Making new sports
 

Instructables.com had a "Make new sports" contest, but i missed the entry deadline... but at the same time, it reminded me of a "Sport" of sorts that i created a long time ago with my friends.

Since we walked around a lot, one day i just called them on a "Street Walking" Challenge. The rules were simple.

1 - There is a starting point and a end point define. That's the track.

2 - You must keep constant speed. You can speed up for 3 seconds or speed down for 3 seconds. If you pass 3 seconds, that's a 10 point penalty per second.

3 - You can -not- touch other people. You must complete the track avoind the most Physical contact possible. If you stumble on other people it's a 30 point penalty. On objects higher than your waist line, it's 10 points each.

4 - To win points you must perform tricks. Tricks go from 10 to 50 points each. Tricks can be things like quickly turning side-ways without loosing momentum in order to pass between 2 people. or stepping over a fire Hydrant. or doing a 360 without loosing momentum.

5 - The first person to reach the end line has a set score, everybody that comes after that looses 5 points per second.

It's incredbly stupid, but fun somehow. Plus, it's really easy. It relies on the honor system, but you CAN have judge(s) walking behind the players... actually i cant belive how competitive it can gets sometimes... plus, it's fun to create new tricks! AND you can do it anywhere at anytime!

So, have you played or created any "Unique" games/sports ?

Tenokey, a combination of tennis and Roller Hockey. Its played on a Roller Hockey rink, but skates are optional

1) Divide into even teams, no 3 on 1s. everyone brings a tennis racket and a ball
2) You can't pass the red line
3) you get 1 point for getting a ball in the opposing teams net
4) you lose a point if a ball stops bouncing on your teams side, or you hit the ball out of bounds

play ends after a set amount of time passes, generally an hour. I recomend playing with the blue rubber handballs instead of tennis balls, because they bounce better.

This is all we do, ranging from Extreme Cricket, to Wassup (which we're totally going to franchise through Asia) which are really need to be demonstrated to be taught, especially if you don't know the rules of cricket, to the simplest but most testing of all our sports:
Enduro.
Enduro is the simplest game ever, it's 1 on 1 touch rugby but played the length of a beach. If you want to get fit, Enduro is the game for you (though we normally have ins and outs so we don't kill ourself).

Also Twotouch, for when you want to play one on one football but don't feel like all the fancy flicks and spins and running to get round the other player.
Take a field (width is quite important so vary it depending on your practice- we like a quite wide one) then two goals, a good kick apart. Lay a halfway line down.
While players can go into the other persons half if they desire, if they touch the ball in the other players half then the other player gains a point.
Start off with a player getting one kick to put the ball into the other players half (other player gets a point if it doesn't make it).
(Also normal football rules apply, it's all feet)
From then on, players take turn putting the ball into each others half. Once the ball is in your half you can only make two touches on it. If you make more than two touches the other player gets a point. If the ball goes from your half to the other players half and you've only made one touch on it then other player gets a point. If ball ever goes out on the sidelines then other player gets a point.
If ball goes out behind the goal, it's just a kickoff like starting the game.
If a goal is scored 10 points for the scorer.
It's a lot of fun with lots of tactical running and lots of strategy (my favourite was ramming the ball into people so it bounced off them back to my side for a point).

Also flat cricket: Like regular cricket but if the batsman breaks anything he's out.

Holy shit...you unearthed a fiendish memory from middle school. Actually might have been freshman year...whatever. Same basic principle.

it's called Croqueyball. That's how we spelt it because we couldn't spell. The object is to knock the ball through the goal (explained below) and hit 20 points before your opponent.

Basically it's a maximum 4 person sport (two on each team). You set up plastic croquet wickets, the kind you get from crappy childrens croquet sets at Canadian Tire, and those are your goalposts. If you knock the ball between the wickets, you get a point. If you knock it through a wicket, the other team has crab walk for the next 5 minutes of the game.

For the standard two on two game, one player on a team has a plastic croquet stick. The other person has a plastic croquet stick and a plastic oversized children's baseball bat. The ball is a hard plastic ball, about one and a half times the size of your average baseball. The sport is full contact, which means you can dive, push, trip, hit with the baseball bat, or do anything else necessary to keep the other team off the ball. Nothing happens if you're the "beatstick" (the guy with the baseball bat) and get tackled; you simply get back up. However, if you're the scoring person (the one with just the croquet stick) and you get tackled, you must go on your knees, put your hands behind you head, and wait. The beatstick on your team must run up and smack your ass with the baseball bat in order for you to get back up.

The only other thing that applies is natural obstacles, which is basically whatever we could find. Tires, rakes, shovels, trenches, other people, younger siblings...anything that was around got tossed onto the field and had to be avoided.



Just realized how vicious a sport that is.

We had one, we called it Dangerball. It was basically a combination of rugby and football (so you could either kick or carry the ball) and used a standard rugby ball (for the added uncertainty and randomness). It was 1 point for a football goal, 3 points for a rugby try. There were no other rules, so anything went. There were no bondaries, no rules preventing fouls and no limit on player numbers. Just get the ball into the goal by any means necessary.

THAT was a vicious game, not least of which because it was primarily played on concrete or tarmac.

There was also Speed Cricket (at least I think that's what it was called) that one of our PE techers made up, because he hated how slow cricket was. It was basically cricket, but faster, hence the name. Whenever the bowler had the ball, he had to bowl, without delay. If the batter missed the ball, he had to run, no matter what (so you'd end up missing and being forced to run, even as the bowler was having the ball returned to him, leaving the wickets wide open to his next shot). Once one batter was knocked out the next would take his place without delay or the bowler would knock him out as well. Every run, whether you hit the ball or not, would count as 1 point, so it was basically a huge endurance game. If you were able to hit the ball, you could either use the extra time gained before it was returned to score some more points, or take a quick break if you were out of breath, so you'd be able to stay in longer. Team with the most runs won, simple as.

EDIT; Of course I'd still prefer it if somone invented a real life version of Blitzball.

This is quite a common game actually. We called it non-stop cricket.

Rockrin reminded me of Bottle Soccer. Basically football on concrete between some buildings at highschool but with a bottle instead of a ball and full contact (as in you could slam people against walls, or push them over). Halfway through we filled the bottle with water so it spun better. Such a violent game....

So, when I was a kid my friends and I played "the car game" Fuck you, it's an awesome title.
Anyway. the street we lived on ran East and West with a sidewalk running parallel to it.
Our houses were in a complex that was kind of a box shaped cul-de-sac with a smaller sidewalk running in front of each house, with the longest stretch running exactly perpendicular to the main street.
The object of the game was to wait until you saw a car coming down the street, and run a set amount of distance down the perpendicular sidewalk to not get 'hit' by the car.
A passenger car was to the first house on the block.
A pickup/SUV/van/larger passenger vehicle, 3 houses
And so forth
The largest vehicle, a city bus meant you had to haul your little ass down the whole length of the small sidewalk to the far end.
For more of a challenge, you could start walking down along side the bigger sidewalk along the street, and THEN run back to the small sidewalk, and run the proper distance.
There were usually between 3 and 9 of us playing this.

There was so such thing as cheating. In fact, if you weren't cheating you weren't playing it right.
Pushing, tripping, punching. All of this was acceptable behavior to make sure the other guy got 'hit' and not you.
Getting 'hit' by the way meant you were out of the game until the round was over.
It could get pretty intense.
One kid scraped his knee pretty bad. I left his ass there, and ran for the hills while he got mowed down by a 5-ton cube van... Also counting as a bus cuz it was big.

Now I feel like something is wrong with me, since we just played regular football with my friends when we were kids.

Nowa days though, I do this crazy thing called kendo. Now that's messed up.

My sister and I play Nonathletic Badminton sometimes. Basically we have a badminton birdie and two rackets, and we designate a clump of clover that's growing in the back yard as the net rather than go through all the trouble of actually putting the net up. This means the net is three feet wide but has no height.

It is dubbed Nonathletic Badminton because neither of us makes an effort to run or jump more than necessary (read: at all) to get the birdie. If its not coming within range, we just sort of watch it go by with a look of complete disinterest. And if it's coming directly at us, we usually duck and cover out of our nerdlike fear of being hit with sports equipment. So yeah. It's a totally intense game.

Non-stop yeah, that's what it was called, knew I had the name wrong. Didn't realise it was already known though.

Oh and there was also Knockout Football. 1 Goal, infinite players. Score 2 goals to go through to the next round. Last person to score 2 goals gets knocked out of the game and everyone else goes onto the next round. Continue until you have a single winner. Requires a goalkeeper. If there's a lot of players you can change it so that the last 2 or 3 or even 4 people to score are all knocked out at once, to move things along quicker. It's surprisingly more fun than normal football.