K AB A D D I

INTRODUCTION
KABADDI IS AN ANCIENT INDIAN SPORT THAT ORIGINATED AROUND 4000
YEARS AGO. IT IS EXTREMELY POPULAR IN INDIA AS WELL AS IN SEVERAL
OTHER COUNTRIES. THE WORD ‘KABADDI’ IS DERIVED FROM THE TAMIL
WORD ‘KAI-PIDI’, MEANING ‘TO HOLD HANDS’. KABADDI IS CONTACT
SPORT, AND THE AIM OF THE GAME IS FOR THE ‘DEFENDERS’ TO CAPTURE
THE ‘RAIDER’.

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• KABADDI, IN ITS VARIOUS FORMS, IS POPULAR ALL OVER THE COUNTRY AND
IS KNOWN BY REGIONAL NAMES, SUCH AS CHEDUGUDU IN ANDHRA
PRADESH, CHADUKUDU IN TAMIL NADU AND HU-TU-TU IN MAHARASHTRA.

• INDIA IS MOST SUCCESSFUL KABADDI TEAM ON THE WORLD STAGE. ASIA

KABADDI CUP, KABADDI WORLD CUP AND PRO KABADDI LEAGUE ARE SOME
IMPORTANT TOURNAMENTS HELD FOR THE SPORT.
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• ALTHOUGH THERE ARE MANY VERSION OF THE GAME, IN THE MOST POPULAR
VERSION THERE ARE TWO TEAMS OF SEVEN EACH PLAYERS EACH. EACH
TEAMS OCCUPIES HALVES OF A FIELD MEASURING 10 X 13 METERS OF MEN
AND 8 X 12 METERS OF WOMEN. EACH TEAM TAKES TURNS TO SEND A
‘RAIDER’ INTO THE OPPONENTS COURT. TO EARN A POINT, THE RAIDER
MOVES INTO THE OPPONENT’S HALF CHANTING ‘KABADDI, KABADDI,
WITHOUT INHALING.
• THE RAIDER MUST TAG ONE OR MORE MEMBERS OF THE OPPONENTS TEAM AND
THEN RETURN TO HIS/HER HOME TURF. THE ‘DEFENDERS’, MEANWHILE, TRY TO
WRESTLE THE RAIDER TO THE GROUND TILL HE/SHE INHALES AGAIN. IF THE
RAIDER MANAGES TO ESCAPE TO THE HOME TURF, THE TAGGED DEFENDERS ARE
DECLARED ‘OUT’. A TEAMS WIN A POINT EACH TIME AN OPPONENTS IS DECLARED
OUT AND EARNS TWO POINT EACH TIME AN OPPONENTS IS DECLARED OUT. THE
TEAM WITH MORE POINTS AT THE END WINS THE GAME.
 AARUSH SINHA
5TH – A
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RYAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL