Wacky Sports From Around the World

Chessboxing- Chessboxing is pretty much a combination between the worlds hardest thinking game and the worlds most physical game. In chessboxing two opponents go back and forth between chess tournaments and boxing matches. After eleven rounds the winner is whoever had the most over all wins.

Baby Cry Sumo- Wow, talk about weird! As if huge men wrestling in diapers isn’t enough now we have this. baby cry sumo is pretty much, sumo wrestlers get babies. And they shake the babies and yell at them until the babies cry, the first baby to cry is the winner. Ok, so you may be thinking cry baby, but I know I would cry if a three hundred pound man was shaking and yelling at me!

Bossaball- Jumping on a trampoline is a lot of fun. So is playing volleyball. So why not put the together? That’s exactly what some people in Belgium did. In bossaball people basically play volleyball on a big circular trampoline. The refs are called “somba refs” the reason for this is because while the refs, well…. ref, they play music called somba. Somba comes from South Brazile. This game can be played with three to five people. It sounds like a lot of fun so why not try it out?

Zorbing- I would hardly consider it a sport but it looks like huge fun. When zorbing a participant or two are put inside a big inflated plastic ball. Then they are rolled down a hill. Sounds like fun right? You can even bring a friend along if you want to and for extra fun, you can add water to slip and slide around. The riders inside the Ball are called zorbonauts. If you’ve heard of zorbing I bet you don’t know this, it was originally invented so people could “walk” on water (because it floats) soon after the original inventors of the zorb , Andrew Akers and Dwayne van der Sluis, found it was even funner to do it on land. Although its most common in New Zealand it is also found in some other countries.