Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 3:28 pm
Take six incredibly good Hackeysack players. Put them on a badmitton court. Give them a big tennis ball sort of thing and tell them to play volleyball with it, without using their hands. You have Sepak Takraw. Go google it - I can't find any really great sites, but the first few aren't too bad to get a feel of the rules.
What they don't really show is the incredible speed and agility of the players. These guys are damned crazy. They jump up, do flips, mid air splits, kick the ball over their own shoulders and then land on their feet. It's amazing. I just saw the last 20 minutes or so of a documentary on it on TV this afternoon - if anyone can find some motion video of the sport, it'd be worth downloading.
What they don't really show is the incredible speed and agility of the players. These guys are damned crazy. They jump up, do flips, mid air splits, kick the ball over their own shoulders and then land on their feet. It's amazing. I just saw the last 20 minutes or so of a documentary on it on TV this afternoon - if anyone can find some motion video of the sport, it'd be worth downloading.