Kabaddi Sunday in Oliver

WHAT IS KABADDI?

• A game, best described as a hybrid of tag and wrestling, that started in villages in the Punjab.
• Played on a circular field divided into two halves, one for each team.
•  Each team has four stoppers on field in a “chain.” A team will send one raider to other team’s side of field.
•  The raider has 30 seconds after making contact with one of the stoppers to run back to his half.
•  The stopper’s job is to prevent him from crossing back to his side of the field.
•  If he makes it back, raider’s team is awarded a point.
•  If stopper prevents him from making it back, stopper’s team is awarded a point.
•  40-minute games.
•  Each team rotates between three or four raiders.
•  Full contact. No biting, scratching, eye gauging or slapping.

Part of the culture – even though that is changing