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The most notable of these books is Sepak Takraw 101 - The Complete Coaching/Instructional Manual for Sepak Takraw (Kick Volleyball), the third edition of which has also been translated into Indonesian and published in Indonesia through a government education project. Engel has since introduced the sport and conducted Sepak Takraw skills clinics ...
Sepak takraw, a traditional Southeast Asian sport, being played at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, Korea. During the colonial era, resistance to and influence from Western sports resulted in the standardization and introduction of organized competition for several traditional South Asian games such as kabaddi .
The International Sepaktakraw Federation, commonly known as ISTAF, is the international governing body for the sport of Sepak takraw, which was formed in 1988 with five founding member countries including Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia and Myanmar, officially based in Thailand and with its secretariat in Singapore.
Takraw, also known as Sepak Takraw, is one of Thailand's national sports, alongside Muay Thai. [2] [20] The game has a rich history dating back to the Ayutthaya period when its earliest versions were played without a net. The traditional game involved passing a rattan ball to another person using only the feet, knees, chest, and head, without ...
Sepak takraw is known by the Indonesian and Malaysian people in several areas such as Borneo, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Sulawesi as Sepak raga, which is a game for local children who still use a ball made of rattan. In this game, each player must show proficiency in ball handling: the player plays a rattan ball with all limbs except with ...
In Indonesia, Sepak Takraw is also known as Sepak Raga in the local language in Indonesia. In Sulawesi , the traditional Bugis football game is called "Raga" (the player is called "Pa'Raga"). Some of the men playing the "Raga" circle in a group, the ball is passed from one to the other and the man who kicks the highest ball is the winner.
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The federation was officially registered as the national governing body for sepaktakraw in Singapore on 15 June 1960 at Istana Kampong Glam, Sultan Gate, [2] after the list of proposed office bearers was sent to the Registrar of Societies (SOS) of Singapore in October 1959, the proposal was approved under the registered document no. 179/59, with Mohd Amin Bin Haji Jamil, who was the acting ...