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The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Look at Hybrid Sports You Didn't Know That The World is Crazy About 🥏🥍🏐
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items What happens when you combine two or more athletic sports? Do you get the next craze to take the sporting world by storm? Pickleball and disc golf (both invented in the 1960s) are setting the world on fire as popular sports in their own right. Others...
As someone who has played many traditional racquet and paddle (badminton, tennis, squash, ping pong) sports, I am always fascinated to discover these new hybrids.
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As someone who has played many traditional racquet and paddle (badminton, tennis, squash, ping pong) sports, I am always fascinated to discover these new hybrids.
Note: This list may contain affiliate links, which means that I may receive a commission (at no charge to you) if you make a purchase using these links.
The progeny of handball and basketball, bucketball is played with two opposing ends. Play it on any (solid) surface – sand, grass, clay, or asphalt. It's similar to cornhole (except you have six “holes” to aim for), but without the need to haul aroun...
BucketBall
Similar to bucketball, except that bucketgolf offers only one bucket per hole. Set up the course the way you want to, in minutes, and see who takes the fewest throws to get the ball into the hole!
bucketgolfgame.com
bucketgolfgame.com
BucketGolf
Replace your golf clubs with frisbees, swap those flags and tiny holes for metal baskets, and you've got disc golf. The rules of disc golf are remarkably similar to golf, too, except you have tee throws instead of tee shots. The player with the least...
Get the tournament started with a minimum of 2 players (but if you want a team matchup of Ryder-esque proportions, that's good, too, because the more, the merrier!) Want to make things even more interesting with a Texas Scramble-style of play, where ...
Get the tournament started with a minimum of 2 players (but if you want a team matchup of Ryder-esque proportions, that's good, too, because the more, the merrier!) Want to make things even more interesting with a Texas Scramble-style of play, where ...
Disc Golf
This energetic, easy-to-learn, and portable sport combines volleyball with paddle sports (most notably, table tennis). Two teams square off and move around an octagonal “table”, rallying back and forth until one side double faults or lets the ball bo...
Gameplay goes to 15 points (team who reaches this number by a margin of 2 point wins the game). Great for small spaces--whether that's outdoors or inside! Visit https://www.dotball360.com/gameplay for the video!
Gameplay goes to 15 points (team who reaches this number by a margin of 2 point wins the game). Great for small spaces--whether that's outdoors or inside! Visit https://www.dotball360.com/gameplay for the video!
DotBall360
With such a cool name, you know you have to give this portable 2-play paddle game--a fusion of badminton and tennis--a try! You don't need a large space to play, and jazzminton works well both indoors and out! The birdies are specially designed to sp...
Check out the video at funsparks.com/products/jazzminton-sport?variant=41422500462761
Check out the video at funsparks.com/products/jazzminton-sport?variant=41422500462761
Jazzminton
Invented by a Malaysian school principal in 2006, jombola (not to be confused with tombola, the Italian lottery-style board game) incorporates elements of paddle sports (badminton and pickleball), and uses wooden rackets and badminton courts to rally...
Jombola
This ain't just a sport that you play in kindergarten anymore! This team sport was invented in the U.S. in the mid-1910s, and borrows heavily from soccer, baseball, and softball, with the original end goal of introducing young athletes to baseball. I...
The object of this game is to have one team (with 5-15 players on each side) rack up more runs after 6 innings.
Learn more at kickball.com
The object of this game is to have one team (with 5-15 players on each side) rack up more runs after 6 innings.
Learn more at kickball.com
Kickball
This doubles racquet sport originated in Mexico in the late 1960s, and enjoys worldwide popularity, thanks to its fast-paced gameplay and potential for long, exciting rallies. It combines elements of traditional tennis and squash play, and uses strin...
Learn more at padelfip.com
Learn more at padelfip.com
Padel Tennis
Pickleball isn't just a sport for the older set (despite my initial impressions of seeing it as an option in an annual seniors sports competition many years ago). This sport has really taken the world by storm. I have seen some FIERCE matches between...
Pickleball
You don't need a court for this team sport, which combines the pickleball with roundnet (just about any playing surface will do!) Think of it as pickleball without a court! Play 2-on-2 with wooden paddles, and return or smash the ball into the whispe...
Pickle 360 Paddle Ball
Combine the sport of kings with an indigenous North American team sport that dates back to the 12th century, and you have polocrosse. It seems like a logical enough sport to me – just substitute the polo stick for a lacrosse stick, and throwing inste...
Visit https://www.americanpolocrosse.org/ to learn more!
Visit https://www.americanpolocrosse.org/ to learn more!
Polocrosse
Imagine playing volleyball with any part of the body – except your hands! This very challenging sport--also known as buka volleyball--is the national sport of Malaysia. Teams are made up of 2 or 4 players per side, and the game is played on badminton...
Image By Korea.net / Korean Culture and Information Service (Photographer name), CC BY-SA 2.0
Image By Korea.net / Korean Culture and Information Service (Photographer name), CC BY-SA 2.0
Sepak Takraw (Foot Volleyball)
If you want a great cardio workout, spikeball is the game you're looking for (even if you're not playing at the competitive level!) Invented in 1989, this is a relatively new hybrid 2-on-2 sport that marries volleyball with four-square.
The 360-degree nature of this sport really tests your reflexes and hand-eye co-ordination, not to mention general fitness as you set, spike, and bump the ball onto the net – and attempt to make it impossible for the other team to keep that ball in pl...
Learn more at spikeball.com/en-can/pages/homepage
The 360-degree nature of this sport really tests your reflexes and hand-eye co-ordination, not to mention general fitness as you set, spike, and bump the ball onto the net – and attempt to make it impossible for the other team to keep that ball in pl...
Learn more at spikeball.com/en-can/pages/homepage
Spikeball (Roundnet)
What do you get when you combine handball, volleyball, and squash? You get tchoukball. Conceived as a non-contact team sport in the 1970s, this sport – onomatopoeically named for the sound the ball makes when it bounces off a frame -- has participant...
The objective of this indoor game is to bounce the ball on the floor of the court and into a rebounder (the goal) on the opposite end without having it intercepted by the other team.
Learn more by visiting fitb.org
European Tchoukball Champions 2014 photo by DavidSandoz from Crissier, Suisse - Flickr, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34602439
The objective of this indoor game is to bounce the ball on the floor of the court and into a rebounder (the goal) on the opposite end without having it intercepted by the other team.
Learn more by visiting fitb.org
European Tchoukball Champions 2014 photo by DavidSandoz from Crissier, Suisse - Flickr, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34602439
Tchoukball
There's no need to have steeds in this aquatic team sport, but prepared to deal with lots of splashing around as you jockey for the best position to catch and throw the ball into your opponent's (wet) net.
Learn more at worldaquatics.com/water-polo
Photo of Greece-Hungary water polo match at the World Junior Championship 2004 at Naples, Italy by Massimo Finizio, CC BY-SA 2.0 it
Learn more at worldaquatics.com/water-polo
Photo of Greece-Hungary water polo match at the World Junior Championship 2004 at Naples, Italy by Massimo Finizio, CC BY-SA 2.0 it
Water Polo