Sporty start
- POSTED ON: 18 Apr, 2020
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- POSTED BY: Madhuvanti S. Krishnan
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You are all familiar with sports such as cricket, tennis, badminton, football, and so on. But have you heard of Kin ball, mallakhamb, tchoukball, Kyūdō, parkour and snow volleyball?
Kin ball is played between three teams at the same time. A game is usually played until one team has won three periods where each period takes about ten minutes. Mallakhamb is a traditional sport where a gymnast performs aerial yoga postures and wrestling grips in concert with a vertical stationary or hanging wooden pole or cane. In Tchoukball, to score a point, the ball must be thrown by an attacking player, hit the frame (like a small trampoline which measures one square metre) and bounce outside the ‘D'(a semicircular forbidden zone) without being caught by the defending team.
Then there is Kyūdō, the martial art of archery. Experts in kyūdō are known as kyūdōka. It is practised in different schools, some of which come from military shooting, and others that descend from ceremonial practice. Parkour is a training discipline using movement where the aim is to get from one point to another in a complex environment, without equipment, as fast as possible. Snow volleyball is a winter team sport played by two teams of three players on a snow court, divided by a net. Each team tries to score points by sending a ball over the net to the opponent’s court, and to prevent the same effort by them.
Now, do you know where these sports originated from? Try your hand at this memory game, to find out.