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Sepak takraw, or Sepaktakraw, [1] also called buka ball, kick volleyball or foot volleyball, is a team sport.It is played with a ball made of rattan or plastic between two teams of two to four players on a court resembling a badminton court.
Sepak takraw is a sport which originated from Southeast Asia. [13] It is played similarly to volleyball but players use their feet, knee, chest and head to carry a rattan ball over the net. [13] It is a spectator sport that contains elements of volleyball, football, martial arts and gymnastics. [14] [15] [16]
A ballgame called "Keeping the ball aloft", Banda, 1601.The ball is made of twisted branches. 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.
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. [17] [18] [19]
Sepak takraw - Thailand. Played using a light rattan ball about five inches in diameter. (Sepak means "kick" in Malay, and takraw means "ball" in Thai.) Chinlone - Burma. Non-competitive game that uses a rattan ball and is played among people standing in a circle, not on a court. Sipa - Traditional native sport of the Philippines, meaning "kick."
Sepak takraw ball. Sepak takraw, though not very well known in India, was a demonstration sport at the Delhi Asian Games in 1982. [253] The Sepaktakraw Federation of India, with its headquarters in Nagpur, Maharashtra, was founded on 10 September 1982.
Teqball is a ball sport that is played on a curved table, combining elements of sepak takraw and table tennis. Back and forth, the players hit a football with any part of the body except arms and hands. Teqball can be played between two players as a singles game or between four players as a doubles game.
The STL Premier or Sepak Takraw League Premier, is the top level of the Sepak Takraw League, the Malaysian men's professional league for sepak takraw, a sport native to Southeast Asia. Contested by 10 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Sepak Takraw League .