3. what is cheese-rolling and wake?
● The Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake is an annual event held on the Spring Bank Holiday
at Cooper's Hill, near Gloucester in England. The event is traditional, and takes its name from
the steep hill on which it occurs.
● From the top of the hill, a 9 pounds (4.1 kilograms) round of Double Gloucester cheese is sent
rolling down the hill, and competitors then start racing down the hill after it. The first person
over the finish line at the bottom of the hill wins the cheese.
● The cheese currently used in the event is 7–9 pounds (3.2–4.1 kilograms) Double Gloucester, a
hard cheese traditionally made in a circular shape.
● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEh3wz-92i4
4. rules
● There are four downhill races – three for men and one for women with a maximum of 14 racers
for each, although more usually tend to race (some years have seen up to 40!)
● The Masters of the Ceremony kick off the event by shouting: ‘One to be ready, two to be
steady, three to prepare (at which point the cheese is released), and four to be off.’
● The competitors then launch themselves down the hill after the cheese, with the first person
past the finish line crowned as the winner.
7. TUNA TOSSING
• The objective of tuna tossing is to toss the tuna fish as far as you can. To win the
competition you will need strength
• This sport began in 1979 in South Australia, in the small fishing community of Port
Lincoln.
• The tuna toss is part of an annual festival called Tunarama celebrated in January.
• It was inspired by the local fishermen who would toss fish onto their trucks far and
with force. The best throwers would be getting a job for that day.
• The winner is the person who manages to throw a 20-pound fish the furthest.
• Nowadays the competition has become somewhat cleaner: participants use a rubber
8. TUNA TOSSING RULES
• Both men and women must be 16 years and older to
participate.
• Each competitor must throw a fish weighing between eight
and ten kilograms as far as he or she can.
• The surface for the game is on the grass within a white circle.
You mustn´t leave the circle while throwing the fish.
• A plastic model must be used in the preliminaries.
• But in the finals competitors throw real frozen fish.
11. WHAT IS THE SPORT?
Street Luge is an extreme sport gravity-powered that involves riding a street board.
It was born in California. The downhill skateboarders found they could reach faster speeds by lying down
on their skateboards.
The first professional race was in 1975. The race winner was the one who reached the highest speed.
In the early 1990s, some Australian skateboarders started sitting down on their skateboards.
In the mid 1990s, ESPN’s X Games showcased street luge to the world and the sport was originally
sanctioned by RAIL.
12. RULES
○ EQUIPMENT:
● The luge mustn’t be larger than 2.5 metres long.
● The luge mustn’t have mechanical brakes. They are not allowed.
● The front and rear ends, must be padded to absorb the energy of a blow.
● No part of the luge must cover the rider, except four toe loops.
○ SAFETY GEARS:
● You have to wear a full face helmet.
● You must wear something that protects your eyes, like a pair of glasses.
● Shoes have to have enough sole to allow for braking.
● Leathers that cover the most part of the body have to be worn.
○ RACING:
● All parts of the body and equipment, must be behind the start line.
● Racers have tot sit on the board facing forward.
● The player whose the furthest portion of the body or equipment that crosses the finish line first will
be declared the winner.
15. OUTHOUSES RACES
O Outhouse races take place in towns and cities across the western US since 70s.
O Teams compete in their own portable potties with their four sides, a roof, a toilet
seat and even a roll of toilet paper.
O Teams consist of three to five people. Some of the members must pull or push their
homemade outhouse down a city street and must also have at least one rider on the
seat inside.
O Many races are held in winter. such as the longest running race in Concully,
Washington, and the competition held at the Fur Rondy Festival in Anchorage,
Alaska. Because of snow, outhouses must be mounted on skis.
O During summer. In Breckenridge, Colorado, outhouses are mounted on wheels and
racers push the portable potties to the finish line to compete for the “Gold Throne”,
“Silver Moon”, and “Bronze Bucket” trophies, along with accompanying cash prizes.
O Virginia City, Nevada, holds the World Championship Outhouses in October.
16. OUTHOUSE RACES RULES
O Outhouse must be built with solid materials.
O Outhouse must not exceed 6 feet (2 m) in height from the floor to the highest point
of the outhouse and must be a minimum of 9 square feet (3 m2).
O The outhouse may have a window , but no glass will be permitted.
O The outhouse must have four sides, a roof and a doorway. It needs to look like an
outhouse. The door must be secured open during the race.
O Outhouse interior must contain a toilet seat with a hole where one team member
sits on during the race.
O There must be a toilet paper hanger inside the outhouse.
O Bicycle parts are permitted, however; no intact bicycles are allowed.
O Any number or size of wheels may be used.
O The Outhouse must be pushed or pulled by hand by three crew members. (No
ropes, motors or pedals will be allowed).
O Each outhouse should have its name or theme displayed on the front or back of the
19. HISTORY:
● Headis is a mix of table tennis and the heading of association football (like playing table
tennis but with the head).
● The sport was invented in 2006. This sport originated when a couple of students were
preparing to play on a football field in Kaiserslautern (Germany), but the field was busy
and they could not play. But there was a free ping-pong table nearby and they started
playing with a rubber ball with only their heads. Starting at Universität des Saarlandes
the sport spread all over Germany.
20. RULES:
● You must play one against one at a regular ping-pong table.
● You must touch the ball with your head.
● The table, can be touched by any part of your body.
● You can do a volley.
● You should touch the ground after each ball that is played before going on to play the next.
● Sets are played to eleven points.
● You should win by two points.
● Games are decided by best of three sets.
23. INFORMATION
Despite its name in English, Horseball was created in Southwest France in the
70s.The Horseball is a sport that consists of a mixture of basketball, rugby and
polo. The goal is to get the most goals in the vertical baskets of the opposing
team. It is played on rectangular terrain whose ideal measurements are 65
meters long and 25 meters wide. The game has 2 parts of 10 minutes, divided
by a brake of 3 minutes with the availability of each team a dead time of 30
seconds in each part.
24. BASIC
RULES
Serious sanctions and inadmissible faults: brutality,
dangerous play, insults to the referee, aggressions ... A player
of the offended side is placed on the line of 5 m, with the
horse stopped and executes a direct shot to the basket.
Applies to less serious faults such as non-respect of the right
of branches, obstruction or intimidation of the adversary ...
The offended side can finish the basket, horse stopped at 10
m 1cm or start a play from the line from 15 m.
Simple sanctions and minor infractions. The offended side
begins a play from midfield
27. EXTREME UNICYCLING: HISTORY,
ORIGIN AND WHAT´S ABOUT.
This is an unusual sport that consists in ride a unicycle in places that are very dangerous to go
across or to stay there, like cliffs, rainforest, steep mountains… This sport of adventure is very
difficult because we don´t have two wheels like the bicycle, and we don´t have brakes and
handlebar neither, so we have to stay in equilibrium.
The unicycle was invented in 1869 by Frederick Myers (UK) when it was called single-wheeled
velocipedes, but the fist time that it was used was in the circus of the Italian Battista Scuri, in
1881. Its design has developed until its invention and there was different type of unicycle such
as the “giraffe”(it measure 1,5 or 2 m) or the seatless unicycle. In the 1980s, some people that
practises sport get interested in this object and they started to practice new sports like the
extreme unicycle, street unicycle, trials unicycle...
28. EXTREME UNICYCLING: TIPS TO TRAIN AND
MECHANISM. INFORMATION OF THE
COMPETITION
The unicycle is composed by two pedals, one thick wheel and a set of gears.
To learn who to use this object you just have to train five days(it depends in the age and in the
physical condition), there are a lot of methods, but the best is to try to stay in equilibrium fixing
your sight in a spot. You have to put your right foot in the right pedal and then the left, push
yourself and now you just have to stay calm and in equilibrium.
Riders compete in the UNICON and in the regional championships, here there are few
modalities of the unicycle riding, like the artistic, the track racing, marathon, muni… Each group
is composed by three riders and 1 support person. You have to start the race when the bell ring ,
if you start before you´re out of the competition. This competition occurs every two years.
31. origin of sport:
Boxing chess is a sport that combines the two modalities. It`s origin
, estimated, was in 1978, when boxer James Robinson, also a fan of the
chess sport, formed a Chess boxing club in London.
The following year, that discipline appeared in the Chinese kung-fu
movie "The Mystery of Chess boxing. " The club closed without fame or
glory.
In 1992, the Serbian comic cartoonist Enki Bilal, who knows if by his
own inspiration or based on the predecessor ideas, captured the
concept in the comic book "Frío ecuador". Many people consider Bilal
was the father of the idea. But if there is a great precursor, this is
the artist Iepe Rubingh, an amateur of both sports, who in 2003
decided to create the first world championship of chess boxing.
Rubingh was champion of the first edition and is currently the
president of the World Boxing Chess Organization (WCBO).
32.
33. what´s the game about?
Two athletes compete for 11 rounds. It starts with
chess, playing 4 minutes, and alternates with 3
minutes of boxing. Between rounds a minute of rest is
made to be able to change the corresponding equipment.
The competitors can win by KO, checkmate or in case of
exhausting the minutes of departure, by decision taken
by the judges. Consequently, it is about crushing the
body and mind of the opponent throughout half an hour
of mental and physical battle.
34. rules
● You must win in any discipline and you will win the
chessboxing fight.
● you must shake your opponent's hand before the fight.
● You must wear gloves and mouth guards before you start.
● You must combine physical agility with mental agility
for battle.
● You must be able to make movements in complicated
positions with little time to think.
● You must move the pieces in such a way that the
opponent's king is attacked and there isn`t movement
for him to defend it.
● You must have good health and physical condition for
the fight.
