The sports/activities/antics [delete as required] depicted on this page, each with a demo video clip, beat diving, dressage, and most other Olympic sports hands down. Shame upon BOCOG for not selecting wife-carrying [if you really think this is a time-waster just take a look at the prize] as an alternative event to hurdle racing and underwater hockey surely beats synchronised swimming every day of the week. Some of the names are self-explanatory, such as underwater hockey but others take a little thinking about. Ga-Ga for instance isn't something that happens to grannies and granddads but is a form of Dodgeball, played in an octagonal pit. And for all the tired and jaded baseball watchers out there pesapallo is just what's needed to turn a rather repetitive mediocre activity into genuine entertainment. No more neat and tidy circuits of the diamond to score, instead the players run an almost random zig-zag route to make their points. It looks quite chaotic but apparently there are real rules [somewhere] and they are just as precise as those of the original game. Almost on a par with Extreme Ironing - now there's real sport for real men [and women]. :-)

]]> http://micaman.wordpress.com/?p=381 Thu, 15 May 2008 20:16:57 +0000 micaman http://micaman.pt.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/futebol-estranho/ Num dos meus "passeios" pela net, encontrei um artigo acerca de novos desportos derivados de modificações feitas ao deporto "rei". Algumas delas são fantásticas, outras um pouco exageradas. Vejam e comentem qual a que mais vos impressionou.

Chinlone (Mystic Ball)

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Fonte: haha.nu

Bossaball

Jorkyball

Fireball

Futebol Vertical

Bikeball

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Shaolin Soccer

GOOD ATHLETES:

1. Cyclists: these guys have the stamina of ...........things that have lots of stamina, and it takes skill to ride all bunched up like that and not have wrecks. Of course now that I type that it hits me that schools of fish do the same thing and no one would classify them as skillful. Anyway, I'm sticking with cyclists for pure athleticism.

2. Soccer players: yes, it's boring, but damn they run and run and run. When I played college tennis (the worst Division II player in the country), we practiced next to the soccer team and I was always so thankful that I didn't have to run like that. Then a tennis ball would hit me in the head and the coach would yell, "Quit staring at the soccer players. What're you, some kind of homo?"

3. Tennis players: lots of quick movements, hand-eye coordination, and you definitely need stamina, especially playing on hard courts in the South where the on-court temps can reach into the 100s. Plus, it's not easy returning a ball coming at you at 120 mph into a 27' x 49' space.

4. (good) NFL quarterbacks: memorizing a gazillion plays, audibling out of bad plays, going through your rotations for your receivers, dodging tacklers, and still managing to throw the ball to your own player is bewildering. Throw in a couple of hard-hitting sacks and you've got to be tough to be good at this position. By the way, can anyone remember what university the current Super Bowl MVP played at? I can't remember. Oh yea, now I've got it -- THE University of Mississippi, Ole Miss, or The Place Miss. State People Wished They Went.

5. (lightweight) Boxers: The big guys just throw bombs and then hold, but the little guys not only go after each other nonstop, they also have incredible hand-eye coordination, and there's tons of skill involved in being a good defender -- a perfect example is Floyd Mayweather. You simply cannot hit that guy. And I've witnessed his skills live in person in Las Vegas when he fought Oscar de la Hoya (thanks sweet wifey). I was 5 rows back from Will Farrell, John Cusack, and Jim Carey, so I guess you could say we all hung out together that night.

NOT GOOD ATHLETES:

1. Baseball players: Shut up, I don't want to hear it. They suck.

2. These guys. They call it bossaball. I call it stupid-made-up-crap ball. It was invented by dorks who could do flips on a trampoline and then realized they were in their 20s and still jumping on trampolines. So they decided to throw a volleyball into the mix and call it a sport. I wish they would go away and/or someone would just walk up and hit them with a baseball bat. Hey, there's something you suckass baseball players can do for the good of mankind.

3. And definitely not this kid.

Si quieres saber más sobre el bossaball, te recomendamos que visites esta pagina web con una información muy interesante sobre las reglas del juego. Bossaball.com

People, don't be too quick to judge on this one, first please consider this, they have "samba referees".

What is Bossaball you ask? Well, I will tell you. It's a ball game between 2 teams that combines volleyball, football, gymnastics and capoeira. The game is played on a court made of trampolines and inflatables (like a bouncy-bounce, for you layman).

Ha! Now I bet you're thinking "what the hell is capoeira?" Well, I'll tell you that too.

"Capoeira (IPA: [ka.pu.ˈej.ɾɐ]) is an Afro-Brazilian martial art, game, and culture created by enslaved Africans in Brazil during the 17th Century." Thank you wikipedia!

Rules (taken from www.bossaball.com)

How to play:

• The aim of bossaball is for each team to ground the ball on the opponent's field.
• Each team is entitled to a maximum of 8 contacts with the ball on its own field, meanwhile the trampoline jumper gains height to prepare a (spectacular) smash. Any body part can be used.
• Players can touch the ball only once with their hands, or double touch it with their feet and/or head.

How to score:

• Once a team grounds the ball on the inflatables it gains 1 point.
• Scoring on the trampolines is worth 3 points.
• Hitting the bossawall (= the rings around the trampolines) doesn´t count as a score, so the rally continues.

Samba Referees (optional):

• Bossaball referees have a whistle, a microphone, various percussion instruments and a dj set.
• They referee the game and they take it to a higher level. They´re the Masters of Ceremony.
• They´re Samba Referees.
• Samba referees are optional. They´re not required to enjoy a game of bossaball.

Now ladies and gentlemen, I implore you, the world needs to know... Is this really a sport?