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Sepak takraw, or Sepaktakraw, [1] also called buka ball, kick volleyball or foot volleyball, is a team sport.It is played with a ball made of rattan or plastic between two teams of two to four players on a court resembling a badminton court.
Takraw, also known as Sepak Takraw, is one of Thailand's national sports, alongside Muay Thai. [2] [20] The game has a rich history dating back to the Ayutthaya period when its earliest versions were played without a net. The traditional game involved passing a rattan ball to another person using only the feet, knees, chest, and head, without ...
Sepak takraw is a sport which originated from Southeast Asia. [13] It is played similarly to volleyball but players use their feet, knee, chest and head to carry a rattan ball over the net. [13] It is a spectator sport that contains elements of volleyball, football, martial arts and gymnastics. [14] [15] [16]
Sepak Takraw is a variant of volleyball popular in Asia, similar to footvolley. The rules are very similar to those in volleyball, with the following four important exceptions: The use of hands is not permitted, each player may only touch the ball once before it is kicked back over the net, there is no rotation in the defence position and ...
In Indonesia, Sepak Takraw is also known as Sepak Raga in the local language in Indonesia. In Sulawesi , the traditional Bugis football game is called "Raga" (the player is called "Pa'Raga"). Some of the men playing the "Raga" circle in a group, the ball is passed from one to the other and the man who kicks the highest ball is the winner.
Sepak takraw is known by the Indonesian and Malaysian people in several areas such as Borneo, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Sulawesi as Sepak raga, which is a game for local children who still use a ball made of rattan. In this game, each player must show proficiency in ball handling: the player plays a rattan ball with all limbs except with ...
Sepak Takraw in Malaysia is governed by Persatuan Sepaktakraw Malaysia (PSM). The men's team is ranked world number two in the ISTAF World Ranking (as of 13 November 2014). [15] The women's team is ranked world number three in the ISTAF World Ranking (as of 13 November 2014). [16]
Sepak takraw, a traditional Southeast Asian sport, being played at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, Korea. During the colonial era, resistance to and influence from Western sports resulted in the standardization and introduction of organized competition for several traditional South Asian games such as kabaddi .