There's some Crazy Sports out there

Cockroach Races
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What do people do when their localities are infested with cockroaches? Just brag about how cockroaches in your area are faster than cockroaches from other areas.

That's exactly what happened between two guys in Brisbane in Australia; of course after few rounds good old Australian beer I guess, who followed it up with a race between roaches from their area in a vacant parking lot. Hence the sport of cockroach racing was born.

Cockroach racing is extremely popular in Australia. A special event promoted under the banner "Australia Day Cockroach Races" is conducted every year on 26 January, Australia Day, which is one of the biggest event on that day.

The event features 14 different types of races, which also includes a steeple chase race.
There are also six other such racing events held in the country every year.

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Hairy Back Competitions
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Do you have more hair on your back than you do on your head?
Does it look like you are wearing a sweater, even when you have your shirt off? - Well, this is the competition for you.

Hairiest Back competitions are becoming a popular half-time battle at major sporting events, with competitions being held all over America.
Look out the rest of the world. Fittingly, the winners often are awarded laser hair removal packages.

Winners are selected based on audience response.

A winner during a Pistons game said he tried to add “a little bit more movement and stuff to get some excitement” to persuade the audience.
So it is just not the hair.

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Elephant Soccer

- In the sport of Elephant Soccer, riders on the back of elephants direct the elephants to play football/soccer, and if you ever watch a video of the sport in action you will see that the elephants can play quite well.


The games are played on a smaller field, with an inflatable ball larger than the standard soccer ball. An elephant may play as a goalkeeper and does a good job blocking the goal area, but they tend to only use their feet to play the ball.

 

Bottle-Kicking
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Teams try to move a small keg containing ale across fields to streams which are located one mile apart, moving it by any means possible.

Bottle-kicking is an old English game that is played in the village of Hallaton every year on Easter Monday.
The game which is continued to be played till date has records of being played as far back as the late 18th century.


There are no restrictions on the number of players on a team.
There are absolutely no rules that are enforced for bottle-kicking.
Some of the strictly prohibited actions are eye-gouging, strangling, and use of weapons.
The game is extremely physical and rough in which teams fight to move the bottles over obstacles like hedges, ditches, and barbed wire. It is very common to see people with broken bones and other injuries.

The game starts in the early afternoon, with the hare pie being spread on the ground at the top of Hare Pie Bank.
The bottles used are actually small kegs or barrels containing ale.
The bottle is then tossed into the air three times.
The third time the bottle falls on to the ground signals the start of the game.
Teams then try to move the bottle across fields to streams which are located one mile apart.
The bottle can be moved by any means possible.

 
Horseback Boxing
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Horseback Boxing is a unique equestrian sport in which competitors fight each other while riding on the back of a horse.
It is an unusual sport that may not be played these days very often, if at all.

The founder of the modern Olympics, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, mentioned the sport in his eight page "Treatise of Equestrian Fencing" in 1906.

In this document, he lists "l'escrime équestre ... avec le poing" (equestrian fencing with the fist).
-- It was a version of Equestrian Fencing, a sport he tried to popularize in the early 20th century but it did not take off.
 
Land Diving
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The Pentecost Islanders in Vanuatu have been practicing land diving for a long time, in a traditional fertility-rite ceremony only for males, some as young as seven.
- It is considered the birthplace of the extreme sport of bungee jumping.

The islanders jump from 20-30 meter high tree towers with their legs tied with supple liana vines, aiming to just touch the ground.
It is not an exact science, and there have been some tragedies over time.


The sport was first given international exposure when a BBC film crew filmed the ritual in the 1950s.
In 1974, Queen Elizabeth II visited Pentecost an was shown a demonstration of land diving.

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  • Unfortunately the jump was performed too early in the year when the vines were much less elastic than usual, and one islander died.
 
Scotland Island 500
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The Scotland Island 500 is an annual aquatic dog race held on Christmas Eve in Sydney, Australia.
The first event was held in 1973, when the race was between the dogs of two ferry captains.

The canine contestants paddle across a 500 meter stretch of water between Scotland Island and Church Point in Pittwater.

The prize for the winner is a bowl which is inscribed with the words 'Outstanding Canine Aquatic Behavior'.

Every Christmas Eve an aquatic dog race is held between Scotland Island and Church Point on Pittwater, north of Sydney in New South Wales.
The event was first held in 1974.
  • Here is a profile of the event, from a Channel 10 show hosted by Jack Thompson.
 
Underwater Cycling
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Underwater cycling, as evident from its name, is a sport that involves riding a bicycle under water.
It is an extremely difficult sport that requires high level of strength and endurance.


Underwater cycling can be done in a swimming pool or on the beds of oceans or lakes.
Riders used specially designed dense bicycles and wear scuba diving equipment to take part.

There are a few types of underwater cycling races.
The most common type of race is for riding the farthest distance.
In this type of race, each contestant individually ride a course with their own crew and record their distance and timings.
The stats are then validated and accepted.
 
Tuk Tuk Polo
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Tuk Tuk polo is a brand new sport that was invented in Sri Lanka in 2016.
The sport is a variation of polo, in which players are on vehicles called tuk tuk.
The sport was developed as a replacement for another version of polo played on elephant backs which was discontinued in 2007 after one of the elephants went on a rampage.

The field used for game play is of the same size as used for polo, with a rather even surface suitable enough to ply a vehicle.
There are two goalposts on both ends of the field. Each team consists of players riding two tuk-tuk's.

On each tuk-tuk is a driver who is responsible for piloting the vehicle and a player who is responsible for striking the ball.
Players use short mallet like sticks to wield the ball that is similar to a cricket ball.

The objective of the sport, as with other forms of polo, is to score as many goals as possible by striking the ball through goalposts.

The sport is currently played only in Sri Lanka.
Will the sport spread to other South Asian countries where the tuk-tuk is also popular is something to watch for in the next few years.

 
Baby Crawling Races
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Baby crawling races are held around the world. Babies race across the floor, crawling on their hands and knees, enticed by their parents or grandparents at the other end of the track, waving toys, cookies, mobile phones and whatever else they think could entice them to speed along the path.

Baby crawling races are not new. From 1946 until 1955 the National Institute of Diaper Services in the USA held annual baby crawling races (called 'diaper derbies').

Such races are having a resurgence. Baby races are popular in Japan. The most well-known race is the annual baby crawling competition in Lithuania, held to celebrate International Children's Day.

More than 600 Japanese babies set a Guinness World Record in November 2015 by taking part in the world's largest baby crawling competition.
The event involved 601 babies aged between six and 16 months, and took place in a shopping centre in the city of Yokohama just outside Tokyo.

 
OCTOPUS WRESTLING:
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Popular in the 1950s and 1960s, it was featured on television but faced increasing criticism due to animal cruelty and harm to the octopuses.
Public awareness of animal rights and environmental concerns led to the sport's decline and eventual extinction by the 1970s, following tighter laws and a shifting public perception of the animals.

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Octopus wrestling - Wikipedia
 
Fireball soccer:

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Fireball soccer is basically soccer, but the ball is on fire.
The objective is to score a goal; one goal is worth one point.
The sport is played mostly in Indonesia, and other countries around it.
The ball is made from a coconut from a palm tree, soaked in kerosene

 
Sporthocking - An Unusual German Sport
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A German sport called Sporthocking is known to be a mix of skateboarding and sitting down.
The sport involves a participant performing acts which could be spinning, kicking, throwing, juggling, sliding, etc. and slamming their bottoms down on a stool at the end to show the maneuver is complete.

The apparatus that is being used for Sporthocking includes a colorful plastic stool with linings made of rubber.

This “extreme sitting” sport was invented in 2007 by German brothers Michael and Stephen Landschutz.
They said that enthusiasts of street sports would love their stool because it’s lightweight but heavy duty, which allows the “hockerer” to perform a wide range of tricks but also offers a convenient sitting down position.

The goal of this stool-based sport is to perform as many tricks and as hard tricks as possible together while on their stool.

Hannes Roth, a member of the official Sporthocking team run by the Landschutz brothers, said that he was fascinated by Sporthocking when he saw it during a juggling convention.

This new German sport-craze was even nominated by a sports industry trade show for best new product of 2014.


 
Stinging Neetle Eating
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The World Stinging Nettle Challenge is held in mid-June each year at The Bottle Inn in Marshwood, Dorset UK.
What are nettles, and why would you eat something with the word 'stinging' in it anyway? Maybe we don't want to know.

The contest began in the late 1980s when two farmers argued over who had the longest stinging nettles in their field.
Not sure how this led to a stinging nettle eating competition, but that is how the score is settled today.

In summary, competitors have an hour to eat as many neetle stalks as possible. Competitors eat the leaves off the nettle stalks, with the remaining bare stalks measured after an hour to find the winner.


 
Bo-taoshi
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In Japan there’s an unusual sport called Bo-taoshi, which is a capture-the-flag-like game. Bo-taoshi translates to “bring pole down”.

It is a rugged game played by cadets of Japan’s National Defense Academy during its anniversary, where two teams of 150 players compete for each other's pole. It is also commonly played during school’s sports days.

Teams are divided into two groups where 75 players are the attackers and the other 75 are the defenders.
The defenders will start to defend their own pole while the attackers will position to get to the other team’s pole.

Positions in the defensive half includes pole support (holding the pole in the vertical position), barrier (protect the pole), interference (pester and barge in attacks near or in the barrier), scrum disabler (stop opposing team members from running on top of the pole) and the ninja (the single member of the team at the top of the pole to protect it).

Positions in the offensive position include the springboard/scrum (lead their offensive team members so they could jump over the barrier and have trouble-free access to the other team’s pole), pole attackers (takes the ninja down and helps in bringing the other team’s pole down) and the general support attackers. The tactic is simply by punching, kicking and gouging.

To win at Bo-taoshi, the team must be able to lower the pole of the other team to a thirty-degree angle before the other team reaches this goal.


A 35-degree angle will be the basis to determine if the team wins the game. Have a look at this crazy video to get a better idea of what the game involves. It is not a sport for the weak.
 
Birdman Competitions
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Birdman Competitions involve human powered flying machines, usually decorated, trying to fly the greatest distance off a ramp, bridge or pier.
There are also similar events called Flugtag.

One of the best known and oldest birdman competitions is the International Birdman, held in Worthing, West Sussex, England.
The competition is held off a pier.


It was originally held in Selsey from 1971, before moving to Bognor Regis (also held off Worthing Pier in 2008-09).

There is also a well-known birdman rally held annually as part of the Moomba Festival in Melbourne Australia.

 
Cane Toad Races
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Cane Toad Races: The cane toad was introduced to Australia last century to help control the cane beetle, but unfortunately the toad thrived to the detriment of local wildlife.

Most people want to get rid of them, but in Northern Queensland they have found another use for them - racing.

 
Castell Building - the Towering Feats of Catalonia

Imagine attending a festival where the highlight of the day is a group of people deciding that standing on each other’s shoulders — in tiers, mind you — is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

Welcome to the quirky yet thrilling world of Castell building, a traditional Catalan art form that answers the age-old question: "What if Jenga, but with humans?"

The 'Concours de Castells' takes place every 2 years in Tarragona, Spain and has had UNESCO World Heritage status since 2010.

 
Competetive Sleeping:
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Competitive Napping is a New sport with the first documented occurrence of the sport being the 2010 Siesta Competition.

This competition was more focused on the Spanish tradition of the Siesta, but nevertheless it provided a standard for the ways competitions operate and function.

Since then, Competitive Napping has been in a lull, with competitions (if held) being undocumented.

There have been rumors of competitions in New York and Japan, but the references are weak and there is no verification.
 
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