VIDEO: Strange sports – how will you keep fit?
Tired of the usual sports line up? If so, these four sports might renew your interest in the sports world.
Sports is a great way to keep in shape and stay mentally alert.
However, with the world being a rather odd place at the best of times, it is only natural that there are some sports that will have you scratching your head…
Here are four of some of the most strangest sports.
Chess Boxing
Two totally opposite, yet conventional, sports combined into one. This rather unique sport originated from the 1992 comic Froid Equateur written by French comic book artist.
Participants alternate between rounds of chess and boxing. The sport quickly caught on and in 2003, the first chess boxing exhibit took place in Berlin. That same year, the first world championship took place in Berlin, in cooperation of the Dutch Boxing Association and Dutch Chess Federation, while under the auspices of the World Chess Boxing Federation.
Winners are chosen either through knock-out, technical knock-out, disqualification of opponent, checkmate or through the opponent exceeding the time limit in the chess round.
Quidditch
Yes, you read that right. No longer is quidditch a mere fictional sport found in the Harry Potter books or movies. In fact, it has become a rather popular sport. Sadly, it is most popular among adults and not children.
Consisting of two teams of seven players, mounted on brooms, quidditch is played on a rectangular hockey rink-sized pitch. The main goal of the game is acquire as many points as possible by the time the snitch, a tennis ball inside a long sock hanging from the shorts of an impartial official dressed in yellow, is caught.
This magical sport was created in 2005, and is played across the world and apparently growing at a rapid pace.
Rules of the sport are governed by the International Quidditch Association (IQA), and events are sanctioned by either the IQA or that nation’s governing body.
Dwarf Tossing
As weird as it might sound, this is a real sport although not entirely legal. This rather random sport involves dwarves wearing special padded clothing or Velcro suits and are either thrown onto mattresses or Velcro covered walls.
The intention of the game is to see who can throw a dwarf the furtherest.
Competitive Slapping
While not much is known about this rather hard hitting sport, it seems that the main purpose is to slap your opponent as hard as possible.
Why anyone would pursue this type of sport is totally gobsmacking. Kabbadi, a slapping sport in India, is a wrestling based game and is the national sport of Bangladesh. Opponents in this sport, slap each other until someone is either knocked out or quits.
