We think you could try more Paralympic sports... boccia, wheelchair rugby, blind football, sitting volleyball, wheelchair tennis, wheelchair basketball... good luck! :)
+Paralympic Games More videos on these would actually be really cool. Perhaps you guys could work with Tom to find people who play by him as well as referees.
I'd like to watch any sport played blind. Bowling could work, you just need to get the angle right, and I would suspect good bowling players could do well blind. Football is a bit tricky, you might be able to hear people in the grass; you certainly will hear the ball being kicked, but there's a risk of people running into each other. One idea is to put bells on shoes or something like that, and maybe in the ball too. Tennis would be impossible. You will hear the ball being hit, and you might recognise where the bounce lands, but it's just too late. But blind people might surprise me with their skill here. Basketball could work better than football, since you bounce the ball, which makes a sound. You could remove the rule about being allowed to take a few steps holding the ball, so all movements are with the ball bouncing.
Saw this at the paralympic games and because of the silence that everyone has to be under it made it one of the tensest sports I've ever watched. Truly brilliant sport.
I am so glad you tried this out I am visually impaired and have been playing goalball for a couple of years now on and off and was lucky enough to get to"see" it at the Paralympics in London. not many people know about but every one who watches it finds it engaging
I actually got to try this twice at gymnastics in school and I can say it is A LOT of fun. I highly recommend telling your gymnastics teacher about this if you are in school as there is a good chance you get to play this extremely fun game. Just use the whole wall as the goal and you can shove in 7-8 people instead of 3
I saw goalball for the first time at the Paralympics and loved watching it. The sense of everyone in the Copper Box being silent for the game was amazing.
I had the pleasure to be a helper for a goalball association in my region for a year or 2. Frankly one of my most memorable experience. Players are amazing. Trick is to make it roll as fast as possible, without making it bounce so it make less noise as possible. Played a trick on them once and inflated the ball more than usual; they could not hear it coming a bit =P
We played Goalball in our schools sport class, and it was honestly really fun! (I am fully sighted but I still found it really fun, especially because none of us had ever played before so we were all learning as we went!)
How did I not see Tom do a vid on this so long Ago. I used to play goalball in high-school and still have friends who play some at the paralympic level
It's been many years but if you're still looking for fun sports to try, you should look into Kinball. A 3-team sport from Quebec and it's one of the most fun games I've ever played
when I used to attend the Washington State School for the Blind years ago when I was in high school, goalball was one of the sport activities the students could participate in. I never played it myself but my ex was really good at it.
That building looked almost identical to my old high school’s sports hall, with the only difference being there is a climbing wall in this video. I legitimately thought it was it for most of the video and had to check the description if it was filmed there.
Zone Ball is a pretty cool sport you might want to check out. It's a bit like half-court basketball except that the "hoop" is in the center of the field and you can check the ball by bringing it to any edge.
Have you tried Ultimate Frisbee. (or as it's more properly known, disk Ultimate - Frisbee is trademarked name by the company Whamo) It's not unknown, however it is still a relatively niche sport. As it is mixed and open to players of all ages, ability, fitness etc. It doesn't matter if you are disabled or not. And it is a self refereed sport that relies upon the concept of the spirit of the game, and being fair. I think it may be something you would quite enjoy.
You put Matt and Tom in a meltin pot, cool the resulting mixture down, pour it into a mold, let it sit in the freezer for a couple of hours and you get Tom Gray? 2:24
Well there are Bo-taoshi, Cheese Rolling, fireball, Log rolling, [rubber] Duck Racing, Pooh Sticks, Murder Ball, Quidditch and Competitive Powerchuting.
I remember playing Murder Ball in elementary school but the teachers called it "Happy Shiny Fun Ball". When I found out it was actually called Murder Ball I had a good chortle.
+AlanKey86 the place in the video looks similar to my secondary school, blue&white walls ect , except mine has more basketball hoops and the door on the side not the back.
Great idea for a series. A sport combining football and volleyball is called Footvolley. It originated in Brasil and is gaining popularity worldwide. I believe it is mostly played on sand, i.e. beaches. My friends play frisbee golf.
I would think a fully sighted person would have a distinct disadvantage in this game. They are not used to depending on hearing to locate objects in space. They depend too much on vision.
They actually got us to play this one time when I was in school. I was oddly good at it, which is surprising for a lazy nerd with absolutely no interest in sport.
Thanks Tom I’m going to hopefully introduce this to my scout group I’m just hoping we still have our budgie ball ball. I don’t know if it is its’ proper name but budgie ball is a wide game my scout group does where once it gets dark each team has its base and the challenge is you need to get this ball with a bell in to a bucket in your opponents base if you get tagged you need to throw the ball over to the other player (no matter who that player is). As a challenge sometimes we have them have torches (to use as they like) and wear a high vis.
+Huntracony They're not more developed (in the sense that they can hear things others can't or discriminate between sounds better, etc), they just pay more attention to it and know what the sounds they hear mean.
'More developed' sounds like a good summary to me. It's practice. In the same way a body builder has more developed muscles than say, me, but they don't have any special powers, they just practice.
+Tim Jadeglans The best team might consist of mostly blind people and one or two extraordinary sighted people. My guess is that even they would actually have some kind of vision deficiencies. Furthermore, people blind from birth would - on average - excel over those who became blind later in life.
For a global sport with a 48" ball and 3 teams, try Kin-Ball. It's played by 3,800,000+ people around the world but is practically unknown. Other oddities: Broomball, Tchoukball, 360ball
No joke, I wanted to go to a game of Goalball when the 2000 Olympics was in Sydney and our yr 3 school class was going (our school were given concession all day tickets) but they wouldn't allow us because they thought school children would be too noisy. Ok they probably had a point.
You could try Headis. It's like ping pong, except the ball is larger and rubber and your head is the paddle. It is somewhat popular at German universities, but I don't know how much it has spread.
I've just gone off to University and I've taken up Quidditch. It's suprisingly energetic for a game designed 'by nerds for nerds' but it's still pretty fun.
my friend's boy scout troop plays a game called "kick the can" in which a group of people link hands in a circle around a chest high pole (or stack of cans) if anyone lets go of someone, they are both out, if anyone touches the pole/stack, that person is out. Last man standing wins.
I don't think they have this in the UK, but if you're ever in the United States you'd enjoy Whirlyball. It's like a cross between basketball, Jai Alai, and bumper cars. It's electric, boogie woogie woogie.
@Steven Victor Neiman my guess is its an tag that hasn't been properly sanitised. Tom did a video on Cross Site Scripting (XSS) a few years back, and I think it's the same principle.
Two weird ones I remember from my home country (Belgium): The championship pipe smoking is weird enough.. But the traditional passtime of ´suskewieten´ is even weirder. A bunch of people sit next to each other with in front of each of them a basket containing their personal bird (a variety in Flemish dialect referred to as a ´suskewiet´), and you get a point every time your bird sings. Yes. You read that correctly. With referees walking around to avoid cheating, obviously... Could be a fun video.
Try bugpolo. If you do find somewhere that plays in England then I will be surprised. I am pretty sure only 3 or 4 countries in the world play this sport and my friends father invented it.
What I don't get about this is that it looks like if the team coordinated properly, you could get like 90% of the goal area covered. Is there any reason the team couldn't just lie down in the same place every time and make no attempt at actually tracking where the ball is going?
Odd unknown sport: JUGGER!!! Although you may have to take a look at it in Germany, because as far as I'm aware there are no teams in the UK. Or rather, there are none yet. I am planning to change that when I move there :P
We used to play matball in high school, which might be good fun. And if you want to do a video on a card game that's pretty much exclusive to my region of Massachusetts, let me know and I'll email you the rules.
Search bbc radio 2 ever Friday vassos has to talk for 2 minuets to a mystery guest who is form a less well known or not broadcasted sport so he will have loads
you should try kabaddi. apperantly it's a sport which is really popular in bangladesh, india and pakistan and almost entirely unknown in the western world
