Top 10 Unusual Sports (Part Two)

A blog post written by Stephen from SC1 Sports Blog.

This is the second in our two part feature (view Part One here) from SC1 Sports, bringing you 10 of the most outrageous and unusual sports played around the world. Concluding this feature, we bring you some sports consisting of holding your breath, blowing your breath, and even science explained through sport.

This sport is common in Thailand, Malaysia and Philippines and other countries in the Far East. It is basically foot-volleyball and translates in Thai and Malaysian as ‘kick woven ball’. Players use their feet, knee, chest and head to get the rattan ball over the net to score. The game can date back as far as the 15th century and is played in the Asian Games, in which it made its debut in the 1990 Games in Beijing. There are two types of games; regu and double regu. Regu has three members in each team, and double regu has two players in a team.

Kabaddi is an ancient Indian sport played by two teams of seven players on a field half the size of a basketball court. A member of a team is sent to the opponents end to tag members of the other team. If you get tagged, you are out. Sounds simple so far right? But hold on….literally. The player tagging the opponents have to hold their breath and prove it by chanting “kabaddi”. It was played at the 1936 Olympic Games at Berlin.

Did anyone ever have a table-tennis table, and got a bit bored of playing table-tennis, and then made up their own games? Just me? Well blo-ball seems like that. It is basically table-tennis without the paddles, and the table is netless and has sides. Players blow the ball and score a point by blowing it past their opponent. Scoring is similar to volleyball in that it is first to 11 and players can only score on their serve. Bizarre!

Danish artist Asger Jorn invented this game to explain his notion of triolectics. It is played on a hexagonal pitch and the team that wins is the team that concedes the least goals (not who scores the most). The game was first played in 1993 and a few games have been played since. It would be interesting to see some Premiership teams take part in this, especially if defense is the key to victory.

Skin kicking is a game played in England in the Cotswold Olimpicks. The aim of the game is to kick your opponent as hard as possible on the shins, and each time they hit the ground you get a point. The winner is the person who has the most points after three rounds. Players can pad their shins with as much straw as they want.

Comments

[Blaine]

Those sports are very extreme, especially the kabaddi. I never want to try one of those sports. It's very brutal.

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