Reading all these posts about these sports i find no topic about my great unknown sport: Under water hockey
It is played on the bottom of the pool: 6 vs. 6
You play with a small stick and you're wearing a snorkel, fins and glasses.

Anyone play/know other cool unknown sports???

Finland is the land of cool unknown sports, like wife carrying.

I have also watched the Finnish play the under water rugby world championships.

They didn't win but it was a tough sport by the looks of it.

Oina (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oina) .

Romanian sport that's incredibly similar to baseball. Really. :) The incredibly part is that it is first mentioned in 1364. :p When it was already widespread around here.

Reading all these posts about these sports i find no topic about my great unknown sport: Under water hockey
It is played on the bottom of the pool: 6 vs. 6
You play with a small stick and you're wearing a snorkel, fins and glasses.

Anyone play/know other cool unknown sports???

My University has an actual team for that!!

We had some American players play in Belgium when they were on a European holiday.
The sport is "rather known" in Australia, South Africa and some other countries as The Netherlands, France, the UK, New Zealand,...

Oh, and of course I should mention pesäpallo, the Finnish national sport. Also veeeery similar to baseball.

Gaelic Football (http://youtube.com/watch?v=StcMJkQ80ns) is awesome

These are some cool sports!

I also heard of a Belgian team winning the world championship of mud-soccer.

Oh, and of course I should mention pesäpallo, the Finnish national sport. Also veeeery similar to baseball.

Many other unknown sports are also similar to baseball. After all, the basic idea is hitting a ball with a stick... :)

I wonder how well known Australian Rules Football is.

I bet most women's sports are unknown here.

Hockey in the USA is pretty unknown.








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I bet most women's sports are unknown here.

Nagging and shopping?

:rotfl:

I wonder if Marla will get angry with you if she sees hat.

I wonder if Marla will get angry with you if she sees hat.

Probably; her headwear-triggered rage is legendary.

Darn you Eran, for pointing our mispress of the keyboard.

Many other unknown sports are also similar to baseball. After all, the basic idea is hitting a ball with a stick... :)
Yeah, except iirc päsepallo is played religiously by the Finnish army and includes moments designed to make you better at stuff like throwing hand-granades.

Which kind of make sense, if it's actually true that Finnish uses the same word for "sport" as for "war".:crazyeye:

There's "Savate", one of the few remaining European martial arts. There were such around in the olden days, but unlike in Asia almost all of them were never codified, Savate being an exception. It has the same greeting rituals as fencing btw, which helps make it look really odd.

Started with French sailors in the 16th c. or so, and the veeery long kicks are kind of a trademark. It's still being practised, but not so much kicking these days, as they tend to leave you wide open for counterattacks from practitioners of other martial arts.

Nice clip form the 1934 championships from youtube, and the British commentary kind of helps to make it even weirder.:lol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZaNtm-5mCo

Most famous practitioner: Professor Cuthbert Calculus/Tryphon Tournesol from the Tintin-series.;)

hehehe, that looks really...French :D

I've heard Muggle Quiddich is quite fun...I've never tried it meself.

There's this one sport called soccer...

There's this one sport called soccer...

Pretty uknown in the states, but other then that, the planet's national sport :p

Basque sport: Pelota.

involves hands, raquets and a wall...


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Ustaritz_Fronton_Pala.jpg


wiki page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_pelota)

http://www.cracked.com/article_15209_10-most-insane-sports-in-world.html

I really want to see a hurling game actually. Sounds interesting.

The Eton Wall Game is also interesting. Especially since the last goal was scored in 1909! i'm serious :lol:

shinty. (hockey for those that don't mind being clubbed to death). there's an annual shinty v hurling competition, too.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/73585/DSC_8030.jpg

Especially since the last goal was scored in 1909! i'm serious :lol:

hehe, looks like an exciting game!:rolleyes: