World's weirdest sports
By: Matt Roper
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: North Shore, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
ISBN-13: 9780143007548
Subjects: Extreme sports; Sports extrêmes
Other titles: Weirdest sports
Description: Extreme Ironing, Chess Boxing, Camel Wrestling. These are just some of the more accessible weird sports that are played in some out-of-the-way and some completely normal parts of the world! Find out all you didn't really want to know about Tejo (a Columbian mix of beer and gunpowder festivities), Buzkashi (or 'pass the goat carcass' fun from Afghanistan) and Kabaddi (think of the fun you'll have holding your breath and wrestling an opponent in your underwear).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Grease wrestling; title: Ulama; title: Ba'; title: Extreme ironing; title: Kabaddi; title: Squirrel fishing; title: Buzkashi; title: Tejo; title: Urban golf; title: Land diving; title: Competitive eating; title: Wife carrying; title: Nol-ttwigi; title: Chess boxing; title: Bog snorkelling; title: Slamball; title: Parkour; title: Todd river regatta; title: Camel wrestling; title: Bossaball; title: Vertical marathon; title: Fierljeppen; title: Dwarf tossing; title: Ostrict racing; title: Cheese rolling; title: Yubi lakpi; title: Eton wall game; title: Cannonball run; title: Calcio storico; title: Hurling; title: Man versus horse; title: Jai-alai; title: Shin kicking; title: Castell; title: Underwater rugby; title: Greasy pole.