Board racing is a traditional sport of the Zhuang people, an ethnic minority in southern China. Legend has it that the sport was devised as a military training technique. In this video, you can see why: the sport require...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/05/The-Sport-of-Shoe-Board-Racing-2/Spikeball is a recently-invented game that developed from volleyball. A webpage from Southern Arkansas University summarizes the rules. Two teams of two players each surround a circular let. Each person bounces a ball to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/08/How-to-Play-Spikeball/Conkers is a traditional British game that uses conkers--the fruits of a horse chestnut tree. They're inedible by humans, so Britons instead drill holes through them and attached a cord. Two players square off against ea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/10/18/Conkers-Champion-Accused-of-Cheating/Think of the Tour de Donut of Troy, Ohio as a race that combines competitive eating and bike racing. It's the chessboxing of the bicycle world.Competitors race their bikes to a sequence of participating donut shops. Each...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/08/24/The-Tour-de-Donut-A-Donut-Bicycling-Race/"Pull my finger."In Germany, this request usually has a different connotation. The Associated Press tells us that fingerhakeln is a traditional sport from southern Germany and the alpine region of Austria.Two men face ea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/14/Fingerhakeln-The-Sport-of-Finger-Wrestling/Buoy tenders are ships that maintain buoys in harb... ...e red hot rivets the fastest, among other coastie sports .
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/23/The-Coast-Guards-Buoy-Tender-Olympics/Candlepin bowling is a variant of bowling that originated in New England and the maritime provinces of Canada. The cylindrical pins, which resemble candles in shape, are three inches wide. The balls are much smaller than...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/03/27/The-Oldest-Candlepin-Bowling-Alley-in-the-World/Johannes Vetter is a German athlete who specializes in the javelin throw. His personal record is almost 320 feet and 9 inches, which is a long distance to throw anything at all.How does Vetter do it? He trains hard and t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/03/27/This-Is-a-Javelin-Training-Machine/The Orlando Sentinel reports on the forthcoming inaugural Florida Man Games, named after the outrageous behavior of the male inhabitants of America's most insane state. Pete Melfi of Saint Augustine is organizing an open...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/10/27/Coming-Soon-The-Florida-Man-Games/The origins of historic bog snorkeling are shrouded (or muddily immersed) in mystery. Perhaps it was a survival technique necessary in the wild days of early Wales. But the modern sport is more concretely known. The Asso...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/08/29/The-Thrilling-Sport-of-Bog-Snorkeling/
