When we think about Sport, we usually think of the mainstream ones like football, tennis or swimming. But have you heard of boxing mixed with chess? Today we’ve gathered 10 Weirdest Sports in the World, these sports are all very strange and can be entertaining to watch if you’re into it! Some of these Weirdest Sports look quite bizarre to outsiders, but in their home town where they’re played, the sports are very popular. St back and have a read of these  10 Weirdest Sports From Around the World!
10.Bog Snorkeling
Competitors must snorkel through dirty, smelly mud water for two lengths of a 60 yard trench that has been cut through a peat bog. The snorkeler with the lowest completion time wins. Competitors wear snorkels and flippers (wet suits are optional) and cannot use conventional swimming strokes. The world record time of 1min 35sec is held by Phillip John. The 2007 Bog Snorkeling championships will take place on August 27 in the small town of Llanwrtyd Wells in Wales.
9.Bossaball – The Coolest Acrobatic Game
This sport originated in Spain and is slowly growing in popularity. It is definitely a sport for the adrenaline filled athletes. Based on the concept of the sport volleyball, bossaball’s rules are similar except for part where there is a trampoline involved. Players jump and either kick or hit the ball over the net into the opponent’s area. There are 3 to 5 players on each team and a point is awarded when the ball touches the floor. It is an energetic sport that requires a lot of stamina and athleticism or just a very bouncy trampoline. Either way, fun to watch and try.
8.Swamp Soccer
Swamp Soccer is a form of association football that is played in bogs or swamps. The sport is said to come from Bishop Auckland, in the north east of England, where it initially was used as an exercise activity for athletes and soldiers, since playing on soft bog is physically demanding. However the first organized championship was the 1998 Finnish championship and was the brainchild of Jyrki Väänänen, nicknamed “The Swamp Baronâ€, when the creator of swamp football moved there. There are currently an estimated 260 swamp football teams around the world. At the swamp football world championship games of 2005, some 5,000 players participated.
7.Mountain Unicycle
When I think of unicycle I think of clowns at the circus, not rugged men taking it to some of the most dangerous terrains on earth. People take a unicycle and ride it on rocky terrain. Unicycles are one of the hardest things to ride, right next to the pogo stick. This is just a sport of pure insanity but it has gotten national coverage on major news channels like FOX. As you can see from the video above, this is not a particularly graceful sport.
6. Caber Toss
One of the oldest lesser known and most bizarre sports in the world, Caber Toss is something that hails from breathtaking Scotland. And while we are on the topic of breathtaking, how about tossing large wooden poles over a certain distance? Yes, the Scott’s have found a way to make throwing logs into something competitive and fun. The object of the sport is not really to throw the logs farther but it is to land the top of the log near the person throwing it. If all this is not good enough for you, picture this. All the participants must wear a kilt to the sport. So, basically it’s a group of men in skirts throwing around big logs. Interesting?
5.Blind Soccer
There are millions of people all over the world that follow the fast paced sport of soccer and the numbers keep growing. It is a widely followed sport that people without the ability to see have taken to it and are doing great. Blind soccer is one sport that encourages disabled people to get out of their comfort zone and explore something that the whole world takes part in. It is pretty much like regular soccer except for the ball which is filled with pebbles or marbles, which help the players, locate it and the only people who do have the ability to see are the goalies. All in all, a very exciting sport to watch or take part in.
4.Wife Carrying World Championships
The Finns have the great honour of holding the annual Wife Carrying World Championships. What you do is simply grab a hold of your significant other, and carry her (or him) to the finish line faster than the other competitors. Cool! The games are hosted in the small town of Sonkajärvi in upper Savo, in the eastern part of Finland. The rules say nothing at all about the weight of the wife, only that she can be yours as well as somebody else’s. The Wife Carrying World Championships website explains the rules further and has an official entry form. The site also says that this year’s World Champions were a couple from Estonia and that the Estonians actually swept the board, leaving no medals at all for the poor Finns. Oh dear.
3.Chess Boxing
Two words you never thought you would see together. Chess Boxing is a sport for nerds. It involves a two minute boxing round with a four minute chess competition. There is even a governing body, it’s called the “World Chess Boxing Association†and their motto is “Fighting is done in the ring, but war is waged on the board.
2.Cheese Rolling
Also known as Cheese Rolling, this dangerous sporting event that takes place every May 22 in Gloucester, England on Cooper’s Hill. The event is said to be at least hundreds of years old. A wheel of cheese weighing about eight pounds is rolled down a very steep hill, and dozens of contestants go scrambling after it so hard and fast that broken limbs and other injuries are common. Whoever nabs the cheese is the champion and they win 15 or so minutes of fame (and the cheese.)
1.Ferret Legging
We have reached the end of this somewhat hard to believe list and we end it with a bang (or bite). This is hands down, the most bizarre sports I have ever come across. Ferret Legging is actually a sport and has been continued for many years all across the world. It is basically a sport to show off the man within but could change the manly part in a couple of minutes. The idea is to tie the pants at the ankles so that there is no escape route and to drop two ferrets into the pants. The person with the longest time wins. Sounds ridiculous? It is but at the same time, a man named Reg Mellor holds the world record time for this out of this world sport. He set an outrageous time of 5 hours and 30 minutes in the year 1981. His secret was that he made sure he fed the ferrets before putting them in his pants.
