After learning about the following strange sports, you'll think that today's mainstream sports couldn't be more normal.
1. Carrying the daughter-in-law This sport began as a game for villagers in a small town in Finland, and has evolved into a fancy show of love to strengthen the body. At the annual North American Daughter Carrying Contest, the winner not only gets a beer equal to his wife's weight and a cash prize of five times his wife's weight, but also a ticket to the World Daughter Carrying Contest in Finland.
2. Chess Boxing As the name suggests, this sport requires players to alternate between a four-minute game of chess and a three-minute boxing match, in which the player is knocked out in the ring or killed on the board, and loses the game immediately. It should be said that the double test of intelligence and physical strength is the charm of this sport.
3. Cheese Rolling This sport, which originated in the UK, has evolved into the annual Cheese Rolling Festival in May. Participants chase a giant wheel of cheese that rolls down a hill, and the one who comes out on top owns the cheese. Although the 3.6 kilograms of giant cheese looks tempting, but from down the steep slope of the nearly 200-meter-high mountaintop slide, or many participants paid the price of injury.
4. Extreme ironing In 1997, tired of the uniform textile work of the British Phil Shaw whim, after work every day began a rock climbing, while ironing movement. Two years later, traveling the world, he began to carry forward this movement. The requirements of the sport are very simple, only a man, an iron, an ironing board, plus a variety of "on the mountain under the fire" general dangerous environment. But, as the contestants say, "It's not us who are in danger, it's our clothes."
5. Egg throwing is a sport? Actually, it's claimed to be one of the oldest sports in England! It also has its own World Egg Throwing Championships, which includes a variety of smaller events - including a 45-meter "egg catch and throw" competition, and the chance to choose one of the eggs in a carton of mixed eggs to throw at yourself. The World Egg Throwing Championships include a variety of events - including a 45-meter "catch and throw" competition, a "Russian roulette" game where you have to choose from a carton of raw and cooked eggs and smash them over your head, and an easy-to-understand "target throwing" game. The eggs are a pain in the ass. ......
6. Underwater field hockey In the 1950s, a new underwater sport similar to field hockey and ice hockey was invented by a group of British scuba divers, and it has since spread around the world. Although the game itself is impossible for spectators outside the water to enjoy, the sport itself is perfectly safe with the resistance of the water and the protection of the equipment. Just this year, on July 8, Chengdu also established the first underwater field hockey club, and some of the players will also represent China at the 2015 Water Hockey Asia Cup in Indonesia.
7. shin to kick two contestants grabbed together, kick each other's calf shins, until one side can not support the ground until - you can think of such a brutal sport is from the hand of the always courteous British gentleman? As early as five or six hundred years ago, this kind of sport evolved from wrestling, is the British Cotsworld district of the village Olympic Games program. The shin, the main load-bearing bone in the lower leg, was barely protected by any muscles, so competitors would enter with straw stuffed in their legs and special soft shoes.
8. Toe Wrestling You've heard of arm-wrestling, but have you heard of toe-wrestling? The rules of the sport, which originated with British farmer George Burgess in the 1970s, are simple: the two contestants clamp their big toes together and place their feet in an area known as the "toe stand", and the contestant who pushes his opponent's foot to the edge of the stand wins the match.
9. Rattan ball Similar to Korean netball, rattan ball can also be called "volleyball with feet". The sport originated in Southeast Asia and has been a favorite since the 15th century. Today, rattan is the national sport of Thailand, and they are the undisputed champions of the sport. Therefore, when garcinia cambogia is used as an Asian Games sport, it is rare to see the monopoly of China, Japan and South Korea, and this diversification, to a certain extent, avoids the dominance of a single player.
10. Human-dog dance competition This mix of obedience, tricks and dancing requires a dance between dog and owner to music. Perhaps it's the skillful coordination between dogs and their owners and the delicate dancing that truly illustrates what it means to be a dog's most loyal friend.