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As a kid in grade School it was usually frowned upon to have a group snowball fight on school property , back in those times I suppose the teachers and staff were afraid a kid would break a window or worse ” load a rock in a snowball” and put en eye out . lets fast forward to today . The Winter Olympics are over, but the next one, or the one after, could be even more … ummm … interesting. Japanese officials want to turn competitive snowball fights – what they call “yukigassen” – into an Olympic sport.
Yuji Ano, organizer of Hokkaido’s top yukigassen tournament, calls it “the oldest winter sport,” pointing out that humans were throwing snowballs long before skating or skiing. How’s it work? Just how you’d imagine: Competitors hit opposing players with machine-made snowballs, and while the impact stings, Takahashi says it mostly just bruises pride. Yukigassen first became an organized sport in 1989 and has since spread to 13 countries, including Russia, Finland and Australia.
To give you more of a visual and to see this in a team setting check out THIS VIDEO
Do you think the next Winter Olympics should include “yukigassen” ( competitive snowball fights )
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