It is a sport invited by a Swedish biologist in the 1970.
But for some reason the only people who are really into are the East Asians. Its big in Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan etc.
First heard about it from my friend who did uni exchange in Singapore. She is Canadian. Such a funny story. She got a C in a Tchoukball class. Told me the natives all thought the exchange students were literally retarded. Granted in her defence they were there purely to party and have sex.
âThe sport is usually played on an indoor court measuring 27 metres by 16 metres. At each end there is a âframeâ (a device similar to a trampoline off which the ball bounces) which measures one square metre and a semicircular D-shaped forbidden zone measuring three metres in radius. Each team can score on both ends of the court, and comprises 12 players, of whom 7 may be on the court at any one time. In order to score a point, the ball must be thrown by an attacking player, hit the frame and bounce outside the âDâ without being caught by the defending team. Physical contact is prohibited, and defenders may not attempt to intercept the attacking teamâs passes. Players may take three steps with the ball, hold the ball for a maximum of three seconds, and teams may not pass the ball more than three times before shooting at the frame.â
I googled it and I think Iâve seen it being played once or twice but ONLY by girls in Convent schools lol. Thatâs only because we went there to get chicks. (When we were the same age as them. Making this clear just to be safe.). But I never knew what the game was called. I donât know any guy who knows much about it, let alone likes watching it or playing it other than at that aforementioned time when we were ogling at schoolgirls.
Iâm gonna assume itâs played by mostly chicks in single-sex(shut up SJWs, itâs just a descriptive term for the purpose of convenience) schools as an alternative to basketball. Never saw it being played in uni but then I didnât notice a lot of things since I was working long hours while studying.
It may have gained some traction over the years but Iâve been out of school for almost 2 decades so I donât really know.
EDIT:
Wait, no, what I saw was some kind of version of basketball without having to bounce the ball and the net was placed lower and had no backboard for rebounds. I donât know what this is called either. Never seen nor heard of the sport youâre talking about in my life.
You would think they would stop trying to invent things after the abomination that is their meatball.
Team Handball?
I can find about a dozen of these scenarios. Are there (m)any athletes the other way?
This runner was mediocre, at best, when she ran as a male but then a year later, as a female, sheâs a champion. These people donât notice these things? Biological reality suddenly doesnât exist once someone says they are no longer their birth sex.
I think the problem is we donât look at things how these people do. They believe women can compete against men so when a male transitions, or even hasnât transitioned yet, itâs fair.
Thatâs possible.
I also think people easily conflate gender identity with biological sex. One can change his/her/their whatever gender identity (man, woman, non-binary) but no one can change their sex (as determined by chromosomes).
I donât understand how people canât make this distinction.
*D2 champion
You can only beat whatâs in front of you.
And? As male and female she competed in D2.
She went from being ranked almost 400th in the menâs division to 1st in the womenâs in a year.
She was also less than 3 seconds slower than the division 1 champion.
Eh, with a sport that has objective time/distance/weight results, idk if that holds as true as a âgameâ sport.
Regardless, we are talking about womenâs, D2, hurdles. Who the hell cares. Iâm waiting for a trans girl to physically dominate a womenâs sport with legit popularity, and for that Iâll have my popcorn ready!
They exist?
Tennis gets big money, overseas womenâs bball is big, LPGA. Iâm sure there are others with big popularity in other countries that my american-centric self doesnât know about.
No one cares about womenâs sports.
I prefer womenâs tennis over menâs. Mostly for the reason many women like menâs sports. Some them are close to the ideal female figure IMO. Plus the sound they make when they hit the ball. Just listening to the audio of womenâs tennis will put me in some kind of mood. Maybe this was too much lol.
The Turks do. This is womenâs basketball.
Debated on putting this in the Stupid thread because it certainly fits, but it fits here too:
Pretty much the only part I agree with is the following:
âRegardless of that, societal averages donât compete, individuals do. And their circumstances vary. Individuals also have rights.â
The only problem is you canât make a systematic or organization level policy based on this. By definition it would be case-by-case to encompass the âvarying circumstancesâ, and that would run afoul of⊠Well everyone and certainly all the athletes.
Holy shit. The WNBA would kill for a crowd that size (sans police and skirmish of course)
Donât watch much tennis at all but can you imagine a John McEnroe kind of tantrum going on? The potential for the lolz would be endless.
I am just gonna leave this right here.
Men make such better women than women do. Its not even funny. We are clearly superior at everything.