as long as its physical and it has a set
of rules you’ve got yourself a sport at
least you do according to the people who
play these thrown from a bulrush skin
blanket contestants are judged on
heightened balance foam and Blanding
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
10 unusual sports in the world
well I said it was a little crazy for
the X Games as well it first it got into
the first X Games after that it that was
it too crazy for him for this list we’re
looking at sports that may look or sound
baffling but actually require skills and
effort like mainstream or more well
known sports do and who knows you might
just find yourself a new sport to get
into here injuries are commonplace a
spell a cuts a sad-ass floor bulimia gas
page book my poinsettias go solid the
distance memory serves me often Ballarat
the abacus multi-layer number 10 one
foot high kick sometimes known as the
Inuit one foot high kick this game is
one of the events at the world eskimo
Indian Games in Fairbanks Alaska though
its name makes it sound easy this sport
in fact requires great finesse and
flexibility it’s just
a battle for your own personal best
hides the athlete can start from either
a standing position or from a running
start after which the competitor will
jump with both feet and kick a suspended
ball or a piece of seal but there’s a
catch after jumping you must land
perfectly with the foot you kicked with
or you will be disqualified number 9
Quidditch Quidditch game of the season
today’s game nigga ring vs. Griffon
though times have changed since JK
Rowling’s Harry Potter series was
adapted into a blockbuster franchise not
only do we have booger flavored jelly
beans and Emma Watson but also we can
now be genuine Quidditch players I found
out we didn’t have a team I was just
kind of shocked so I decided to write
that in there that I had to start one
ever since this formerly fictional game
was first played in 2005 at Middlebury
College in Vermont the popularity of the
sport has broom rocketed within
universities all around the world now
for the latest in the intercollegiate
Quidditch series this week we saw an
intense match up between the Middlebury
Panthers and the Princeton Tigers
January 2013 was the first time
Quidditch was televised as a sporting
event and its reputation has been
growing ever since one particularly cool
thing about the sport is that it lets
you show off your broomstick without
having to carry a dustpan
it’s the Nimbus 2000 it’s the freshest
model out of the market today number
eight shovel racing the rules are simple
anyone can participate there riding a
standard aluminum snow shovel down the
front of Angel fires set aside the broom
because now it’s the shovelers time to
shine and it looks like it could do some
damage no doubt about it
does it ever sound like some sports were
created by employees with too much time
on their hands well in fact some of them
were during the 1970s ski resort workers
in New Mexico would use their shovels to
race each other down the slopes at the
end of the night all right Sean
let it rip buddy as a sport shovel
racing sees competitors sitting on their
shovels with their feet pointed forward
and sliding down hills like there’s no
tomorrow
sometimes reaching a speed of 70 miles
per hour but I have the world record at
73 miles an hour when you’re doing 73
miles an hour sitting this
are off the snow feels like a hundred
and seventy-three due to safety reasons
the sport has been dropped from the X
Games but shovel racing remains an
annual winter event in New Mexico it’s a
tradition the only thing that’s on my
calendar the beginning of every year
number seven sip ACTA Crowl also known
as kick volleyball kick up what this up
me Oh raise your leg if you think
volleyball is overrated
this sport in its name have Malaysian
and Thai origins with set back meaning
kick in melee and to Crowl meaning woven
ball in Thai first played during the
15th century sepak takraw sees players
using their feet head knees and chest to
touch the ball and it’s actually quite
common to see an amazing move such as
the glorious bicycle kick during play if
you think you can kick but are more
concerned about the landing then try out
Spain’s bossa ball instead it’s another
sport similar volleyball but instead it
has an inflatable court with trampolines
on each side of the net and incorporates
features of other sports as well the
sport has been a hit in several
countries with possible clubs having
been established in Germany the
Netherlands Portugal Brazil Romania
Ecuador and Saudi Arabia number six
extreme ironing of all the sports in the
world
this one must be one of the weirdest
looks like someone got so bored ironing
that they had to take it to the extreme
today we’re going to try and break the
world record for underwater writing
these IRA nests will travel to the most
bizarre locations such as the mountains
forests and even underwater to prove
that there are no excuses for those
wrinkles it looks like this record will
be broken in a frenzy of bubbles a
little steam let off along the way the
rules are pretty simple go iron your
clothes and remote locations or places
no one would have thought of and make it
look extreme one thing to note there’s
some argument about whether it’s
actually a sport or not regardless it’s
interesting to think that while so far
many ironists have attempted crazy
stunts as far as we know no one has
attempted ironing while playing
Quidditch so please let us know if you
attempt this or hear of anyone who does
extreme awnings the latest danger sports
that combines the thrills of an extreme
outdoor activity with the satisfaction
of a well pressure number 5 whose cushy
it’s a game which involves landing a
headless goat in it
Oh Persian for goat dragging the sport
consists of up to 500 horseback riders
attempting to drag the carcass of a goat
or a calf across the goal line you can
imagine how brutal it can get when
players are fighting for the carcass
heavy snow doesn’t stop play here these
riders have been going for three hours
depending on the variation of the game
which is mostly played in several
Central Asian countries you’re free to
do almost anything as long as players
don’t intentionally strike or whip each
other and you might get hold of one like
someone else’s got the other like the
Afghan Olympic Federation introduced
rules to make the game a bit more tame
by toning down the violence and
formalizing the number of players but it
still involves the dead animal on the
field
it’s Afghanistan’s national game number
four wife carrying the wife carrying
world championships is one of the most
bizarre sporting events in the world
it’s your marriage on the rocks why not
sign up for the wife carrion contest
originating in Finland this sport is now
practiced in other parts of the world
and even has a category in the Guinness
Book of World Records according to the
International wife carrying competition
Rules Committee there is only one
category and the winner is the male and
female team that’s able to finish the
course in the shortest time sounds
fairly simple except when you consider
that the official track length is 830
1.7 feet with both dry and water-based
obstacles as for the prize that depends
on your wife’s weight in beer naturally
okay yeah
number three cheese rolling
the annual cheese rolling event at
Cooper’s Hill was traditionally done by
the villagers that lived near Gloucester
in England but it has now become a
world-famous event and we have a lot of
crazy people flying downhill chasing a
roll of cheese that travels about 65
kilometers now how does it work a nine
pound round of Double Gloucester cheese
is released at the top of Cooper’s Hill
and the competitors follow after it in
an attempt to catch said cheese
however the sport has somehow turned
more into a race now I’m just going to
try and draw omnibus become apparently
seeing how the cheese can reach a speed
of 70 miles per hour it seems highly
unlikely for anyone to even get near the
damn cheese so instead participants try
to be the first to reach the finish line
at the bottom of the hill just when we
thought we could play with our food
nobody gonna do it I could not even like
to number two chessboxing
the more you think about the sport the
more you may realize there’s something
artistic about its very nature one
minute you’ll fight to survive in the
ring very emotional and the next minute
you sit on a board moving stones that’s
because it be Ruben a performance artist
who is now the president of the World
Chess Boxing organization created it
there will be you know the the game of
the century Lennox Lewis again Vitaly
Klitchko you know we don’t make a world
championship out of it you know
typically you either have brains or
brawn but play the sport you require
both a fight consists of six rounds of
chess and five rounds of boxing which
alternate we start with three minutes of
chest then we box with three minutes
then we go back to the chessboard
continue the same game and you
ultimately win by checkmate or knockout
each round follows the regular rules of
each game meaning you can win each round
by either critical thinking or throwing
critical hits
he puts pressure on him he lands blows
but Andrew a former kickboxer
involuntarily hurts
Gianluca if the game is a stalemate the
player with the most boxing points will
take the title depriving the crowd of
either a checkmate or a knockdown Frank
Stoll anti-terror is the new heavyweight
champion before we unveil our top pick
here are a few honorable mentions
another crowd favorite event at the mud
Olympics it’s the mud sled relay teams
of three taking it in turns to push a
sled along a bogey course lays it off to
teacher reduce scores the speed of the
game the hand-eye coordination the size
of the field it’s been described as a
form of mayhem but ultimately the bottom
line is it’s it’s something like we’ve
never seen before number one oil
wrestling also known as grease wrestling
it’s absolutely crazy I haven’t managed
to keep doing it for our number one
entry we visit Turkey this national
sport can be traced back all the way to
the ancient babylonian times with the
annual turkish oil wrestling tournament
making it one of the oldest sporting
competitions still being played in the
21st century this is a championship
steeped in centuries of tradition and
tons of olive oil in Turkey
approximately a thousand half-naked men
will compete for the three-day
elimination tournament and wrestle each
other while heavily drenched in olive
oils all athletes are required to wear
leather breeches called a kiss pit and
during matches they are encouraged to
pin each other down by slipping their
arms through their opponents kiss bits
to get a firm grip but don’t worry boys
for safety reasons the coin purse is a
total no-go zone Fletcher’s gone
straight on down
what a place
do you agree with our list what do you
think is the most unusual sport
extremely modified for the sport
downtrodden I’m itchin for more
educational top 10s published every day
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
keep it here for all your favorite
Quidditch matches
of rules you’ve got yourself a sport at
least you do according to the people who
play these thrown from a bulrush skin
blanket contestants are judged on
heightened balance foam and Blanding
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
10 unusual sports in the world
well I said it was a little crazy for
the X Games as well it first it got into
the first X Games after that it that was
it too crazy for him for this list we’re
looking at sports that may look or sound
baffling but actually require skills and
effort like mainstream or more well
known sports do and who knows you might
just find yourself a new sport to get
into here injuries are commonplace a
spell a cuts a sad-ass floor bulimia gas
page book my poinsettias go solid the
distance memory serves me often Ballarat
the abacus multi-layer number 10 one
foot high kick sometimes known as the
Inuit one foot high kick this game is
one of the events at the world eskimo
Indian Games in Fairbanks Alaska though
its name makes it sound easy this sport
in fact requires great finesse and
flexibility it’s just
a battle for your own personal best
hides the athlete can start from either
a standing position or from a running
start after which the competitor will
jump with both feet and kick a suspended
ball or a piece of seal but there’s a
catch after jumping you must land
perfectly with the foot you kicked with
or you will be disqualified number 9
Quidditch Quidditch game of the season
today’s game nigga ring vs. Griffon
though times have changed since JK
Rowling’s Harry Potter series was
adapted into a blockbuster franchise not
only do we have booger flavored jelly
beans and Emma Watson but also we can
now be genuine Quidditch players I found
out we didn’t have a team I was just
kind of shocked so I decided to write
that in there that I had to start one
ever since this formerly fictional game
was first played in 2005 at Middlebury
College in Vermont the popularity of the
sport has broom rocketed within
universities all around the world now
for the latest in the intercollegiate
Quidditch series this week we saw an
intense match up between the Middlebury
Panthers and the Princeton Tigers
January 2013 was the first time
Quidditch was televised as a sporting
event and its reputation has been
growing ever since one particularly cool
thing about the sport is that it lets
you show off your broomstick without
having to carry a dustpan
it’s the Nimbus 2000 it’s the freshest
model out of the market today number
eight shovel racing the rules are simple
anyone can participate there riding a
standard aluminum snow shovel down the
front of Angel fires set aside the broom
because now it’s the shovelers time to
shine and it looks like it could do some
damage no doubt about it
does it ever sound like some sports were
created by employees with too much time
on their hands well in fact some of them
were during the 1970s ski resort workers
in New Mexico would use their shovels to
race each other down the slopes at the
end of the night all right Sean
let it rip buddy as a sport shovel
racing sees competitors sitting on their
shovels with their feet pointed forward
and sliding down hills like there’s no
tomorrow
sometimes reaching a speed of 70 miles
per hour but I have the world record at
73 miles an hour when you’re doing 73
miles an hour sitting this
are off the snow feels like a hundred
and seventy-three due to safety reasons
the sport has been dropped from the X
Games but shovel racing remains an
annual winter event in New Mexico it’s a
tradition the only thing that’s on my
calendar the beginning of every year
number seven sip ACTA Crowl also known
as kick volleyball kick up what this up
me Oh raise your leg if you think
volleyball is overrated
this sport in its name have Malaysian
and Thai origins with set back meaning
kick in melee and to Crowl meaning woven
ball in Thai first played during the
15th century sepak takraw sees players
using their feet head knees and chest to
touch the ball and it’s actually quite
common to see an amazing move such as
the glorious bicycle kick during play if
you think you can kick but are more
concerned about the landing then try out
Spain’s bossa ball instead it’s another
sport similar volleyball but instead it
has an inflatable court with trampolines
on each side of the net and incorporates
features of other sports as well the
sport has been a hit in several
countries with possible clubs having
been established in Germany the
Netherlands Portugal Brazil Romania
Ecuador and Saudi Arabia number six
extreme ironing of all the sports in the
world
this one must be one of the weirdest
looks like someone got so bored ironing
that they had to take it to the extreme
today we’re going to try and break the
world record for underwater writing
these IRA nests will travel to the most
bizarre locations such as the mountains
forests and even underwater to prove
that there are no excuses for those
wrinkles it looks like this record will
be broken in a frenzy of bubbles a
little steam let off along the way the
rules are pretty simple go iron your
clothes and remote locations or places
no one would have thought of and make it
look extreme one thing to note there’s
some argument about whether it’s
actually a sport or not regardless it’s
interesting to think that while so far
many ironists have attempted crazy
stunts as far as we know no one has
attempted ironing while playing
Quidditch so please let us know if you
attempt this or hear of anyone who does
extreme awnings the latest danger sports
that combines the thrills of an extreme
outdoor activity with the satisfaction
of a well pressure number 5 whose cushy
it’s a game which involves landing a
headless goat in it
Oh Persian for goat dragging the sport
consists of up to 500 horseback riders
attempting to drag the carcass of a goat
or a calf across the goal line you can
imagine how brutal it can get when
players are fighting for the carcass
heavy snow doesn’t stop play here these
riders have been going for three hours
depending on the variation of the game
which is mostly played in several
Central Asian countries you’re free to
do almost anything as long as players
don’t intentionally strike or whip each
other and you might get hold of one like
someone else’s got the other like the
Afghan Olympic Federation introduced
rules to make the game a bit more tame
by toning down the violence and
formalizing the number of players but it
still involves the dead animal on the
field
it’s Afghanistan’s national game number
four wife carrying the wife carrying
world championships is one of the most
bizarre sporting events in the world
it’s your marriage on the rocks why not
sign up for the wife carrion contest
originating in Finland this sport is now
practiced in other parts of the world
and even has a category in the Guinness
Book of World Records according to the
International wife carrying competition
Rules Committee there is only one
category and the winner is the male and
female team that’s able to finish the
course in the shortest time sounds
fairly simple except when you consider
that the official track length is 830
1.7 feet with both dry and water-based
obstacles as for the prize that depends
on your wife’s weight in beer naturally
okay yeah
number three cheese rolling
the annual cheese rolling event at
Cooper’s Hill was traditionally done by
the villagers that lived near Gloucester
in England but it has now become a
world-famous event and we have a lot of
crazy people flying downhill chasing a
roll of cheese that travels about 65
kilometers now how does it work a nine
pound round of Double Gloucester cheese
is released at the top of Cooper’s Hill
and the competitors follow after it in
an attempt to catch said cheese
however the sport has somehow turned
more into a race now I’m just going to
try and draw omnibus become apparently
seeing how the cheese can reach a speed
of 70 miles per hour it seems highly
unlikely for anyone to even get near the
damn cheese so instead participants try
to be the first to reach the finish line
at the bottom of the hill just when we
thought we could play with our food
nobody gonna do it I could not even like
to number two chessboxing
the more you think about the sport the
more you may realize there’s something
artistic about its very nature one
minute you’ll fight to survive in the
ring very emotional and the next minute
you sit on a board moving stones that’s
because it be Ruben a performance artist
who is now the president of the World
Chess Boxing organization created it
there will be you know the the game of
the century Lennox Lewis again Vitaly
Klitchko you know we don’t make a world
championship out of it you know
typically you either have brains or
brawn but play the sport you require
both a fight consists of six rounds of
chess and five rounds of boxing which
alternate we start with three minutes of
chest then we box with three minutes
then we go back to the chessboard
continue the same game and you
ultimately win by checkmate or knockout
each round follows the regular rules of
each game meaning you can win each round
by either critical thinking or throwing
critical hits
he puts pressure on him he lands blows
but Andrew a former kickboxer
involuntarily hurts
Gianluca if the game is a stalemate the
player with the most boxing points will
take the title depriving the crowd of
either a checkmate or a knockdown Frank
Stoll anti-terror is the new heavyweight
champion before we unveil our top pick
here are a few honorable mentions
another crowd favorite event at the mud
Olympics it’s the mud sled relay teams
of three taking it in turns to push a
sled along a bogey course lays it off to
teacher reduce scores the speed of the
game the hand-eye coordination the size
of the field it’s been described as a
form of mayhem but ultimately the bottom
line is it’s it’s something like we’ve
never seen before number one oil
wrestling also known as grease wrestling
it’s absolutely crazy I haven’t managed
to keep doing it for our number one
entry we visit Turkey this national
sport can be traced back all the way to
the ancient babylonian times with the
annual turkish oil wrestling tournament
making it one of the oldest sporting
competitions still being played in the
21st century this is a championship
steeped in centuries of tradition and
tons of olive oil in Turkey
approximately a thousand half-naked men
will compete for the three-day
elimination tournament and wrestle each
other while heavily drenched in olive
oils all athletes are required to wear
leather breeches called a kiss pit and
during matches they are encouraged to
pin each other down by slipping their
arms through their opponents kiss bits
to get a firm grip but don’t worry boys
for safety reasons the coin purse is a
total no-go zone Fletcher’s gone
straight on down
what a place
do you agree with our list what do you
think is the most unusual sport
extremely modified for the sport
downtrodden I’m itchin for more
educational top 10s published every day
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
keep it here for all your favorite
Quidditch matches
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