Guess if you can: sepak takraw, do you know what it is?

Maybe you’ve even played this sport already…

Don’t you remember, in school days, throwing a ball, passing it from one side to the other of a volleyball net? In Malaysia, this secular habit is now most competitive sports all over the Asian continent.

Sepak takraw consists of two teams of three members each, competing for the purpose of keeping the ball, slightly smaller than those used in soccer, as long as possible in the air, on their midfield and, consequently, throw it to the ground of the opposing team’s midfield. To do this, they are only allowed to touch the ball three times, one per element, before sending it to the opponent ground – similar to what happens in volleyball.

The freedom to touch the ball, however, is wider than in this modality. In sepak takraw, we can use the same parts of the body allowed in football: head, shoulders, chest, knees and feet. Arms and hands are not allowed. But the moves are what gives the whole vivacity to this sport, which is already professionalized throughout Asia and integrated in competitions. Pirouettes, front and backflips, are all worthy to execute the perfect move.

Currently, this sport is beginning to gain more and more followers in the West: Europe, Latin America and the United States are welcoming the sport and sports halls and beaches serve as a stage to this new trend. See the video below, risk the experience with friends and try these bids worth kung-fu movies.