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Sepak Takraw Is Volleyball For Your Feet

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Sepak Takraw was invented somewhere in Southeast Asia, with a number of countries claiming it as their own. The concept is simple, the game is volleyball, only instead of using their hands to pass and volley, athletes must use their feet. Teams are divided by a net on a court the size of a badminton court. Each team has three players and three touches before the ball must be kicked back over the net. The sport has advanced to a point where the ball is made synthetically, making it safer than the original ball made of rattan.

Our next sport is also an adaptation, but probably not the kind you’re thinking would exist.