KABADDI

                                    In India, we are forgetting our traditional games but kabaddi some how adjusting to find a place in Indians hearts. We are so obsessed with cricket so we unknowingly ignore kabaddi.
Perhaps, its biggest success has been reviving an age-old sport whose roots can be traced back to Indian mythology. It is a sport that has been firmly entrenched in the Indian soil for centuries.
The game is said to have had its inception in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. Even the word ‘kabaddi’ owes its origin to the Tamil word, ‘kai-pidi’, which means holding hands. India not only gave birth to this birth but also amongst youth kabaddi become a way of improving physical strength and reflex action.
kabaddi is what helped them boost their alertness, defense, and aggression. 
                                   The most noteworthy mention of Kabaddi, however, is found in the Hindu mythological epic, ‘The Mahabharata’. Legend has it that the Pandava warrior Arjuna picked up the skills of Kabaddi under the tutelage of Lord Krishna. He mastered the art of quietly sneaking into enemy traps and demolishing the fortifications without a single scratch on his body.
The mention of kabaddi can also be found in Buddhist literature which proves further that the sport has always been adored and practiced with a lot of gusto in ancient India. Lord Gautam Buddha was one of the early ambassadors of the sport and religiously played it with his peers.
                                      In India, we have different languages so in different parts kabaddi known as different names, In Tamil Nadu, it is prevalent as kabaddi or ‘chadukudu’, in Andhra Pradesh, it got the name, ‘chedugudu’. In the north in Punjab, it is common as ‘kauddi’ and in the eastern part of the country, it got popularized as ‘hu-tu-tu.' Even in Bangladesh and Maldives, the sport has equal importance and is known as ‘hadudu’ and ‘bhavatik’ respectively.
A little-known educational institute in Amravati called the Hanuman Vyayam Prasarak Mandal (HVPM) gave kabaddi its first documented international exposure in Berlin in the Hitler regime. A 35-member contingent from the institute was invited to the German city in 1936 to give demonstrations of mallakhamb and kabaddi.

                                      Kabaddi is a popular sport in South Asia. The Kabaddi Federation of India (KFI) was founded in 1950, and it compiled a standard set of rules.Bangladesh, a variation of kabaddi called Ha-Du-Du is popular. Ha-Du-Du has no definite rules and is played with different rules in different areas. Kabaddi is the National Game of Bangladesh and the Amateur Kabaddi Federation of Bangladesh was formed in 1973. In Iran, the Community of Kabaddi was formed in 1996, in the same year they joined the Asian Kabaddi Federation and in 2001 they joined the International Kabaddi Federation. The Iran Amateur Kabaddi Federation was formed in 2004.
Kabaddi is one of the national sports of Nepal. Kabaddi is played and taught at a very early age in most primary schools beginning in the third grade or so in most Nepali schools. Kabaddi was also played by British Army for fun, to keep fit and as an enticement to recruit soldiers from the British Asian community

Kabaddi’s tryst with Hitler and the Olympics
The team performed spectacularly at the Congress of Physical Education in Berlin right before the mega quadrennial Games. The audience was captivated by the Indian martial art forms and their display was given rave reviews by most of the regional European papers of that time.
Word spread and it reached the ears of Hitler’s Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, who convinced the Fuhrer to grant the contingent a 20-minute audience. They were presented with
medal on the concluding day of the Berlin Olympics.

                                    The first Asian Kabaddi Championship that was held in 1980 where Japan, Nepal, Malaysia participated along with India and Bangladesh. India emerged the champions by prevailing over Bangladesh, whose national game is Kabaddi.
It also began India’s intimidating domination over other countries in major tournaments.

TOURNAMENT
YEAR
WINNER
Asian Games
1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2014
India
World Cup
2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
India
SAF
2006, 2010
India

Kabaddi  Tournaments

  • Asian Kabaddi Cup
The Asia Kabaddi Cup has been held twice in consecutive years. The inaugural tournament was held in 2011 in Iran. In 2012, the Asia Kabaddi Cup was held in  Lahore, Pakistan.

  • Kabaddi World Cup
The First Women's Kabaddi World Cup was held in Patna, India in 2012. India won the championship, defeating Iran in the finals. India retained the title in 2013, defeating debutants New Zealand in the finals.

  • Pro Kabaddi League
Pro Kabaddi league started in 2014, it has a concept like IPL. Focusing on marketing and make it more suitable for  T.V audience. The 2014 season
was watched by at least 435 million viewers over the course of the season, and the inaugural championship match was seen by 86.4 million viewers. Do-Or-Die raids
was an additional rule introduced in Pro Kabaddi League; this has really made Kabaddi an audience friendly sport.

  • Women's Kabaddi Challange
Women's Kabaddi Challenge is a Kabaddi league in India started like Pro Kabaddi League for women's. Three teams will take part in the inaugural season in 2016 and the league was played across seven cities in India. The first season was played in 2016. in the finals Storm Queens won.

  • UK Kabaddi
Kabaddi received major recognition in the United Kingdom during the 2013 UK kabaddi cup.It featured the national kabaddi teams from India, England, Pakistan, the United States, Canada, and a local club team. The UK Kabaddi hosts the Punjab circle style of Kabaddi.

·         World Kabaddi League
World Kabaddi League was formed in 2014.The league includes eight teams from four countries – Canada, England, Pakistan, and the United States – and plays the Punjabi circle style of Kabaddi.Some of the teams are owned or part owned by actors – Akshay Kumar (Khalsa Warriors), Rajat Bedi (Punjab Thunder), Sonakshi Sinha (United Singhs) and Yo Yo Honey Singh (Yo Yo Tigers). The inaugural league season was played from August 2014 to December 2014 United Singhs (Birmingham, England) won the finals defeating Khalsa Warriors in the first season.

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