varun reddy Mothe US, sorry. Though I learned of it from an acquaintance who was from India who I thought was making things up to see what the stupid white dude would fall for. Then I googled it and was amazed. I don't even like sports and I like Kabaddi.
The word kabaddi is derived from the Tamil words Kai-pidi, which literally mean '(let's) hold hands'. When a raider enters the court, we can see the team mates holding hands to defend him.
Kabaddi is most growing sport and popular in India. Pro kabaddi league best league. Most interesting game. I love kabaddi. And also play in school level in India
Sorry to be a pedant but the players in kabadi say kabadi over and over because each attack lasts for one breath and saying kabadi over and over proves that the player isn’t taking an in breath.
John Richardson Training I suspected it was that - there's a similar game we played in summer camps in Czechia which differed only in that a) the sound being made was "hutututu....", and b) the object was to remain as long as possible in the opposing team's territory without getting caught and/or losing breath. If you got caught/stopped saying "hutututu", you switched sides; obviously whichever team lost all members, lost. It's not a sport, but I suspect some common roots.
In retrospect, it's entirely possible someone did simply bring that directly from India the exact same way sports like basketball were brought over - only in this case it only caught on as a summer camp game. :-)
My baby brother was very short, he didn’t end up growing until his late teens, meanwhile I was over 5 feet when I was 11. We had a basketball net although neither of us were very sporty. The first day my gym teacher taught me about chest passes (I think I was 12/13) I went home and was playing with my brother and did one, completely forgetting my chest and his face were at the same height. I smashed him really badly in the face and felt so amazingly awful for the rest of the night cause it totally wasn’t intentional. So I feel for Sandi.
All the Kabbadi World Cup have been Won by India! It's second most viewed sports in India by about 313M in 2018 comes after cricket IPL having 415M broadcast viewers in 2018!🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🙏🇮🇳🇮🇳
I like netball. But now I realise that may be because I was the tall girl in the scenario. Interesting to hear it from the perspective of a short person. However, the perks stop at netball for me as I wasn't the type of tall girl getting off with the boys at the disco.
Natasha Lysette Same here! Though I was always put as goal keeper so I ended up just freezing my arse off while girls who actually played netball threw the ball at my head!
Kabaddi is the only sport that looks the most excitiing sport of all the sports in the world because in Kabaddi,The momentum of game changes in every 30 seconds and it's a game of 40 mins,20mins of each half and this game constanly flows from the 1st minute to the last minute of the total duration.
The point is to restrict ur breathing so u don't waste much time when it's ur turn to invade opponent territory, the more breath u have the more time u get, try saying kabaddi kabaddi and tackle someone, u wouldn't want to waste time.
Netball is personally my favourite thing to do but it is interesting to see it from a smaller persons point of view. Im 14 and im 5"11 1/2 so thats probably why i like it. It can seem as boring but it can get quite funny if you're watching it with the right people. It is a lot of fun and i wouldnt be where i am today without it
I hated Netball and it was because of the lack of moving around, the area restrictions, and having someone follow you around and getting in the way like a very determined toddler. I dislike team sports anyway but they were done to death at school, and because they didn't let us do swimming and only did athletics in the summer minus the long distance running, so I never got the chance to do something I can ignore everybody for long periods of time
When I was in school, I was an attacker on the hockey team, so whenever we played netball in PE, they had me as... is it goal attack? Goal striker? Something like that... I'm 4"11. There was a girl who was ALWAYS on the other team for some reason, who was 6ft. So of course, she was always the bloody keeper. I hated netball.
See in Canada we didn’t play netball, they just let the girls play basketball either with the boys or in all girl teams/classes. I’d never really heard of net ball till this episode.
@@LilyGrace95 Australia and New Zealand are probably the most enthusiastic netball countries as it has no social divide. Nearly every country town and suburban districts have at least one club. In Britain it is concentrated more in the middle class.
I can’t believe the coincidence of this being in my suggestions today. It was only a couple of hours ago that I was thinking about girls’ basketball back in my high school days when we could take only three steps with the ball, defence was restricted to the third of the court near our team’s basket, the other two-thirds being for the forwards etc.. I was thinking of how today’s athletes would never believe all the restrictions. 🎵doo do doo do🎶
I’m going to be real with you Sandi - being tall did Not make netball enjoyable! I’m 5’10 and I was, ridiculously, about that height for most of my mid/late teens. I was put as goal keeper Every Single Game & just had to stand there like a fucking pole while some little prick who played for county threw the ball at my head. 100% agree - rounders was Great! (though i’ve always been a football player)
actually netball is terrible because its a rare example of a game where the action comes to a halt before every point is scored. have a think about it....makes it very dull to watch.
I don't really understand. In my country boys and girl play basketball, I hadn't even heard of netball until I moved to the UK for uni and a girl in my flat joined the netball team. It looks just like basketball except there are stupid rules. Why don't everyone just play basketball?
stiras1 We didn’t really play basketball at all. At my school all the sports were: (field) hockey, rugby, netball, football (soccer), cricket, tennis, badminton, rounders, athletics/fitness etc, badminton. We played basketball about 4-5 times throughout my whole time there. I didn’t play American football once! (Or lacrosse - that was for the private and public schools, i was at a state comprehensive)
So is netball a "girl" version of basketball? Like softball? Btw, I'm not trying to insult anyone by calling it a girl version, it's how softball was explained to me by Americans I know.
nessagirl1911 It's actually a pretty intense game when played by competent people, should be taken more seriously by the sporting community. Load of crap they had to invent this new sport instead of just letting us play basketball tho.
Probably originally but it’s such a different sport now, plus, as they said, it sucks. Players can only be in certain areas of the court, there’s no backboard, you can’t move with the ball (or bounce it at all) and you can only hold it for 3 seconds. tbh the only similarities are the methods of scoring goals (through hoops), where the points system is different too, and the ball shape. other than that they are very different games.
Didn't Nish and Alan have the almost precisely same discussion about Kabaddi in an earlier episode? Down to the cultural appropriation accusation at the end.
She was but she grew up in America cause her Dad travelled a lot for work, she came back to the UK in her teens after getting kicked out of school in the US for lack of attendance
Kabaddi feels like something they just made up on the spot, but it's actually a very real, very mad, completely amazing sport.
supermanlypunch are you from uk dude and if yes how do you get to know about it
varun reddy Mothe US, sorry. Though I learned of it from an acquaintance who was from India who I thought was making things up to see what the stupid white dude would fall for. Then I googled it and was amazed. I don't even like sports and I like Kabaddi.
Many people in the UK know Kabaddi because it used to be shown on free to air television on ch4 and was essential Sunday morning viewing.
Wow, I had no idea.
Kabaddi on C4 was great and had a huge audience. So C4 canned it. They despise any sort of success. And 'used to' means over 25 years ago!
kabaddi is an awesome sport when you see it played well. the strength of the players is scary.
soddof are u on facebook
Being a wrestler helps a lot.
@@NoOne-ky1er having lean & fast body movement help as well
All I'm picturing now is instead of grunting, people playing tennis going: TENNIS! TENNIS!
That wou,s be so much more fun! And less weird, I find the grunting offpurting at times.
Nish is a riot.
The word kabaddi is derived from the Tamil words Kai-pidi, which literally mean '(let's) hold hands'.
When a raider enters the court, we can see the team mates holding hands to defend him.
I like that he didn't mention the startling lack of clothing involved in kabbadi
Lol true
whats the use in wearing clothes when ur going to be pulled and pushed and thrown around...clothes would tear bro
Sudipta Adhikary Fair
there is no such rhing as "summer" in india. they only have two seasons: monsoon and no monsoon
Some of them also oil themselves in to be harder to get hold of. Such an epic sport!
I just got FIFA 22, and thanks to this episode every time I kick the ball in the game I say "football."
The reason this isn't done in the actual game of football is the players wouldn't be able to cope with such an intellectual challenge.
Kabaddi is most growing sport and popular in India. Pro kabaddi league best league. Most interesting game. I love kabaddi. And also play in school level in India
As a tall woman... I did NOT get off better in dances.... lol all the guys were shorter than me! lol
Sorry to be a pedant but the players in kabadi say kabadi over and over because each attack lasts for one breath and saying kabadi over and over proves that the player isn’t taking an in breath.
John Richardson Training I suspected it was that - there's a similar game we played in summer camps in Czechia which differed only in that a) the sound being made was "hutututu....", and b) the object was to remain as long as possible in the opposing team's territory without getting caught and/or losing breath. If you got caught/stopped saying "hutututu", you switched sides; obviously whichever team lost all members, lost.
It's not a sport, but I suspect some common roots.
@@beth12svist dude dat is kabaddi
@@beth12svist even in india there are multiple versions with different words used instead of kabaddi.
@@beth12svist yes hututu is kabaddi
Lol we chant hututu or kabaddi
Apparantly hututu version has reached czechia from india
I have tears in my eyes
In retrospect, it's entirely possible someone did simply bring that directly from India the exact same way sports like basketball were brought over - only in this case it only caught on as a summer camp game. :-)
Thanks to this video, kabaddi has now expanded my list of actually fun sports to watch to 3. It is now kabaddi, rugby, and hockey.
Ever tried Kho-Kho?? Just putting it out there if you find that interesting
Kabaddi is the best sport on planet
it does sound like a decent game, might have a go, kabaddi kabaddi kabaddi
kabaddi, kabaddi, kabaddi .....
kabaddi, kabaddi, kabaddi, kabaddi.....
footballll
Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, football, football
Alan Alan Alan Alan Alan.....
Kicking the ball and shouting 'Football!" sounds very much like an Alan Partridge thing to do!
It reminded me of the scene in the US Office where Michael and co are jumping over desks and shouting "Parkour!"
My baby brother was very short, he didn’t end up growing until his late teens, meanwhile I was over 5 feet when I was 11. We had a basketball net although neither of us were very sporty. The first day my gym teacher taught me about chest passes (I think I was 12/13) I went home and was playing with my brother and did one, completely forgetting my chest and his face were at the same height. I smashed him really badly in the face and felt so amazingly awful for the rest of the night cause it totally wasn’t intentional. So I feel for Sandi.
I'm surprised Alan knows about Kabaddi.
Why not? I know it and I only learned of it on UA-cam last week.
Kabaddi use to air on UK channels back in the days (i dont which channel)
Alan used to to a travel show (might have been Paul Merton...?) Probably saw it live.
All the Kabbadi World Cup have been Won by India!
It's second most viewed sports in India by about 313M in 2018 comes after cricket IPL having 415M broadcast viewers in 2018!🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🙏🇮🇳🇮🇳
That's because most of the world doesn't play kabbadi
No but 2018 is won by Iran
Lol
@@greatpeopleofhimachal5043 nope u r wrong that was asian games
It's was once considered as an rural street game in India but now it is considered as festival in India!
Pretty sure the netball team in black in the background photo is the Silver Ferns (NZ national team), so the other team is probably Australia.
I like netball. But now I realise that may be because I was the tall girl in the scenario. Interesting to hear it from the perspective of a short person. However, the perks stop at netball for me as I wasn't the type of tall girl getting off with the boys at the disco.
Natasha Lysette Same here! Though I was always put as goal keeper so I ended up just freezing my arse off while girls who actually played netball threw the ball at my head!
2:56 Nish owns it! 😂
Kabaddi is the only sport that looks the most excitiing sport of all the sports in the world because in Kabaddi,The momentum of game changes in every 30 seconds and it's a game of 40 mins,20mins of each half and this game constanly flows from the 1st minute to the last minute of the total duration.
The point is to restrict ur breathing so u don't waste much time when it's ur turn to invade opponent territory, the more breath u have the more time u get, try saying kabaddi kabaddi and tackle someone, u wouldn't want to waste time.
Netball is personally my favourite thing to do but it is interesting to see it from a smaller persons point of view. Im 14 and im 5"11 1/2 so thats probably why i like it. It can seem as boring but it can get quite funny if you're watching it with the right people. It is a lot of fun and i wouldnt be where i am today without it
I hated Netball and it was because of the lack of moving around, the area restrictions, and having someone follow you around and getting in the way like a very determined toddler. I dislike team sports anyway but they were done to death at school, and because they didn't let us do swimming and only did athletics in the summer minus the long distance running, so I never got the chance to do something I can ignore everybody for long periods of time
I still feel like I am cheating on Stephen when I watch these new episodes.
Stephen left you for a younger man. it's time you gor some closure and moved on.
who?
i only feel like that when i enjoy them.
In the program this discussion goes on for ages and just gets funnier and funnier. Why did they cut it short?
Remember when Channel4 had jus started and aired Kabaddi matches ?....
Now kabbadi player gets millions of dollars contact In Indian league
I could have sworn that they had this fact ages ago when talking about what sports have been invented in the US
thebigJohnnyD they did have the netball fact before - but also mentioned that Naismith may not have invented basketball.
The Aztecs were putting balls through hoops long before Europeans invaded, although their version was somewhat deadly.
Can the QI Elves add their research to the Netball Wikipedia page please. It is somewhat brushed over in the history section there.
Kabaddi is awesome.
Thank you I hated Netball and I played it for a year. Also its a Chiropractor heaven.
When I was in school, I was an attacker on the hockey team, so whenever we played netball in PE, they had me as... is it goal attack? Goal striker? Something like that... I'm 4"11. There was a girl who was ALWAYS on the other team for some reason, who was 6ft. So of course, she was always the bloody keeper. I hated netball.
See in Canada we didn’t play netball, they just let the girls play basketball either with the boys or in all girl teams/classes. I’d never really heard of net ball till this episode.
I think it's mostly a British thing tbh, which is weird considering it didn't originate here...
@@LilyGrace95 Australia and New Zealand are probably the most enthusiastic netball countries as it has no social divide. Nearly every country town and suburban districts have at least one club. In Britain it is concentrated more in the middle class.
I find it really hard to believe Holly Walsh had trouble attracting boys!
I can’t believe the coincidence of this being in my suggestions today. It was only a couple of hours ago that I was thinking about girls’ basketball back in my high school days when we could take only three steps with the ball, defence was restricted to the third of the court near our team’s basket, the other two-thirds being for the forwards etc.. I was thinking of how today’s athletes would never believe all the restrictions. 🎵doo do doo do🎶
I’m going to be real with you Sandi - being tall did Not make netball enjoyable! I’m 5’10 and I was, ridiculously, about that height for most of my mid/late teens. I was put as goal keeper Every Single Game & just had to stand there like a fucking pole while some little prick who played for county threw the ball at my head. 100% agree - rounders was Great! (though i’ve always been a football player)
actually netball is terrible because its a rare example of a game where the action comes to a halt before every point is scored. have a think about it....makes it very dull to watch.
I don't know any of those sports (except Basketball).
Shadow Heart do you know soccer?
See kabaddi videos on UA-cam. And hotstar app
Does sound similar to bull rush, which I assume is like bull dog. Why couldn't they be based on Kabaddi?
I thought of Red Rover, which we used to play (in Canada).
not the only sport that says the name of the sport. Gaga Ball is the best!
zoe dostal do you have to poke the opponents face?
Kabaddi is the best
I don't really understand. In my country boys and girl play basketball, I hadn't even heard of netball until I moved to the UK for uni and a girl in my flat joined the netball team. It looks just like basketball except there are stupid rules. Why don't everyone just play basketball?
stiras1 We didn’t really play basketball at all. At my school all the sports were: (field) hockey, rugby, netball, football (soccer), cricket, tennis, badminton, rounders, athletics/fitness etc, badminton. We played basketball about 4-5 times throughout my whole time there. I didn’t play American football once! (Or lacrosse - that was for the private and public schools, i was at a state comprehensive)
Cus some people prefer netball
Channel 4 on kabbadi
Kabaddi sounds like Red Rover.
Kabaddi or ka ra baddi become ka mean goal in odia.
Kabaddi is just metoo in another version
So is netball a "girl" version of basketball? Like softball?
Btw, I'm not trying to insult anyone by calling it a girl version, it's how softball was explained to me by Americans I know.
Yes.
Literally, if you go to any posh British girls' school, they'll play either netball or lacrosse (which is the absolute worst sport ever created)
nessagirl1911 It's actually a pretty intense game when played by competent people, should be taken more seriously by the sporting community. Load of crap they had to invent this new sport instead of just letting us play basketball tho.
Probably originally but it’s such a different sport now, plus, as they said, it sucks. Players can only be in certain areas of the court, there’s no backboard, you can’t move with the ball (or bounce it at all) and you can only hold it for 3 seconds. tbh the only similarities are the methods of scoring goals (through hoops), where the points system is different too, and the ball shape. other than that they are very different games.
I'm sorry that Holly never got enough attention at school dances. It's only because I wasn't there.
Football... Football...
kabaddi kabaddi
Only kabaddi. We love kabaddi. We don't know about football
Kabaddi
kabaddi
Didn't Nish and Alan have the almost precisely same discussion about Kabaddi in an earlier episode? Down to the cultural appropriation accusation at the end.
HotelPapa100 you were watching Dave+1
Wow that is not kabaddi
Sandi is American. Let that sink in for a moment.
Derpyderp she was born in Copenhagen?
She was but she grew up in America cause her Dad travelled a lot for work, she came back to the UK in her teens after getting kicked out of school in the US for lack of attendance
Derpyderp you’ve oversold the shock factor of that piece of information I think, I doubt many people would give a shit
On QI she incessantly talks about her Danes citizenship and ethnicity.
So that's what netball is. Stupid. Get rid of it and let the girls play basketball.
The two worst comedians around...