Can you please explain me the meaning of the game called "Kabadi." It´s just on telly... What are the points for...
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kabbadi on TV? 
what are you watching? i think the idea is to push the other guy beyond some line while that guy must try to go over to the other side. not sure.
what are you watching? i think the idea is to push the other guy beyond some line while that guy must try to go over to the other side. not sure.From Wikipedia:
Two teams of seven players (wearing socks and boxer shorts, sometimes briefs) occupy opposite halves of a field of 12.5m x 10m (roughly half the size of a basketball court). Each team has five additional players that are held in reserve. The game is organized into two 20-minute halves, with a five-minute half-time break during which the teams switch sides.
The teams take turns sending a "raider" across to the opposite team's half, where the goal is to tag or wrestle ("capture") members of the opposite team before returning to the home half. Tagged members are "out" and are sent off the field. The raider must not take a breath during the raid, and must prove it by constantly chanting (called 'cant' or 'dak') during the raid. The chant-word is kabaddi in India and Pakistan, হাডুডু hađuđu in Bangladesh, do-do in Nepal, guddu in Sri Lanka, chado-guddo in Malaysia, Zoo in Iran, and techib in Indonesia.
Meanwhile, the 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 from returning to the home side before taking a breath. If the raider takes a breath before returning to the home side, the raider is out and is sent off the field.
A player can also get "out" by going over a boundary line during the course of the play or if any part of the player's 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 the basis of age and weight. Seven officials supervise a match: one referee, two umpires, two linesmen, a timekeeper and a scorer.
Two teams of seven players (wearing socks and boxer shorts, sometimes briefs) occupy opposite halves of a field of 12.5m x 10m (roughly half the size of a basketball court). Each team has five additional players that are held in reserve. The game is organized into two 20-minute halves, with a five-minute half-time break during which the teams switch sides.
The teams take turns sending a "raider" across to the opposite team's half, where the goal is to tag or wrestle ("capture") members of the opposite team before returning to the home half. Tagged members are "out" and are sent off the field. The raider must not take a breath during the raid, and must prove it by constantly chanting (called 'cant' or 'dak') during the raid. The chant-word is kabaddi in India and Pakistan, হাডুডু hađuđu in Bangladesh, do-do in Nepal, guddu in Sri Lanka, chado-guddo in Malaysia, Zoo in Iran, and techib in Indonesia.
Meanwhile, the 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 from returning to the home side before taking a breath. If the raider takes a breath before returning to the home side, the raider is out and is sent off the field.
A player can also get "out" by going over a boundary line during the course of the play or if any part of the player's 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 the basis of age and weight. Seven officials supervise a match: one referee, two umpires, two linesmen, a timekeeper and a scorer.
Eurosport 2mehro said:kabbadi on TV?
to be fair it looks weird and funny at the same time
apparently the one guy is trying to cross some line and the opponents (holding together with hands) are trying to defend it and possibly lynch him
fecking hell, change your channel giggsy.
I have already turned the telly off.mehro said:
was just watching the play of the week. http://www.atptennis.com/3/en/mercedesbenz/default.asp
nice winner from paes.
nice winner from paes.
Just for the illustration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOE7dKz6nY0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOE7dKz6nY0
It´s good to see Paes back. He had to undergo some brain operation, right? The year before, or this... I am not sure. It´s impressive to be back in professional sport after such an disease.mehro said:
yeah he went through surgery for a lesion in his brain in 2003 i think.
I heard Paes came out and said Bhupathi needs to sort out his life and priorities or something along those lines after they lost a doubles game in the Asian Games
they haven't been getting along for a while now. shame really, they were good doubles partners.
mehro said:
They were and Paes has gone on and become a mixed doubles star as well. A loss really as they were amongst the few world class Asian tennis players.
that sounds like red rover, but gayer...
I'm an indonesian and haven't heard the techib thing. And I guess that game is kind of a traditional game/sport. It is called "Petak Benteng" hereDesert Eagle said: