Chinlone

Mystical Ball from Brian Olson on Vimeo.

Now that Myanmar seems to be opening up to the outside world, do you think their national sport of Chinlone will sweep the planet? A noncompetitive team endeavor, with no winning or losing? Nah, not likely!

Read about it here.

Who We Are
Alex Boese Alex is the creator and curator of the Museum of Hoaxes. He's also the author of various weird, non-fiction, science-themed books such as Elephants on Acid and Psychedelic Apes. Paul Di Filippo Paul has been paid to put weird ideas into fictional form for over forty years, in his career as a noted science fiction writer. Contact Us

Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 23, 2011
Category: Games | Asia

Comments

Something like this popped up on EuroSport a few weeks ago in the form of Foot Volleyball. While looking for a video of such I ran across a better explanation of the whole thing. You can watch the video by clicking here.

The original sport was/is called Takraw.

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 12/23/11 at 10:48 AM

Well played, Expat!

Posted by Paul on 12/23/11 at 11:26 AM

The Thai version is a sport the version from Burma,not so much, more like hacky sack on steroids! cool to watch though! Excellent link Expat!

Posted by Tyrusguy on 12/23/11 at 12:00 PM

That is very cool!

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 12/23/11 at 09:37 PM

Commenting is not available in this channel entry.