Dare To Try These Tribal Sports

Are you tired of playing basketball, football, or any other popular sport? Then join the people of foreign lands, and try their very own native sports.

For example, if you are in Thailand, compete with the natives to score winning points in a game of Sepak Takraw. In this sport, you must hit a rattan ball using your feet, knee, chest, and head. It is played in a similar fashion to volleyball where you must hit the ball across the net in an attempt to hit the ground on your opponent's side. Next, if you want a physical challenge, try Muay Thai, a martial art that follows the sport of boxing except that you also use your feet and legs to hit your opponent. Now that sounds like a lot of limbs flailing!

If you are into using weapons, then you should visit Surma in Ethiopia. You can engage in Suri stick fighting. Here, combatants try to hit each other with eight-foot sticks called Donga. Historically, the sport of Donga is a duel between two males who are trying to prove their worth to a woman. Meanwhile, if you want to test your endurance, head off to Mexico and join the Tarahumara tribe and take part in their Rajrajipari event. In this gruelling sport, you and your teammates must run 150 miles across the country. If that is not challenging enough, you must dribble a small ball all through the entire run!

Finally, if racing is your thing, then you should enjoy playing water buffalo racing with tribes in Sumbawa, Indonesia. In this game, two buffaloes are tied together to a frame with a platform for the racer to stand on. You will try steering the buffalos with a rein, a huge challenge since buffaloes are not as tameable as horses.

So, the next time you are trying to think of a sport which you can play, do some research on various tribal sports or games that you can experience.