Kabaddi Thread ...

[gvhvhg]

WE BEAT THE THAIS 50-29!!

http://us.rediff.com/sports/2004/nov/19kab.htm

[kabaddi]

India vs Thailans is old news
India plays Iran in the final
http://web.mid-day.com/sports/national/ ... /97589.htm

[kabaddi]

How is Canada team?...

from reading the news articles they played well
but got whooped by India
beat UK in the quarter finals and lost to Iran in the Semi Finals

[david]

There seems to be a new body.

Is this a rival body. Ghelot got elected as world president.

[kabaddi]

well i thought that Iran could have pulled of an upset but they to recieved a beating (55-27) from the favorites
yeah i read about the IKF here
India win World Cup kabaddi
i'm not to sure what to expect
they said Ghelot is also the president of the AAKF but i've read that he was removed from that position
well hopefully this make way for further developement of the sport around the World

[jaydeep]

Good show by Indians ... They showed using brain against strength (Iranians were heaviest in all lot of players, all around 90 kgs) can previal in final show down ...

Jaydeep.

[BSharma]

Congratulations to the Indian team for winning the World Cup.

[PKBasu]

Congrats to the Kabaddi team for lifting the World Cup, although nothing else would have sufficed! A bit surprising to find Iran, Canada, etc. performing well -- with Iran making the final ahead of Bangladesh. (and whatever happened to Pakistan?). Japan had taken to the game earlier, but Iran making the final was a surprise to me!

[kabaddi]

PKBasu, you probably never read these articles
Dealing with the Iran hand
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstor ... id=106908]

THEY are touted as favourites not because they have three wrestlers and two judokas in their ranks.

As Asian Champions, Iran is expected to put up a good show at the first-ever World Cup Kabaddi Championship, which get underway at Wadala’s Bhartiya Kreeda Mandir from Thursday...

Pour’s confidence stems from the fact that Iran has had a tradional sport—jhoo—which is very similar, ‘‘almost identical’’, to kabaddi. ‘‘We have played it (jhoo) for more than a century and half,’’ Pour informs. ‘‘Technically, we’ve never had problems adapting to kabaddi,’’ he adds.

England, Windies here for World Cup: hold the breath, it’s kabaddi
http://www.keralanext.com/news/?id=66520

The Iranians may go ‘‘jhoo, jhoo’’ and the Indians ‘‘hu tu tu’’, but it’s all in the name of the same game—kabaddi...
‘‘Bangladesh and Nepal have been carved out of the Indian subcontinent. So they have a history of kabaddi,’’ says Jaya Shetty, general secretary of the South Kanara Sports Club which is organising the tournament to mark its golden jubilee year.

As for the UK, West Indies, Canada and to a small extent even Germany, they were introduced to the sport by migrant Indians decades ago. Japan and Korea were drafted in too, via the Asian Games, while Malaysia hosted the Asian Kabaddi championships in 2003, where Iran emerged the champions...

‘‘Our traditional sport called jhoo is almost a twin of kabaddi,’’ says Mohammed Ali Pour, president of the Iran Kabaddi Association. His team is one of the top contenders for the trophy, he says, because ‘‘we’ve never had any trouble mastering kabaddi’s finer points.’’ The players only had to make minor adjustments to their techniques and remember to chant kabaddi-kabaddi instead of jhoo-jhoo.

The Koreans have had it just as easy. ‘‘We’ve played cattlefish for as long as we can remember,’’ says Yoon Yeong-Hak, secretary general of the Korean Kabaddi Association.

[kabaddi]

new kabaddi website
http://www.kabaddiinternational.org

[India1989]

Man India is good in Kabaddi. India should continue to be good at this sport. India is unbeatable. Forget Canada, the whole world combined cannot beat India in kabaddi. We are just too good for others.

[India1989]

Which world cup was this discussion on. Cause it says about the 2005 world cup over here. It will take place sometime in December.

[kabaddi]

India 1989, most of the latest discussion in this topic was referring to the 2004 world cup held in mumbai
your right india is at the top of the game in kabaddi but the way things are going it won't be long before other countries begin to dominate
there is more news about the 2005 world cup at the kabaddi international website
seems like there will be a lot more teams this time, it should be interesting but yeah India is probably the favorite and will be hard to beat

[Kumar]

Once the european and american countries start playing this game with any seriousness, India's dominance will come to an end.. No way india can compete with the professionalism that other countries will have (let alone the athleticism / fitness)

[India1989]

THere's gonna be another world cup in December this year.

ANyways even if the European and American countries come they won'tbe able to match the Indian team
REason: Because we are Indians.

We have both physical fitness and mental fitness.

Man I am sure that the strong sardars, Jats, Pathans could take them with no sweat. Man India is too good.

But people are too inconfident in India.

OK tell me one reason. Why can't we take them. cause they are western countries. No buddy. They would come no near us. We will rule.

We are just too good. We also have everything and lack nothign. WHy say that man. Look at India. It is too good as a country.

Don't underestimate yourself Kumar.
Be proud of being an INdian.

We are Indians, we never go down. We are just too good man. too good to give up.

If our army can be ranked 5th in the world so can our kabbadi team be 1st. trust me it was, it is, it will, it will even after the world is destroyed.