This is a game of endurance to pain and a testing of strength. The only parts of the body touching the floor are knuckles and toes. This games originally was played o n the floor of a traditional community center or hut, or outside on the ground. Now, this game takes place on the arena floor. This is true of packing wood or ice.
Distance is the objective.
The weights used in this event are 16 one pound lead ingots, which are threaded through twine. Before lead weights were used, sacks such as twenty-five pounds of flour were used. Distances of over 2,000 feet are attained. In this event, there are two people sitting down facing each other with twine looped around each other's ear - right ear to right ear, left to left. Best two out of three wins the match.