Olympic Volleyball Player Reacts to Sepak Takraw! 

Love that you're spreading awareness on this sport Erik! This is Sepak Takraw , pronounced as (Se-pak Tak-rao) at least in the PH, it was the national sport of the Philippines until 2009. It's like volleyball in a sense that every body part can touch the ball except the... hands. This is a staple game on the SEA Games (Southeast Asian Games). Definitely a sport that's high on difficulty level!

That's me!! Philippine #4 ☺️

I'm from PH and I'm proud of our team but I agree with the comments here..If you want to watch intense play pls do watch Thailand vs Malaysia..

Sepak Takraw concept is almost same as volleyball, firstball-set-spike-block, but cannot use hand. Top 3 in the world is Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia. Btw, the serve in the video is high level serve. it is like Jump Spike Serve is volleyball. They play best of 3, consist of 21 point per set. some player specified as setter, spiker, and blocker. just like volleyball. one more thing is, the player with red shirt casually receive the serve by using the upper thigh. which is insane!!

You should watch the match between powerhouse like Thailand vs Malaysia.. Those are high level plays... Way more intense them this one

Thailand & Malaysia are 2 country with most champions in this sport.

Thailand and Malaysia are no.1 in Sepak Takraw, no country could ever argue. Look for match between Thailand and Malaysia. You will see.

Great sepak takraw gameplay usually come from Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and the rising team S.Korea.. these team play fast and keep on high kicking 😂 like martial art.

You need to watch match between Malaysia and Thailand. The most tensed fight among players and the most watch by spectators.

The match seems crazy but if you watch any mlysia vs Thailand match, it's even crazier...

Thailand & Malaysia match is really fun to watch.. these 2 country is like a King of Sepak Takraw that fight for the crown..

Try watching Malaysia or Thailand play. They're the 2 best team around. BTW, that Philippine guy #4 is currently rated among the best spiker in this sport.

Filipino here. I represented our school before, regional tournament. You wanna see the dopest games? Thai vs malays.

A final of this 2019 tournament is a game between Thailand and Malaysia, you will see they play at the highest level

If u wanna a killer kick of sepaktraw games, u can watch Thai, Malaysia and Indonesia. These 3 country are the most skills, intense, mindblowing rivals since forever. This games are originally coming from there. But, Mas vs Thai are the mostly people look up into because they always meet in the finals.

Sepak is Malay and Takraw is Thai. So we combined these two words together and, guess what?, we've got a name of the game. And currently, Thailand is on the top of the world ranking...for a long long time.

If you want to watch a really amazing game, watch the match between Thailand and Malaysia. The Phillipines and Japan teams are second or third tier teams.

This sport should be in the Olympic games.

You must see a match of Thailand team. I am proud to say that we are one of the best at this sport. We always have exciting matches against Malaysia, Indonesia and the Phillipines. The front left is like the setter so they are normally the one with the best ball-controlling skills, while the front right is the attacker. If you take a closer look at the Philippines team you'll notice high play skills. You can see when they attack they do a full turn mid-air which give you a strong kick. The Japan team do a different style of attacking with no turns which is an easier trick (but still not that easy). It's understandable since the sports are commonly played in the South East Asian countries. Japan and Korea are a bit new to this but they are getting better real fast! Again, you should watch a match of Thailand team! You'll be amazed.

Malaysian Sepak Takraw League 2022 was pretty recent, a match I'd recommend watching is KL Thunder v. Kelantan Warriors. You'd be screaming non-stop.

I'm still fucking suprised there's no anime of this sport

For Sepak Takraw, Malaysia vs Thailand or Malaysia vs Indonesia are always interesting to watch.

Two country legends in this game: Thailand and Malaysia Because of origins is Malaysia during the malacca sultanate era But name is Thai and malay Sepak is kick in malay, Takraw is kick ball in Thai. Also sorry for my english

This is actually a really hard sport, specially for beginners, I tried to playing this in high school and almost broke my neck.

I play sepak takraw I also love takraw💖 I am from nepal🇳🇵and I am junior girl player 💖

trying to watch Thai national team sepaktakraw, They have a lot of excellent skill and more beautiful choreography and they are number 1 in this sport.

No disrespect to Philippines or Japan, but if you want to watch the top level sepak takraw, look for Thailand vs Malaysia

the best match. Thailand VS malaysia.

the better teams to watch would be Malaysia Vs Thailand

I have never of heard of Sepak Takraw so watching it the first time is so incredible. I’d probably land on my neck and die if I try their moves hahaha

Fun fact: Michimiya Yui, the girl with a crush on Daichi in Haikyu, plays this sport after high school.

This sport is popular and considered traditional game in many South East Asian countries, including in mine (Indonesia). And we have this is SEA games, ASIAN games...

Sepak (approx. say-puck) Takraw (Tuckraw pronounce the consonant for the second syllable as in "craw") is the name of the sport, portmanteau of Southeast Asian root languages. Sepak is Malay for "kick", mutually intelligible in Indonesian and Filipino (Malphindo) as well, which has deep root in Malay - spoken in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, and remotely related Philippines. Takraw refers to rattan woven ball, which is from its Thai language, also mutually intelligible in Khmer and perhaps Laotian and Burmese as well, not sure about Hmong - covers Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar.

If you want to watched it live, Malaysia currently hold STL or Sepak Takraw League.

There are two attacking styles. Red player used what we call roll spike as he kick over the opposite shoulder and rotates in the air. Blue player used what we call sunback spike as he kick over the same shoulder. Roll spike at highest level is more powerful but a bit more predictable. Sunback spike is harder to read as the attacker can place the ball better, kinda like hitting the ball thumbs up or thumbs down in volleyball to change hitting angle for middles... but with their foot. Some of the Malaysian killers are very good with both styles while Thailand always have most powerful attackers using roll spike exclusively. You could say Malaysians are more like slime hitting in volleyball while the Thais are like powerful Russian spikers who can make a dent on the gym floor with their powerful spikes. Thailand is the best now because of their pro league churning out larger pool of great players compared with Malaysia having amateur league and smaller pool of great players. Kinda like comparing Italian pro volleyball league with NCAA league. Oh, Thailand also got better and more consistent horsekick servers... Kinda like how the Brazilian jump serves changed volleyball awhile back... Service is the first attack. I think the next evolution in this sports will be the server becoming main setter who can choose to set to left or right side killers. Only 1 server I know who can do this consistently.

You should find the match between Thailand vs Malaysia. Two of the best teams.

As an asian, this is underrated sports. Wish that this will include first in the olympics and not the Teqball.

When it comes to sepak takraw, Thailand is the no 1 world champion & followed by Malaysia in 2nd place. Every world match, this 2 national team will fight in the final. It's really exciting watching this 2 teams in the final match. FYI, 'sepak' means kick in Malay language and 'takraw' means hand-woven rattan ball in Thai language. I guess thats why this 2 countries are the champion for this game.

4:57 the player's leg is OVER THE NET!!! He's trying to roof the spike... WITH HIS LEGS! That is just absolutely insane athleticism.

can't wait to see Sepak Takraw in the Olympics.

the 2 powerhouse of this game is thailand and malaysia..always a delight watching this two nation battle it up in the final...this game is originated in malaysia...sepak is malaysian language meaning kick while takraw is thailand language meaning rattan ball if im not mistaken...right now the no 1 ranking is thailand while malaysia come in 2nd

Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia has the best Sepak Takraw team in the world

Thanks for this Erik. Sepak Takraw is played mostly in South-East Asia.

only two countries Thailand makes takraw ball and Malaysia makes rules

1# Sepak Takraw was originated in Malaysia around 500 years ago. In the 15th century, it was mostly played by the royal court. Around 16th century, the game was spread across Indonesia, where people called it Sepak Raga. By 1940, the net version of the game was spread across Southeast Asia and formal rules and regulations were formed for the game. 2# Sepak Takraw is played since the beginning of the 15th century and is believed to have been (originated by the Malacca Sultanate) Malacca it's the famous state in peninsula Malaysia. The International Sepak Takraw Federation is the global governing body of the sport.

Just a tip: you can pause, then use the < and > keys to watch RU-vid videos frame by frame. It would make it easier to see/show the moves in slow motion.

Three touches, same player can do all three touches if he/she wants to. Play to 21, three serves then switch to other team for three serves. All parts of body are OK except arms and hands. The "server" or tekong mixes up his serves--there's a wicked slow curve serve that comes off the sole of the tekong's foot, usually just drops over the net and can have a nasty spin as well. ...sometimes the "kill" shot at the net is also done like this for variety. Like others have already mentioned, you need to watch Thailand vs. Malaysia mens' teams or the Thai womens' team against ANY other womens' team. I'm a huge fan of this sport. There are variations such as two-person and four-person teams as well as a version where your team of eight or ten stand in a circle, kicking and heading two or three balls (I can't recall exactly, have only seen this version a couple times) into a mesh net goal hung from the ceiling--score as many as you can in a set time period. All types of sepak takraw are mad skills!

In Malaysia / Malaya, this sports originally known as *SEPAK RAGA* . *How To Play?* In Malaysia, traditionally long time ago until now, they played : 1) In a circle with 6 - 10 players. 2) Usually they bump up the 'raga' ball, several times to balance it in right position *(same as the footballers skill),* but using their in-side foot, or upper foot, without the ball falling in ground. 3) Then they pass it randomly towards any player they want. 4) The next player is doing the same, bump up several time, and pass it randomly to other player. Without the ball falling down. 5) If the ball falling down / touch the ground, they need to start it back, by picking it with hand, and slowly throw it to the random player in opposite position. Player that been throwed the ball, must take the ball by leg/inside foot to continue bump on the ball without falling. 6) When all players in circle are well played in balancing the ball without fallen, automaticly they change the game to another steps (while in game), bump on several times, then they strikes with powerfull / ball speeding kick to any random players. 7) Other players that been striked off must withhold it while continues the bumps, without ball falling in the grounds. 8) If the ball falls in the ground, they need to start throw it back. 9) Same as football, any section of body able to touch off the ball, *EXCEPT HANDS* . If touch the hands, game need to starts again. *The main purposes* of this sportgame is to : - Balance the ball without falling. - Firmly/nicely control the ball that been takes from another player. - Striking the ball with speed to the opponents wether they can take it or not. - If the striking ball can be handled and nicely taken, it should be ok. But if *NOT* the takers will 'suffer' a pain from hard *'raga ball'* that made from a 'rattan' wood. This traditional game are still being fun played by the Malay around the world, until now. Normally they plays at the evening, after back from works. ************ After several centuries / decades, in modern day (70's - 90's) several places in south east asia that familiar with this game like Thailand (known as 'takraw' in Thailand), Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Filippines, Singapore, Brunei, they make it as official sports. Plays in indoor court, with several rules of bump countings, mark scoring (like badminton), wide/space area, using nets to divides the opponents and so on.. Anyway, both game (traditional and modern) are widely played now in south east asia. Thank you.

U would be the best english commentator for sepak takraw. Next year, there will be asian games in china. Sepak takraw is one of the sports so if u want to watch the match live, don’t forget.

You should react to thailand vs malaysia game for a thrilling game ever

Speaking of Sepak Takraw, you should watch the matches between Thailand vs Malaysia. High-level skill players... Way more competitive and intense than this one

If you want more intense game, see top 3 teams. Thailand, Malaysian or Indonesia games got really good and crazy set skills.

Should watch malaysia vs thailand or best rivalry in sepak takraw

Basically, sepak takraw is volleyball that play using foot & head only. A few different things are: 1. the ball itself originally the use rattan but today they use synthetic plastic today. 2. number of player, only 3 players with the server, feeder/setter & striker/spiker/killer. 3. The serves, triplet match, the ball must be tossed to the server. 4. the number of touch ball sistem. 3 touch sistem similarly to vb, but in vb blocking touch isn't count, in takraw, blocking touch is counted as 1 touch. Hand touch is a fault. There is also the double match. Similar to triplet match, but the servis is a self tossing and at the baseline. Not in the servis circle as triplet.

imagine sepak takraw being an anime would be extremely epic or very dramatic as heck

Oh wow, as a Filipino I didn't even know they have international tournaments like this! Japan should make an anime of this sport like how they made one for Kabaddi, will definitely look forward to it. :)

So sepak takraw shares the 3 touch rule with volleyball but it's shared among all the players in the team. A player can take all 3 touches if he wants. Court is the same dimensions as a badminton court, net included.

this is basically marriage between volleyball and taekwondo

U should review match of country that sepak takraw originate, Thailand Malaysia and Indonesian match is the real deal...

This is a very hard sport. It will never be in Olympics as there will be too few countries who can even play. Even at professional players, if you notice, they cant even have a long exchange of ball. Its only serve the ball (team 1), take the ball (team 2), set up the ball (team 2), and shoot the ball (team 2). If the ball passes and lands, team 2 gets the point. If it hits the net instead or out, team 1 get the point. Very rare where team 1 can actually take the ball and return it.

This is a very intense game! All that jumping whether it is a strike or a block!

you were asking about how to defend in this game so i recommend watching games that has thailand, malaysia, indonesia that go against each other. they have interesting rallies and you can see how they defend

that is not friendly yell. In this sport thrash talk to your opponent is allowed. as long as you are not using swearing words.

This is entertaining 😁 small tip: if you're watching a RU-vid video on Windows, you can pause and then press comma or period to move back/forward one frame. Great for watching sports replays

Sebak is name in Malaysian, Takraw is name inThai, these two words combine to form the name of this sport.

Kageyama- Id rather receive set and spike all by myself. He can do that here

Se Pak Takraw is local sport through out south east Asia and watch only Thailand Malaysia and Indonesia they are playing real Se pakTakraw.

You, your brother, and Micah are some of the coolest and most down to Earth men's vb players I know. Thanks for this vid!

In PH, at a young age, it start with just simple game of Sepa, the jumping ability you get from playing basketball and volleyball. We were poor so we played on rough concrete so you better know how to land.

Martial arts.. With a ball. . . cannot agree more with you. 🤣🤣🤣. I played it in highschool just trying out, . it hurts like hell🤣🤣🤣🤣

This sport is a mix of football, volleyball and dragonball.

1. You're pronouncing the sport perfectly. 2. In case you're wondering how they receive the ball so easily, the ball is very light, and pretty much hollow. It's made of plastic and designed to bounce off easily. Not much force is required to send the ball over and unlike volleyball, it's very difficult to control, especially since your using your feet. It's much like ping pong, very light, bounces easily.

max 3 touch just like volleyball..1 person can also do all 3 touch all by himself..3 person have their own role in their team..the one at the center is a 'tekong' or you can call it a server..the one tossing the ball to the server is actually a killer or a spiker..his job is to kill the ball and also as a blocker..the last person is called a feeder..in volleyball you can call them a setter..his job is to set a ball for the killer..

sepak takraw is a fun game. fun and serious at same time. you can see player making fun and joke at other team all the time...like yelling and smiling at same time. have fun making fun and play serious :D

Erik is so cute using volleyball terms in Sepak Takraw. 🤣🤣🤣 I couldn't agree more on what he is saying because I only play volleyball too and I dont watch this sport. 🤣

the Japanese killer is good … btw this sport when played competitively is fun as it is common to see jeerings traded across the net by the side winning a point … and the side losing a point will swallow it and will return the favor … very gentleman if you ask me … both teams goading the other to up their game …

We usually play this back when i was elemntary and highschool.im a new subscriber from the PHILLIPINES..thanks for reacting😍😍😍

I remembered playing in high school. Not as athletic as these guys of course. This game is so fun to play. Most of us got couple of bruises, some had dislocated elbows and got stitches. We also don't have that kind of smooth floor or court to play with. Our school doesn't have that kind of luxury.

Why not reaction Thai vs Malaysia

"It's a martial art with a ball" hahaha. that's what I think so too

Whoa.... NEVER did I expect Shoji to react to Sepak Takraw. Love from MALAYSIA!

This sport is crazy and mind blowing! I like you are reacting to other sport too Erik

“I love how they can pass the ball to their teammates. I wish we could do that in volleyball” … so like a set?

Malaysia and Thailand is the OG for sepak takraw.. other countries catching up too 👏👏 keep it popular

It is originated in Malaysia, and was recorded in 15th century in Malacca (a kingdom located in Malaysia) . A peasant was killed when the rattan ball he played accidentally hit the Malacca King. Thailand also have a claim it was originated from Siam. But in 1960s both countries agreed to standardised the game and named it Sepak (kick in Malay) Takraw (means basket in thai) ,Sepak Takraw" quite literally means "to kick a rattan ball. The game made it first appearance in SEA games in 1960s. The powerhouse was always Malaysia and Thailand but since 1990s it was dominated by Thailand. If you want to see real action, it should be between Malaysia and Thailand. Myanmar lately rised to catch the both team and managed to beat both Malaysia and Thailand. In modern game the rattan ball was replaced with plastic ball which is lighter and more forgiving.

Suppose to be you must watch the rival sepak takraw between malaysia, indonesia and thailand who always dominated this sport..looking for services and backstroke jump service and spinning in the air ..it make you mind blow..many trick's ..this sport famous around ASEAN ..its not difficult to learn this game but its hard when do the spinning at the air to hit a ball to opponent..

Note: the ball they're using is much harder than the ball used in volleyball. I tried to play this sport once in PE and oh boy it hurt alot.

Literally me and my friend are athletes I play volleyball and he play sepak takraw.. so everytime i have no training I often watch them on their training same goes to him when he is not busy... Because of that I learn the rules and I learn how to play sepak takraw their was a time that I represent our department in school and o boys playing takraw is so damn hard. I really appreciate how shoji react on the game and on how he try to explain the details although some things aren't right I still appreciate it because I think it's his first to know about this type of sports and he totally tried to understand on how these game work and at the same time reacting on how the player play.

This sport is too underrated. It's super fun to watch!

Historical record in Malaysia showed that it was played 600 years ago in the kingdom of Malacca (part of today modern Malaysia). I also agreed with Thailand that this is their traditional game because the border was not as it is right now. Until today there are malay communities in Thailand & there are thai communities in Malaysia. 600 years ago both Thailand & Malaysia do not exist yet, for centuries malay & thai share the passion for this sport. Sepak mean kick in malay, takraw mean rattan ball in thai. Traditionally played in the Philippine, Indonesia & Singapore too. Thailand followed by Malaysia still lead in this game but other asian countries fast catching up. Chinese claimed is also reasonable as they invented a lot of thing including gun powder but that does not mean they invent musket & rifle.

one of the most hardcore game ever made. very hard to return the ball

Philipine feeder / tosser is the MVP in this match.. idk why the Japan's server keeps attacking PH's feeder, because he has a super good defence.

To describe it to werterners... in the best way... it would be easier to imagine if you say its kung-fu 3 player volleyball that bans the use of the arms.

you have to watch Thailand team, no. 1 of the world in this sport !!

I'm Southeast Asian and I really tried to get into this sport when I was younger but I just didn't have the coordination nor the flexibility to play it lmao. I still don't but I love watching it

Once played this game in highschool and a sprained wrist and ankle and severe dehydration later we finally won, it's not as dangerous if you didn't spam flying crescent kicks all the time which i did but it feels so good to score that way

The score system is badminton, the court is basically the same as badminton court but the net is a little higher than badminton. Yeah, you could sum it up as a concatenation of martial arts and ball kick. Each team can serve the other twice like badminton I think. Yeah, hope to see this game in Olympics. It's insane indeed. So much acrobatics. But I've seen more insane 360 flip when the player want to smash into the other side. If you search enough you can find a video where it shows the longest rally; both sides give and take, it's really cool, dang!

That's what we call Kung Fu Volleyball

I recommend you to watch the Thai Sepak Tagraw team because their is the real thrill of playing Sepak Tagraw😁😁😁

Three touches like volley ball except no hands, head and foot only. Bicycle kick are the best, if you're good, you can land back on your feet and not your butt like the Japanese dude I used to play with Laos people and one dude just literally do a back flip each time he spikes