Football, basketball and horse riding? These sports are so from yesterday! Slamball, gym wheel, or cross golf could become the new standard sports of the next generation. Ever heard of it? That is about to change – here are 4 still-unknown sports.
4 Sports That Almost No One Knows
Slamball
The ball sport was developed in the USA in the 2000s, so it’s still relatively new. For the most part, it is similar to basketball, but also has similarities to more aggressive and physical sports such as American football or hockey as well as due to the equipment of the playing field, which allows the players completely new movements. The playing field consists of four rectangular trampolines that are under each basket and let the players jump over five meters high, giving them the dunkins. Between the two baskets and the trampolines is the “island” on which the attackers are allowed to stay briefly in order to be able to prepare a new move. All of this is delimited by an acrylic glass wall that can also be used as a gang.
Cross Golf
This is a slightly different variant of classic golf. The difference is that you don’t play it on a golf course, but wherever it is available. You should just make sure that you use a suitable place as a playing field where you cannot injure people – i.e. avoid public places if possible. You can choose the destination yourself, such as a garbage can or, quite simply, a tree. All you need for this are clubs and golf balls, although in cross golf you mustn’t ignore that the golf balls could fly far and leave the foreseen route. You can minimize this risk by using a lighter variant instead of the usual golf balls.
Pato
Pato is also known as basketball on a horseback. While polo is considered a sport for the rich in Argentina and elsewhere, pato has always been a sport for the rural population. “El Pato”, in English “the duck”, was first mentioned in 1610. Until it was banned by the church in 1822, Argentine gauchos fought over a live duck at this game, which often ended in bloody conditions for both the duck and the rider. Today, instead of poultry, a leather ball with four handles is thrown in a basket at the end of the field and the Pato horses are now traded just as high as the expensive polo horse. Pato has been the official national sport of Argentina since 1953.
Jugger
The orign of this sport comes from the 1989 feature film “The Jugger Fight of the Best”. The director invented this game back than because he needed it for the plot of the film. It is about wandering teams of men with their poor livelihoods and only one goal in mind: to be accepted into the league in which cruel gladiatorial fights are fought for the entertainment of the nobles. It’s very brutal in the movie, but in reality it’s no more dangerous than other martial arts.