Try pronouncing it; coz you can’t be playing it!

In the morning today, I hoped to catch some news, like always, before I headed for office. Didn’t realise that I was in for something crazier.

You just try pronouncing this ‘Sepaktakraw’ because I bet you can’t play this game. Instead of watching news I watched this game in amazement for some 20 minutes;Thailand versus Vietnam; ladies match of Sepaktakraw. It is an incredibly amazing game of agility, flexibility and deception that requires skills of a Gymnast, the control of a footballer and probably the sight of badminton player.

The game is played with 3 a side and the court has similar dimensions as a badminton court. It can essentially be called foot volleyball since the ball is controlled by foot with a maximum 3 chances to put it in the opponents court, across the net.

Below you see a picture of a match from mens sepaktakraw, where one of the players is defending the smash by the opponent player.

Incredibly, this game ages back to the 15th century and is played with a cane ball weighing about 250 gms. It is quite popular in South-east Asia. I also remember watching this game in the final scenes of this animation movie… “The Road to El Dorado” !

Couldn’t have asked for a more interesting beginning to the day!
“SEPAKTAKRAW”, I just can’t get enough of trying to say it again and again and again….

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