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Author Topic: Sports! What sport do you practice or appreciate?  (Read 3400 times)

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Re: Sports! What sport do you practice or appreciate?
« Reply #40 on: March 07, 2015, 12:02:41 AM »



Never played this but looks awesome. Tag + wrestling + red rover?

This is a little different.

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Re: Sports! What sport do you practice or appreciate?
« Reply #41 on: March 07, 2015, 07:19:26 AM »

The "Midshipmen" do what is practised in Judo, Jiu-Jitsu and MMA schools. In many martial arts disciplines a form of wrestling/grappling or sparring is practised, also in training for the armed forces.

Even in "standing" traditional martial arts this kind of training can occur.
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Re: Sports! What sport do you practice or appreciate?
« Reply #42 on: August 03, 2015, 09:00:23 AM »

Hmmm, I started off as a child in T-ball...lol and I struck out.  I didn't like the sport.  I went on to try basketball, and again (maybe I was too young at the time) but I didn't enjoy it.  I tried chess, and I liked it but grew out of it.  Tried table tennis but there isn't much competition here while I was the age of about 14. 

I got involved in volleyball and have been playing it for about 20 years.  I got hooked because I got to see pros come to Hawaii's Haili Tournament and watch how athletic they were.  For instance, Allen Allen who played for the UH Manoa mens v-ball team is only 6ft tall but could jump waist high to the top of the net and smash balls.  It felt like the punch of subwoofer when he hit the ball.  He also played for the USA mens v-ball team. 

5 years back I began training MMA (Jujitsu, some Judo, Wrestling, Boxing, Muay-thai, a little of Kenpo) only to have self defense because BJ Penn's goons would try to fight random people to promote their gym.  A friend of mine got his ass kicked because of them.  Fortunately, I never had that problem. Other than that, I'm open to any sport but have enjoyed v-ball mostly.  I wish we had a Hockey team here but that never happened. Rugby just started up and I wish that was here when I was growing up also. 
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Re: Sports! What sport do you practice or appreciate?
« Reply #43 on: August 03, 2015, 09:50:23 AM »

Just noticed the video on kabbadi, the national sport here. Awesome combination of agility, strength and lung power. You have to repeat the word "kabaddi" continuously when you enter the opponents''s part of the rectangle. The opponent team literally falls on you and you try to go back to your half while repeating the word. If you lose your breath and stop the repetition, you are out. If you come back successfully, the number of opponents who wrestled you down unsuccessfully are out. Played it all the time in high school !
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