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The 10 Craziest Extreme Sports in the world

Zak Ben - Thursday, February 06, 2014
Today we take care of the 10 craziest sports in the world: after hearing about these awesome competitions, die by the desire to try them yourself. Other than Bungee Jumping, brace yourselves, don't mess around here! Let's start right away.


The 10 Craziest Extreme Sports in the world


10. Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake





We are located in the United Kingdom: in this competition can participate more than 20 competitors, whose aim will be to Chase a rolling cheese down Cooper's Hill. After arriving at the top of the Hill, will chase the Gloucester cheese all the way, and the winner is the first person that comes over the line, bottom, although in theory to win should be who manages to take the cheese rolling at a speed of 70 miles per hour, so it's almost impossible to acciuffarlo.

9. HURLING


This Irish sport is a form of hockey played on a lawn, but looks a lot like the football game or that of American football. Participants must be fitted with sticks called Hurleys or "Camáns", and will try to hit a small ball made of a very hard material. The two teams will be formed of 15 players each, and must try to make goals by hitting the ball harder.

8. Wife carrying

The sport takes place in Finland, and its name is Eukonkanto. The rules say that his wife carried can be yours or that of a friend. The woman must be loaded on your back, and you have to follow a path of 250 meters, with two jumps and a water trap.

7. BUZKASHI


We move intoCentral Asia to explain how is the national sport of different nations likeAfghanistan and Turkmenistan: imagine a large number of Arabs who run a horse, trying to tear the carcass of a goat, with the aim of throwing it on a door or in a bathtub, to score a point. Of course, each of them is appropriately dressed in boots and protective clothing.

6. THE ETON WALL GAME


At the prestigious Eton College, an exclusive English private school, is played by more than 300 years atEton Wall game, a game that is half way between rugby and football. You play on a field of land off 5 metres long and 110, next to a brick wall slightly curved: each team moves towards the opponents ' area, and must try to hit the wall with the ball kicking it with your foot.

5. JAI-ALAI



This sport is played mainly in the Basque region of Spain and France: we play in an outdoor arena, where a ball is thrown against the wall at a speed of 180 miles per hour. Defines the fastest sport in the world, and is very similar to the game of squash.

4. CHESS BOXING



A truly spectacular game: this is a hybrid sport which combines the game of chess with the martial arts of boxing, to find out whether participants are able to use both the brain and the muscles. Players have 11 rounds to toggle the chess and boxing: whenever the chess match, the table is removed and start a boxing match which lasts for 4 minutes. You can win by checkmate or knockout.

3. MOUNTAIN BIKE BOG SNORKELLING



This strange aquatic race is to move with a high quality mountain bike with a wet suit and snorkel in a swamp located at the edge of a Welsh town called Llanwrtyd Wells. Do you think the swamp arrives even to have taken 6 meters deep, and is 45 metres long.

2. KABADDI



Move to India to talk about a team sport much like a tag team wrestlingmatch: a clashing are several men wearing only underwear. Collide two teams of 12 fighters, seven and five reserves. The size of the ring are those of a basketball court. Each team in turn sends an attacker in the other half to earn points, which can be obtained by touching the opponent, breaking the opposing formation or struggling against a member of the other team. The only condition is to not breathe, repeatedly chanting "Kabaddi, kabaddi, kabaddi".

1. ROYAL SHROVETIDE FOOTBALL



The peculiarity of this game is that although it is a simple game of football, the teams are composed of almost all men, women and children of the village. The two matches are held every year at the beginning of lent in the small village of Ashbourne, England, and are played at the same time. The only rule that prohibits officer to kill other players. At about 2 p.m., the ball is launched in a mass consisting of hundreds of men, women and children screaming, and everyone has to try and bring it towards the areas to make goals.