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Gurjeet Singh Channi : Chhoti Jathani
Sports Are Cool
The perennial "Sportsball Is The Dumb" make me think it might be worthwhile to acknowledge some really cool localized sports that don't normally get much attention.
Starting with a classic: Stickball (lacrosse is just a shortened "le jeu de la crosse", so 'stickball' but, yanno, in French) is from tribes all over N. America. The only standard rule was players couldn't grab the ball by hand and you weren't allowed to intentionally punch someone in the face. There are more rules now, but the core game remains. This is the Kullihoma Tournament in OK, 2013.
Shinny is related to lacrosse, and it's also the mother of field hockey and played by tons of N. American Natives. This shot on the left is from St. Mary's Mission School in Red Lake, MN (Jillian Gandsey | Bemidji Pioneer). The shot on the right is from Rolf Clements of The Ponca City News. The Ponca also have a Facebook page for "Ponca Tribe Yearly April Shinny Games" to find out more.
Kataw is from SE Asia particularly Laos. It's volleyball, only with a small and stiff rattan ball kept in the air using only the player's feet. (photo credited in image).
Ulama descended from the Aztec 'ballgame' and is predominantly in Mexico. Basketball meets volleyball meets soccer, where the ball is hard rubber & is kept off the ground using hips and forearms.
A more modern, but extremely entertaining one I want to include just because it's fun is: Kabaddi which originated in Tamilnadu, India. It is the national sport of Bangladesh. A sort of full-contact game of tag, teams of seven try to tackle the person who's "it".
And another fairly modern sport, but with some significant indigenous spin, is the Panamanian Volleyball being played by gender fluid peoples from the Guna Yala region in the northeast.
The Wigudun Galu Association celebrates the ancestral gender diversity of their Indigenous territory
Kabadi Kabbadi Kabbadi Master (2021) x Ghilli (2004)
Raising your voice doesn’t make it true.
Kandukondain Kandukondain (Tamil, 2000)
Kabaddi Team
The kabbadi match in Yoddha (Malayalam, 1992)
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