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Asian Games: Kabaddi : This was another unique sport I witnessed at the Busan Asian Games. This one is from India and is truly a unique one. Its like tag plus redrover plus an endurance competion plus human dodge ball. Its a little difficult to explain but you have a three part court. Each team has a quarter of the court as their zone and the middle is neutral ground. One team sends a player into the other teams zone. His job is to tag as many opposing players while saying "kabadi kabadi kabadi..." and get back cross the middle line. If he makes it back any tagged players are off the court. If the other team can capture him in their zone he mus leave the court. I think that if he tags players and makes it to neutral ground but not across the middle line he and the tagged players must leave. Anyway, it was very interesting and I enjoyed watching it quite a bit. We saw two matches, India vs. Bangledash and Pakistan vs. Sri Lanka. I don't know if any of you will ever have a chance to see it but if you do don't miss it! *** Anyone who has found this site while searching for information or pictures of Kabaddi - please enjoy and please, look around the rest of the site too.

Asian Games: Kabaddi

This was another unique sport I witnessed at the Busan Asian Games. This one is from India and is truly a unique one. Its like tag plus redrover plus an endurance competion plus human dodge ball. Its a little difficult to explain but you have a three part court. Each team has a quarter of the court as their zone and the middle is neut ...

Updated: Aug 01, 2003 11:14pm PST

Asian Games: Sepak Takra : These are a few photos of Sepak Takraw. Unfortunately this was one of those times I'd forgotten to charge the camera and the battery died on me quickly. This was a really interesting and wild sport to watch. Its from Thailand and is basically where 'hackey sack' comes from. There are to main versions - "Circle Game" which is hackey sack really. The team stands around together and gets points for keeping the ball in the air without using hands. I can't remeber the exact numbers but I think the most points any one manouver could garner was 3 and the gold medal team had something like 1200 points, maybe more. These pictures come from the other version of the game which is best discribed as Hackey Sack meets Volleyball. Each team has three people on court at one time. Very similar to Volleyball otherwise except of course - no hands or arms may be used to volley or otherwise touch the ball except to launch the ball in the air for a teammate to serve. Serving and the 'spikes' at the net were both very impressive to see. An amazing game to watch.

Asian Games: Sepak Takra

These are a few photos of Sepak Takraw. Unfortunately this was one of those times I'd forgotten to charge the camera and the battery died on me quickly. This was a really interesting and wild sport to watch. Its from Thailand and is basically where 'hackey sack' comes from. There are to main versions - "Circle Game" which is hacke ...

Updated: Aug 01, 2003 10:59pm PST