- Well that's a good look.
So to be honest with you guys,
I've never really been a big fan of traditional sports.
What's always interested me more
are the out of the ordinary sports,
like jumping out of an airplane and things like that.
Watching them, of course.
Not that I'm afraid to do them,
I'm just very, very busy.
- Matt's president of the Brony Fan Club.
- What? What? (laughing)
I don't even know what that is.
Ahem.
Anyways, recently I stumbled across some sports
that don't fit into the traditional category of a sport,
but are still actually considered sports.
They're not exactly extreme,
they're more in the weird category,
and I had to share them with you guys
because I was just like, "What the hell?"
So without further ado, here they are,
the 10 Craziest Sports in the World.
Volcano Boarding.
Every year, thousands of travelers head to Nicaragua
to race down the Cerro Negro volcano.
Dressed in heat protected equipment,
these thrill seekers race down the face
of the active volcano at speeds of 80 kilometers an hour
on a special surf board.
Wow, this is pretty risky, I mean,
if you wipe out and that suit tears open,
you're gonna cook like a microwave dinner.
Which might have some undesirable effects.
"That was fun, but I wiped out,
"and the heat made my face a little melty.
"I don't even really notice it."
Train Surfing, popular in South Africa,
train surfing involves climbing onto the side or top
of a train, and essentially just holding on for dear life.
And apparently, this is a serious problem,
because it's either injuring or killing
a lot of young people.
Der, you think?
Trains travel at 160 kilometers an hour or faster,
so all it's going to take is one good wind gust,
and you're gonna disappear off that train
faster than Miley Cyrus's dignity at the VMA's.
And that was pretty fast.
Underwater Hockey.
The sport which originally started in the U.K.
is now popular all over the world.
The game is played just like regular hockey,
but instead of an ice rink, it's under water,
and it involves snorkeling equipment and a 2.2 pound puck.
In fact, it's becoming so popular that countries
are actually forming teams to compete
in national championships.
This kind of looks interesting,
but why would you want to make a game
harder for yourself?
I mean, water just makes everything harder,
especially video games.
(video game beeping)
Chess Boxing.
Touted as the ultimate test of brains and brawns,
this sport is exactly what it sounds like.
It's 11 four-minute rounds alternating
between boxing and chess.
After a round of chess, the board is removed,
and the opponents beat the piss out of each other
until the round is over, and then the board comes back,
and around and around they go
until someone either gets a knockout or a checkmate.
Which seems interesting, except,
am I the only one that sees an inherent flaw in this game?
If you're some hulking brute,
you don't even need to know how to play chess,
just wait until the chess round is over,
and then toss a huge gorilla paw into the face
of your opponent and knock him out!
Hmm, oh, well, I believe that's check--
(bell ringing)
What? Oh!
(banging)
(groaning)
Airkicking.
This strange sport catapults people 26 feet into the air
into either a body of water or a foam pit.
Using a catapult that combines air pressure
and water recoil technology,
a specific trajectory is set,
and the participant pushes a button
only to be super Dave Osborne'd into the air.
See, I kind of get being launched into a lake,
because that's a big target, but a foam pit?
First of all, what the hell is foam going to do
to break your fall?
And secondly, that's a much smaller target than a lake.
What if that thing misfires?
Bitch, you goin' to be dead.
Hell no!
Slacklining.
Wow, this one's unnecessarily dangerous.
Slacklining is walking across nylon webbing
that's anchored between two anchor points,
which sounds a lot like tightrope walking
except for the fact that the line is given extra slack
so that it's loose.
And apparently, that's why people do this,
because the extra slack allows for tricks and stunts.
Yeah, 'cause if I was 3,000 feet in the air
that's what I'd be thinking about.
Not, "Will I survive?" but "What stunt will I do next?"
No, actually, if it was me I'd be thinking
about getting new underwear.
I don't like heights.
Eukonkanto, is that how you pronounce it?
Originating as a joke in Finland,
wife carrying is a sport where a man
heaves his wife over his shoulder,
and goes through an obstacle course.
If at any point the contestant drops his wife
before the end of the 250 meter race,
there's a 15 second penalty.
You know, I gotta be honest,
I saw a video of a guy doing this,
it doesn't seem that challenging.
All these guys' wives are pretty thin.
You want to impress me?
Carry Honey Boo Boo's mom,
then we'll see how far you get.
Oh, baby, get Mama's prayin' board.
Buzkashi.
Popular in Afghanistan, this sport involves competitors
racing around on horses,
trying to snatch the carcass of a dead goat
away from each other.
Way to fight those stereotypes, Afghanistan.
The goal is to get the dead carcass either
over a line or into a tub.
Man, that sounds awful.
If I was a goat in Afghanistan I'd be pretty paranoid
that I'd be somebody's next play toy.
Just a bit of (mumbling) to the paddock of mine.
That one.
Baa?
Mountain Bike Swamp Snorkeling.
In the U.K. a yearly bike race takes place,
but not on a road, in a swamp, instead.
Typhoid, anyone?
Racers trudge through almost seven feet deep swamps
to race to the finish line.
The competition started in 2000 after a pub landlord
got hammered and came up with the idea.
Sounds about right.
This is actually a really smart competition to start,
I mean, think of the sponsorship opportunities.
Unicef banners everywhere promoting the awareness
of water-born diseases, brilliant!
And finally, Kabaddi.
In India, they have a sport that's kind of a weird version
of the game tag that we have here in the western world.
Two teams of seven send one player, called the raider,
into the opponent's territory to tag them,
at which point they're out.
What's weird about it is that the raider isn't allowed
to breathe while he's in the opponent's territory,
and to prove it, he must continuously chant, "Kabaddi."
This might kind of seem weird to us in the western world,
but I assure you, this is probably the least weirdest
of all the sports in India.
They have pole gymnastics.
That hurts my nuts just lookin' at it.
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