The Nine Most Unusual Popular Sports in the World

1. Extreme Ironing

http://www.goextremeironing.com/

I don't know about you, but I hate ironing. It's so boring. For all you adrenaline junkies out there, there is a way to get your blood pumping while you iron. It's called extreme ironing.

All you have to do is find the craziest way to iron your clothes. If that means ironing across a canyon or while jumping off a cliff, then so be it. As it says on goextremeironing.com, "...we just don't put our lives in danger we risk our laundry to."

Think you can iron your shirt while parachuting?

2. Wife Carrying

Husbands, have no fear. There is a sport which you and your wife can do together—wife carrying.

Originally began in Finland as a joke, the sport has become a sport that attracts many. It seems to becoming very popular in the United States with at least three major competitions a year.

3. Shin Kicking

Any sport, mainstream or not, can be considered useless. However, there is one sport that is absolutely useless but fun: shin kicking.

The point of this sport is to kick your opponent so hard with your shin, that they will fall down or you can throw them down. Talk about ruthlessness. I don't recommend wearing steel-tipped boots, unless you really want to hurt someone.

4. Chess Boxing

http://www.chessboxing.com/

According to Wikipedia, chess boxing is "a hybrid sport which combines the sport of boxing with games of chess." Sounds simple enough. Get a guy in checkmate, then go beat him to a pulp and repeat.

This sport is mostly popular in Europe, but it is gaining world-wide recognition. The sport gains its inspiration from a graphic novel called, Froid Équateur.

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Which unusual sport would you want to do?

Results - Author Poll

Which unusual sport would you want to do?

• extreme ironing

  9.0%

• wife carrying

  13.1%

• shin kicking

  6.0%

• chess boxing

  9.4%

• zorbing

  35.1%

• buzkashi

  5.8%

• cheese rolling

  9.0%

• catfish grabbling

  3.6%

• cell phone toss

  8.8%
• Total votes: 498