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Some Whacked-Out Sports You Can Try at Home

Bored with regular summer activities? Here are some relatively cheap alternative sports you can set up at home.

Here are a few relatively cheap and new sports that you can try out for yourself at home. If you don't believe that some of these games are actually played, just look at the videos to the right, I had myself had to see it with my own eyes.

Quidditch

Can you believe this is actually a sport? There is actually an International Quidditch League and also an Intercollegiate Quidditch League, which boasts hundreds if not a few thousand teams. The game is scaled down a bit, since flying brooms and semi-intelligent balls aren't (yet) a reality, but the rules are essentially the same as the sport made famous by that scarred and spectacled fictional wizard.

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Basically, people run around the field with brooms between their legs (to simulate the Harry Potter universe as well as add a certain level of difficulty) and try to score through hoops at either end of the field. Defensive players, known as beaters, Run around with dodge balls trying to knock the ball out of the offensive players hands. Where's the snitch, you might ask? A player acts as a snitch during the game or you can also use some sort of radio-controlled flying machine.

Hantis

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This game is way cheaper than "Muggle Quidditch." All you need is four people, four tables and a tennis ball. The game is a combination of volleyball, table tennis and basketball. The rules vary from place to place, but the main object of the game is to get the tennis ball to bounce off of an opposing player's table (of which they can move in between to defend) and fall out of play.

Road Tennis

This game is basically ping pong on the street. You just need paddles, some chalk, a barrier and a ball. You draw out a ping pong table on the ground (or just simply take the legs off of an actual table tennis apparatus), put up something to act as a net, and start playing. Note: this game is played almost entirely while hunched over, so if you have a back condition, it would probably be a good idea to stick to ping pong.

Blind Soccer

Name says it all, right? It's essentially soccer with blindfolds on all the players, save for a few other key and subtle differences. The field is much smaller, so the players don't permanently lose the ball, and the ball itself has a ball bearing inside it so players can hear where the ball is. Out of play participants are also allowed to shout instructions out to the players during game play.

Circle-Rules Football

This game is easy and cheap. Basically, all you need is a goal and a huge yoga ball. Two teams square off on the same goal, with each opposing team scoring on each side of the goal. The field itself is a circle, marked out by some sort of markers (nothing really official on these, just small visible things you wouldn't mind falling on) and inside that circle area is called the key. There are two goalies, and they are the only two players allowed in the key, as both teams move the ball around the circle to position for a score.

Segway Polo

Okay, it's not cheap, but this has to get some credit for ingenuity (besides, I imagine it's cheaper than buying a whole horse). It's polo on Segways!


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