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CANADIAN BORN INDO-CANADIANS, HOW ABOUT SOME KABADDI, EH? |
By RATTAN MALL
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Hey dudes, ain't it time you got off your sweet buns and actually joined in the action rather than just ogle kabaddi players?
Famous wrestler and professional kabaddi player Ali Sandhu is inviting you to give it a shot - and you have nothing to lose except some fat!
Ali says he's the only Canadian born professional kabaddi player and understands how hard it is for players to make it to the highest levels. So he aims to make it easier for them to achieve that goal.
Ali, who went to Port Moody senior secondary school and then Simon Fraser University on a wrestling scholarship before switching to kabaddi, says he's looking for guys aged 18 or older. No prior experience is required. Neither is there any physical ability standard. The whole idea is to get the guys off the couches and streets and get them involved with their roots through the traditional game of kabaddi.
Ali told The VOICE: "Our group is called Canadian Top Team and we currently have 15 guys on the team. We practice at 6 p.m. on Wednesdays and 10 a.m. on Sundays rain or shine at North Surrey secondary high school."
He said: "We are looking for players who would like to learn and play kabaddi as well as sponsors to help with road trips and other related costs."
The team is participating in a tournament in Victoria on May 15.
So if you're up for it, call Joga at 778-772-7871.
According to www.kabaddi.org, "though kabaddi is primarily an Indian game, not much is known about the origin of this game. There is, however, concrete evidence, that the game is 4,000 year old. It is a team sport, which requires both skill and power, and combines the characteristics of wrestling and rugby. It was originally meant to develop self-defense, in addition to responses to attack and reflexes of counter attack by individuals and by groups or teams. It is a rather simple and inexpensive game, and neither requires a massive playing area, nor any expensive equipment. This explains the popularity of the game in rural India.
" … In Kabaddi, two teams compete with each other for higher scores, by touching or capturing the players of the opponent team. Each team consists of 12 players, of which seven are on court at a time, and five in reserve. The two teams fight for higher scores, alternating defense and offense. The court is as large as that for a dodge ball game. The game consists of two 20-minute halves, with a break of five minutes for change of sides. The kabaddi playing area is 12.50m x 10m, divided by a line into two halves. The side winning the toss sends a 'raider', who enters the opponents' court chanting, 'kabaddi-kabaddi'. The raider's aim is to touch any or all players on the opposing side, and return to his court in one breath. The person, whom the raider touches, will then be out. The aim of the opposing team will be to hold the raider, and stop him from returning to his own court, until he takes another breath. If the raider cannot return to his court in the same breath while chanting 'kabaddi', he will be declared out. Each team alternates in sending a player into the opponents' court. If a player goes out of the boundary line during the course of the play, or if any part of his body touches the ground outside the boundary, he will be out, except during a struggle."
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