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Kabaddi, or Kabadi, as it is also pronounced, is a team game quite popular in South Asia, and is also declared as the national game of Bangladesh in the year 1972. The game is widely played across Bangladesh and also very popular in India and other countries in the region.

While the origins of this interesting team sport are not clearly known, some attribute this sport to the ancient epic battle of Kurukshetra in Mahabharata, where Abhimanyu tried to use the techniques to break-free from the attack over him by a group of opponents.

The game is only very popular in the rural areas of Bangladesh and India, but also played across a number of countries in South Asia. Competitive games are held annually at the Asian level and India emerged as the world champion in this interesting sport.

What is Kabaddi?

Kabaddi is a team game. Two teams, comprising seven members in each team, compete in a field having dimensions of 12.5 meters x 10 meters. The field is divided into two equal halves and the members of the two teams occupy the two halves of the field. In this turn-based game, one player from a team is sent as a “raider” to the opponent’s field to win points by wrestling or tagging the players of the opponent team and then return back to the home holding the breath during the entire process of raiding and returning back to the home field.

The tagged or wrestled members of the opponent team during a raid by a player to the opponent’s area are considered out and need to sit out. If the opponent’s raider comes to raid and gets points, then the person sitting out will come back to play.

The game is decided on points played over a stipulated time of 20 minutes per session and a break of 5 minutes between the sessions.

Kabaddi is a competitive game which calls for the unique skills of holding breath during raids, penetration into the opponent’s field and also dodging skills to come back to the home field after successful raiding.

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Ice hockey is one of the many sports that are ideally played in countries experiencing very cold climate such as in Canada, and such other countries in the northern hemisphere where the climate frequently goes not just below the sub-zero degrees, but much more to the extent of more than minus 25 degree Celsius.

It is no wonder that the national game of Canada, especially in the winter season, is none other than Ice hockey.

What is the specialty of Ice hockey?

As the name suggests, the game of hockey is played over ice. The broad rules of hockey game do apply to this version of ice hockey. The game is played over ice and the players use skates to move around the ice floor of the ground.

The dimensions of the ground are about 200 feet long and 85 meters wide.

The game is played between two teams, with each team having six players. As the ball is used in normal hockey game, in this ice hockey, the puck is used by the players. The object of the game is to put the puck on the goal located at each of the two ends of the playing arena. As a player of a team, the object is to put the puck in the goal post located at the opponent’s end. The players use hockey sticks, something similar to the English alphabet “J” as the hockey stick to move around the ground with skates.

The number of goals by a team more than the other team determines the winner of the game. The game gained popularity among the countries where skating and ice hockey can be played, especially in the cold winter season.

The game is a regular member of the Winter Olympics. In addition to Olympics, a number of ice hockey championships are also conducted. The famous Stanley Cup among the ice hockey playing nations is a testimony to the popularity of this winter sport.

The Stanley Cup, named after the Canadian Governor Frederick Stanley, is awarded to the winning team of the National Hockey League Championship granted annually. The Cup was first awarded in the 1893-94 season and since then it is awarded annually.

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One of the most popular games that is played mostly by the people in the higher strata of the society as a status symbol and by players in professional competitions is none other than Golf.

This is a game which involves very little of physical strain, but more of precision and technique, requires that a golf player, using different types of golf clubs, to pocket the different holes placed across the golf course with the least number of shots. Typically the game involves pocketing either 9 holes or 18 holes.

It is not quite clear when and where the game of golf originally originated. According to some historians, traces of golf-like game using a bent stick as well as stuffed leather balls was played in Rome in the first century B.C in the name of paganica. This paganica was then spread over to many European countries, including England, when the Romans captured most of the European continent in the first century B.C.

Some other historians are of the view that golf was played in China in the name of chuiwan sometime between the eighth century and the fourteenth century. But the most accepted and widely believed notion about the origins of golf game leads to Scotland, where, sometime during the 12th century, shepherds use to knock stones into some sort of rabbit holes found in St. Andrews, the present golf site owned and maintained by the Royal and Ancient Golf Club.

The game has gained popularity to such an extent that the rules and regulations have been internationally standardized and governed by the United States Golf Association and the R&A, which is spun off as a separate entity from in 2004 from The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews.

The golf course, in which the game is played, typically consists of a large area of greens surrounded by trees. A round of golf game typically comprises of 18 holes, each placed at different levels from the teeing area, the area from which the first stroke with the club is initiated. The number of strokes takes to hole the pot at a prescribed distance determines the points. The player with least number of attempts to pot the hole is determined the winner.

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