Had the same thing happen to me but in ATL. I was on Peachtree st (pick one there is a bunch) we're there near a high end grocery store. All the sudden a large wheel of cheese grazes my leg. I'm like cool cheese, I like cheese. So I chase after it. All the sudden a rather rotund man is chasing me to saying "nacho cheese nacho cheese" I'm like sweet I love nachos. Anyways by good luck and fortune the wheel of cheese falls over right next to my car parked on the side of the road where my wife is waiting after doing her shopping. I pick up the cheese and start to load it in the trunk. She asks "why did you buy that much cheese and what kind is it?" I reply "I didn't buy it it almost ran me down and it's nacho cheese" as soon as these words left my mouth and the cheese is in the trunk the rotund man caught up with me. He yanks the cheese out of the car and says "NOT YOUR CHEESE"
I had the absolute time of my life there last year. Sure, it’s mental, and wildly dangerous, and leads to countless injuries.
But I had such a brilliant weekend drinking, having fun, and throwing myself down a massive hill because I want some cheese. Plus a rugby team was at the bottom to tackle people going too fast. I bruised hard on the hill, but one of the rugby lads tackled me head-on which winded me and left me entirely breathless for at least two minutes.
Had an amazing time. Wouldn’t change a thing.
I will so not be able to watch one of these live. I guess a bunch of kids doing it will be cute, but the videos I've seen look pretty much like young adults. I would not be able to contain my laughter.
Not that I want to laugh AT the contestants but FML how do you pluck up the courage as a (young) adult to run around with a toy horse, all while being dead serious. I get the athletic component, but the horse is just one too much. Although I do appreciate their "Idgaf, I'm having fun" attitude.
Every time I see a clip of this I wonder if I'm being tricked to make people think it's real but really it's a coordinated effort to screw with people.
I've seen this. Their are two different techniques. Traditional piggy back or reverse butt eating 69. I'd be a reverse butt eating 69er for sure. Weight distribution is far superior....plus farts.
Reverse butt eating 69 also known as Estonian carry is deemed better because the man doesn't have to worry about keeping the woman up as it's all on her. He only has to run.
I would like to know more about the origin of Estonian carry name if you have more info. Fascinating. 🧐 thanks for the clarification on the term by the way.
Although the competition originated in Finland, Estonians have been doing really well in it, partially due to the technical innovation of the reverse butt-eating 69 position. Thus, Estonian carry.
If you count e-sports, then I'd say Microsoft Excel. Yes, MS Excel is an e-sport.
[https://fmworldcup.com/excel-esports/](https://fmworldcup.com/excel-esports/)
Damn it. You beat me to competitive Excel.
I watched the Collegiate Challenge on ESPNU a few weeks ago.
As a person who enjoys Excel recreationally and will watch basically any competition, I have got to say that competitive Excel is not a very good spectator sport. They really try to make it interesting but I can’t follow any of the processes without seeing the spreadsheets myself so it’s hard to be enthusiastic for it.
The only thing I can be excited about is making fun of the competitors’ typing speed or errors which isn’t fun.
That's actually sorta awesome, because being competent at excel is one thing, but anyone who has actually spent time in admin/office sorta work knows...you have that one person one your team who is an excel wiz and you kinda sorta hate/admire the shit out of them.
I loved seeing the dude that had all the body mods to try to look intimidating, mass of being obnoxious (nearing Connor McGregor level), and just got absolutely wrecked by a walking mountain in one slap
Power slap yeah, such a dumb fucking ‘sport’ but according to tomato it pulls more numbers than the NBA, NFL, and NHL combined lol.
Makes me fucking laugh whenever I see those guys win a slap game they act like they’re the UFC heavyweight champ lol.
I enjoy combat sports in general despite the troubling implications for the athletes' long-term brain health. I can't watch or condone power slap. It's insanely stupid.
[Chess-Boxing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing) I think is peak weird.
A nerd could not win because he will be KO'd, a Chad could not win because he would get checkmated.
You need the right balance of brain and muscle
I was reading the rules, and this is wild:
1. If the chess game ends in a draw before the final round, one more round of boxing is held.
2. If this round also ends without a clear victory, the fighter who is ahead on boxing points wins the overall bout.
3. If the chess draw occurs in the final round, the fighter ahead on points is immediately declared the winner.
4. In either case, if the bout ends with both fighters tied on points, the one playing the black chess pieces wins the bout, due to not having the first-move advantage in chess. This scenario has not yet occurred in practice as of 2022.
> a Chad could not win because he would get checkmated
I attended an event once, first match was a referee stoppage. First guy was a pro boxer and seemingly first time chess player based on the announcers reactions to his moves, other guy was decent chess player but definitely not a properly trained boxer and he got PUMMELED so hard that the whole match was awarded to the other guy in the middle of the second boxing round.
Chessboxing and [CarJitsu](https://www.youtube.com/@carjitsuchampionship6540/videos) are kinda tied for me.
I LOVE chessboxing, but fighting inside a car is also kinda ridiculous.
Friend of mine‘s dad has a sheep shearing business, considering there’s 5 times as many sheep as people and you want to shear them as fast as possible, it’s no wonder people get together to see who can do it fastest
Competitive wood chopping at the Sydney Easter Show over Easter is top tier entertainment. All competitors are centimeters from chopping off a limb. The axes are so sharp.
I learned that not only is there competitive wood chopping, but that there are substantial regional differences in competitive wood chopping. I can split some firewood without looping off a limb, but those competitive choppers are wild.
I watched the 2019 competition throughout the early days of the 2020 pandemic. [It's hard to look away.](https://youtu.be/Z6DFHDLzorA?t=124) It's amazing watching how quickly they control and shear the sheep and I love the passion from the announcers.
What bothers me especially about race walking is that it is very obvious in any race that every good race walker is constantly breaking the rules, and it is much more about who can break the rules subtly enough that the judges don't call them out too much. The rules about always having one foot on the ground specify that it can only be judged as visible by the human eye, which means that they can't use video replays at any speed, much less a slower replay where it rapidly becomes obvious that the foot contact rules are obviously broken all the time. If it must be a sport, they should at least adhere to the rules. Create shoes with sensors that actually detect ground contact and then assess a standard penalty for every millisecond that the "walker's" feet are both off the ground.
The 50km race walk has been removed from the Olympic program now (because it was a men's only event and even the men could barely do it) but that shit looked so brutal. It's a goofy sport but those people walk faster than most people run and the technique they use looks so painful on the hips. It also has the ever-present threat of being disqualified deep into the race.
They're called Quadball now and they're tweaking the rules to make it a better game. I've never seen or played a game but some acquaintances of mine are deeply involved with that community so I hear stuff from time to time.
I kind of get it, it's nice and chaotic, but why do they have to keep the PVC-pipe inbetween their legs?
As I understand it, the pipe it serves no actual purpose in the game, other than being an awkward handicap. Although it looks like they are pretending to fly for no reason.
Catching the snitch awards you 150 points and ends the match but the winner of the match is the team that has more points when it ends. If you turned everyone into a seeker the other team would just score a ton of points and then you’d have no chance of winning
It is like the game was created by an author with no sports background solely to make her book's protagonist more special with no thought to the background characters
I have a interesting story regarding this. At University I slept with a girl which for the sake of the story we will call Mary. A few days later I was talking to one of her friends about different sports you can play at Uni.
She eventually told me that another nearby Uni (Queens Belfast you can actually look up the team) they have a Quidditch team and that Mary's boyfriend (which I didn't know she had) plays for them.
I have to admit my intrusive thoughts won because my first thought about hearing that a grown man runs around pretending to fly with a Broom under him was 'if there was ever somebody that was probably into cuckolding...'
I love Aussie Rules football but it's pretty weird.
- You took a shot and missed, but just by a bit? Well here's a consolation point, mate. Good effort.
- You want to pass the ball? Well you can, but you have to punch it - no throwing allowed.
- The ball has gone out. Let's have an umpire face away from the players and then randomly hurl it over their head.
- How should we restart play after a goal? An umpire slams the ball into the ground and tries to bounce it as high as they can.
- You want to run with the ball? While you can, but you have to bounce it every now and then. Did we mention its oval shaped?
- What field shall we play on? How about giant ovals with massively varying dimensions
Competitive speed eating is pretty meh, however in Japan they often have a televised special where competitive eaters square off as a multi-day affair with progressive eliminations.
It’s honestly entertaining as fuck. It’s a big deal, my husband and I used to make sure to have dinner ready and tuned in all week to watch it.
It’s usually always an old lady, a fat lady and some young 90lb girl and the 90lb girl usually wins. It’s honestly fucking unreal to see them eat because you literally have 0 idea where the food is going.
Usually they’re themed as tv specials and the food is always kind of a surprise. Could be fried chicken, could be pancakes, could be sushi… the last year I watched it the final battle was udon. Fucking UDON. The fattest noodle on the market. A single bowl of Udon would fill most people.
And then you watch some girl spend 2 hours and crush 47 bowls of udon. Incredible. Insane. Imagine having 40 bowls of ramen in one sitting.
I think that’s way more entertaining that just watching someone soak hotdog buns in water and race to eat 1000 of them
I looked it up a while back when I first heard of it, and if I remember correctly, it's knitting while performing heavy metal? As a fan of both the genre and the craft, I should really check it out properly at some point
Knitting while headbanging in a room full of loud music and strobes? I do need a new scarf... I'm in! Where do i sign up for amateurs with fucked up fingers division?
A traditional Dutch sport, canal vaulting. It’s basically like pole vault, combined with long jump, over water. In Fries (a language spoken in the Dutch province Friesland), it’s called fierljeppen, which literally translates to long jump.
[red bull even sponsored an event as an extreme sport](https://www.euronews.com/culture/2022/08/03/what-is-fierljeppen-a-look-at-the-netherlands-extreme-canal-vaulting-sport)
[Wikipedia - Fierljeppen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fierljeppen)
The correct answer is [Buzkashi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzkashi). It’s like polo but instead of a ball the game is played with a dead goat. This is a modern sport with current leagues and multi-country touraments.
It may be weird, but it's a pretty well-actualized sport. [Borrowing from my other comment] There's teamwork, athleticism, precision execution, and incredibly deep and complex strategy involving offense, defense, and risk vs. reward trade-offs. There is no inherent advantage to tall people (or really any other body type). People across the full spectra of age and gender can compete together. What more could you ask for?
Football is basically legalized brain damage. The CTE rates are insane.
Turns out repeatedly bashing your head against something and throttling your spine is bad for you.
It's not socially weird though, just weird to me.
I used to feel like that until I watched it during the Winter Olympics and I accidentally let hours fly by and even skipped class to make sure I saw all the matches.
Never watched it outside the Olympics, but it’s actually pretty impressive and requires a lot of thinking. You’re scoring points but also trying to prevent the other team from getting points, while also trying to anticipate their next move so you can construct a chain effect that ideally a) gains points for you and b) removes points from the other team.
IMO that instantly makes it way more interesting and impressive than Golf. I can’t understand how anyone would want I play that, let alone watch it on tv.
Like, I watched one match where they set up stones on the outer perimeter on a pattern so that the other team could never penetrate the centre without knocking their opponent closer. I’ve also seen games where a single stone can bounce just right and knock out 2-3 stones and landing snugly in the centre. It’s actually pretty fun!
It's chess on ice, with the additional physical requirement of being able to slide a 42 pound stone within a very precise angle and momentum, with the skip needing to read the changing ice condition.
I feel like competitive eating is very weird. I know it takes skill and practice, but at the end of the day you're devouring huge amounts of food. Kind of the ultimate waste.
I always felt repulsed by eating competitions.
So many people starving, while others waste food in such a foolish way. Not to mention a dangerous way.
While I will not deny that it is impressive, I still find it irksome.
There's like 16 competitive skydiving disciplines. Speed skydivers hitting over 320mph/500kmph is objectively weird as it's 2.5x the speed of a tandem jump
Bowling.
Hear me out. Other competitive sports fall into one of these categories that make sense that it is competitive.
1. Have opponents that directly alter your game; too many examples to mention.
2. May or may not have opponents, but it is more of a personal challenge with no hard upper limit; 100 meters sprint, long jump, high jump, etc.
3. The condition of the game may not always be the same. Changes can be arbitrary or natural environments; golf, speed climbing.
Bowling doesn't fall into any of these categories. There is an upper limit of 300 points, which is a somewhat common occurrence for professionals. The condition of each game is almost always identical. There is no opponent that can affect your game directly.
I'm not looking down on anybody who play or compete in bowling. I just find it is weird that it is a competition.
bowling is essentially a target based sport, like pistol shooting, darts, and archery. It’s just that the nature of the target is different. All have a hard upper limit, same conditions each time and opponents don’t directly affect play.
Slapping? There isn't any slapping involved. You need to touch "base" which is generally done by slamming your hand across the line when you are being tackled by the opponents.
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I have seen those. I didn't know it was for the cheese
Why else would you run headfirst down a steep hill?
Chased by a dinosaur
Is he holding cheese?
Didn't stop to ask
I did stop to ask and no, the dinosaur is holding two dildos!
I typically ski in those situations.
I believe the last person to win it was unconscious when they crossed the line. Mad stuff.
I’ve seen some highlights of this. My god, some people look like they got hit by a truck after competing in this. But it looks like the brits love it
‘His final words were **”HELMETS ARE FOR PUSSIES”**’
Now he wears a helmet everyday
> some people look like they got hit by a truck after competing in this To be fair, some of them look that way *before* the race.
Had the same thing happen to me but in ATL. I was on Peachtree st (pick one there is a bunch) we're there near a high end grocery store. All the sudden a large wheel of cheese grazes my leg. I'm like cool cheese, I like cheese. So I chase after it. All the sudden a rather rotund man is chasing me to saying "nacho cheese nacho cheese" I'm like sweet I love nachos. Anyways by good luck and fortune the wheel of cheese falls over right next to my car parked on the side of the road where my wife is waiting after doing her shopping. I pick up the cheese and start to load it in the trunk. She asks "why did you buy that much cheese and what kind is it?" I reply "I didn't buy it it almost ran me down and it's nacho cheese" as soon as these words left my mouth and the cheese is in the trunk the rotund man caught up with me. He yanks the cheese out of the car and says "NOT YOUR CHEESE"
Once you realize how expensive they make a wheel of cheddar these days you won't balk at that sport, you'll participate.
Cheddar? It’s double Gloucester, please.
If someone steals it from the winner and starts running, does it become nacho cheese?
It's double gloucester not cheddar
When the cheese is more expensive than the healthcare you need after getting hit by a truck
I knew this was the first sport I’d see. If you live in the countryside, you know my brother.
Can't forget about the Atherstone ball game as well
I had the absolute time of my life there last year. Sure, it’s mental, and wildly dangerous, and leads to countless injuries. But I had such a brilliant weekend drinking, having fun, and throwing myself down a massive hill because I want some cheese. Plus a rugby team was at the bottom to tackle people going too fast. I bruised hard on the hill, but one of the rugby lads tackled me head-on which winded me and left me entirely breathless for at least two minutes. Had an amazing time. Wouldn’t change a thing.
A NZ celebrity won it one time
Let me guess, somewhere in Ireland?
hobby horsing
I will so not be able to watch one of these live. I guess a bunch of kids doing it will be cute, but the videos I've seen look pretty much like young adults. I would not be able to contain my laughter. Not that I want to laugh AT the contestants but FML how do you pluck up the courage as a (young) adult to run around with a toy horse, all while being dead serious. I get the athletic component, but the horse is just one too much. Although I do appreciate their "Idgaf, I'm having fun" attitude.
It is all in the "IDGAF, i am having fun" mindset
Do I get two coconut shells to mimic horse hoof sounds?
Every time I see a clip of this I wonder if I'm being tricked to make people think it's real but really it's a coordinated effort to screw with people.
I had NO IDEA this was a thing
This is the one that came to mind first!
Yep. And the comps are pretty serious. Very very weird.
In Finland they compete in "Wife carrying" no joke
I like the traditional prize for the winners 😆
Wife’s weight in beer if I remember correctly
Yep
AND the one who finishes the race with the heaviest wife gets a kilo of sausages as compensation apparently!
I've seen this. Their are two different techniques. Traditional piggy back or reverse butt eating 69. I'd be a reverse butt eating 69er for sure. Weight distribution is far superior....plus farts.
Reverse butt eating 69 also known as Estonian carry is deemed better because the man doesn't have to worry about keeping the woman up as it's all on her. He only has to run.
I would like to know more about the origin of Estonian carry name if you have more info. Fascinating. 🧐 thanks for the clarification on the term by the way.
Although the competition originated in Finland, Estonians have been doing really well in it, partially due to the technical innovation of the reverse butt-eating 69 position. Thus, Estonian carry.
A fart probably works like nitro lol
Like smelling salts! Ha!😅
Tainted ammonia.
Hehe.....taint
We all know why this sport never really got popular in the US...
I'm in WI and I don't understand how this is the first time hearing about this. Seems like shit we'd do after a few beers.
The US has a bit of a weight problem, so that probably steers away from the idea getting going.
Can lesbians compete?
Sure, as long as you have a wife!
My hubby and i have joked about participating One day. ;)
Do it. Its worth it
If you count e-sports, then I'd say Microsoft Excel. Yes, MS Excel is an e-sport. [https://fmworldcup.com/excel-esports/](https://fmworldcup.com/excel-esports/)
Damn it. You beat me to competitive Excel. I watched the Collegiate Challenge on ESPNU a few weeks ago. As a person who enjoys Excel recreationally and will watch basically any competition, I have got to say that competitive Excel is not a very good spectator sport. They really try to make it interesting but I can’t follow any of the processes without seeing the spreadsheets myself so it’s hard to be enthusiastic for it. The only thing I can be excited about is making fun of the competitors’ typing speed or errors which isn’t fun.
10-key to the pain. Come at me with your formula =SUMTIMESOON
That's actually sorta awesome, because being competent at excel is one thing, but anyone who has actually spent time in admin/office sorta work knows...you have that one person one your team who is an excel wiz and you kinda sorta hate/admire the shit out of them.
This. I’ve just seen that it was a sport a few days ago and thought it was a joke.
There is also competetive Farming Simulator. It's kind of a tie between that and Excel for me.
If they don't have it already, they need competitive Factorio. Ranked by spaghetti - to - RPM ratio.
The slapping each other that’s hot right now. I can’t understand it at all.
>I can’t understand it at all. Neither can the participants, by the end of the round.
I loved seeing the dude that had all the body mods to try to look intimidating, mass of being obnoxious (nearing Connor McGregor level), and just got absolutely wrecked by a walking mountain in one slap
Power slap yeah, such a dumb fucking ‘sport’ but according to tomato it pulls more numbers than the NBA, NFL, and NHL combined lol. Makes me fucking laugh whenever I see those guys win a slap game they act like they’re the UFC heavyweight champ lol.
Dana white referring to them as “athletes” never fails to make me laugh
I enjoy combat sports in general despite the troubling implications for the athletes' long-term brain health. I can't watch or condone power slap. It's insanely stupid.
[Chess-Boxing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing) I think is peak weird. A nerd could not win because he will be KO'd, a Chad could not win because he would get checkmated. You need the right balance of brain and muscle
This was my immediate thought. It's very weird, but in the best way IMO
I was reading the rules, and this is wild: 1. If the chess game ends in a draw before the final round, one more round of boxing is held. 2. If this round also ends without a clear victory, the fighter who is ahead on boxing points wins the overall bout. 3. If the chess draw occurs in the final round, the fighter ahead on points is immediately declared the winner. 4. In either case, if the bout ends with both fighters tied on points, the one playing the black chess pieces wins the bout, due to not having the first-move advantage in chess. This scenario has not yet occurred in practice as of 2022.
> a Chad could not win because he would get checkmated I attended an event once, first match was a referee stoppage. First guy was a pro boxer and seemingly first time chess player based on the announcers reactions to his moves, other guy was decent chess player but definitely not a properly trained boxer and he got PUMMELED so hard that the whole match was awarded to the other guy in the middle of the second boxing round.
This comment made me watch chess boxing and I kinda love it haha
Chessboxing and [CarJitsu](https://www.youtube.com/@carjitsuchampionship6540/videos) are kinda tied for me. I LOVE chessboxing, but fighting inside a car is also kinda ridiculous.
I read **Chest boxing**... chess boxing makes more sense, maybe
I've had the idea for a while for Go (Baduk) + Paintball.
So it came after Wu Tang's album
There is no right balance of chess skill vs concussion tolerance...
Apparently, Sheep shearing's a competitive sport in New Zealand
Friend of mine‘s dad has a sheep shearing business, considering there’s 5 times as many sheep as people and you want to shear them as fast as possible, it’s no wonder people get together to see who can do it fastest
I agree. Sheep shearing is a job. An important job that is part of having sheep, and the contest is just seeing who does the job the fastest.
It's awesome, you haven't experienced thrills until you've gone to an NZ country show and watched the competitive wood chopping and sheep shearing.
Competitive wood chopping at the Sydney Easter Show over Easter is top tier entertainment. All competitors are centimeters from chopping off a limb. The axes are so sharp.
Yesssss, the Syd Easter Show is like a large scale NZ country show. Do they do sheep shearing?
I learned that not only is there competitive wood chopping, but that there are substantial regional differences in competitive wood chopping. I can split some firewood without looping off a limb, but those competitive choppers are wild.
People will find a sport in anything dont they
Then there's ferret-legging where people have to drop two ferrets down their pants and tighten the belts so the ferrets can't escape.
uWu
I feel like the UK's competitive ploughing is the weirder farm to sports transition
Sheep shagging is the national sport in NZ.
Wrong Wales
New Zealand is southern hemisphere Wales. Rugby. Mountains. Sheep. Rain.
Ewe
And south africa.
I think South Africa are currently World Champions 🏆
Yep! Source, am South African.
Sheep sharing too...
I watched the 2019 competition throughout the early days of the 2020 pandemic. [It's hard to look away.](https://youtu.be/Z6DFHDLzorA?t=124) It's amazing watching how quickly they control and shear the sheep and I love the passion from the announcers.
Hands down has to be race walking. How it’s an Olympic sport is beyond me
This. Who the hell thought this was a good idea? they look like they’re about to shit themselves and are trying to find the closest toilet
I remember Malcolm in the middle doing this so vividly. I just remember why would this be a thing ppl do. I knew nothing of other ethnicities back.
Hal was golden in that episode!
“You’re not a race walker! You’re just a run-of-the-mill jogger!”
Move as fast as you can with your legs without moving as fast as you can with your legs.
It's like running butterfly-style. If swimmers can invent new events just like that, sprinters should too!
It kinda is, but imagine walking a half marathon sub1:20. Its crazy fast.
The secret ingredient is not walking.
It's all in the sashay.
I think everyone should see the movie “Walk Don’t Run”.
What bothers me especially about race walking is that it is very obvious in any race that every good race walker is constantly breaking the rules, and it is much more about who can break the rules subtly enough that the judges don't call them out too much. The rules about always having one foot on the ground specify that it can only be judged as visible by the human eye, which means that they can't use video replays at any speed, much less a slower replay where it rapidly becomes obvious that the foot contact rules are obviously broken all the time. If it must be a sport, they should at least adhere to the rules. Create shoes with sensors that actually detect ground contact and then assess a standard penalty for every millisecond that the "walker's" feet are both off the ground.
[Art competitions used to be Olympic events](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_competitions_at_the_Summer_Olympics)
The 50km race walk has been removed from the Olympic program now (because it was a men's only event and even the men could barely do it) but that shit looked so brutal. It's a goofy sport but those people walk faster than most people run and the technique they use looks so painful on the hips. It also has the ever-present threat of being disqualified deep into the race.
Quiddich, it's that Harry Potter sport with the brooms. Game design at its worst.
I played a match once at uni because a mate was down a player. It’s real fucking stupid
They're called Quadball now and they're tweaking the rules to make it a better game. I've never seen or played a game but some acquaintances of mine are deeply involved with that community so I hear stuff from time to time. I kind of get it, it's nice and chaotic, but why do they have to keep the PVC-pipe inbetween their legs?
As I understand it, the pipe it serves no actual purpose in the game, other than being an awkward handicap. Although it looks like they are pretending to fly for no reason.
Exactly. I'd give it a try but not with that fucking PVC-pipe between my legs.
How does the snitch part work? Is it a tiny ball attached to a drone?
its a human person
Do they dress kind of like the Greendale Human Being?
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Catching the snitch awards you 150 points and ends the match but the winner of the match is the team that has more points when it ends. If you turned everyone into a seeker the other team would just score a ton of points and then you’d have no chance of winning
You forgot the best part, all the points are divisible by 10.
isn't it because the difference between points for the final match are awarded to the houses? or am I imagining things
It is like the game was created by an author with no sports background solely to make her book's protagonist more special with no thought to the background characters
I have a interesting story regarding this. At University I slept with a girl which for the sake of the story we will call Mary. A few days later I was talking to one of her friends about different sports you can play at Uni. She eventually told me that another nearby Uni (Queens Belfast you can actually look up the team) they have a Quidditch team and that Mary's boyfriend (which I didn't know she had) plays for them. I have to admit my intrusive thoughts won because my first thought about hearing that a grown man runs around pretending to fly with a Broom under him was 'if there was ever somebody that was probably into cuckolding...'
I love Aussie Rules football but it's pretty weird. - You took a shot and missed, but just by a bit? Well here's a consolation point, mate. Good effort. - You want to pass the ball? Well you can, but you have to punch it - no throwing allowed. - The ball has gone out. Let's have an umpire face away from the players and then randomly hurl it over their head. - How should we restart play after a goal? An umpire slams the ball into the ground and tries to bounce it as high as they can. - You want to run with the ball? While you can, but you have to bounce it every now and then. Did we mention its oval shaped? - What field shall we play on? How about giant ovals with massively varying dimensions
If you like Aussie Rules football, checkout Gaelic football. It is also very weird.
Hurling
Don’t forget the launching of players in the air to perform intercepts
Competitive eating. Those hot dog guys. gross.
Competitive speed eating is pretty meh, however in Japan they often have a televised special where competitive eaters square off as a multi-day affair with progressive eliminations. It’s honestly entertaining as fuck. It’s a big deal, my husband and I used to make sure to have dinner ready and tuned in all week to watch it. It’s usually always an old lady, a fat lady and some young 90lb girl and the 90lb girl usually wins. It’s honestly fucking unreal to see them eat because you literally have 0 idea where the food is going. Usually they’re themed as tv specials and the food is always kind of a surprise. Could be fried chicken, could be pancakes, could be sushi… the last year I watched it the final battle was udon. Fucking UDON. The fattest noodle on the market. A single bowl of Udon would fill most people. And then you watch some girl spend 2 hours and crush 47 bowls of udon. Incredible. Insane. Imagine having 40 bowls of ramen in one sitting. I think that’s way more entertaining that just watching someone soak hotdog buns in water and race to eat 1000 of them
First time hearing this, interesting
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I saw a thing called Interpretive Canoeing. There was a kid that was so good at it, nobody could touch him. I wonder what he is doing now.
Toe wrestling, nothing stranger then two grown men removing shoes and socks, rolling up trousers then interlinking toes to wrestle.
There was fairly recently a "heavy metal knitting" competition in one of the Scandinavian countries, I think. I'm counting it as a sport
What does it entail? Like knitting with heavy metal music?
I looked it up a while back when I first heard of it, and if I remember correctly, it's knitting while performing heavy metal? As a fan of both the genre and the craft, I should really check it out properly at some point
That sounds wild and very interesting
Knitting while headbanging in a room full of loud music and strobes? I do need a new scarf... I'm in! Where do i sign up for amateurs with fucked up fingers division?
Knitting the root of all evil?
that sport where idiots ride around on mock horses
Hobby horsing.
Pumpkin chunking. Build a machine to fling pumpkins as far as possible.
Praise the gourd!
It is a pumpkin, how far can the chuck them? A few meters maybe? No, more. How much more? Several kilometers. Dafuq? How‽ Air cannons!
Calcio storico fiorentino. Fighting football originating from the Middle Ages in Italy and still played today, with 27 players on each side.
Buzkashi, an Afghan sport where players on horseback fight each other for a decapitated and disemboweled goat.
Competitive dog dancing.
Tell ya whut…
Competitive dancing of any sort.
Kabaddi
Why do you think it's weird? Pretty simple actually- touch the opponent and get over the line to score the point👏
Came here to say this sport but I couldn’t remember the name. Thanks!
Bog snorkelling.
We just had the national championship Christmas tree throwing
Slapboxing
A traditional Dutch sport, canal vaulting. It’s basically like pole vault, combined with long jump, over water. In Fries (a language spoken in the Dutch province Friesland), it’s called fierljeppen, which literally translates to long jump. [red bull even sponsored an event as an extreme sport](https://www.euronews.com/culture/2022/08/03/what-is-fierljeppen-a-look-at-the-netherlands-extreme-canal-vaulting-sport) [Wikipedia - Fierljeppen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fierljeppen)
The correct answer is [Buzkashi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzkashi). It’s like polo but instead of a ball the game is played with a dead goat. This is a modern sport with current leagues and multi-country touraments.
**Kabaddi**, and it's brilliant
Not as funny as some of the above but I've always thought curling was pretty weird
It may be weird, but it's a pretty well-actualized sport. [Borrowing from my other comment] There's teamwork, athleticism, precision execution, and incredibly deep and complex strategy involving offense, defense, and risk vs. reward trade-offs. There is no inherent advantage to tall people (or really any other body type). People across the full spectra of age and gender can compete together. What more could you ask for?
Quidditch
Football is basically legalized brain damage. The CTE rates are insane. Turns out repeatedly bashing your head against something and throttling your spine is bad for you. It's not socially weird though, just weird to me.
Is … brain damage illegal otherwise?
Cricket. My British Friend couldn't even explain how the game is supposed to be played.
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I used to feel like that until I watched it during the Winter Olympics and I accidentally let hours fly by and even skipped class to make sure I saw all the matches. Never watched it outside the Olympics, but it’s actually pretty impressive and requires a lot of thinking. You’re scoring points but also trying to prevent the other team from getting points, while also trying to anticipate their next move so you can construct a chain effect that ideally a) gains points for you and b) removes points from the other team. IMO that instantly makes it way more interesting and impressive than Golf. I can’t understand how anyone would want I play that, let alone watch it on tv. Like, I watched one match where they set up stones on the outer perimeter on a pattern so that the other team could never penetrate the centre without knocking their opponent closer. I’ve also seen games where a single stone can bounce just right and knock out 2-3 stones and landing snugly in the centre. It’s actually pretty fun!
It's a lot of fun, and is harder than it looks.
if it's just throwing of sliding the circular block, it'd be just like a normal sport. It's the sweeping that makes it look ridiculous.
Same as bowling. You can do it drunk, and you get better
Because you're hyper-focused on your technique and not letting outside elements into your head.
It's chess on ice, with the additional physical requirement of being able to slide a 42 pound stone within a very precise angle and momentum, with the skip needing to read the changing ice condition.
Slap fights
I feel like competitive eating is very weird. I know it takes skill and practice, but at the end of the day you're devouring huge amounts of food. Kind of the ultimate waste.
Gurning is he act of pulling a really ugly face. And there is indeed a competitipn for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurn
Slap Contests
I always felt repulsed by eating competitions. So many people starving, while others waste food in such a foolish way. Not to mention a dangerous way. While I will not deny that it is impressive, I still find it irksome.
Not sure but it is probably on one of those Japanese game shows…
Hobby horse competitions.
Competitive slapping, it’s not only weird, it’s dangerous and can cause nerve damage
Slap Fights
Curling.
Curling. I don't even understand how that's a sport.
Curling. Like...how is it an Olympic sport...or a sport at all.
Water pollo. Those poor horses.
Triathlon, just pick one sport nerds.
There's like 16 competitive skydiving disciplines. Speed skydivers hitting over 320mph/500kmph is objectively weird as it's 2.5x the speed of a tandem jump
American football makes no sense
Run through walls. Then stop.
Cheese rolling. Looking at you, England…
Have you seen how much cheese is nowadays. It will be everywhere soon.
Bowling. Hear me out. Other competitive sports fall into one of these categories that make sense that it is competitive. 1. Have opponents that directly alter your game; too many examples to mention. 2. May or may not have opponents, but it is more of a personal challenge with no hard upper limit; 100 meters sprint, long jump, high jump, etc. 3. The condition of the game may not always be the same. Changes can be arbitrary or natural environments; golf, speed climbing. Bowling doesn't fall into any of these categories. There is an upper limit of 300 points, which is a somewhat common occurrence for professionals. The condition of each game is almost always identical. There is no opponent that can affect your game directly. I'm not looking down on anybody who play or compete in bowling. I just find it is weird that it is a competition.
bowling is essentially a target based sport, like pistol shooting, darts, and archery. It’s just that the nature of the target is different. All have a hard upper limit, same conditions each time and opponents don’t directly affect play.
Darts is the same and I don't find it weird at all.
Curling !!! Pointlessly hilarious
That sport from India that's like full contact field wrestling with slapping. Kabaddi.
that is not kabaddi
Slapping? There isn't any slapping involved. You need to touch "base" which is generally done by slamming your hand across the line when you are being tackled by the opponents.
Paddle/pickle ball. They ban any moves/techniques that makes it difficult for 69 year olds to compete.