Sepak Takraw!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepak_takraw

ALAMAK!!!!
I just found my team sport! I know... I know... I usually HATE competitive sports but this one is everything I ever wanted. This is basically volley ball mixt with hacki sack
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacky_Sack

Back when I was in primary/high school, we used to play allot of hacki sack during the breaks. I was actually one of the best player in the school yard (if you count the number of bounces that one can do...). Mainly freestyle hacki sacking... nothing special. I am still pretty good, I have trained my tricks (I can do landing, under the leg, 360... nothing compared to the pro circuit but still)

Anyway here is how this all happened. I was walking home from the pub after a very bad day at work. (just read kotaku to know what I am talking about) As I pass in front some court, I see a bunch of young Malaysian kids kicking some kind of ball above a net. I stop and study the game. It looks like some kind of volley ball soccer or something. I continue my journey home, drop my bag, have a chat with my flatmates and then tell myself "fuck this! I am gonna go see what this game is all about"

So I walk down there not really knowing what to expect. I have a cigarette while studying the game. Then the moment come. I walk to them and ask them if I can try. They kind of laughed in a way "yeah right, sif ang moh can play this". so I kick the ball a few time like hacky sack and swing it over the net. They were kind of impressed that I could manipulate the ball so well for my first attempt at the game.

So anyway, we played until the lights went off. We then shaked hands. They told me that I was quite good and that I should come back every friday to play with them! \o/

I really enjoyed the experience. This is a really fun sport. The funny part is that back in grade 9 when we were young pricks who did not give a flying fuck about school or anything else, we got requested to invent a sport. This was some leadership class where we had to make a project or something. The weird thing is that the sport that we came up with was exactly that sport. What we did not know is that it was already a full on sport being played for hundreds of years on the other side of the planet.

here's a video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_oiycbO3RU