世界で最も奇妙なスポーツ
世界で最も奇妙なスポーツ
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00:00Competitions have a way of providing the inner strength you need to push and do better.
00:05But you see, some competitions are just totally weird.
00:09They just get you thinking about why anyone would want to participate in such, and you
00:13might have seen one or two, but in this video, you're about to see 15 of the weirdest competitions
00:20around the world.
00:221.
00:23Butt Slapping Competition Just when you thought you've seen it all,
00:27this competition will leave so many questions in your mind just by hearing the name.
00:32What is the essence of slapping butt?
00:35Well, it didn't begin with butt slapping, but it got introduced after the slapping competition
00:40for men in Russia.
00:42You know, where slaps are so unpleasant.
00:45It looks like these men are having fun because they make it look so easy, but the truth is,
00:50slapping is really no fun at all, and when it's a competition, it can be really painful
00:55and damage the skin.
00:57This is why women should slap butts.
00:59The rules are just simple, you lose if the force of the slap made you step forward or
01:04fall over.
01:05In this competition, women knock over their opponents by slapping them in alternate turns
01:10on their buttocks.
01:11They hit each other until one of the competitors falls.
01:15The goal is to make the person that you're spanking step a bit forward or fall eventually.
01:20Butt slapping is far better than a slapping competition because unlike its male slapping
01:25counterpart, the sport isn't about deliberately causing any serious harm to the opponent.
01:31Some of the reasons are, the women are fully clothed during the competition, and most of
01:36the competitors are in the fitness world.
01:39As weird as the competition may sound, it really is famous and respected in Russia,
01:44and when the first ever booty slapping championship was held in Siberia, many people attended,
01:50and they still enjoy attending even to this day.
01:53It just makes me wonder, is it just me, or is this competition really weird?
01:592.
02:01World Gurning Championship I think I should begin by telling you what
02:05Gurning actually means.
02:08Gurning is the act of pulling a distorted facial expression.
02:11Simply put, it's pulling a grotesque face.
02:14Everything about this competition is just weird, from the name to the competitors and
02:19the weird faces that they make.
02:21It makes me wonder what inspired whoever established this competition in the first place.
02:26The World Gurning Championship is an annual event that's held at the Egremont Crab Fair
02:32in the Lake District, established in 1267.
02:36This old fair has a lot of events that take place, including cumberland wrestling, wheelbarrow
02:41racing, pipe smoking, and climbing the Greasy Pole.
02:45But one of the most famous events is Gurning, where people get to see the person with the
02:49strangest facial expression.
02:52There's a men's and women's event, and the top three gurners receive a prize.
02:57The participants contest in a very weird way, where they put their heads through a horse
03:02collar, snarl like a dog, look fierce, and then distort their faces.
03:07If you tried to do that and you think it's difficult to pull, just ask Tommy Mattinson,
03:12the legend of Gurning, how he's won the World Championship 16 times.
03:183.
03:19Worm Charming Whatever is in it for me, I'm never doing
03:24anything with worms.
03:25But this competition makes you charm worms out of the ground.
03:29It's weird, but a lot of people do participate in this competition, and they actually enjoy
03:34it.
03:35The World Worm Charming Championship is not your regular event.
03:39In this competition, people of all ages are allowed.
03:42What they have to do is to try to extract as many worms as possible out of the soil.
03:47The event is usually done in June on a Saturday in Williston County Primary School in Williston,
03:54Cheshire.
03:55Now, if you think that this is a new competition, you'd be wrong.
03:58Most likely, the Worm Charming competition is way older than you.
04:03It dates back to 1980, and I guess it's been able to stay relevant with many still enjoying
04:08it because of its simple rules.
04:10Each person or group is given three meter square plots of land, after which they use
04:16methods such as charming, grunting, or even fiddling to attract the earthworms from the
04:21ground.
04:23Participants also use different techniques, like sticking implements into the ground,
04:27playing music, beating the ground, jumping on it, or patting the soil.
04:32Now, you can do anything to attract the worms, so long as you don't dig the ground up.
04:38The event is usually begun by the worm master, or a local celebrity ringing a bell, after
04:44which the time is set at 30 minutes for every participant to use their techniques to get
04:49the worms.
04:50After 30 minutes, the bell will be rung again, and that indicates the end of the competition.
04:56In the end, the worms attracted by each plot will be counted, and prizes will be awarded
05:00for single heaviest specimen and the largest quantity of worms.
05:05After the competition, all the worms are then released into the wild.
05:09If you think you have what it takes to be the winner of this competition, you'll have
05:13to find a way to attract as many worms as possible.
05:16The record of worm charming was set in 2009, with a quantity of 567 worms, and ever since,
05:25no one has been able to beat it.
05:27A quick question though, how many worms do you think you could attract from out of the
05:31ground?
05:334.
05:34Monkey Bridge Cycling Now, you've probably heard about cycling,
05:40but what is Monkey Bridge?
05:42Monkey Bridge can be explained to you in many different ways.
05:45Just think about a bridge so narrow and difficult to walk.
05:48So when you bring cycling into it, you know you're gonna have to go all the way on that
05:52bridge using a bicycle.
05:54The concept of this competition comes from Vietnam.
05:57The Monkey Bridge is still very popular in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam because of its
06:03complicated system of canals.
06:05So they decided to have fun with it by establishing this competition.
06:10The competition is well known in Vietnam, so much so that it pulls crowds in from all
06:14over.
06:15Everyone who enters competes for the great prize of pride and some cool sponsored products.
06:21Registration is cheap and it allows over 200 participants, each cycled through the Monkey
06:27Bridge without falling into the water beneath.
06:30The bridge, which varies in both width and height, is placed in the water on sturdy pillars
06:36with a distance of around 50 to 100 meters.
06:40Participants don't have to come with their bikes, as the bikes needed for the competition
06:43are going to be provided.
06:45This competition is equally weird because people just find the image of people crossing
06:50the bridge without handrails funny because they look like monkeys while doing so.
06:555.
06:57Cheese Rolling Now, can you imagine adults running after
07:01a big old giant round of cheese?
07:03Well, you don't want to.
07:05That's what participants have to do in this competition.
07:08It was initially for the locals of Brockworth, but now people from all over the world come
07:13to take part in it.
07:15It is a world-famous event with winners coming from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Nepal.
07:21The Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling is an annual event that's held on the Springbank Holiday
07:25at Cooper's Hill near Gloucester in England.
07:28The rules are not really all that simple.
07:31From the top of the hill, a 7 to 9 pound round of cheese is sent rolling down the hill, which
07:37is 200 yards long.
07:39Competitors then begin racing down the hill after the cheese as fast as they can, and
07:44the first person over the finish line at the bottom of the hill wins the cheese.
07:49The aim is to catch the cheese, however, it has around a one-second head start and can
07:54reach speeds of up to 70 miles per hour to knock over or even injure a spectator.
08:00In 1993, 15 people were injured while chasing cheeses down the hill with this one-in-three
08:07gradient.
08:08After that year, due to the steepness and uneven surface of Cooper's Hill, a first-aid
08:13service was provided by the local St. John Ambulance at the bottom of the hill.
08:18Members of the local rugby club and young farmers volunteer their services by catching
08:23any participants who lose their balance.
08:25They also get themselves ready to carry down those who could not reach the bottom.
08:30Several ambulance vehicles also attend the event, since there is inevitably at least
08:35one and often several injuries that require hospital treatment.
08:39The question is, though, all of these troubles or just over a prize of cheese?
08:456.
08:46Battle of Oranges Now, if you love oranges, you'd probably
08:51be angry after learning about this competition.
08:54This one takes place during the Carnival of Ivrea, a festival in the northern Italian
08:59city of Ivrea.
09:01This competition is called the Battle of Oranges, which includes a tradition of throwing oranges
09:06between organized groups.
09:08It's the largest food fight in Italy and surrounding countries, as a lot of oranges do get destroyed
09:13in this competition.
09:15This is really weird, because there are a lot of things that can be used instead of
09:19nutritious fruit.
09:20However, the competition does have its origins.
09:23A popular account has it that the battle commemorates the city's defiance against the city's
09:29tyrant.
09:30The tyrant attempted to rape a young commoner on the evening of her wedding, and the tyrant's
09:34plan backfired when the young woman instead decapitated him, after which the populace
09:40stormed and burned the palace.
09:43Every year, the citizens remember their liberation with the Battle of the Oranges, where teams
09:47of orange handlers on foot, called arancieri, throw oranges to represent old weapons and
09:53stones against those riding in carts who are representing the tyrant's ranks.
09:597.
10:00Jungle Marathon This competition is an extreme foot race that
10:05takes place in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, in the protected Tapajós National Forest.
10:11This competition was set up in response to the overwhelming desire of many ultra-race
10:16runners for a new challenge through an extreme environment.
10:20It is one of the toughest endurance races in the world, if not the toughest.
10:24The race tests the stamina and endurance abilities of its competitors racing through the
10:29Amazon rainforest or the jungles of Vietnam.
10:33Jungle Marathon takes place in a remote and potentially dangerous environment.
10:37They have to pass through swamps, cross over rivers, endure temperatures that average over
10:42100 degrees Fahrenheit with 99% humidity, and dangerous wildlife.
10:48Undoubtedly, the race is dangerous.
10:50The jungle itself is also dangerous.
10:53Participants may be exposed to snakes, wild animals, and poisonous plants, but it's all
10:58part of the competition.
11:00Though the organizers do all that they can to minimize the risks, the participants are
11:04encouraged to be fully aware of what they're getting into.
11:07The Jungle Marathon offers three races, one, a marathon, which is the shortest version
11:13of the race, two, a four-stage 127-kilometer race, and lastly, a six-stage 254-kilometer
11:21race.
11:22The course includes swamps, river crossings, steep climbs and descents, village trails
11:28and fluvial beaches, combined with humidity and scorching temperatures, making it a daunting
11:33and exciting race, but well within the realms of any competitor who has a strong mental
11:38mindset.
11:39Although this competition allows combining sport and ecotourism, it's just weird that
11:44the difficulty is too much.
11:47If you don't have a strong enough mental tenacity, it would be difficult to get to
11:51the finish line.
11:538.
11:54Extreme Ironing Just when you thought you'd seen it all,
11:58this competition has taken things to the extreme.
12:01Just as the name would suggest, it is a competition that involves ironing, but it's just a weird
12:07way of doing it.
12:08A sport like Jungle Marathon gives you the impression that you're about to experience
12:12danger, however, with Extreme Ironing, you might mistake it for something very easy.
12:18You just begin to wonder what this sport is all about.
12:21According to the Extreme Ironing Bureau, Extreme Ironing is the latest danger in sport
12:27that combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of a well-pressed
12:33shirt.
12:34I think the competition is for those who love to press clothing, but when you think about
12:38the locations of this competition, it's just totally weird.
12:43Sometimes I wonder if this competition should be considered a sport or not.
12:47Some locations where such performances have taken place include a mountainside of a difficult
12:52climb, a forest, in a canoe, while skiing or snowboarding, on top of large bronze statues,
12:59in the middle of a street, underwater, and in the middle of the M1 motorway.
13:04Just think of any weird place to iron clothing and it's probably happened there.
13:08The man who began this competition is an Englishman named Phil Shaw, and one day he came home
13:14and was feeling exhausted.
13:16He had a lot to do which included ironing and rock climbing, so that's when he decided
13:20to combine the rock climbing and the ironing into a single activity and also embarked on
13:25an international tour to promote the activity.
13:299.
13:31Nettles Eating There's nothing bad about stinging nettles,
13:35but of course it requires boiling away the poisonous hairs that cover the plant.
13:40But at the annual nettle eating competition in the British village of Marshwood, boiling
13:45is not allowed.
13:46This weird competition has been going on since the 1980s.
13:50About its origin, it's alleged that the entire event originated after two farmers insisted
13:56that each had the longest nettles in his yard.
13:59The loser had to eat a stalk of them.
14:01Present day and the World Nettle Eating Championships attract hundreds of people who are willing
14:07to watch several dozen competitors eat as many blatantly poisonous leaves as they can
14:12stomach in one hour.
14:14The craziest part is that vomiting is also not allowed.
14:18Nettle eating can be really dangerous.
14:20The stalks and leaves deposit tiny spikes upon contact, each of which injects a cocktail
14:26of chemicals that can cause burning sensations.
14:29If you keep on consuming the things, your skin can be blackened and your tongue can
14:33also swell up.
14:35To make sure that the nettles are real and that they would have crazy effects, the organizers
14:40provide the nettles themselves.
14:42However, water and beer are also permitted during the hour of pain.
14:47In 2018, a man named Phil Thorne consumed 104 feet of stinging nettles, successfully
14:54beating his previous record of 96 feet, while the women's competition Mel Long and Rachel
15:00Woods tied for first, each downing around 61 feet of nettles.
15:0510.
15:07X-Arm This is an arm wrestling championship where
15:11competitors will be tethered together for three 60-second rounds while they punch, kick,
15:17elbow and knee the living daylights out of each other in an attempt to either knock their
15:22opponent out or pin their hand.
15:25It's tough because the competitors have to use a single arm to wrestle while their second
15:30arms are tied together.
15:31They also have to be able to knock the opponent out without going down with them.
15:36Although American sports broadcaster ESPN hailed X-Arm as a sport for a new digital
15:42age, most people think of it as a weird sport that is unnecessary.
15:4711.
15:49Wife Carrying Competition This competition is a contest in which male
15:54competitors race while each carrying a female partner.
15:58Most times, the female partners are the wives of the participants.
16:02The aim is for the male to carry the female through a special obstacle course at the fastest
16:06time.
16:07Though the sport is now common in different places, it would first be introduced in Finland.
16:12There are different ways to carry one's partner.
16:15It's either a classic piggyback style, a fireman's carry which is over the shoulder, or Estonian
16:21style where the wife is upside down on her husband's back with her legs over the neck
16:26and shoulders.
16:28According to the Finns, this competition has its origins in the tale of a man named Herko
16:34Rosso Rokkanen.
16:36This man was thought to be a robber in the late 1800s who lived in a forest.
16:41He supposedly ran around with his gang of thieves causing harm to villagers.
16:45From what has been found, there are three ideas as to why and or how this sport was
16:51invented.
16:52Firstly, he and his thieves were accused of stealing food and kidnapping women from villages
16:57in the area in which he lived.
16:59Then they carried these women on their backs as they ran away, hence the reason for the
17:03wife carrying in this competition.
17:06The second suggestion is that young men would go to neighboring villages and kidnap women
17:11to forcibly marry them, usually women who were already married.
17:16These married women were also carried on the backs of the young men and this was referred
17:20to as the practice of wife stealing.
17:24And lastly is the idea that the man trained his thieves to be faster and stronger by carrying
17:30big heavy sacks on their backs from which the sport would evolve.
17:35Though the sport is often considered a joke, competitors do take it very seriously just
17:40like any other competition.
17:4212.
17:44Swamp Soccer Well, it looks like the Finns are not done
17:47with us yet.
17:49They have yet another weird competition called Swamp Football.
17:52Though football is arguably the most interesting sport, it is not easy to play even with constant
17:58practice and exercise.
18:00It requires great stamina, but the Finns have decided to take soccer to another level and
18:05they introduced Swamp Soccer, a football that's played in bogs or swamps.
18:10In Finland, it was initially used as an exercise activity for athletes and soldiers since playing
18:16on a soft bog is physically demanding.
18:19Swamp Soccer is especially very popular in the Kanu region.
18:23The first organized championship would be in 1998 and currently there is an estimated
18:29300 Swamp Football teams from around the world.
18:32The rules to the game are quite different from the normal football rules.
18:36In this Swamp Football, the game is played in two halves of 12 minutes and there is no
18:41offside rule.
18:43Also, corner kicks, penalties and throw-ins are made by dropping the ball onto a chosen
18:48foot.
18:49It's played by six players who can be substituted as often as they want.
18:54The Swamp Soccer is really a tough game and it feels unnecessary since real football can
18:59be played.
19:0113.
19:03Egg Throwing Before you judge by the name of the competition,
19:07let me tell you a short story.
19:10From 1322 in Swatton, England, Swatton's new abbot was the only resident who owned chickens.
19:16To encourage his parishioners to attend church, he would give out eggs.
19:20Then a time came when the river had flooded, barring the residents from attending church,
19:25so the monks threw the eggs over the river.
19:28From there, it apparently became good, wholesome fun that the townspeople would partake in
19:33for the next 700 years or so.
19:36In 2004, the World Egg Throwing Federation passed a law to regulate the sport.
19:42All eggs used in competition have to come from organically fed, free-range, sustainable
19:47and good sources, and the regulatory organization remains based in the town where it appears
19:52it all began.
19:54Still a rural village of about 80 brick homes and the 13th-century St. Michael's Church.
20:00Each year, the organization hosts the World Egg Throwing competition in the Swatton Vintage
20:05Day.
20:06This Vintage Day is a celebration originally meant to showcase vintage vehicles.
20:11Though the festival began in 1994, the egg-throwing competition has assumed prominence, attracting
20:17competitors from all around the world.
20:19Some, such as the New Zealand duo that tossed an egg the farthest in 2017, first competed
20:26in egg-tossing in their home countries before participating in Swatton.
20:30What exactly is the egg-throwing about?
20:33Well, the competition actually has five categories.
20:361. Teams of two will throw and catch an egg over greater and greater distances.
20:412. In the egg-static relay, a team of 11 throwers have to pass a dozen eggs down the line as
20:48quickly as possible.
20:503. In egg trebuchet, teams construct machines based on ancient trebuchet designs and then
20:56launch eggs at a faraway team member.
20:594. In egg target throwing, competitors earn points by hitting certain areas on a human
21:05target.
21:065. Lastly, Russian Egg Roulette, which involves two competitors choosing from the six eggs
21:11in front of them and then smashing them against their forehead one after the other.
21:16Out of the six eggs, five are hard-boiled and one is raw.
21:20The first competitor to find the raw egg loses the match and smashes runny yolk on his or
21:26her forehead.
21:27The competition is weird, and why anyone would want to waste good eggs in the name of a competition
21:3314. Fish Tossing
21:39This is a competition that's not as easy as it may sound.
21:43Since 1952, the Port Lincoln Tuna-Rama Festival has had a long history of connecting the community
21:49over the Australia Day weekend, with food and wine, entertainment, and the coveted tuna
21:54toss competition.
21:56The festival has other activities that make it interesting, and I hope that they would
22:00have just left it at that and not involved some weird competition.
22:05However, this competition began as a way to support and educate people about Port Lincoln's
22:10bustling tuna industry.
22:12Now, Tuna-Rama is the longest-running free festival in South Australia, providing entertainment
22:18for the community and visitors along the foreshore of Boston Bay.
22:22A lot of people hate to miss the fish-tossing competition, where competitors attempt to
22:27fling a fish weighing between 8 and 10 kilograms as far as they can.
22:33Just like it's done in shot put, there's a mark that the foot must not exceed while tossing
22:37the fish, and after everything, it depends on how far the tuna was tossed.
22:42It's not really clear what happens to those fish after the competition, but the fact that
22:47the competition is weird cannot be argued.
22:5115. Toe Wrestling
22:54This sport involves two opponents who lock toes and then attempt to pin each other's
22:59feet down.
23:00It's similar to an arm wrestling competition, but looking at this one is even more weird,
23:05and it just seems to make you feel some kind of way looking at two adults locking their
23:10toes.
23:11However, it's been around for a while.
23:14To play this competition, players have to take off their shoes and socks as the game
23:18is played with bare feet.
23:20They then must link their toes, and each player's foot has to touch flat on the opponent's
23:25two out of three rounds.
23:27Rounds are played first with the right foot, then the left, and then the right again if
23:31necessary.
23:33The sport was invented in 1976 in Staffordshire, United Kingdom, by four drinkers in the Ye
23:40Olde Royal Oak Inn.
23:43Since 1994, it's been held annually at the Royal Oak Wetton, and in this year, the championship
23:48was relocated to the Ex-Servicemen's Club in Wetton.
23:52As of 2022, the current Men's World Champion is Ben Woodroffe, and the Women's Champion
23:58is Dawn Millward, and the Junior Champion is Dolly Millward.
24:03It's only surprising how people don't see anything weird about these competitions.