The baskin is a new sports activity that is inspired by basketball but has particular and innovative characteristics. A regulation, consisting of 10 rules, governs the game, giving it incredibly dynamic and unpredictable characteristics. This new sport was designed to allow young able-bodied and disabled young people to play on the same team (made up of both boys and girls!). In fact, the baskin allows the active participation of players with any type of disability (physical and / or mental) that allows shooting in a basket. This calls into question the rigid structure of official sports and this proposal, carried out in the school, becomes a company laboratory.

The 10 rules enhance the contribution of each child within the team: in fact, common success really depends on everyone. This adaptation, which personalizes the responsibility of each player during the game, allows to positively overcome the spontaneous tendency to an "assistance" attitude sometimes present in the proposals of physical activities for disabled people.

The baskin regulation adapts:

1) the material (use of more baskets: two basketball baskets; two lower sides; possibility of replacing the regular ball with one of a different size and weight);

2) the space (protected areas provided to guarantee the throw in the side baskets);

3) the rules (each player has a role defined by his or her motor skills and consequently has a direct opponent of the same level. These roles are numbered from 1 to 5 and have their own rules);

4) deliveries (possible assignment of a tutor, a team player who can accompany the actions of a disabled companion more or less directly).

Even able-bodied children benefit from this path. In fact, in the way they learn and insert and organize a group that counts different degrees of ability within it. They must therefore create new communication skills by putting their creativity at stake and establishing very intense emotional relationships. Furthermore, sharing sporting goals with disabled children allows them to appreciate the riches and skills that diversity brings.

Regarding disabled children, after six years of organized activity that the results achieved are considerable: self-confidence has increased, the ability to combine sacrifice with pleasure, psychomotor skills and those of interaction with children and with adults.

Baskin was born in Cremona in a school context from the collaboration of parents, teachers of physical education and support. This project has seen the collaboration, in what is called "network work", of schools and local associations, each of which has contributed, with its own specificity, to the success of the Baskin. The Municipality of Cremona has also sponsored and supported the development of this initiative. In 2006 the Baskin non-profit association was born which carried out the reference of this activity.