If You Think Cricket Is Weird, Just Wait Until You See This Ridiculous Game In Japan

There’s an entire screwy world of sports out there just waiting to be explored.

While mainstream plays like football and basketball take over a majority of the media’s tending, a batch of distinct athletics are finagling to slowly make a call for themselves. By the time I graduated college, for example, my university had competitive ultimate Frisbee, which was unheard of really a few years ago. But out of all of the mysterious sports I’ve viewed, I’ve never come across one quite like this.

Bo-taoshi is a game played by children and adults alike in Japan. It’s a mix of capture the flag and rugby, with only a bit of gymnastics propelled in for good meter. It consists of two 75 -player squads, and the goal is to protect your team’s “ninja, ” who must stay atop a pole while representatives from the resisting squad try to knock your pole down to a 30 -degree angle.