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I love knowing there's some sport I've never heard of that's popular somewhere, and I'm living in a hole and not paying attention. I'm not kidding. This is awesome. Here we go. Explains the rules of kabaddi. Kabaddi is an Indian sport played with two teams of 12 players, with seven players taking to the court at any one time. The game is played on a rectangular court that's generally a maximum of 30 meters by 10 meters. This is a mid-line that divides the court into two, and these are the ball clines, the end lines, the bonus lines, and this is the lobby area, and I'll explain what these are shortly. The object of the game is for your team to score more points than the opposing team. To score, a team must send a player, known as a raider, into the opposing half of the court whilst chanting the word kabaddi repeatedly. A raider must only use one breath and chant the word kabaddi repeatedly to show the referee that he is exhaling and not holding his breath. The first goal of the raider is to reach the ball climb. Fairly to do this results in the raider being out and cannot participate in the next part of the game. The second goal of the raider is to touch as many plays as he can and make it back to the mid-line before he is caught and tackled by the defender. He can do this in several ways, with a hand touch, a toe touch, a kick, or by trying to escape a tackle and reaching for the mid-line. He gets one point for every opposing defender that he touches, so long as he makes it back to the mid-line, or whilst repeatedly chanting the word kabaddi. And, any touch defenders are out and cannot participate in the next round of play. Understand so far? Cool, let's continue. The defenders, sometimes known as aunties, will try and stop the raider when turning to the mid-line, especially if one of them has been touched. They can use several tactics, such as the ankle hold, back hold, front tackle, and forcing him off the court entirely. If the defenders manage to stop the raider returning to his own half of the court, the raider is out and the defending team gets one point. Once a raider is finished, the opposing team must send out a raider of their own within five seconds, or the team will lose a point. So he can't break the mid-line? Good, because it's about to get a lot more comfortable. Oh, good! Oh, good! When a player is out, he must wait in the sitting block, and is temporarily unable to participate in the game. Okay. Once a raider has been tackled, or a point has been scored, they are allowed to revive one of their own players out of the sitting block to rejoin the team. A dodge block! This means that every time you score, you can revive one or more of your players back onto the field of play. Right, yeah, the dodge block. The game is played in two 20-minute halves for a combined playing time of 40 minutes. The highest point at the end of time wins. Kabaddi is the ultimate game of cat and mouse, as the defenders have to be far enough away so that they can't be touched. But also close enough to tackle the raider, should he decide to make a run for it. This is a highly strategic sport, and there's a few more rules that you'll need to understand before playing or watching a game. For example, the lobby. The lobby is an extended area of play, which is denoted by the yellow areas here. These are only active when a defender has been touched, and gives both the raider and defender more room to try and score, or get the raider out. Bonus Line. As mentioned before, this is the bonus line. If a raider puts one foot in the bonus line with one foot in the air, he will score one point as long as he makes it back to the midline. However, the bonus line is quite far from the midline, and reaching for this line makes it easier for the defender to tackle you. The bonus line is only active when there are six or seven defenders on the court. Well, Super Tackle. If there are three or less defenders on the defending team, and they manage to tackle a raider, this is known as a Super Tackle and scores two points. One point for eliminating the raider, and a bonus point for doing so with three or less defenders. Do or Die Raid. If a team has two unsuccessful raids, i.e. they score zero both times, the third raid is the Do or Die Raid. Failing to score on the third raid in a row results in the raider being out. Pursuit. A pursuit is where a defender charges at a retreating raider with the aim of scoring quick points off him. This is usually done if the other team is still to retreat from a raid, and the defender is close enough to score a point and make it back to the midline quickly before the other players realise. All Out. If in the rare instance a raider gets all the defenders out in one raid, this is known as an All Out. The raiding team gets one point per player, and an additional two points. All players are revived after an All Out. So the uninitiated, caballi team is strange, confusing, even ridiculous, but once you understand the rules it becomes an interesting sport to watch. If you found this video at all helpful, please like, share with your friends, comment, rate and subscribe. So, I feel like after, remember when we first watched our first cricket video? Yes. And it was American trying to understand cricket? Yes. And we were so confused. Yes. That's what I feel like right now. But, this does look like fun to play. Like, I could see this being really fun to play, because it's like tackle football, plus tags of the flag, tag plus dodge ball, but there's no ball. It's a little bit of hocking rules. Yeah. So a bunch of stuff, so it's just that, obviously, it's a completely foreign concept. I can't think of another sport where you have to say the name of the sport over and over again. Yeah. That's to prove you're exhaling. That's one of the strangest rules. Wow. How old is the sport? Where did it come from? Yeah, is it? Wow. Is it newer? That's what an amazing world. Yeah. I liked learning it, and like I said, this looks actually quite fun to play. I think I would enjoy playing a game like this, but the fact that it's an entire sport is crazy. It really is. That's, and cool, the fact that there's a whole world that knows about this. And it even has reminiscences of rugby and even wrestling, you know? It's very, it's like this amalgamation of so many different things. It just seems like there's a lot of parts that you have to understand. Yeah. In order to, well, like every sport. Every sport's that way. We used to be the same way with cricket. Every sport is that way. It's like, wait, you could hit it everywhere, which you could hit it. Exactly. You could hit it forward, backward, you could, what? Any sport, you learn the rules, you appreciate it more. Yeah. Bottom line. If you weren't from America and you had never heard of American football, you'd be like, what is going on? Why is it called football? Right. It's in their hands all the time. So, and why is it worth six points and then a kick is worth one point? Yeah, and if you're a rugby player, you're going, why are these wimps wearing all that protection? Come on, guys. Seriously? You can't hit each other? It's like, oh, you're going away with my arm. Obviously, that would not dislike the sport at all, because. Oh, not at all. We just don't understand a lot of it, but that's because it's kind of complicated, like the video said. Yeah. It's decently complicated to understand sport. You know, it's another sport that I still don't understand and it's always been, but it's still really fun to watch, is Australian rules football. Oh, yeah. Especially when the guy, you know, they do something and they're running and they kick it or they fist it. And then the referee or the official in white with the hat, they run over to the spot where the ball went through and even do one of two things. It's either one arm or two arm. And they're in fact, they go over and they go with one arm or they go, and it's like, yeah, I don't know what happened, but that looks fun. So yeah, this looks like fun to play. Let's play it when we come to India. I'd love to. Well, how popular is it in India? First of all, is this a pretty popular sport or is it just gaining popularity? Or no, man, it's been around forever and it's never been popular. And I'd love to just watch a game and just listen. I'd love to listen to the guys playing and the officials in the crowd and just feel, what is that like? Yeah. This isn't like, I've never seen this as an Olympic sport. Oh, it's definitely not an Olympic sport. I've never even, I've never seen anything like this. Yeah. Cricket's not even an Olympic sport. Right. And it might be that I think that I saw something about there talking about putting cricket as an Olympic sport. Well, if they've got baseball, cricket should be a bit of an Olympic sport. Baseball is an Olympic sport. I've never agreed with it. I don't think baseball, look at baseball players and tell me those are Olympians. No, some are, but Cece Sabathia on the New York Yankees is a Hall of Fame pitcher. That dude does not have an Olympian body. It does not take an Olympic effort to play baseball. Yeah. It's a high level sport, but cricket is more a sport that I would say qualifies to be Olympic than baseball. But yeah, that was cool. Let us know if there's other sports as well that we have no idea. No idea about. Yeah, that's going on. We enjoy learning about all these new, like when we learned about that sport where the people climb on each other, look for the festival. Yeah. Which was really to hit the thing of the thing of yogurt. Yeah. Yeah. Which was really cool. It's the same kind of thing. So we love learning about all these new kinds of sports. Yeah. And even if it's not an organized sport, if there's just something that happens comparable to say like a horseshoe or in New York, we have a version of baseball called stickball. That is just a street game because I know they play street cricket. I assume it's the same rules. But yeah, anything like that that we can learn more about the culture of bringing on. Yeah, it's great.