Weird Sports

What is Aqua Jogging?: Aqua Jogging involves wearing a personal flotation device which helps to keep your body floating in the water and then moving your arms and legs in jogging or running motion in the deep end of a pool where your feet cannot touch the bottom of the pool. Aqua Jogging is a fun and practical form of cross-training which is most popular with professional athletes, in fact, Aqua Jogging is considered the most popular form of cross-training among professionals.  Source: What Equipment Do You Need?: There are many different forms of equipment that can be used in Aqua jogging with the simplest being a flotation belt however some athletes take the extra step and use resistance shoes as well as resistance gloves or weights to make the jog even harder.  How Do I Try?: References: Shelley, J., 2016. Aqua jogging : How, When And Why To Try It . [online] the Guardian. Available at: < https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/the-...

Underwater Hockey: What's it all about? The Basics: Underwater hockey is a non-contact sport, which is already quite different to its land-based counterpart, it consists of two teams attempting to manoeuvre a puck along the bottom of the floor of a swimming pool into the opponents' goal. Players must wear a diving mask along with fins and a snorkel as well as some other personal protective equipment such as mouth-guard , gloves, head caps and others. The Puck weighs in at 1.5kg and is made of lead-coated in a plastic covering. The weight of the puck means that it will naturally gravitate to the bottom of the pool however during passes the puck can be lifted off the bottom of the pool.  The Rules: So then, what is Underwater Hockey and how does that even work? Well, Underwater Hockey or sometimes referred to (Mainly in the UK) as octopush has: The game has a total of 12 players with 10 active players. The players are broken down into three categories, poo...