As part of the new energy we bring to this magazine, we plan to introduce the readers to something new with every edition with a segment we like to call Have you heard of… For this edition, we bring up the sport kabaddi, a sport that my previous knowledge consisted of accidentally stumbling upon on Sky sports when there was nothing else to watch. So equipped with google, i begun a search to find all there was to find about the sport, with my findings below:
So how does it actually work? In simple terms, it is a contact sport between two teams of seven people where one person at a time attempts to cross into the opposing teams half, tag as many of the opposition as possible and make it back to their own half without being tackled and in one breath. You score points for each person you tagged or for stopping the tagger from returning to their half. If you are tagged or tackled you are out of the game until you are revived by your teammates scoring a point from a tag or tackle. The more you know, aye? As exciting as it sounds it is probably not recommended to play this in Meremere for a multitude of reasons but luckily Ilam fields is just across the road. Brayden Cottom
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