Someone else in the Comments will probably already have said this, but the key thing about the Indian sport Kabaddi is the rule that the player invading the opponents' half of the court must be holding his breath the whole time he's there. How do you ensure the attacking player's operating on just one breath? Play underwater? That'd work, but on land, snatching a quick, silent, extra puff of wind to extend the time he can attack would be cheating - and would be very easy to do - so the rule is that he must say or clearly chant the word 'kabaddi' constantly, and without a pause. It's the defending team's job to link hands and block him in their territory until he runs out of air. Because the word 'kabaddi' has no natural breaks and no convenient esses or aitches or n's (where you could possibly draw a tiny breath) the end 'i' flows perfectly into the beginning 'k', so it's not possible to breathe in whilst chanting. It's obvious to everyone if an attacker is cheating. Musicians such as brass, reed, woodwind, and didgeridoo players will know that circular breathing techniques don't get around this one-breath rule. It's very effective. So, the length of time you can maintain an audible, uninterrupted exhalation of 'kabaddikabaddikabaddi-' whilst running and jumping and dodging - is the key point of the sport. It's fast and often quite vicious, played by men and women alike and, despite the QI panellist's stout defence of the purity of its origins, it is remarkably similar to several other games, especially the schoolboys' playground favourite 'British Bulldog, One Two Three', which does away with the fairness and the rules and the chanting and just concentrates on extreme brutality. Best played on concrete, of course. ;-)
@@JimCullen I would prefer just screaming tbh, when I try it kinda takes a lot of my attention to just keep saying kabadi... Would be more fun too, just running head first into a group of angry fullahs screaming non stop :p
Kabaddi is awesome! A raider runs thru the enemy court, tagging out as many players as possible and returns to the home court without being tackled. ON ONE BREATH! All while saying "Kabaddi! Kabaddi! Kabaddi!" the whole time on one breath of air until they return to their home court. We played it in Scouts for years.
Just had a quick look. It reminds me of a Python sketch where they were just doing nonsensical things as though they were organised sports. Obviously there are rules that I'm just unaware of but, to my untrained Australian eye, it just looks like a pretend sport.
Accidentally saw a game of netball on tv one day as I was channel surfing. Player 5 meters away from the one with the ball, nobody else around, whistle blows. "Interference."... Wut?
@@medievalist What about cricket though? I'm not a rugby fan, but I do know that stuff actually happens there, and it isn't stretched out over several hours of several days.
@@ShizuruNakatsu I have an odd fondness for sitting on the grass on a sunny day watching the cricket, especially if I can drink cider. Other than that, cricket is pretty terrible.
Milton Knowles Imagine a game of basketball where every player has a court ordered restraining order against every other player, then you have netball.
I was goal attack in the school netball team, which is ridiculous as I was the shortest girl in the school, and so everyone could just Throw the ball straight over my head, lmao, xx
When we started the new school year at my school, PE classes were always split based on how good you were in the first class. Hockey was the autumn/winter outdoors sport, and I was on the team, so I was always in the "top" PE class. Unfortunately, I'm also 4ft11. So when we played Netball and I was in my usual position of "goal attack", think you can probably guess the flaw there.....
In Kabaddi, the player has to keep saying that without even breathing in. If footballers had to do that for 45 minutes in each half while running up and down the pitch, I wouldn't begrudge them a penny of their high pay.
I loved Netball as a kid. Wasn’t great at any sport, but I loved the slower-paced nature of Netball. I also played a variation of hockey that only my high school played called thunder-hockey. We never had any competitions with it, but I was actually decent at it, despite it being incredibly fast paced, which is incredible given I was this slow, unfit ball of fat, yet surprisingly decent at a very fast-paced game
I like sports where fitness isnt necessarily key. The ability to use your mind to observe the fast pace and get an edge through tactic rather than sheer physical force makes things a LOT more interesting! I think that's why I like watching professional gamers more than professional sportsmen, but a combination of the two would be really nice.
Nipple is just messed up basketball I always thought it was dumb I just didn't know how dumb and if you don't like this comment I already have over 100 likes on it I'm just repeating it but it's nice so we 1 because New Zealand is the best accept the North Island it sucks because it's not the South Island😉
I'm a guy, and at school because i was so useless at all the male sports we did at school i was put in the girls netball team because they didn't have enough players. Because there technically wasn't a rule against male players in the local school netball league. I guess it was just assumed teams would be all female since it's a 'girls sport'. Also i guess the fact i was a 6'2 14 year old boy helped my school try to make that decision. I was literally the only boy in the entire netball league of about 8 teams. The extra sad part was i wasn't even very good at netball either.
I have three daughters. They each went to netball once when they started playing sport at school. Then wouldn't go again. When asked why, they all said the same thing. It's sooooo stupid. You have to ask someone to pass you the ball and you can't just go and tackle for it.
The story of how netball was invented ‘by mistake’ had already been on QI in a Stephen Fry episode. Not that Alan seems to have remembered it, bless him.
Yes, that is true. It also helps reduce the overall time if each bout i.e the boring bits where hot sweaty men hold hands and stare each other to death
I know it is a bit sad but had to come down to the comments just to make sure someone had mentioned that each run has to be done in one breath, which is why they have to keep saying Kabaddi over and over to show they were not taking a breath. I remember it from back in the late 80's or early 90's, Can't remember which channel or program. There used to be a programme about an hour long in the early morning covering sports from all over the world, some were just the normal stuff but they also did a lot of ' alternative ' and I always like Kabaddi for some reason :) Always caught that before going to work.
The meta of kabaddi is that the attacker has to complete his attack in one breath. So they keep saying kabaddi to remove air from lungs and to reduce the time an attacker can spend in the defending zone. It's simple it's quick but as the attacker touches the zone and returns everything hits the fan all you see is a 4v1 JUDO MMA LOVECHILD. Note- you cannot block the attack, you can only tackle the attacker when he is returning. i.e after touching either a player or the end zone.
Sort of failed to mention the interesting thing about Khabatti is that you're not allowed to take in a new breath when in enemy territory. You take in a big gulp of air before you cross the dividing line, then have to make your entire attack on that breath. You can exhale during your attack but not inhale. The reason for saying "Khabatti" over and over is to prove you're not inhaling. The defenders are trying to hinder you enough that you get exhausted and have to breathe, thus ending your attempt.
Netball looks quite a lot like a game mostly played in the Netherlands and Belgium called korfbal. Instead of a ring and net their is a bottomless plastic basket (de korf). The teams are mixed women and men. The teams are split in two and limited to either the defensive or offensive halve of the field, switching throughout the game. And Just like in netball walking and running with the ball isn't allowed.
That's really not Kabaddi! For people's edification, here's what happens: Person sent out on offensive has to keep on repeating "kabaddi" while trying to make contact with as many people in defense as possible, AND then making contact back at the zero line. Whoever is "touched" by the Offensive person is out, and the point is to eliminate the defense
I've heard so many different names for tag. In Bristol it was tag, in Leciester it was tig, in Nottingham it was dob? And then British Bulldog at my primary school kept getting banned, so everyone playing it just changed the name every day. "Oy, British Bulldog is banned" "No, this is 'Pudsey 123'".
In school we boys had to play netball for a bit in the lower years. Now I’m not sure about other countries but in the UK in the ‘90s netball was very much considered a girls’ sport. So we all thought we were really funny and taking the mick by shouting whatever pass it was we were doing. So we’d go “CHEST PASS!” “JAVELIN PASS.” And the teacher would get really annoyed. Good times ☺️
The reality is that netball causes more injuries than basketball because the players are forced to stop suddenly & its usually in the middle of a twisting motion! Wheelchair-basketball is a much harder game to play as no one has a height-advantage, plus the net remains the same height!
MrWombatty I'm in a wheelchair and my god is it hard to throw a basketball that high up from a sitting position. I'll play Wheelchair Rugby over Wheelchair Basketball any day.
@@spinal_capped Due to astigmatism in my left eye I could never judge it well enough to be any good at throwing the ball through the hoop even from a standing position!
I watched Kabaddi on Channel $ when they used to show it. I think the players had to hold their breath, once active, and to prove it you had to keep saying Kabbadi. Quite fun.
Speaking of calling out the name of the sport, Tennis was a sport where players used to shout Tenez when hitting the ball! About Kabaddi lot of players do say hututututu... as well.
The worst time of my life was playing netball, but Dad was the Principal of the small country school and I was needed to make the numbers up. The only game our team won was when I didn't play. And I'm a kiwi!
the restraining order is only towards the person holding the ball. when it is thrown in the air you fight and push out other player to get the ball. i was both a basketball player and a netball player and i can tell you that i have never gotten seriously injured from playing basketball but i had cracked an ankle and dislocated a knee playing netball. and what the hell about the backboard. its not that hard to actually aim into the net you know.
as a horrifically asthmatic but, at the least, TALL child, i'm quite grateful at all the nonsense added to netball. they stuck me as goal keep: no running so no asthma attacks and no need to catch nor throw anything because my only job was to get in the way! unfortunately, once everyone else had growth spurts i found myself out of a job & was retired from inter-school sport, though my peers still had to suffer my presence in PE until i was allowed to drop it. thankfully, being good at making up games that conveniently didn't require running meant i wasn't ENTIRELY avoided at lunchtimes. (there was that ONE time someone caught on to how i kept "referee-ing" this one game i'd dubbed "Squirrel" and they eventually realised i'd set them up in a game mathematically/physically unlikely to be won or end on purpose)
ITT: 50% people talking about how much they hated various sports, 50% people taking the opportunity to tell everyone how much they hate Nish Kumar for some reason.
Was introduced to the game in South Africa. I tried to keep an open mind especially because most of the girl students at the school where I taught were crazy about the sport. But to this American guy, it really is a cross between basketball & ultimate frisbee and is much, much worse a game than either of those two. It just feels poorly designed, and I guess this clip helps explain why.
I pet the dolphins at Sea World once (long before knowing about the abuses there) and the water they were in was beyond frigid so kudos to anyone capable of jumping in with them without a wetsuit/dry suit
In computer version of Blood Bowl (which is American football with orcs and elves and lots of violence) one of the commentators sometimes says that the whole ball part seems pointless, as it distracts from the violence. Maybe someone should tell Games Workshop about Kabaddi.
We had to teach foreign sports as a part of our final for P.E. class. I got assigned Kabaddi and I thought it looked pretty fun. Whole class refused to participate and it was just me awkwardly saying Kabaddi.
I'm an American and I've never heard if netball, although it was apparently invented here. Our women play basketball by basically the same rules as the men, with some minor variations. Do British women still play netball?
The reason the raider in kabaddi has to repeat the word is because they aren't supposed to inhale while out of their side of the pitch. Saying "kabaddi" lets everyone know you aren't breathing.
They keep getting beaten by New Zealand and Australia. So the poms bitch and complain about the game. But then, the poms invent games so that other people can beat them all the time.
I just watched a bunch of kabaddi videos and there is just no bad there. It's just a free for all of hot, dark men in incredibly tight shorts. I don't even care what the rules are. Kabaddi is my new favorite men's sport.
Channel 4 in the UK showed it on tv for a bit in the 80s. They'd found a hit with the NFL and were looking for something to show in the off-season. It didn't really take off here.
Channel 4 here in the UK when it started up in late 1982 had a mandate to be "different" Sadly nowadays they are just a dull mainstream channel. Anyway... back in the 80's they tried to showcase more obscure sports. The NFL was one "obscure" sport that became huge and attracted viewing figures that dwarfed the rest of C4's programs. Some of the other sports that C4 broadcast were Aussie Rules, Gaelic football, Gaelic Hurling, Sumo wrestling and of course Kabbadi. The Sumo wrestling, while not to the levels of the NFL viewing figures, was popular. So much so that an official tournement was held at the Albert Hall in London in Oct 1991. The first official tourney ever held outside Japan in its 1,500 year history. I managed to get tickets, it was freakin' awesome! When they showed Kabaddi on C4, it wasnt completely new to me as I'd known some Indian guys on my degree course at University and had a go. It is WAY harder to play than it looks......
Someone else in the Comments will probably already have said this, but the key thing about the Indian sport Kabaddi is the rule that the player invading the opponents' half of the court must be holding his breath the whole time he's there.
How do you ensure the attacking player's operating on just one breath? Play underwater? That'd work, but on land, snatching a quick, silent, extra puff of wind to extend the time he can attack would be cheating - and would be very easy to do - so the rule is that he must say or clearly chant the word 'kabaddi' constantly, and without a pause.
It's the defending team's job to link hands and block him in their territory until he runs out of air.
Because the word 'kabaddi' has no natural breaks and no convenient esses or aitches or n's (where you could possibly draw a tiny breath) the end 'i' flows perfectly into the beginning 'k', so it's not possible to breathe in whilst chanting. It's obvious to everyone if an attacker is cheating.
Musicians such as brass, reed, woodwind, and didgeridoo players will know that circular breathing techniques don't get around this one-breath rule. It's very effective.
So, the length of time you can maintain an audible, uninterrupted exhalation of 'kabaddikabaddikabaddi-' whilst running and jumping and dodging - is the key point of the sport. It's fast and often quite vicious, played by men and women alike and, despite the QI panellist's stout defence of the purity of its origins, it is remarkably similar to several other games, especially the schoolboys' playground favourite 'British Bulldog, One Two Three', which does away with the fairness and the rules and the chanting and just concentrates on extreme brutality.
Best played on concrete, of course. ;-)
What happens if they misspeak? I tried it just now and frequently find myself saying something like "badabadi". It’s like a tongue twister!
Didn't they consider playing this sport underwater to make enforcing the rule simpler?
@@JimCullen I would prefer just screaming tbh, when I try it kinda takes a lot of my attention to just keep saying kabadi... Would be more fun too, just running head first into a group of angry fullahs screaming non stop :p
No matter what team sport I played as a kid at school, I was always in the same position: left right out.
@Mike W At least you guys got a position... I wasn't even picked...
My position was: outside school
LIM PEH KA LI KONG Me too sweetpea 😢, don’t worry, I will have you in my team, first pick any time k? 😁❤️🦋🙏
@Mike W Doing lines.
I must remember to bring my PE kit
I must remember to bring my PE kit
I was always goalkeeper... In that I put them away when the lads were finished...
To be fair kabaddi is actually a fantastic sport to watch
I have to check youtube and make sure you're not full of it. BRB
It's like a very serious game of Red-Rover for a adults.... and Everyone's holding hands! 😂
@@snickle1980 Also the reason they keep chanting the name is to make sure they don't breathe, imposing a breath-timer on the game
Yeaah...I don’t know about that. It’s definitely comedic
@@johnbaker7102 Okay, "John Baker" 🤣
Kabaddi is awesome! A raider runs thru the enemy court, tagging out as many players as possible and returns to the home court without being tackled. ON ONE BREATH! All while saying "Kabaddi! Kabaddi! Kabaddi!" the whole time on one breath of air until they return to their home court.
We played it in Scouts for years.
Just spent a decent amount of time watching videos of kabaddi. WHY WERE WE NOT TAUGHT THIS AT SCHOOL!
If you play that in PE with 13 year olds you will spend half the school year ferrying them to the hospital.
We play rugby here. Equally if not more dangerous because you’ve got metal studs on.
It's just one of those things that boys that age learn to naturally play. Group wrestling with some rules.
To be honest it sounds like red rover
Just had a quick look. It reminds me of a Python sketch where they were just doing nonsensical things as though they were organised sports. Obviously there are rules that I'm just unaware of but, to my untrained Australian eye, it just looks like a pretend sport.
Catching a netball wrong will also break your damn finger, because somebody decided to make netballs out of concrete.
Lady Marmalade Very true! Ouchee! 😲🤕😢
Ditto basketballs.
Ditto footballs - hence the new 'no heading' rules in schools.
Not saying anything about cricket balls.
perhaps you just went to public school in a very very poor neighborhood?
Probably out of the left over concrete they've used to make cricket balls with.
@@millomweb you probably shouldn't have been heading cricket balls even before the ban....
Accidentally saw a game of netball on tv one day as I was channel surfing. Player 5 meters away from the one with the ball, nobody else around, whistle blows. "Interference."... Wut?
I won't call it the most boring game in the world, because that's rugby, but it is extremely tedious.
@@medievalist What about cricket though? I'm not a rugby fan, but I do know that stuff actually happens there, and it isn't stretched out over several hours of several days.
@@ShizuruNakatsu I have an odd fondness for sitting on the grass on a sunny day watching the cricket, especially if I can drink cider. Other than that, cricket is pretty terrible.
@@medievalist soccer is the lowest scoring game per hour. After 90 minutes, scores are frequently 0,0. Surely the most tedious sport to watch
I love how we are all arguing about what is the worst sport :D Only on a QI fan chat!
So netball is just messed up basketball I always knew it was dumb I just did not know how dumb it was
Milton Knowles Imagine a game of basketball where every player has a court ordered restraining order against every other player, then you have netball.
@@danzigvssartre as long as you do it in Stephen Fry's accent I can support most things
Basketball is boring
@@miltonknowlestheinsanewitc4996 fair enough!
is no-one going to mention the fact that most of the time THERE IS NO NET!!! Just a ring and no backboard. Good luck with that!
MrsGisawesome any time it’s sunny, you can’t even see if it’s a goal 😂
@@zyggy1997 true!!!
There's no backboard on a netball goal hoop.
@@paspax I know... the point is shooting a goal in netball is a greater challenge.
@@MrsGisawesome ..
My bad. I didn't see the "no" before "backboard".
This is my favourite QI clip ever
I was goal attack in the school netball team, which is ridiculous as I was the shortest girl in the school, and so everyone could just
Throw the ball straight over my head, lmao, xx
When we started the new school year at my school, PE classes were always split based on how good you were in the first class. Hockey was the autumn/winter outdoors sport, and I was on the team, so I was always in the "top" PE class.
Unfortunately, I'm also 4ft11. So when we played Netball and I was in my usual position of "goal attack", think you can probably guess the flaw there.....
My interest in football would be SO much higher if every player had to say "football" every time they kick the ball
AdelioNightstorm Anime attack names are acceptable substitutes
”5 century flaming kick!”
In Kabaddi, the player has to keep saying that without even breathing in. If footballers had to do that for 45 minutes in each half while running up and down the pitch, I wouldn't begrudge them a penny of their high pay.
Especially if they said it in the seductive way Nish does here!
Sometimes in this dark, desperate world...you just need a little bit of QI.
I loved Netball as a kid. Wasn’t great at any sport, but I loved the slower-paced nature of Netball.
I also played a variation of hockey that only my high school played called thunder-hockey. We never had any competitions with it, but I was actually decent at it, despite it being incredibly fast paced, which is incredible given I was this slow, unfit ball of fat, yet surprisingly decent at a very fast-paced game
I like sports where fitness isnt necessarily key. The ability to use your mind to observe the fast pace and get an edge through tactic rather than sheer physical force makes things a LOT more interesting!
I think that's why I like watching professional gamers more than professional sportsmen, but a combination of the two would be really nice.
New Zealand still won the world cup!! Yay NZ #2019
🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿
Not the Cricket World Cup though 🏴🏴😁🏏👍
@@stevetattersall5933 They were winners to New Zealanders, and that's what matters more.
@@stevetattersall5933 yeah so close tho ae even the umpire said he got it wrong but hey rugby is next.... Those argintians look good!!
Nipple is just messed up basketball I always thought it was dumb I just didn't know how dumb and if you don't like this comment I already have over 100 likes on it I'm just repeating it but it's nice so we 1 because New Zealand is the best accept the North Island it sucks because it's not the South Island😉
I'm a guy, and at school because i was so useless at all the male sports we did at school i was put in the girls netball team because they didn't have enough players. Because there technically wasn't a rule against male players in the local school netball league. I guess it was just assumed teams would be all female since it's a 'girls sport'. Also i guess the fact i was a 6'2 14 year old boy helped my school try to make that decision. I was literally the only boy in the entire netball league of about 8 teams.
The extra sad part was i wasn't even very good at netball either.
I don't think anybody CAN be good at netball. It's a terrible game, and I'm confused why to this day it still gets played.
Timing of this one hahahaha. After this mornings game.
My niece was devastated at 13 when she was made to give up rugby at school and had to play netball. It was like putting her in a straight jacket.
I have three daughters. They each went to netball once when they started playing sport at school. Then wouldn't go again. When asked why, they all said the same thing. It's sooooo stupid. You have to ask someone to pass you the ball and you can't just go and tackle for it.
One of the many ways society makes girls give up sports when they hit puberty.
I was convinced this clip had already been uploaded to the QI channel. Apparently not.
It was but not "officially"
It was on the BBC's UA-cam channel in the week of its first airing.
The story of how netball was invented ‘by mistake’ had already been on QI in a Stephen Fry episode. Not that Alan seems to have remembered it, bless him.
Isn't the point of the shouting in Kabaddi that the runners have to achieve their goal on a single breath, so once they stop shouting they're done?
That is a pretty clever solution to judging the rule
Yes, that is true. It also helps reduce the overall time if each bout i.e the boring bits where hot sweaty men hold hands and stare each other to death
I know it is a bit sad but had to come down to the comments just to make sure someone had mentioned that each run has to be done in one breath, which is why they have to keep saying Kabaddi over and over to show they were not taking a breath.
I remember it from back in the late 80's or early 90's, Can't remember which channel or program. There used to be a programme about an hour long in the early morning covering sports from all over the world, some were just the normal stuff but they also did a lot of ' alternative ' and I always like Kabaddi for some reason :) Always caught that before going to work.
@@trikky2.2 Transworld Sport on channel 4 - Sunday mornings.
Kabaddi is surprisingly interesting to watch... who would've thought! :O
Anyone else thinking Sandi looks fantastic here? Her hair is amazing
Girls complaining about netball always makes me laugh as they don’t know how good they have it. 5 years of rugby and they would dream for netball
That's our Sandi.. all about the balls.
not even 😂
Though she was all about the flange
The meta of kabaddi is that the attacker has to complete his attack in one breath. So they keep saying kabaddi to remove air from lungs and to reduce the time an attacker can spend in the defending zone. It's simple it's quick but as the attacker touches the zone and returns everything hits the fan all you see is a 4v1 JUDO MMA LOVECHILD. Note- you cannot block the attack, you can only tackle the attacker when he is returning. i.e after touching either a player or the end zone.
Sort of failed to mention the interesting thing about Khabatti is that you're not allowed to take in a new breath when in enemy territory. You take in a big gulp of air before you cross the dividing line, then have to make your entire attack on that breath. You can exhale during your attack but not inhale. The reason for saying "Khabatti" over and over is to prove you're not inhaling. The defenders are trying to hinder you enough that you get exhausted and have to breathe, thus ending your attempt.
For a moment there I thought Warwick Davis was on QI. Him and Nish sound so alike!
Netball looks quite a lot like a game mostly played in the Netherlands and Belgium called korfbal. Instead of a ring and net their is a bottomless plastic basket (de korf). The teams are mixed women and men. The teams are split in two and limited to either the defensive or offensive halve of the field, switching throughout the game. And Just like in netball walking and running with the ball isn't allowed.
Yes it is very similar to that
We used to play kabaddi in scouts, it was a great game for those not skilled with a ball - myself included!
That's really not Kabaddi! For people's edification, here's what happens: Person sent out on offensive has to keep on repeating "kabaddi" while trying to make contact with as many people in defense as possible, AND then making contact back at the zero line. Whoever is "touched" by the Offensive person is out, and the point is to eliminate the defense
I've heard so many different names for tag. In Bristol it was tag, in Leciester it was tig, in Nottingham it was dob? And then British Bulldog at my primary school kept getting banned, so everyone playing it just changed the name every day. "Oy, British Bulldog is banned" "No, this is 'Pudsey 123'".
It was 'it' where I grew up.
In school we boys had to play netball for a bit in the lower years. Now I’m not sure about other countries but in the UK in the ‘90s netball was very much considered a girls’ sport. So we all thought we were really funny and taking the mick by shouting whatever pass it was we were doing. So we’d go “CHEST PASS!” “JAVELIN PASS.” And the teacher would get really annoyed. Good times ☺️
in some places netball is called women's basketball
It still is. Mens netball is only just starting to take off
The reality is that netball causes more injuries than basketball because the players are forced to stop suddenly & its usually in the middle of a twisting motion! Wheelchair-basketball is a much harder game to play as no one has a height-advantage, plus the net remains the same height!
MrWombatty I'm in a wheelchair and my god is it hard to throw a basketball that high up from a sitting position.
I'll play Wheelchair Rugby over Wheelchair Basketball any day.
@@spinal_capped Due to astigmatism in my left eye I could never judge it well enough to be any good at throwing the ball through the hoop even from a standing position!
I watched Kabaddi on Channel $ when they used to show it. I think the players had to hold their breath, once active, and to prove it you had to keep saying Kabbadi. Quite fun.
I love netball
What hell spawn are you...?
Jokes plz don't get offended
Nish is a funny guy 😂😂
No he is not
Speaking of calling out the name of the sport, Tennis was a sport where players used to shout Tenez when hitting the ball!
About Kabaddi lot of players do say hututututu... as well.
I feel like Alan has kept that shirt since the 90's. Didn't he wear it on one of the first QI's?
Just thought it was worth pointing out that clothes are designed to be worn several times
One of my favorites is cricket, which is inconvenient as an American
The worst time of my life was playing netball, but Dad was the Principal of the small country school and I was needed to make the numbers up. The only game our team won was when I didn't play. And I'm a kiwi!
What does being a kiwi have to do with anything?
@@wufongtanwufong5579 everything. But you'd need to be a kiwi to understand. Some things can't (and shouldn't) be explained.
the restraining order is only towards the person holding the ball. when it is thrown in the air you fight and push out other player to get the ball. i was both a basketball player and a netball player and i can tell you that i have never gotten seriously injured from playing basketball but i had cracked an ankle and dislocated a knee playing netball. and what the hell about the backboard. its not that hard to actually aim into the net you know.
Kabaddi is pure sky sports mix at 2am gold
as a horrifically asthmatic but, at the least, TALL child, i'm quite grateful at all the nonsense added to netball. they stuck me as goal keep: no running so no asthma attacks and no need to catch nor throw anything because my only job was to get in the way!
unfortunately, once everyone else had growth spurts i found myself out of a job & was retired from inter-school sport, though my peers still had to suffer my presence in PE until i was allowed to drop it. thankfully, being good at making up games that conveniently didn't require running meant i wasn't ENTIRELY avoided at lunchtimes.
(there was that ONE time someone caught on to how i kept "referee-ing" this one game i'd dubbed "Squirrel" and they eventually realised i'd set them up in a game mathematically/physically unlikely to be won or end on purpose)
Kumar again proving how funny he is......
this hurts my feelings
ITT: 50% people talking about how much they hated various sports, 50% people taking the opportunity to tell everyone how much they hate Nish Kumar for some reason.
Honestly I would watch an hour of Sandy and Holly going off on Netball
Was introduced to the game in South Africa. I tried to keep an open mind especially because most of the girl students at the school where I taught were crazy about the sport. But to this American guy, it really is a cross between basketball & ultimate frisbee and is much, much worse a game than either of those two. It just feels poorly designed, and I guess this clip helps explain why.
Sandy is smartly dressed.
Back in secondary school, the best netball player in our year was the shortest girl
Centres can be short if they’re quick
I always thought kabaddi looked like a lot of fun. But then I was always terrible at throwing balls.
I pet the dolphins at Sea World once (long before knowing about the abuses there) and the water they were in was beyond frigid so kudos to anyone capable of jumping in with them without a wetsuit/dry suit
In computer version of Blood Bowl (which is American football with orcs and elves and lots of violence) one of the commentators sometimes says that the whole ball part seems pointless, as it distracts from the violence. Maybe someone should tell Games Workshop about Kabaddi.
The other sport you say the name of while playing is Atari Tennis.
That ladies voice is therapeutic
hang on wasnt this covered before by an earlier episode, about basketball?
We had to teach foreign sports as a part of our final for P.E. class. I got assigned Kabaddi and I thought it looked pretty fun. Whole class refused to participate and it was just me awkwardly saying Kabaddi.
As someone who doesn't know what netball is, I don't know what netball is
How did Jessica Hynes feature in a 1903 photograph, holding the ball?
Haven't you seen that two part Doctor Who episode where she was a nurse in 1913?
How was this uploaded 47 minutes ago but I swear I've already watched this? (I only watch QI as clips on UA-cam- not TV)
The entire episode was previously uploaded by someone already - maybe you saw it there.
Pretty sure this fact was put out years ago but with Stephen Fry.
I've never heard of it before. Is it played in the USA?
Where is the USA? Never heard of it.....
@@Moamanly I believe it’s played in Miami and in New York. It’s played by immigrants from the Caribbean.
@@chesterdonnelly1212 It's a really fun game to play .
This video was fascinating. btwwtf is netball?
aww I like netball :(
You're not alone, me too! 💚
I love netball. I have tickets for the Commonwealth Games
Gonna watch some kabaddi now
Wait wait wait, tackling
I'm an American and I've never heard if netball, although it was apparently invented here. Our women play basketball by basically the same rules as the men, with some minor variations. Do British women still play netball?
Heck yes and it's AWFUL
Yes netball is the most popular girls team sport in Britain although soccer is now also popular.
The reason the raider in kabaddi has to repeat the word is because they aren't supposed to inhale while out of their side of the pitch. Saying "kabaddi" lets everyone know you aren't breathing.
Sandi is gorgeous. I would play whatever damn game she wants me to play.
nigga what
So apparently I have emerged into an alternative universe where something called Netball is a thing...
Now I want to watch some kabaddi.
Because the Beeb were too busy showing us lose in the semis to screen these last two XLs from Series P!
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 pretty intense
England just got third in the Netball World Cup. Awww...Most sports favour a certain body type. I certainly wasn't any good at sports.
yeah Go Kabadi!
“...football.”
I’ve done that for years, though?
British Bulldog was never played enough at my school. Only ever played when the teachers weren't there.
I used to watch Kabaddi on Trans World Sport. Loved it.
Who else is looking for “kabaddi” video but IMMEDIATELY after this video?!?
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤦♂️
I hate sport, but Kabaddi actually sounds like it might be fun.
Also Netball is Chiropractor heaven.
Ok I love netball and I won't hear this defamation
Never heard of netball... Just heard of kabadi last week! I'm sure I'd be horrible at playing both.
Subtitles for those of us who are hard of hearing would be helpful.
I'm tall and I'm really bad at netball so I agree it's a load of nonsense! (sour grapes I confess😂😂😂)
I loathed netball. Hockey is the sport of champions (especially if you’re good at “accidentally” tripping the opposition up with your stick 😂).
Ninh Explained...
Football?
Which code?
I just hope that Sandy and Holly managed to heal from their school-induced trauma.
Sandi, why are you wearing a Souwester at the end of this video?
The only reason we even mention netball is the English team is quite good at it.
They keep getting beaten by New Zealand and Australia. So the poms bitch and complain about the game. But then, the poms invent games so that other people can beat them all the time.
I just watched a bunch of kabaddi videos and there is just no bad there. It's just a free for all of hot, dark men in incredibly tight shorts. I don't even care what the rules are. Kabaddi is my new favorite men's sport.
Anyone else here play Open Gates? Kabaddi sounds very similar to it
I looked up kabaddi On UA-cam and was able to find some matches did not understand scoring at all
I think they should actually make it a rule that footballers have to say "football" every time they kick the ball 😂
What’s even worst is being short as hell whilst being the shortest on the team.. How did we even win any games???
Being short while being the shortest? That's not good. :)
CAPTIONS PLEASE!!!
Not tag..
Not Bulldog...
*_Kabaddi_** !*
This is the first time I've heard of kbaddie
Channel 4 in the UK showed it on tv for a bit in the 80s. They'd found a hit with the NFL and were looking for something to show in the off-season. It didn't really take off here.
Channel 4 here in the UK when it started up in late 1982 had a mandate to be "different" Sadly nowadays they are just a dull mainstream channel. Anyway... back in the 80's they tried to showcase more obscure sports. The NFL was one "obscure" sport that became huge and attracted viewing figures that dwarfed the rest of C4's programs. Some of the other sports that C4 broadcast were Aussie Rules, Gaelic football, Gaelic Hurling, Sumo wrestling and of course Kabbadi. The Sumo wrestling, while not to the levels of the NFL viewing figures, was popular. So much so that an official tournement was held at the Albert Hall in London in Oct 1991. The first official tourney ever held outside Japan in its 1,500 year history. I managed to get tickets, it was freakin' awesome! When they showed Kabaddi on C4, it wasnt completely new to me as I'd known some Indian guys on my degree course at University and had a go. It is WAY harder to play than it looks......