Weird Sports

Famous Chess Boxers Nikolay Sazhin was a former Russian world champion of chess boxing. His elo rating is 1911, and he has won many titles such as the international chess boxing in 2011, 2012 and the chess boxing tournament in Berlin in 2008 all in which he was victorious and won. Tim Woolgar is a British chess boxer and event organiser who established Great Britain chess boxing organisation and the London chess boxing club, the first United Kingdom chess boxing institution. Growing up he participated both in chess and boxing separately, hearing that the two contrasting sports can be combined to one sport he was intrigued and took part in it.  Tihomir Dovramadjiev is a Bulgarian chess master and boxer. He won the first European chess boxing championship in October of 2005. He continued to win titles such as the Bulgarian national chess championship and he has played in international chess tournaments. His elo rating was 2356.   This extremely weird sp...

The Secrets Behind Competitive Eating:   Competitive eating is not as easy as it sounds, there are a lot of weird swallowing techniques behind it and not for the faint hearted. In order to be the next Joey Chestnut (world’s most competitive eater) then there’s a few secrets you should know about. 1) There is no set guidance: The more competitions you attend the greater your chance of being a successful eater. There is no manual on how to be the best competitive eater, you learn through practice and enough contests. 2) Water is your best friend: Yes, water is the most important tool for a competitive eater because it increases stomach capacity and is useful in preparing for the big leagues. 3) Work on your jaw muscles: Being able to work your jaw muscles are essential in strengthening your chances of being a competitive eating champion. Being able to actively chew throughout a competition your jaw should not get tired. Hence working those muscles i...

Bull Riding: What is it? A Brief Introduction: Bull riding is a wired sport you heard but never thought about properly. In this sport, the aim is to stay on top of a bucking bull for eight to ten seconds while only using one hand to grip onto it. Bull riding as a sport was surprisingly not formed by some odd bet but as an adaption of bullfighting in the 16th century where a bull would be ridden to death. Ethics Of The Modern Game: The modern version of the sport does not resemble the original version of it. This change is shown by how the primary organization Professorial Bull Riding (PBR) treats the bulls.   Each bull can only do one event a day and can only have two in a competition, the bull most be allowed to recover from an injury before it is allowed to compete again and that they have vets on-site to provide treatment.  However, there is still a 0.04% of a bull having a life-threatening injury in the current state of the sport. To read more on how the bul...

Parkour: The popularity in Parkour Why is it so popular? Not only parkour has become the most popular extreme sport because of what skills and risk it takes to become a master at parkour. Parkour has become a trend nowadays because you can see it being performed in T.V Shows, Video games, movies, social media, etc. Parkour is used as a tool in some action movies or T.V shows to give the audience an intense feeling and amazement, when they see the protagonist performing the sport. For example, In the Netflix show, Daredevil, there is a scene where the main character who is a blind man performs parkour in order to chase a car. What makes this scene unique to parkour is that it makes parkour an exciting sport and gives inspiration to people to perform the sport but they already know that this isn’t one of those sport that requires no effort at all. Can you imagine, a blind man being able to do parkour with so much ease? That stuff is out of this world. Click here for Da...

CHESS BOXING  WHAT IS THIS WEIRD SPORT? : Chess Boxing is the ultimate game where intelligence, patience and muscle are all tested where players quickly switch between a boxing ring and a chessboard. For the final victory one player must either checkmate their opposition in chess or complete a knockout in the boxing ring.  ORIGINS OF THIS WEIRD SPORT : This game has spiritual roots in a scientific fictional graphic novel from 1992 called Froid Equateur, but it was made a reality by Dutch artist Iepe Rubinghin 2003. The graphic novel portrayed a chess boxing world championship, where in which the opponents would participate in an entire boxing match before going up against each other in chess. For a more practical approach, Rubingh developed the game for it to be played within alternating rounds with a set of rules and regulations. This game was later introduced to London by Tom Woolgar who was a part of a match in Germany.  Since then Chess Boxin...

Getting to know this weird sport: Competitive eating or speed eating is exactly what the title suggests, competitively eating large amounts of food under timed conditions. But this sport continues to be a puzzle to the rest of us who do not competitively eat. Various swallowing techniques such as “chipmunking” allows food to pass through much more easily. Yes, the thought of this may make people uneasy. However competitive eaters have to learn the inner workings of their oesophagus and muscles to be a competitive eating champion.  This sport initially evolved from pie-eating contests at county fairs but then evolved to a sport that generates enormous media attention due to Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest held on July 4th every year since 1916. This triggered immense attention and went beyond just pies to eating hot dogs, cakes, burgers and pizzas. The Rules: The rules are quite simple and are constantly regulated around safety standards: Eaters ...

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...