Top 10 most unusual sports

Football, volleyball, figure skating are all kinds of sports we are familiar with. No one will be surprised if you say that I participated in a basketball competition.
But there are such sports that you have not seen anywhere, even at the Olympic Games. Well, forward to the intriguing knowledge, for you today Top-10 most unusual sports .

10. Pigeon race

This kind of sport is associated with the release of prepared pigeons, which must fly a certain distance( from 100 to 1000 kilometers).As soon as the birds "start", time is fixed, the winner is the bird that reached the finish faster, that is, its flight speed was maximum compared to other feathered "zalet" participants.

9. Water skiing barefoot

This amazing sport appeared in Florida. The discoverer of it is Dick Pope, who on March 6, 1947 skated barefoot. Some people refute this fact and say it was Hancock. The first contest for water skiing barefoot was held in 1950, in Cypress Gardens.

8. Underwater hockey

No one thought that it would be possible to play underwater in hockey, but that's possible. This kind of sport is non-contact. Two teams chase the puck on the bottom of the pool to score a goal to his opponent.

7. Freestyle skydiving

Freestyle parachute jumps are a fascinating sight. In a free fall, one person begins to perform various acrobatic stunts, and the second shoots it all onto a special camera mounted on the helmet.

6. Skysurfing

Skysurfing is a kind of parachuting, which implies that the athlete, while in free fall, performs acrobatic tricks, slipping through the air on a special board, similar to a snowboard.

5. Speedcubing

This sport involves the following: assembling the Cube-Rubik for a while. To date, the world record of one solution of 3x3x3 is 7.08 seconds. It was installed in July 2008.

4. Competitive nutrition

Competitive nutrition is a sport in which participants consume a lot of food in a short time, about 15 minutes or less. The type of food usually changes, but the competition is built mainly on desserts and fast foods. As a rule, products are always the same. It's pies, hot dogs and stuff. Such competition is especially popular in Japan and the USA.

3. Racing on lawn mowers

Such fascinating races attract people of different ages. As a rule, competitions are fun and fun, although some take them very seriously. The difference between racing lawn mowers and conventional ones is the absence of a blade. They are removed for security.

2. Racing on belt grinders

Belt grinders have been known for a long time, but no one could imagine that such races would appear. The competition is as follows: two cars are in parallel channels, they start to go by whistle. The winner is the one whose car came first to the "finish".

1. Throwing dwarfs

The name speaks for itself. Dressed in a special outfit of the dwarf throw on a soft covering. The purpose of the competition: you need to throw a dwarf further than your rivals.