this sport is a similar size to a football, but much lighter and slightly softer, allowing for a lot of movement in the air.

The rules are simple. You are allowed to strike the ball with any part of your body, and once the ball has crossed onto your side, you have two touches of the ball to hit it back down the other side of the court, attempting to knock it past your opponent and into the goal behind them. It can be played in both a singles and doubles format, with the doubles having two players on each side of the table, and still only allowing two touches of the ball per team. Each point was started with a serve, a simple hand strike of the ball that is taken from the back quarter of the court.

The scoring is played the a similar way to table tennis, a best of five sets, five serves per person/team, in a first to twenty-one scoring system, with a ‘two clear’ format for a score of twenty apiece.