INDIA - Sport

Kabaddi



The Kabaddi comes from South Asia, it was created there 

3 or 4 thousand years ago and is an amateur sport. 

There are also competitions in Japan and Iran.

The Kabaddi is a combat sport created in India, there are

two teams of seven players that occupies half of the 

playground of about 12.5 x 10 meters. Each team has 

five spare players. The matches are organized in 

sessions of twenty minutes each time, fifteen minutes 

for women, with a break of 5 minutes between the teams 

to change sides. A "raider" is sent on the side of the 

opponent, in turn. The défence must form a line, 

holding hands, if the chain is "broken” a team member 

must leave the field. A player must also quit the field

if he crosses the external ground lines except during 

a struggle with a raider. The opposing team earns a 

point for each opponent having to leave the field. 

Matches are organized according to the age and weight 

of the players, There are people who count points. 

There's also another version of Kabaddi called Punjabi,

this is a game where you are playing in a circle, in 

the circle there is a single raider who runs to four 

opponents. In order to beat one player, you have to run

faster on his side. If an opponent beats the raider and

earns, points returns to his team, they each play a 

turn, the first round is worth one point and a half to 

avoid a draw.


Virtually all Indian students have practiced Kabaddi at

school because it was an easy sport that can be 

practiced anywhere, even in a wasteland.

Morgan D. & Dylan