10.
OIL WRESTLING
TURKISH OIL WRESTLING
This is one of the most popular
sports in Turkey. Yagli gures means literally oiled wrestling. The wrestlers
wear tight short leather trousers called "Kispet", made of water
buffalo leather weighing approximately 13 kilograms, and they cover themselves
with olive oil. Matches take place throughout the country but the most famous
and most important tournament takes place in Edirne by the end of June and
beginning of July. In 2014 the 653rd edition was held a little earlier, by the
end of June 2014, due to upcoming Ramadan month. In 2015 the matches of the
654th edition were held between 20/26 July, after the Ramadan month. The
wrestler Mr. Orhan Okulu won the final match and holds the title of "bas
pehlivan". In 2016 the 655th edition will be held between 18-24 July.
It's a big fair as well with music
and celebrations and it goes on until the morning. Usually lamb roast is a very
popular food. In the entertainments, belly dancing is accompanied by Turkish
traditional musical instruments 'davul' (drum) and 'zurna' (a type of flute)
and singings.
The history of the oil wrestling
tournaments links back to the Persian Era, a period starting from 1065 BC
according to Ferdowsi's Shahnameh. The legendary pehlivan (wrestler) of this
era is Rostam, constantly saving his country from the evil forces.
Oil wrestling in Edirne KirkpinarThe
word "Pehlivan" for a wrestler was first used in the period when the
Parthian (238 BC - 224 AD) expelled the Greeks from Iran. From this period we
can trace the basic rules. During the period Islam was brought into Asia Minor,
spirituality and philosophy became part of the physical garment of the
pehlivan. Turkish Oil wrestling style became established as a sport on its own
during a campaign launched by Ottoman sultan Orhan Gazi to capture Rumeli
(Thrace) - the European side of Turkey's Marmara region. In that time the
sultan and his brother, Süleyman Pasha and 40 warriors captured forts in the
region of what is now the Greek / Turkish / Bulgarian border. On the place they
camped, they started wrestling for fun. Two of them wrestled for hours but
neither managed to win. Süleyman Pasha promised the winner a leather pant
(kispet) when they would continue their match during the annual Spring festival
(May 6), held in Ahirköy. They wrestled from morning till midnight, became
exhausted and both died. Their friends buried them under a fig tree and left.
When the soldiers visited the burial site years later, they noticed that
several springs had sprung up on the site and named the place Kirkpinar (Forty
Springs). In time, they started to organize oil wrestling tournaments and the
sport became a tradition in Edirne province. This city was the capital of the
Ottoman Empire for 91 years and is every year the place of the tournament.
The winner at the Edirne Kirkpinar
gains around 100.000 US Dollars along with the title "Champion of
Turkey." The winning wrestler in this category receives The 'Baspehlivan'
of the Year award. The wrestler that obtains this award for three consecutive
years receives 1.5 kilograms weight and 14 carat Golden Belt, alongside his
gold and cash awards. Banks, companies or individual people that want their
advertisement also give cash awards to the wrestlers. The organizer, Municipal
Government of Edirne, distributes both gold and cash awards to the top three's
and pays cash to the ones that could not get an award for their travel
expenditures. This is called 'yolluk' (for the road). The
"baspehlivan" is invited to various wrestling championships. In
Turkey, the oil wrestling season continues for 8 months of a year.
Any wrestler from a traditional
upbringing has an apprentice. The master trains with his apprentice:
"cirak," and teaches him the art of oil wrestling. After the master
wrestler quits the "arena of the brave," his apprentice continues his
tradition.
The wrestlers attend other wrestling
championships before coming to Kirkpinar. The referees closely know the
technique and mastery of each wrestler. The categories are divided into groups
called "boy." In this arrangement, weight is not a deciding factor. A
wrestler weighing 120kg might not be allowed to wrestle in the "bas"
(head) category. To wrestle in the head category, one must have had a final in
"bas alti", one step lover than the "bas" category. A
successful wrestler in regional championships might be allowed to wrestle in
the "bas" category if he is found to be superior to his competitors.
In Olympic wrestling, holding from
the wrestling suit is regarded as a foul. In oil wrestling, most games are made
on the kispet. The wrestlers try to put their hands go through the kispet of
their opponents as much as possible. To a kispet tied well, it is not possible
to put a hand or arm through. The pehlivan that can achieve putting his hand
through his opponent's kispet, can control him this way and hold from the lower
end of his pants, 'paca', and this way can beat his opponent with the game
called 'paca kazik'. A younger wrestler defeating an older wrestler would kiss
the older wrestler's hand.
Until 1975, there was no time limit
to wrestling in Kirkpinar. The pehlivans would wrestle sometimes one, sometimes
two days, until they could establish superiority to one another. Wrestling
games would go on from 9am in the morning until dusk and the ones that could
not beat each other would go on the next day. After 1975, wrestling was limited
to 40 minutes in baspehlivan category. If there is no winner within these
limits, the pehlivans wrestle for 7 minutes with scored recorded. The ones that
can score points in this last part are accepted as the winners. In other
categories, the wrestling time is limited to 30 minutes. If there is no winner
after 7 minutes of score wrestling, then at the final stage the first pehlivan
who scores a point is the winner, this is called as "golden point".
In 1999 doping control was introduced during the Edirne Kirkpinar.
The final wrestling matches are held
on the last day of Kirkpinar, usually the President of Turkey arrives at Edirne
on this day to watch the finals. The baspehlivan's prize is given by the
President, the "aga" (sponsor), and the mayor.
Just before the finals, the
municipality organizes an auction. The bids are placed on a ram. The highest
bidder becomes the "aga" of the next year's Kirkpinar and is the
number one sponsor. He welcomes his guests and puts them up at the hotel, has
big dinners, and organizes festivities. Also, he hands out the medals to the
winners in their categories. In Edirne he is able to stop a match, disqualify
wrestlers if necessary, and even to cancel the wrestling events all together. A
Turkish businessmen from Trabzon, Mr. Seyfettin Selim, paid 361.000 Turkish
Lira as the highest bid (approximately 120.000 Euros) and became the
"Aga" of Kirkpinar in 2016 for the 7th time in a row. The "aga
of all agas" means the "sultan" of the country. Presidents like
Ozal, Demirel and Gul have been among the spectators of Kirkpinar.
Some of the great wrestlers:
Kavasoglu Ibrahim the Great, Samdancibasi Kara Ibo, and Alico were head
wrestlers (baspehlivan) of the Ottoman Sultan Abdulaziz. Alico established an
unbreakable record of being "Baspehlivan" in Kirkpinar for 27 years.
The Sultan, Abdulaziz took Kavasoglu and Samdancibasi on his trip to France and
England. Yusuf the Great (Koca Yusuf), Kurtdereli, Adali, Kucuk Yusuf (Huseyin)
and Dobrucali Yusuf Mahmut wretled in Europe and America, and were known around
the world. Another wrestler, Kara Ahmet took the world champion title in 1899
in Paris.
WHY DO THEY APPLY THE OIL?
For many years the practitioners of
the sport of wrestling have prepared in religious settlements. The first
wrestling sketches were found in Egypt in Beni Hasan temple which was built
five thousand years ago. In Central Asia, religious men called
"shamans," and "dai" have been involved with wrestling. In
the Ottoman Empire wrestlers were brought up in religious environments called
"tekke" for seven hundred years. Just like five thousand years ago,
Japanese Sumo Wrestling and Turkish Kirkpinar carries over the religious motifs
of the past. Man is not simply made of matter, the other half of the human
equation is our spirit and spiritual being. Wrestling without the spiritual
relationship has been accepted to be harmful for the improvement of the human
character. The wrestlers oiling each-other is a signification of the importance
of "balance" in such competitions.
According to English thinker
Bertrand Russel, the Roman Empire collapsed due to the infected mosquitoes that
spread Malaria. In those times, living at sea level, to 400m above sea level was
close to impossible. Even mosquito nets, burning animal feces, standing in
smoke during sundown were not sufficient for complete protection from
mosquitoes. The oil extracted from a vegetable particular to the Mediterranean
region: "the olive," was used in cooking and for protection from
mosquitoes. When humans learned to mix a specific ingredient "kafur"
with olive oil for full protection from mosquitoes, the Roman Empire was long
gone. The people of Anatolia who spent day by day applying olive oil on to
their bodies, continued to wrestle with their bodies oiled, and a new style of
wrestling surfaced from this condition: "oil wrestling."
Source: http://www.allaboutturkey.com/yagligures.htm
9. POOHSTICKS
Pooh had just come to
the bridge; and not looking where he was going, he tripped over something, and
the fir-cone jerked out of his paw into the river. 'Bother,' said Pooh, as it
floated slowly under the bridge, and he went back to get another fir-cone which
had a rhyme to it. But then he thought that he would just look at the river
instead, because it was a peaceful sort of day, so he lay down and looked at
it, and it slipped slowly away beneath him, and suddenly, there was his
fir-cone slipping away too.
'That's funny,' said
Pooh. 'I dropped it on the other side,' said Pooh, 'and it came out on this
side! I wonder if it would do it again?' And he went back for some more
fir-cones. It did. It kept on doing it. Then he dropped two in at once, and
leant over the bridge to see which of them would come out first; and one of
them did; but as they were both the same size, he didn't know if it was the one
which he wanted to win, or the other one. So the next time he dropped one big
one and one little one, and the big one came out first, which was what he had
said it would do, and the little one came out last, which was what he had said
it would do, so he had won twice ... and when he went home for tea, he had won
thirty-six and lost twenty-eight, which meant that he was - that he had - well,
you take twenty-eight from thirty-six, and that's what he was. Instead of the
other way round.
And that was the
beginning of the game called Poohsticks, which Pooh invented, and which he and
his friends used to play on the edge of the Forest. But they played with sticks
instead of fir-cones, because they were easier to mark.'
Mike Ridley, owner of
'Pooh Corner' in Hartfield, wrote a very nice booklet about this game,
including these rules below. This booklet 'The official Pooh Corner Rules for
Playing Poohsticks' was written in 1996 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of
the publication of 'Winnie-the-Pooh.'
'The official Pooh
Corner Rules for Playing Poohsticks'
First, you each select a
stick and show it to your fellow competitors. You must agree which stick is
which - or whose, as it were.
Check which way the
stream is flowing. Competitors need to face the stream on the side where it
runs in, under the bridge (upstream). Note: If the stream runs out, from under
the bridge you are standing on the wrong side! (downstream).
Choose someone to be a
Starter. This can be either the oldest or the youngest competitor.
All the competitors
stand side by side facing upstream.
Each competitor holds
their stick at arms length over the stream. The tall competitors should lower
their arms to bring all the sticks to the same height over the stream as the
shortest competitor's stick.
The starter calls,
'Ready - Steady - Go!" and all the competitors drop their sticks. Note:
the stick must not be thrown into the water.
At this point in the
game all the players must cross to the downstream side of the bridge. Please
take care - young players like to race across. Remember, other people use
bridges and some of them have vehicles or horses.
Look over the edge of
the bridge for the sticks to emerge. The owner of the first Stick to float from
under the bridge, is the winner.
Source:
http://www.just-pooh.com/poohsticks.html
8. BED RACING
The sport of Bed Racing
has been embraced by the people of the North Yorkshire Town of Knaresborough,
who hold the annual Knaresborough Bed Race. The first race in 1965 was only
open to Army, Navy and American Marines, but now the competition is open to anyone.
The competitors race in
teams of six, plus one on the bed. Each team must provide their own bed,
decorated in the theme for the year. The bed runs on four wheels, but also need
to be able to float, as explained below.
The 3km run race begins and ends at Conyngham Hall. About halfway
through the run, the teams face the one-in-five gradient climb to Castle Top
before it’s back down the hill and toward the final challenge – crossing a
river.
BED RACE RULES
Each team must have 5
people to a team who actually race (4 runners, 1 rider and 1 alternate, just in
case).
Rider must wear helmet.
Races course is almost
1/8th of a mile.
Two beds will race at
once for a time trial. Top 10 times, race in pairs of two, for the single best
time.
All beds must be
decorated (keep in mind there is a contest for best decorated and a great
prizes for this.).
Any size wheels are
permitted.
No breaking devices
allowed.
No steering devices
allowed.
Pushing the bed only
during the race, no pulling.
All 5 team members must
pass finish line (with the bed) in order to win.
BED CONSTRUCTION
Twin bed size only.
Mattress or padding (minimum of 4 inches thick) must be part of design and
design must mimic a bed with headboard and footboard. Parade bed is race bed!
Beds must have minimum
of four wheels one in each corner, all must touch the ground, wheels can be any
size.
Beds can be decorated in
any way but must have a headboard and footboard as part of the design – be
creative!
Bed cannot have any
means of propulsion other than the team pushing it. No motors. No steering
mechanism. Human power only. No brakes.
Bed may have push bars
not extending more than 4 inches out. Nothing sharp may be part of the bed.
Any violations in bed
design will have penalties (up to and including disqualification). Beds that
are not constructed according to the rules will be required to be modified to
adhere to the rules.
Participants are
encouraged to dress along with the bed theme decoration to win prizes.
No sharp items, glass or
obscene items on beds. Beds will be disqualified for any of these violations.
Source: http://www.topendsports.com/sport/unusual/bed-racing.htm
http://specialspaces.org/bed-race-guidelines/
7.
ZORBING
Although
it’s one of the stranger extreme sports out there, zorbing is actually pretty
simple: Climb inside a big inflated ball and roll down a hill. If it sounds
strange, you’re right. If it sounds like fun, you’re definitely right.
The
plastic ball is double walled, so the rider (sometimes harnessed in, sometimes
not) bounces around and gets the thrill of speed, but is protected from the
full impact of hitting the ground repeatedly.
Zorbing
has been around since the mid-1990s, when David and Andrew Akers came up with
the idea in Rotorua, New Zealand. Since then, they’ve expanded the business
globally, opening locations in seven countries, including the United States. Of
course, they’ve generated lots of competition, with names like globe-riding,
sphering, orbing, and the more generic hill-rolling.
As to
the question of whether it’s really fun if you’re more than 20 years old,
zorbing is more limited by novelty than by the age of the zorber (although I
think my brother would enjoy it more than my grandmother). The first few times,
it’s bound to be a ton of fun, but after a point rolling downhill is bound to
lose its interest.
On the
other hand, zorbing is more of a one-time experience than a hobby you pick up,
much like zip lining. But the best zip lines are set up in exotic locations and
combine the thrill of speed with gorgeous panoramas. Maybe zorbing could take
that route: imagine bouncing down Mount Kilimanjaro.
Source: http://news.discovery.com/adventure/outdoor-activities/what-is-zorbing-and-is-it-really-fun-if-youre-over-20.htm
6.
EXTREME IRONING
There
are lots of non-traditional sports out there, but one that takes competition to
a new level is Extreme Ironing. Basically, people compete for records by
ironing in the most extreme conditions. For instance, there are records for the
most extreme ironing under water, ironing while skydiving, and more.
The History of Extreme
Ironing
The sport of Extreme
Ironing was created in Leicester, England, in 1997 by Phil Shaw (Nicknamed
“Steam”). Phil was tired of coming home to a pile of ironing after working all
day in a knitwear factory and wanted to enjoy the sunshine. That’s when he got
the idea to combine the two — ironing and outdoor recreation.
Phil recruited his
housemate Paul (Nicknamed “Spray”) and the pair embarked on creating new
records and recruiting participants. The growth rate was slow, but in 1999,
Extreme Ironing was picked up by a group of Germans and Extreme Ironing
International was established. Since then, Extreme Ironing has become
recognized around the world as an extreme sport.
How to Participate
All that’s needed to
participate is an ironing board and an iron. Participates are encouraged to
begin the same way as “Steam” and “Spray” — in the safety of a garden under the
sunshine — and then move on to mountainsides and other extreme areas. The
possible records are left up to the imaginations of the participants (You need
to contact the Extreme Ironing Bureau for official approval).
Of course, participants
need to remember to always wear the proper protective gear when pursuing new
records in Extreme Ironing, such as helmets and pads. The ironing needs to be
extreme to count, and ideas can be found on their official website.
You can check out the
official rules of the Extreme Ironing Bureau and browse some of the records and
photos at www.extremeironing.com.
Source: http://www.sewingandcraftcorner.com/have-you-heard-about-extreme-ironing/
5.
WIFE CARRYING COMPETITION
History
Wife
Carrying originated in Finland, and its history is based around the 19th
century legend of Herkko Rosvo-Ronkainen, or “Ronkainen the Robber.” There are
three stories as to how the sport was created. First, Ronkainen and his thieves
were accused of stealing food and women from villages in the area he lived in;
then carried these women on their backs as they ran away. Second, it has been
said the men would go to villages near their own to steal other mens’ wives,
and then have the woman become their own wife. Third is the story that
Ronkainen trained his thieves by carrying big, heavy sacks on their backs, which
could have eventually evolved to a sport.
The
first modern day wife carrying event was held in Finland in 1992 and foreign
contestants were admitted in 1995. This event is now held annually in
Sonkajärvi, Finland as the World Championship. A North American Championship
was started in 1999.
North
American Wife Carrying Championship
The
North American Wife Carrying Championship was founded in 1999 at Sunday River
Resort in Maine and has been held annually in mid-October at this location ever
since. Winners of 13 U.S. state events and two Canadian provincial events have
competed in the North American Championship. Winners have the option of
competing in the World Championships and have placed as high as fifth.
The
North American Championship holds registration spots open for winners of any
sanctioned state, provincial or regational wife carrying events and provides
entry to these competitors at no cost, then opens any remaining spots for
public registration. The winning team brings home the wife's weight in beer and
five times her weight in cash.
North
American Rules & Regulations
The
North American rules and regulations for wife carrying vary slightly from the
World Championship rules on several points. The list below is the official set
of rules and regulations for the North American Championship and are followed
by most state and regional qualifying events.
Competitors
1)
Teammates are not required to be legally married.
2)
Helmets are not required for the carried competitor. (The Worlds requires a
helmet.)
3)
The only special equipment allowed to be worn by the carrier is a belt, which
is optional.
4)
There is no minimum weight limit for the female competitor. (The Worlds set a
weight limit of 49 kilograms / 108 pounds, and weight belts are used to make up
any difference in weight.)
Competition
1)
Competitors run the course two at a time in initial heats, with each team being
timed. The two fastest teams qualify for a final heat, which may be timed or
untimed, with the winner of the final heat being the winner of the event.
Because the final heat is determined by time, qualifying teams do not
necessarily have win their initial heat. Additional heats may be run for third
place, and on.
2)
If a competitor drops his teammate, thire team will be penalized with five
seconds added to their time.
3)
Teams may not advance on the course without the wife being carried, and will be
disqualified if they do so.
4)
There is no restriction on how the female teammate is carried. Several types of
carry are commonly used including the Piggyback and Fireman's Carry (over the
shoulder), but the most popular is the Estonian Carry (the wife hangs
upside-down with her legs around the husband's shoulders, holding onto his
waist).
Course
1)
Length of course is 254 meters / 278 yards. North American courses are
typically run on uneven ground with some level of elevation chang.e (The Worlds
are run on a flat track).
2)
Course design includes of two dry obstacles and one water obstacle. Specific
obstacle designs may vary by course and by year.
Contacts
& Event Sanctioning
Sunday
River Resort owns the North American Wife Carrying Championship and serves as
the sanctioning body for the sport in the U.S. and Canada. To sanction a wife
carrying event in the U.S. or Canada and pre-qualify winners for the North
American Championship contact Caroline Ochtera at Sunday River.
For
media inquiries regarding the North American Championship including photos and
video of past events, and press access for future events contact Sarah Devlin
at Sunday River
Source:
http://www.wife-carrying.org/
4.
WORLD GURNING CONTEST
This
British term — much better known in Britain and Commonwealth countries than in
the US — refers to the pulling of grotesque faces and has often been applied to
that action as a competitive activity.
A
surviving example is from the Lake District, where the Egremont Crab-Apple Fair
has an annual contest, which they call the World Championship Gurning
Competition and which they say dates back to 1266. There is also an Australian
national competition that I know of, and there may be others, too.
At
one time, such face-pulling contests were a common entertainment at fairs and
gatherings around Britain (before the days of radio and television you had to
get your fun where you could). The rules at Egremont are simple: competitors
put their heads through a horse collar and then have a set time in which to
contort their faces into the most gruesome, scary or daft expressions possible.
False teeth may be left in or taken out, or even turned upside down if desired.
The winner is the person who gets the most audience applause.
The
word seems to have been originally Scottish, in the form girn, which —
appropriately enough — may have been a contorted form of grin. It has had
several meanings, of which the oldest — from medieval times — is still current
in Scots and Irish dialect, and which is defined in the Oxford English
Dictionary as: “to show the teeth in rage, pain, disappointment, etc; to snarl
as a dog; to complain persistently; to be fretful or peevish”. These days only
the losers in the World Championship Gurning Competition do much of that
.
Source: http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-gur1.htm
3. CHESS BOXING
Chessboxing
is a new “hybrid” sport that combines the elements of chess and boxing to
create a sport that tests both the physical and mental makeup of competitors.
It may sound like a joke, and at first, it was meant to be more of an artistic
statement than a legitimate sport. But years later, the sport has grown in
popularity throughout Europe, with several dozen events having taken place over
the past decade.
HISTORY OF CHESSBOXING
The concept of combining
combat and mind sports doesn’t have any one single source, as several fictional
works had depicted similar ideas for decades. But it was the work of Dutch
artist Iepe Rubingh that brought the game to life.
In 2003, the first ever
world championship of Chessboxing was held in Amsterdam, and was won by Rubingh
himself. Before long, events were sprouting up in other cities – the most
notable being Berlin, which hosted the first ever European Chess Boxing
Championship on October 1, 2005.
As the years went on,
chess boxing began to gain more attention in the world of chess. In 2008, FIDE
President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov played a friendly match in Elista, while a World
Chess Boxing Organization soon appeared to provide oversight and regulation for
the new sport. In recent years, Berlin and London have each hosted numerous
Chessboxing bouts, while others have taken place throughout Europe, the United
States, and in Japan.
CHESSBOXING RULES
A Chessboxing match
consists of 11 rounds, provided the match does not end before the completion of
all 11 rounds. Each round, the players will either play chess or engage in
boxing. The rounds alternate, starting with a round of chess.
During the chess rounds,
the players play chess for four minutes each. Each player is given 12 minutes
on the clock; this ensures that at the end of the 11th round, both players will
have used the entire time allotted. Players aren’t under any strict rules for
how they should use their time, but officials do watch the game for signs of
obvious stalling. If an official believes a competitor is stalling in order to
avoid competing during the chess rounds, they may issue a warning and force a
player to move within ten seconds or potentially forfeit the match. If at any
time a player is checkmated or resigns, they lose the match.
Each boxing round is
three minutes in length. Boxing rounds are scored as normal for boxing, usually
using the “ten-point must” system that results in scores such as 10-9 in each
round. A competitor can win in the boxing portion of the match if they should
score a knockout (including by technical knockouts such as a stoppage by the
referee).
Should all eleven rounds
be completed – meaning the chess game has ended in a draw, usually due to a
stalemate or a lack of mating material, since players will typically continue
playing to attempt to run their opponents out of time – the boxing scores will
be used to determine a winner by decision. In the rare case that this also
results in a draw, most versions of the rules give the win to the player who
played black during the chess game.
QUALIFICATIONS TO
PARTICIPATE IN CHESSBOXING
It may surprise many
people to find out that simply being a good boxer isn’t enough to get you a
spot in a chessboxing event. Given the fact that players are forced to keep a
reasonable pace during the chess portions of the event, and the fact that each
match begins with a round of chess, a novice player could easily lose in the
first or second chess round, making it difficult for them to win if they were a
one-dimensional boxer.
With that in mind, most
chessboxing competitions ask for players to show experience in both boxing and
chess. While the boxing portion of this is somewhat subjective, most
chessboxing organizations have set the bar for chess experience at an 1800
rating – ensuring that even the weakest among their chess players will have a
fighting chance in a blitz game against most opponents (especially if they can
get the best of their opponents during the boxing rounds).
Source: http://chess.about.com/od/chessvariants/a/Chessboxing.htm
2.
BOSSABALL
Bossaball
is a relatively new sport and was derived from Spain in 2004. Since then the
sport has gone on to have international acclaim with countries such as Brazil,
Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Kuwait, Ecuador and Saudi
Arabia all have very successful Bossaball teams. Whilst international
competitions are limited, teams from respected countries travel the world to
try and raise awareness of the sport.
OBJECT
OF THE GAME
The
game is a slight variation of volleyball and requires you to hit a ball over a
net in order to win points. You can use any part of your body (head, feet,
hands) to get the ball over the net and into your opponents section. The games
take place on a massive inflatable with a trampoline found on each side for added
bounce. The team with the most points at the end of the game is deemed the
winner.
PLAYERS & EQUIPMENT
The number of players in
a team often ranges from 3 to 5. The teams can be mixed of males and females
with no restriction on gender per team. One player will be designated on the
trampoline section of the arena at all times with players rotating after every
point. All that is needed is a Bossaball court and of course, a Bossaball (very
similar to a volleyball, in fact a volleyball will be suffice).
RULES OF BOSSABALL
Teams consist of 3-5
players and a mix of male and female players are permitted.
Serves can be made using
any part of the body as long as they are ‘creative’.
You can hit the ball
once using your hands and twice using your feet or head when the ball is on
your side of the court before a team mate must then hit the ball.
A team can hit the ball
up to 5 times before they must try and get the ball into their opponents half.
Games have no time limit
and can only be won by reaching 25 points and by two clear games. Best of 3 or
5 sets are usually in operation.
After each point teams
rotate their positions clockwise so that a different person is on the
trampoline section each time.
The court can be of any
size but are usually around 50 yards in length and 30 yards in width. In the
middle of each court must run a net around 3 metres high. On either side of the
court must be a trampoline section, an inflatable scoring section and an
inflatable out of bounds section.
Scoring
Points are scored by
successfully hitting the ball over the net into your opponents section and for
them being unable to return the ball. 3 points are awarded for hitting the
trampoline section of the court and 1 point awarded for anywhere else inbounds
on the court. If the ball touches the Bossa (the ring around the trampoline)
then the game continues as normal.
Winning The Game
In order to win a game
of Bossaball your team will need to reach 25 points first. If the games get to
24-24 then a team must win by two clear points to win that set. Games are
generally played out over the best of 3 or best of 5 sets.
Source:
http://www.rulesofsport.com/sports/bossaball.html
1.
SPORTS WITH NO CLOTHS
Sports
Desk: Naked sport deals with engaging in sports without any clothing. It
is a social custom in most parts of the world for athletes to wear some
clothing, at the very least, sports clothing covers the athletes' crotch, and
for women their breasts.
Besides
being regarded as a matter of modesty, clothing also provides some measure of
protection for the athlete.
Today,
the main exception is in naturist-organised events; but there are other events,
such as the World Naked Bike Ride, in which people take part in the nude. There
are also some cultures in the tropics today in which sports are played in the
nude or partially nude.
Recently,
female players showed off their ball skills at the first-ever naked European
Championships held in Germany.
But
this is not the first time that there has been a sporting event where players
have represented their sides without any jersey or say any clothes for that
matter.
LINGERIE
FOOTBALL LEAGUE
The
Lingerie Football League popularly known as LFL is a women's 7-on-7 tackle
American football league, created in 2009, with games played in the fall and
winter at NBA, NFL, NHL and MLS arenas and stadiums.
UNDERWEAR
RUN
This
event is organised in the Arizona University in United States of America
NAKED
CYCLING
The
first World Naked Bike ride took part in 2004.
The
first buff bikers hoped to promote positive body image, as well as promoting
cycling as a means of environmentally-friendly transport.
NAKED
SLED RACE
A
naked sled race is held in Germany and crowds turn up in huge numbers for this
event.
MUD
WRESTLING
A
wetsuit clad contestant mud wrestles against a woman wearing thong backed one
piece swimsuit.
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