WHAT IS SEPAK TAKRAW ???
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Do you know Sepak Takraw?
Background and History
Sepal
Takraw was created by the royal family of Malaysia about 500 years ago. The name
itself comes from two languages. Sepak is "kick"
in Malay, and Takraw is the "ball" in Thai. When it is born, It
looked like Japanese "Kemari", and some became a circle, and a pole was kicked,
and the number of times was being competed in.
It looks very similar to the
Japanese traditional game, "kemari" where the players form a loose circle and
the number of times the ball is kicked before it touches the ground is counted.
In 1965 the game was unified into the present volleyball style with the addition
of a net and the adoption of international rules.
Game
The court
and the net height and size are identical to those used in badminton and each
team has three players. The rules are very similar to those in volleyball, with the following five important exceptions.
- The use of hands is not
permitted.
- Each player may touch the ball only once before it is kicked over the net.
- There is no rotation in the defense position.
- It becomes a score (net in) even if the ball touches the net before
falling into the companion court.
- Most people don't know very much about the
game!
Serve
The player who kicks a
serve surely puts a leg (shaft foot) in the service circle, and takes a toss
from the player who went into the quoter circle (the semicircle of a radius 90
cm done around the contact point of the center line and the sideline), and kicks
the ball.
When a game bigins by one serve, a ball can be touched by the
attack of one time to three times. You can use a head, a back, legs, and
anywhere except for the arm from the shoulder to the
point of the finger.
Game score
The team which
scored two sets out of three sets first get the victory in the game. Each sets
consist of 15 points. Only 6 points of the the third set are systems.
Ball
There are 2 kinds of balls of the thing that the thing edited in the
stem of 9-11 ratten, and the shape were imitated with the plastic and which was
made. A ball made of the plastic is
being used as an official ball from the 11th Beijing Asian convention.
The
weight of the ball is 170g-190g, and the size of it is a perimeter 40cm, and
there is a hole of 12 in it. It is much smaller than a handball, a little bigger
than a softball.
Highlight of the game
The
player jumps as much as his height in the high state, and a ball is struck by
the spike like acrobatics and hatched. The speed is said as about 140km per hour, an air battle has somthing
fully.
The international organization of the
Sepak Takraw
Both an Asian Sepak Takraw league (ASTAK) and the
headquarters of the International Sepak Takraw league (ISTAK) are in Thailand,
Bangkok. Members naitons of it are 18 countries.
sepak_takraw@geocities.co.jp
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