This is a video showing a little bit about learning to play the fastest ball sport of Basque Pelota, a serious game of handball.
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Basque Pelota – serious handball
October 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Unusual
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Basque Pelota with the hand, bat and basket
October 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Unusual
This video shows the wide variety of styles of playing basque Pelota, including hand, bat and basket versions.
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Bossaball Action Galore
October 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Unusual
If you are new to this sport, this is the video for you. It shows lots of Bossaball action, and explains many of the rules. It is not a sport you can just pick up and play!
Women Canal Jumpers
October 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Unusual
This unusual sporting event of Canal Jumping, called Fierljeppen, is a traditional and unusual sport in The Netherlands. Here is a video of a Canal Jumping world record, in the women’s event.
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Canal Jumping World Record
October 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Unusual
Canal jumping requires the contestants run and jump onto the pole, shimmy to the top of the pole, and then vault off to try and land on the opposite bank. Below is a video of then a world record leap, 20.41 meters set by Jaco de Groot on the 9th August 2006.
Chess Boxing – checkmate or knockout
October 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Unusual
The sport of Chessboxing alternates between games of boxing and chess after each round – waiting for a checkmate or knockout. Here is a feature from ESPN which demonstrates what is involved in this sport.
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Exciting Elephant Polo Goal
October 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Unusual
This is supposed to be one of the greatest elephant polo goals, but I have watched it many timesand don’t quite get the excitement.
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Elephant Polo rules the east
October 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Unusual
Here is a video showing the speed and sction of the unusual sport of Elephant Polo. It is not surprising that the video concludes when they don’t seem to be able to spot the ball in the crowd of elephants.
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Gurning – not even a pretty face
October 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Unusual
Gurning is a traditional British competition where participants distort their faces, often by pushing their lower jaw forward and contorting their features. The ugliest face wins, not something I would be proud of.
The competition is most famously associated with the Egremont Crab Fair in England, where contestants sometimes wear horse collars to exaggerate their expressions.
Here is some historical footage of a gurning competition from the 1960s.
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Irish Road Bowling Unusual Sport
October 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Unusual
Here is a video showing Irish road bowling in action.
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