If you travel to South East Asian countries, especially Thailand and Cambodia, you will be surprised by seeing strange scenes on the street. On the street, some people paly, kicking a ball up in the air. Is it a soccer ball? No. The ball is smaller than a soccer ball. The ball is a sepaktakraw ball.
Sepaktakraw
is a sport like volleyball but using feet instead of hands. In this
article, I will introduce it.
Sepaktakraw was born in Thailand about 500 years ago. You can get the more details about the history in the following website
http://www.sepaktakraw.org/about-istaf/sepaktakraw-heritage/#.U8ki-nmKDmQ
So
it is very popular in South East Asia, but it is not popular in other regions
including Japan. Actually, I had never seen anyone playing sepaktakraw before
I saw that in my university.
The
court of sepaktakraw is as large as the badminton court.
In matches, each team consists of 3 players, the striker, the server
and the tosser. The striker is the player who usually jumps, kicks a ball in
the air and gets a point. The server is the player who serves the ball. The tosser
is the player who mainly tosses a ball in order to enable the striker to kick a
ball. In matches, every player has their own role in the 3 roles above, and they do not change roles. For example, I am the server, so I always serve a
ball in the game.
Players
of each team can touch a ball by three times in their turn and only one player
is also allowed to touch a ball twice or three times unlike volleyball.
If
your team drops a ball on the ground or put a ball out, you will lose a point.
It is same as volleyball.
For
your better comprehension, I will use some movielinkes below. So please watch the proffessional sepaktakraw players and feel excitement!!
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