There's some Crazy Sports out there

Welly Wanging
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Welly Wanging, or Welly Throwing, is a sport where participants hurl a Wellington boot as far as they can.
Originating from a pub challenge in Yorkshire, this humorous sport has since grown into an event with strict rules, including the type of boot used.

  • Competitors throw a Wellington boot as far as possible.
  • The sport originated in Yorkshire.
  • It has formal rules, including regulations on the boot’s size.

Welly wanging - Wikipedia
 
Dwile Flonking
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Dwile Flonking – one of the strangest sports in the UK – is a traditional pub sport where teams take turns spinning a cloth soaked in beer (the ‘dwile’) at their opponents.

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The aim is to hit opponents with the wet cloth, but points are awarded based on how well the dwile is thrown.
  • Teams take turns spinning a beer-soaked cloth at each other.
  • The game’s rules are notoriously difficult to follow.
  • It’s typically played at festivals and pub events.
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Dwile flonking - Wikipedia
 

Hornussen
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The Swiss are known for a few things, but one thing they’re generally not known for is inventing Hornussen.
A puck, the “hornuss” (hornet), is tossed into the air by the striker, who hits the puck with a whip to launch it.

The players on the opposing team then try to knock the puck out of the air with schindels, big placards on long sticks, that they toss into the air. Teams consist of 18 players and games are played in 4 quarters.

Although Hornussen is an old sport (the first recorded incident is a complaint about 2 men playing on a Sunday in 1625), it’s only starting to gain recognition outside of Switzerland, with an international association founded in 2012.


Hornussen - Wikipedia
 
Haxey Hood
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Haxey Hood is a rugby-style game with unlimited players and very few rules.
It resembles a rugby scrum, where hundreds of people push a leather tube to one of four pubs, where it will stay until the next competition a year later.
It might be as close a game to Calvinball that we will ever see.

Ddating back to the 14th Century. Held on the 6th of Jan unless that falls on a Sunday, then it’s on the Saturday.

With all the snow and rain we’ve had this past 48 hrs or so, this year was particularly muddy.
So here is the build up with the speech by the fool, surrounded by the Boggins.
Lord and Chief Boggin too with the decorative headwear.


Haxey Hood - Wikipedia
 
Irish Road Bowling
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Is a sport played in parts of Ireland where competitors aim to roll a metal ball along a predetermined course of country roads in the fewest number of throws.

Scoring wise, it is much more similar to golf than it is to bowling but that doesn't mean it will be played in at the country club anytime soon.

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Liquid Mountaineering

Liquid Mountaineering is a new sport which is attempting to achieve what man has tried to do for centuries: walk on water. The video describes a new technique that they pioneered for walking on water. Or to be more precise: running on water. They developed the sport from scratch. By accident they found out that with the right water repellent equipment you can run across bodies of water, just like a stone skimming the surface.


Liquid mountaineering is performed by professionals and under the supervision of professionals.
 
Jolleyball - combination of volleyball and juggling
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If you can juggle, then Jolleyball is a sport for you. It is a combination of volleyball and juggling with a primary emphasis on juggling. It is only played at a recreational level, and needless to say that not many people can juggle and hence not many people play the sport.

A game is played on a court similar in size to that of a badminton court between two teams with two or three players per team. Each player is handed two balls. Each play starts with a serve. Before the serve all players have to be juggling the two balls in their possession.

The player who receives the serve should catch the ball that is served and used it to perform a 3-ball juggling, before passing one of the balls to a teammate or throwing it back to the opponent.

It is not necessary to throw the ball that was served, any of the three balls can be passed or thrown back. Like volleyball, each team gets a maximum of three passes before throwing the ball back onto the opponent’s side.

Scoring works the same way as that of volleyball, with the only addition that teams are awarded points if the opponents are unable to catch and juggle the third ball.

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Egg Throwing
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In this sport, teams of two stand apart and throw a raw egg back and forth, increasing the distance with each successful throw.

The winner in egg throwing is the team that can throw and catch the egg from the farthest distance without it breaking.
  • The sport involves throwing and catching raw eggs.
  • Teams must stand farther apart with each throw.
  • The goal is to catch the egg without breaking it.

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Egg Russian Roulette
  • A two-person game where each competitor takes it in turn to select from 6 eggs.

  • However, 5 of the eggs were hard boiled and the remaining egg was raw.

  • As each egg was selected during this tense face-off, they had to smash the egg against their forehead on the count of three.

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Kabaddi
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It is a contact team sport played between two teams of seven players. It is one of the traditional games of South Asia.

In this game, a raider enters the opposing half of the court to touch defenders and attempt to return within 30 seconds without being tackled

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kabaddi world cup 2025 FINAL India v Iran (Highlights)

 
Finger Jousting
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Finger Jousting is a sport, similar to thumb war, where two people hold hands like they are arm wrestling.
They extend their index fingers. The objective of the game is to try and poke the opponent while keeping their index finger locked under the other, not letting it go.

Finger Jousting


Although some historians believe that the sport was founded by the Israelites, who called it “Finger Spearing”. This was supported and written in the Book of Phalanges.
- Nevertheless, many historians agreed that the sport took its modern form in the 1970s.

Julian Gluck founded the World Finger Jousting Federation (WFJF) in 2005. He made a couple of rules to be official for finger jousting contests.
Finger jousting is extremely popular in schools in Dallas and Huston, Texas.

Players mainly use their right hands instead of left.
The contestants must keep their right hands locked in an arm wrestling fashion while not using their legs or left arm.

The match has three rounds with two-minute lengths. Time is paused when violations occur.
The players will be given a sixty-second rest before the start of the next round.

When the game is about to start, the two competitors face each other and execute a gesture of good outlook. This could be a hand shake, a bow, a head nod or a man hug. The match will start after the mediator gives the signal.

During the game, jousters should try not to separate their hands. If this happens, the player will get a warning. During the second time of separation the player will either get another warning or minus points. In the third offense, the player will be disqualified. If both players separate no penalty will be issued and will start a new round.

There are four important elements in the basic skills of finger jousting – quickness, strength, technique and tradition.

The Finger Jousting Codes of Conduct include respect (where contestants respect their competitors and others without intentionally injuring them), decorum (not using profane or lewd speeches during, before or after the match), indisturbance (avoiding jousts at inappropriate times or places) and manicure (caring for fingernails is a sign of respect for the opponent and by showing a healthy body).
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The objective of the sport is to clean jump a group of camels that are stacked together horizontally.

Among the members of the Zaraniq tribe on the west coast of Yemen are, apparently, the world’s only professional camel jumpers.
“This is what we do,” says Bhayder Mohammed Yusef Qubaisi, a champion bounder.
The presumably ancient sport was recently documented by Adam Reynolds, a 30-year-old photojournalist from Bloomington, Indiana.


Reynolds spent six months in Yemen before being deported this past May, he believes for photographing leaders of a secessionist movement. Politically, Yemen is troubled, with a repressive but weak government beleaguered by insurgents in the largely lawless northern and southern regions. U.S. authorities have expressed concern that a large number of Al Qaeda and other terrorists operate there.

The Zaraniq live in the Tihama-al-Yemen, a desert plain on the Red Sea, and they are mostly poor; Qubaisi’s home is a one-room hut. To see the daredevils in action, Reynolds traveled a dirt track to a village southeast of the coastal city of al-Hudaydah. “It was pretty amazing,” he says of the acrobatic athletics. “They did it with such ease and grace. Afterward, though, I wondered why there hasn’t been a Yemeni long jump Olympic champion yet.
 
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