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Popular Weird Sports ROLLING CHEESE BOXING CHESS OCTOPUSH KABBADI GLIMA
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Cheese Rolling Description: Where does it come from? Players:Items UsedField Cheese rolling, an ancient ‘sport’ where dairy-mad daredevils charge down a 60 metre slope to chase a 3.5kg wheel of Double Gloucester cheese. Is thought to date back 200 years and continues to create global fascination along with the occasional injury. Participants from around the world were reported to entered this contest. wheel of Double Gloucester cheese. A hill
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Description. Where does it come from? Items used to play it. Players. Field.Description: Where does it come from? Players:Items UsedField A puck is placed in the middle of the pool, and players wait in the water. At the start signal, players of both teams are free to swim anywhere in the play area and try to score. The sport was invented in 1954 by Alan Blake. Its name "Octopush“ was given because at the beginning the players were eight (octo) and the stick was called pusher (push). Two teams of up to ten players compete, with six players on each team in play at once. The remaining four players are continually substituted into play from a substitution area. snorkel and mouthguard, hat with earguards, mask, fins, stick, puck, glove Pool Cheese Rolling Octopush
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Description. Where does it come from? Items used to play it. Players. Field. KabaddiDescription: Where does it come from? PlayersItems UsedField Two teams occupy opposite halves of a field and take turns sending a "raider" into the other half, in order to win points by wrestling the opposing team; the raider then tries to return to his own half, holding his breath during the whole raid. The origin can be traced to pre-historic times when man learned how to defend in groups against animals or attack weaker animals individually or in groups for survival and food. Two teams of seven members, Each has five supplementary players held in reserve. Uniforma field of 12.5m × 10m
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Description. Where does it come from? Items used to play it. Players. Field. GlimaDescription: Where does it come from? PlayersItems UsedField The basic idea is to grip your opponent in the proper way, and then force them to touch their torso or any area above the elbows or knees, to the ground for the best 2 out of 3 falls. Also, if both of their arms touch the ground, it is a fall. Originated in the Viking Age and survived to the present day in Iceland Two opponentsSpecial shoes and leather belts around the waist, and separate belts on the lower thighs of each leg, which are connected to the main belt with vertical straps. outdoor
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Description. Where does it come from? Items used to play it. Players. Field. Chess Boxing Description: Where does it come from? PlayersItems UsedField Is a hybrid sport which combines the sport of boxing with games of chess in alternating rounds. Chess boxing fights have been organized since early 2003. Rubingh a dutch artist created it, getting the inpiration from the cartoonist Enki Bila and his graphic novel Froid Équateur in which a match of chess boxing was described. Two opponentsChess set, Boxing shorts, shoes and gloves Boxing ring, chess board
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