FUN AND GAMES

If you are tired of playing the same games, try one of the new sports and make your life more colourful. Read about the new sports below and choose the one that you’d like to try.

A) BOSSABALL

Bossaball was first played in Spain, but it is inspired from Brazilian music, beach culture, and sport. People play it on a court of inflatable panels, trampolines, and a net. It’s a combination of volleyball, football and gymnastics, and it’s all set to music. The teams try to land the ball to their opponents’ side, jumping and bouncing high in the air as the ball goes from side to side. Actually it’s very simple, but it’s fantastic to watch and play. 

B) SPEEDMINTON

The famous tennis star Maria Sharapova is a big fan of this sport. It is considered to be the fastest racket game in the world. It’s a combination of tennis and badminton. You need two players with rackets and a ‘speeder’ (a kind of shuttlecock) that flies around at the speed of 200 mph. There’s no need for a net, but players need to mark the two target areas to stand in. You can play it on the beach, indoors, on a tennis court, or even on rooftops – in short anywhere and anytime. The game was invented in Germany and there people play it even at night with luminous speeders as techno beats make loudspeakers vibrate. 

C) ZORB

If you don’t feel energetic but are still looking for a thrill, zorb might be a good option for you. Inspired from our childhood, New Zealanders invented this game. Most of us liked rolling down a hill when we were kids and zorb reminds us of those days. Zorb is like a giant beach ball that you climb into at the top of a very steep, grassy hill. As a hand pushes you over the edge, you have to stand up and run like a hamster in its wheel. The challenge is to remain upright all the way to the bottom. In order to make things a little harder, sometimes they put soapy water inside it.

D) THE (ALMOST) MAGIC WAND

While playing a computer game, the only thing that does exercise is your finger. The ‘wand’ (an electronic gadget) changes this by telling a computer what movements you’re making. The wand takes computer games to a new level. If you are playing tennis, the computer hits the ball and you have to run to hit it back making this almost like a real game. You can use the wand for any kind of sports like hockey, squash, golf, any game that requires a stick, racket or club.

Adapted from Countdown