http://im.rediff.com/movies/2006/nov/03cops.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70KuG3fHG7k

Reading the rules and the wiki description I still don't really get it. You touch someone on the other team, or they try to take you down?
My interest started when I saw this picture on The Star, a Toronto newspaper.
http://i28.tinypic.com/wrlw2d.jpg
Anyone have experience with it?

I have absolutely no clue what the **** is going on, but it's incredibly hilarious.

It combines the physicality of rugby with the intimacy of hand-holding.

From wikipedia



In the team, or transnational, style of kabaddi, two teams of seven occupy opposite halves of a field of 12.5m × 10m (roughly half the size of a basketball court). Each has five supplementary players held in reserve. The game is in 20-minute halves, with a five-minute half-time break during which the teams switch sides.

Teams take turns sending a "raider" to the opposite team's half, where the goal is to tag or wrestle ("confine") members of the opposite team before returning to the home half. Tagged members are "out" and sent off the field.

Meanwhile, defenders must form a chain, for example by linking hands; if the chain is broken, a member of the defending team is sent off. The goal of the defenders is to stop the raider returning to the home side before taking a breath. If the raider takes a breath before returning, the raider is sent off the field.

A player can also get out by going over a boundary line or part of the body touches the ground outside the boundary, except during a struggle with an opposing team member.

Each time a player is out the opposing team earns a point. A team scores a bonus of two points, called a lona, if the entire opposing team is declared out. At the end of the game, the team with the most points wins.

Matches are staged on age and weight. Six officials supervise a match: one referee, two umpires, a scorer and two assistant scorers.



So basically

Offense:
-1 person goes into the other team's territory (raider)
-that person has to hold their breath....???
- Raider has to tag a member of the Defence and then return to the safe side
------if successful the tagged defender is "out"
-Each successful run yields a point
-getting an entire team out yields two poitns

Deffense:
-Team forms a line
-Each member should avoid getting tagged
-Team can stop the raider from returning to its territory by tackling/wrestling it



Yah, I still have no idea :5dunce:

Interesting though. Looks like a good elementary school PE game.

That is so awesome on so many levels.

You all fail at wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabaddi

here we go

YouTube - 2005 Kabaddi World Cup Peel Police (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfe5RV-p7G8)

After watching this clip, I now upgrade this sport to a good grappling after-practice game.

I love the sumo technique at 00:33

How do they tell who is/isn't breathing?

I thought I could try this game out, but damn, I can only hold my breath for like 20 seconds.

I think the holding the breath part is only part of the older game?

Edit:
From a youtube comment of a guy named Kabbadi
"offenseive player (raider) has 30 seconds to touch a defender, or get touched or have a defender step out of bounds and get back to his starting point. Defends (stoppers) want to prevent the raider from getting back within those 30 seconds by wasting time, tackling the player down and keeping them down, pushing them out of bounds, or preventing them from returning by one on one confrontation"

So it seems like they use a flat 30seconds instead of holding your breath.

Makes sense. I guess that's a modern day adaptation to the holding-your-breath rule. Most people would only be able to hold it that long while running around and taggin each other I'm guessing.


SO! Kabbadi at the next MTD?

So it's capture the flag but totally queermo?

How do they tell who is/isn't breathing?

I thought I could try this game out, but damn, I can only hold my breath for like 20 seconds.

I vaguely recall reading somewhere that the original rule was that a player had to keep saying "Kabbadi-kabbadi-kabbadi" loud enough for the other players or the referee to hear; it would be obvious when he ran out of breath because he'd have to stop saying "kabbadi" to gasp for air.

This might also explain the use of grappling as a delaying tactic in the game. It's not that they're trying to pin each other, just to restrain the runner until he has to take a breath.

So it's capture the flag but totally queermo?

Only if you oil up first.

That **** makes as much sense as a soup sandwich.

Thanks Ddlr.

On a side note, I see a big difference in technique between the videos (better teamwork). This is starting to look more fun; the only change is it should be played at night, with everyone dressed as ninjas.

So Red Rover Red Rover is also a combat sport?