Ninh explains the Top 10 Weirdest Sports in the World … Part 3.
You’re doing another one of these?
Boy you must be really running out of ideas.
Yeah kind of.
But it’s mainly because more and more weird sports keep appearing on my YouTube feed.
if you haven’t already do so, subscribe (obviously) and turn on the notifications
so that you can see these on your feed, but here’s 10 more of the weirdest sports in
the world.
#1 Sporthocker Are you a lazy bastard who like to sit down
on a chair, but finds the act of doing so incredibly boring?
Why not spice it up a notch and be a sporthocker.
Those normally sensible Germans have invented a sport where you have to find the most creative
way of sitting down on a chair.
The idea is to perform the most visually aesthetic way to sit down on a special stool, known
as a hocker and the person adjudged to have done so, wins.
I kid you not, this is an actual thing and it’s pretty big in Germany.
#2 Yukigassen It wouldn’t be a weirdest video without
the Japanese, who have taken a simple pastime and turned it into a violent sport.
Imagine, taking a simple snowball fight and arming players with pads, helmets and snowballs
so hard that they feel like rocks.
That’s basically what the Japanese call, Yukigassen.
The game is played between two teams and the idea is to hit your opponent with these specially
manufactured snowballs, which are all the same size and weight.
Once an opponent is hit, they’re out.
The team that scores the most amount of hits, captures their opponents’ flag without being
hit or eliminates their opponents completely … wins.
It’s weird, but I’d totally play it.
#3 Underwater … anything.
Take a perfectly normal sport and play it in a pool underwater and you get a “completely
new sport”.
Believe it or not, sports exist such as underwater football, underwater hockey, underwater rugby,
and underwater target shooting … but I’ve not seen anyone play underwater quidditch
yet.
I assume some idiot watching this video will be inventing that shortly.
#4 Ga ga This was originally an Israeli sport that
was introduced into the US.
And it kinda looks like dodgeball but in a very small octagonal ring.
And that’s exactly what it is.
The idea is to slap the ball into another person and if it hits them anywhere below
the waist, they’re out and they have to leave the ring.
This process of elimination carries on until there’s only one player left.
If you’re the last person standing, you win … kind of.
#5 Pillow Fighting Oooh MMA, it’s too violent.
We don’t want our ladies being hurt in combat.
That’s probably what the calm country of Canada thought when they invented this … professional
pillow fighting.
A sport specifically for women, the idea is to beat the crap out of your opponent using
a giant oversized pillow.
Most moves are legal so long as you use the pillow in some form or another.
Grappling, hits to the back of the head, choking your opponent until they asphyxiate… it’s
all perfectly legal so long as you use the pillow.
I think the stereotype of Canada being a peaceful nation is grossly exaggerated.
#6 Kaninhoppning.
Sweden apparently has a distinct lack of horses.
How else do you explain why they choose to do equestrian showjumping with bunny rabbits.
Yes, the rules of the sport are almost identical to Olympic version played with horses, and
the rabbit who completes the course with the fewest amount of faults is the winner.
And for those who think that this is just a gimmick, they now have a World Rabbit Hopping
Organization that organizes contests around the world.
Seriously.
#7 Zorbing Would you like to roll down a hill inside
a giant inflatable ball, suffering from enough G forces to make you spew vomit all over yourself?
Well now you can!
In various parts of the world but especially in England – you can race these things.
The fastest down the hill or the first one to get to the bottom in a race, is the winner.
Well, the English have to be the best in the world at something, right?
#8 Giant Pumpkin Kayaking.
When you don’t have the money to do normal kayaking, why not grow a giant pumpkin and
use that instead?
Said no-one ever.
Wait a minute, they actually did that?!
Yes, over in North America – there are places where you can contest races in giant carved
out pumpkins.
It’s basically like normal kayaking, and as with any race, the first person to get
to a specific point wins.
You don’t win anything other than the shame of coming first in a totally pointless sport.
#9 Booty slapping In the last video, I mentioned the Russian
game of slaps where the point is to knock out your opponent by slapping them in the
face.
This is usually contested by men, and the women must have felt little left out because
they came up with their own version.
The object of this game is to slap the ass of your opponent and try and get them to either
quit, or fall over.
Players, take it in turns to do this and the last one standing is the winner.
But when the athletes look like this … it’s kinda easy to see past the total weirdness
of it all.
In fact, let’s just watch it for a little bit ….. okay moving on.
#10 Car Curling.
Russia makes two appearances in this video, and their second sport is this … car curling.
It’s played exactly the same as regular curling, but instead of one person pushing
a curling rock and others using brooms to steer it – there’s several people pushing
a car, and someone still actually in the damn thing using the steering wheel to change its
direction.
The object of the game is the same, the car closest to the centre of the house, wins.
Vodka consumption in vast quantity is highly encouraged.
Seriously, there’s no rules against that.
Now, I know what you’re going to say … because you’re all so freaking predictable.
Uuuuh you forgot about cheese rolling.
Dumbass, you didn’t mention cheese rolling.
Cheese rolling, cheese rolling, cheese rolling, cheese rolling, he he he, cheese rolling.
Firstly, I didn’t “forget” because cheese rolling is NOT a sport.
For those of you that doesn’t know what it is, once a year on a hill in Gloucestershire,
people gather at the top and wait for a roundel of cheese to be rolled down the hill.
The first person to run down to the bottom hill and grab the cheese, wins the block of
cheese.
This usually results in people falling over and breaking various bones and ligaments trying
to win something that you can easily buy at your local supermarket.
It’s NOT a sport, because this is not contested regularly, hence the once a year thing.
And also, there are no apparent rules, so you could punch that fat bitch who’s also
trying to win that block of mouldy cheese.
I repeat, NOT a sport.
Is there any more sports that I don’t know about?
Comment below and if there’s enough to make a fourth video, I’ll do that.
But I think I covered most of them …
Ninh Ly - www.ninh.co.uk - @NinhLyUK
… NOT A SPORT!