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Here are the 25 most crazy sporting events from around the world.
Worm Charming is actually a legitimate sport in the UK and the sport has been so popular to others that it even has a world championship event being held in Cheshire every year. You are given a patch of land, usually 3×3 meters, and you are challenged to use any possible methods of bringing out as many worms as you can within 30 minutes. Bet this sport is great for those looking for cheap lures that fish can bite.
Worm Charming is actually a legitimate sport in the UK and the sport has been so popular to others that it even has a world championship event being held in Cheshire every year. You are given a patch of land, usually 3×3 meters, and you are challenged to use any possible methods of bringing out as many worms as you can within 30 minutes. Bet this sport is great for those looking for cheap lures that fish can bite.
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Shin-kicking is a combat sport that involves two contestants attempting to kick each other on the shin to force their opponent to the ground. It has been described as an English martial art. If you are able to win the best-of-three by knocking your enemy down, then you make yourself a winner.
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Royal Shrovetide Football is one of the most popular origin theories suggests the macabre notion that the 'ball' was originally a severed head tossed into the waiting crowd following an execution. The game is played over two days on Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday, starting each day at 2.00 pm and lasting until 10.00 pm.
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Poohsticks is a sport first mentioned in The House at Pooh Corner, a Winnie-the-Pooh book. It is a simple sport which may be played on any bridge over running water; each player drops a stick on the upstream side of a bridge and the one whose stick first appears on the downstream side is the winner. Pooh Sticks became popular in some parts of Europe that there is even a world championship event for it.
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Bog snorkelling is a sporting event that consists of competitors completing two consecutive lengths of a water filled trench cut through a peat bog, in the shortest time possible. Competitors must wear snorkels and flippers, and complete the course without using conventional swimming strokes, relying on flipper power alone. The activity of bog snorkelling was started in 1976 near Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales, United Kingdom.
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