Strange Sports You’ve Never Heard Of But Might Want to Try

Do you want to try something new and unusual? Why not give some of these strange sports a try and see if you enjoy what they have to offer?

Humans can turn anything into a sport and, in a lot of cases, will combine two or more already established sports into something new. Being creative and finding ways to enjoy some physical activity makes for a great sport. If you want to try something new that you’ve never heard of before, maybe these strange sports will be exactly what you want to experience.

Sepak Takraw

Would you ever combine volleyball and soccer together? Well, someone did, and that’s where we get Speak Takraw. In this sport, a ball is passed over a net between two teams, and each team scores when the ball hits the ground, like volleyball. The soccer influence comes in with the body parts that can touch the ball, which is everything except the hands and arms. This leads to an interesting sport with players using feet, heads, and knees to volley the ball back and forth over the net.

Underwater Hockey

When you put hockey and water polo together, you get one of the strange sports that requires you to hold your breath for a long time. The puck is on the bottom of the pool, and players must dive down and work together to get the puck across the goal, like hockey. It’s a fast-paced and intense sport in which some players push themselves too hard to hold their breath and must surface at some of the most inopportune times to grab another breath.

The Padel

When you combine two racket-based sports, such as tennis and squash together, you get The Padel. This sport is played on a court surrounded by walls, which allows for plays to be scored off the wall like squash. There’s a net, which makes it similar to tennis, and the walls add an element of fun that you wouldn’t get with a regular tennis court. The game is played with teams of two, and points are calculated the same as tennis, giving you a fun new racket-based game to play.

Le Bossaball

Le Bossaball is a strange sport that combines the use of trampolines with volleyball. There is a home zone and an enemy zone, and scoring happens when the ball falls into the enemy zone. The playing area is surrounded by inflated bossa walls, and the field is also inflated. One wall is a trampoline, which gives you the jumping-off point to score points. The teams consist of three to five players, and there are eight possible contacts with your body that you can make to score. This could be a fun and interesting new sport that you might enjoy.

Yugikassen

This Japanese game is nothing more than a large snowball fight that can be a lot of fun. In Japan, this game has become a sport with a field that’s made for it. Each team has seven players, and you must avoid being hit by enemy snowballs while throwing your own. Each team prepared 90 snowballs in advance to attack opponents and try and hit them as many times as possible. The team with the most hits at the end of the game wins.

Swimming in the Mud

It might sound easy and should be a lot of fun, but this is one of the strange sports that will test you mentally and physically. The idea is to complete a 110-meter run/swim in a muddy water trench. The only rule is that you cannot use any traditional swimming techniques, which can be very difficult. Participants have to be extremely creative and motivated to complete the distance and become the winner of Swimming in the Mud.

Swamp Soccer

This sport has mixed teams and some really strange rules. If you were to think of the weirdest way to play soccer, this would be one of those ways. It’s a combination of soccer and madness, with the goal being to score points by throwing the ball into the opposing goal. It’s played on muddy ground, and you can knock down opponents. If you attack your opponent too brutally, you must kiss their wound and continue the game with a bag on your head for one minute. This makes for an interesting sport.

Which of these strange sports would you like to try? Some are combinations of traditional sports, which makes them strange, but others are truly odd creations that you may have never thought of but certainly want to try.