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[dave_d]

BTW, how could anybody forget X-Arm?

 

[Fbh]

Lol awesome thread. Didn't know about most of these.

To be honest I still find Baseball weird. Like so many of these are still essentially either "throw the thing to their side in a way they can return it before it hits the floor" or "get the thing to this location to score a point".

And baseball is like "hit the ball and them run really fast in a circle before they catch it and throw it back"

 

[UnNamed]

Not the strangest, but very unusual

 

[MastaKiiLA]

Blind football. It's not strange because it's football. It's strange because they're blind. Bless them, they get to enjoy the beautiful game, but I can't imagine playing the game with only audio cues.

 

[Jeff Spicoli]

Blind football. It's not strange because it's football. It's strange because they're blind. Bless them, they get to enjoy the beautiful game, but I can't imagine playing the game with only audio cues.

They play pretty good.

 

[Hulk_Smash]

Okay so this is new to me: Netball.



I never knew this was a thing and why this exists when ultimate frisbee and… you know… BASKETBALL exist confuses me.

I like what one YouTube commenter said, “It’s the WNBA of the WNBA.”

Still less traveling than a typical James Harden game.

 

[Cockles & Whelks]

They play pretty good.

Sign them up for Arsenal.

(I'm an Arsenal fan)

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Curling. They use some brooms to sweep the floor I guess to guide that disk or whatever. What a fucking weird sport.

 

[GymWolf]

Calcio storico?! A mix between football, soccer and mma.



Yeah also carling, that shit must be the sport that nerds chose to get credits in high school.

 

[SJRB]

Kabaddi

Although I have to say it has come a long way from when it used to be on British TV 20 odd years ago, when it was just a bunch of guys in their underwear in the dirt.

lol, what the hell is happening?


Man this thread is a goldmine, so much weird stuff.

 

[Ballthyrm]

Jai-alai (pronounced hyly). Like a mixture of lacrosse and racquetball. I only know about it because of its inclusion to the Miami Vice TV intro.

This is just a rebranded basque pelota


For my pick I choose Kayak Football

 

[IDKFA]

The masturbation world championship.

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Meet Masanobu Sato. He has held the World Champion Masturbator title since 2008, with his most recent award-winning session lasting 9 hours, 59 minutes. (He couldn't hold on for another 60 seconds? Champion, my ass.) Sato is a regular participant in San Francisco's annual Masturbate-a-Thon. The...

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[22:22:22]

What could go wrong?

 

[IDKFA]

Sorry for the double post, but just thought of another one.

Slap fights.

 

[niilokin]

that slap sport would be cooler if they slapped each other's tummies

 

[Hulk_Smash]

For my pick I choose Kayak Football

Hahaha. That dude thought he was playing football when it was suddenly turned into joust.

 

[nightmare-slain]

Blind football. It's not strange because it's football. It's strange because they're blind. Bless them, they get to enjoy the beautiful game, but I can't imagine playing the game with only audio cues.

that actually seems interesting. i'd love to give that a try.

as for real blind players who play football. just because they are blind doesn't mean they can't see shit. loads of blind people play football. they have some degree of vision. i knew a blind girl who played competitively. if you stood in front of her she couldn't see you (just a shadow if the environment was bright) but she was able to play cause the white ball reflected enough light and was contrasted against the pitch well enough to make it out. other players on the team could "see" but shit was just really really blurry.

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

 

[niilokin]

goddammit now I can't stop watching big men slap the shit out of each other

 

[Tschumi]

Bog snorkelling - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Winner.

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AFL from Australia is pretty wild.. a sport made up to use cricket pitches in winter, the pitch can be 200m long and someone was clearly so pleased with himself that he figured out how to bounce an oval ball that he got it enshrined in the rules... And like they're the only people who need to run straight on to a kick to make it go straight lol

 

[Tschumi]

That sport's bloody awesome and along with grass hockey, shotput and futsal i was born good at it for no good reason

 

[dorkimoe]

There is also some sport in some country where they basically try and grab and twist each others balls off

 

[Tschumi]

The masturbation world championship.

Japanese Man Wins Masturbation Championship After 10-Hour Jerk Session - LA Weekly

Meet Masanobu Sato. He has held the World Champion Masturbator title since 2008, with his most recent award-winning session lasting 9 hours, 59 minutes. (He couldn't hold on for another 60 seconds? Champion, my ass.) Sato is a regular participant in San Francisco's annual Masturbate-a-Thon. The...

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Foolproof doping: getting your wife to say filthy shit in a hidden earphone

...

New favourite thread this

 

[dave_d]

Wow, and I thought horse dancing in the Olympics was strange but that's got nothing on some of these.

 

[Mohonky]

Kick Volleyball?

Sepak Takraw athletes are incredible.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

 

[Hulk_Smash]

Daredevil would be the Michael Jordan of this sport.

 

[BadBurger]

Croquet seems pretty dumb and strange.

 

[Hulk_Smash]

Another strange one: Speedball.

It’s the closest thing we will get to pro tetherball.

 

[INC]

Football/Soccer is pretty gay, not sure about strange

 

[Rickyiez]

Esport . Watching kids half or a third of your age must be weird .

Just Kidding ! I love Esport

 

[cherry2000]

I mean... Who understands cricket?

let Casey Jones educate you

 

[Ballthyrm]

Esport . Watching kids half or a third of your age must be weird .

Just Kidding ! I love Esport

If you've never played the game it ranks as strange really fast as it's almost impossible to understand what's going on without the commentary.

 

[Kev Kev]

And here I was about say “oh cricket, it’s definitely cricket”

lol, it is most definitely not cricket. I had no idea there were so many weird “sports” out there

 

[DKehoe]

 

[Great Hair]

Another strange one: Speedball.

It’s the closest thing we will get to pro tetherball.

Dead

This can't be real

 

[PaddyOCanager]

There is also some sport in some country where they basically try and grab and twist each others balls off

Yep this is what I was gonna post.

/thread

 

[Dr_Salt]

Edit: Already beaten to it.

 

[Hulk_Smash]

Yep this is what I was gonna post.

/thread

Jeebus. Yes, this takes the thread. Strange and deadly.

 

[Star-Lord]

Where’s Quidditch?

 

[Hulk_Smash]

Where’s Quidditch?

 

[Great Hair]

 

[Artoris]

Crazy Russians throw poo in one of the weirdest sports on the planet

WHERE Britain has a cheese-rolling festival, Russia has the sport of poo-throwing.

www.dailystar.co.uk

 

[Great Hair]

 

[kuncol02]

They play pretty good.

They are better than our national team.

 

[Marvel]

 

[01011001]

well... is it forbidden to kick the ball in regular Volleyball? I think it isn't... pretty sure you can use any part of you body (yeah I'm somewhat of an expert... i watched Haikyuu) so in a way normal Volleyball is already kick volleyball and normal volleyball all in 1!

 

[Great Hair]

 

[EverydayBeast]

it's a solid looking sport, has players coming together, I feel like it's strange compared to the "normal" sports. I was surprised to see water polo.

 

[Westcliff]