No matter what team sport I played as a kid at school, I was always in the same position: left right out.

Someone else in the Comments will probably already have said this, but the key thing about the Indian sport Kabaddi is the rule that the player invading the opponents' half of the court must be holding his breath the whole time he's there. How do you ensure the attacking player's operating on just one breath? Play underwater? That'd work, but on land, snatching a quick, silent, extra puff of wind to extend the time he can attack would be cheating - and would be very easy to do - so the rule is that he must say or clearly chant the word 'kabaddi' constantly, and without a pause. It's the defending team's job to link hands and block him in their territory until he runs out of air. Because the word 'kabaddi' has no natural breaks and no convenient esses or aitches or n's (where you could possibly draw a tiny breath) the end 'i' flows perfectly into the beginning 'k', so it's not possible to breathe in whilst chanting. It's obvious to everyone if an attacker is cheating. Musicians such as brass, reed, woodwind, and didgeridoo players will know that circular breathing techniques don't get around this one-breath rule. It's very effective. So, the length of time you can maintain an audible, uninterrupted exhalation of 'kabaddikabaddikabaddi-' whilst running and jumping and dodging - is the key point of the sport. It's fast and often quite vicious, played by men and women alike and, despite the QI panellist's stout defence of the purity of its origins, it is remarkably similar to several other games, especially the schoolboys' playground favourite 'British Bulldog, One Two Three', which does away with the fairness and the rules and the chanting and just concentrates on extreme brutality. Best played on concrete, of course. ;-)

To be fair kabaddi is actually a fantastic sport to watch

Just spent a decent amount of time watching videos of kabaddi. WHY WERE WE NOT TAUGHT THIS AT SCHOOL!

Kabaddi is awesome! A raider runs thru the enemy court, tagging out as many players as possible and returns to the home court without being tackled. ON ONE BREATH! All while saying "Kabaddi! Kabaddi! Kabaddi!" the whole time on one breath of air until they return to their home court. We played it in Scouts for years.

Catching a netball wrong will also break your damn finger, because somebody decided to make netballs out of concrete.

My interest in football would be SO much higher if every player had to say "football" every time they kick the ball

Accidentally saw a game of netball on tv one day as I was channel surfing. Player 5 meters away from the one with the ball, nobody else around, whistle blows. "Interference."... Wut?

is no-one going to mention the fact that most of the time THERE IS NO NET!!! Just a ring and no backboard. Good luck with that!

So netball is just messed up basketball I always knew it was dumb I just did not know how dumb it was

Sometimes in this dark, desperate world...you just need a little bit of QI.

I was goal attack in the school netball team, which is ridiculous as I was the shortest girl in the school, and so everyone could just Throw the ball straight over my head, lmao, xx

This is my favourite QI clip ever

My niece was devastated at 13 when she was made to give up rugby at school and had to play netball. It was like putting her in a straight jacket.

When we started the new school year at my school, PE classes were always split based on how good you were in the first class. Hockey was the autumn/winter outdoors sport, and I was on the team, so I was always in the "top" PE class. Unfortunately, I'm also 4ft11. So when we played Netball and I was in my usual position of "goal attack", think you can probably guess the flaw there.....

I loved Netball as a kid. Wasn’t great at any sport, but I loved the slower-paced nature of Netball. I also played a variation of hockey that only my high school played called thunder-hockey. We never had any competitions with it, but I was actually decent at it, despite it being incredibly fast paced, which is incredible given I was this slow, unfit ball of fat, yet surprisingly decent at a very fast-paced game

Kabaddi is surprisingly interesting to watch... who would've thought! :O

I was convinced this clip had already been uploaded to the QI channel. Apparently not.

New Zealand still won the world cup!! Yay NZ #2019

Timing of this one hahahaha. After this mornings game.

I'm a guy, and at school because i was so useless at all the male sports we did at school i was put in the girls netball team because they didn't have enough players. Because there technically wasn't a rule against male players in the local school netball league. I guess it was just assumed teams would be all female since it's a 'girls sport'. Also i guess the fact i was a 6'2 14 year old boy helped my school try to make that decision. I was literally the only boy in the entire netball league of about 8 teams. The extra sad part was i wasn't even very good at netball either.

We used to play kabaddi in scouts, it was a great game for those not skilled with a ball - myself included!

For a moment there I thought Warwick Davis was on QI. Him and Nish sound so alike!

Isn't the point of the shouting in Kabaddi that the runners have to achieve their goal on a single breath, so once they stop shouting they're done?

I watched Kabaddi on Channel $ when they used to show it. I think the players had to hold their breath, once active, and to prove it you had to keep saying Kabbadi. Quite fun.

That's our Sandi.. all about the balls.

Anyone else thinking Sandi looks fantastic here? Her hair is amazing

Honestly I would watch an hour of Sandy and Holly going off on Netball

I love netball

Speaking of calling out the name of the sport, Tennis was a sport where players used to shout Tenez when hitting the ball! About Kabaddi lot of players do say hututututu... as well.

Kabaddi is pure sky sports mix at 2am gold

ITT: 50% people talking about how much they hated various sports, 50% people taking the opportunity to tell everyone how much they hate Nish Kumar for some reason.

In school we boys had to play netball for a bit in the lower years. Now I’m not sure about other countries but in the UK in the ‘90s netball was very much considered a girls’ sport. So we all thought we were really funny and taking the mick by shouting whatever pass it was we were doing. So we’d go “CHEST PASS!” “JAVELIN PASS.” And the teacher would get really annoyed. Good times ☺️

Sort of failed to mention the interesting thing about Khabatti is that you're not allowed to take in a new breath when in enemy territory. You take in a big gulp of air before you cross the dividing line, then have to make your entire attack on that breath. You can exhale during your attack but not inhale. The reason for saying "Khabatti" over and over is to prove you're not inhaling. The defenders are trying to hinder you enough that you get exhausted and have to breathe, thus ending your attempt.

One of my favorites is cricket, which is inconvenient as an American

I've heard so many different names for tag. In Bristol it was tag, in Leciester it was tig, in Nottingham it was dob? And then British Bulldog at my primary school kept getting banned, so everyone playing it just changed the name every day. "Oy, British Bulldog is banned" "No, this is 'Pudsey 123'".

So apparently I have emerged into an alternative universe where something called Netball is a thing...

The meta of kabaddi is that the attacker has to complete his attack in one breath. So they keep saying kabaddi to remove air from lungs and to reduce the time an attacker can spend in the defending zone. It's simple it's quick but as the attacker touches the zone and returns everything hits the fan all you see is a 4v1 JUDO MMA LOVECHILD. Note- you cannot block the attack, you can only tackle the attacker when he is returning. i.e after touching either a player or the end zone.

I always thought kabaddi looked like a lot of fun. But then I was always terrible at throwing balls.

Nish is a funny guy 😂😂

I pet the dolphins at Sea World once (long before knowing about the abuses there) and the water they were in was beyond frigid so kudos to anyone capable of jumping in with them without a wetsuit/dry suit

How was this uploaded 47 minutes ago but I swear I've already watched this? (I only watch QI as clips on KZfaq- not TV)

Kumar again proving how funny he is......

Girls complaining about netball always makes me laugh as they don’t know how good they have it. 5 years of rugby and they would dream for netball

Sandy is smartly dressed.

We had to teach foreign sports as a part of our final for P.E. class. I got assigned Kabaddi and I thought it looked pretty fun. Whole class refused to participate and it was just me awkwardly saying Kabaddi.

Netball looks quite a lot like a game mostly played in the Netherlands and Belgium called korfbal. Instead of a ring and net their is a bottomless plastic basket (de korf). The teams are mixed women and men. The teams are split in two and limited to either the defensive or offensive halve of the field, switching throughout the game. And Just like in netball walking and running with the ball isn't allowed.

The other sport you say the name of while playing is Atari Tennis.

Back in secondary school, the best netball player in our year was the shortest girl

Gonna watch some kabaddi now

I feel like Alan has kept that shirt since the 90's. Didn't he wear it on one of the first QI's?

“...football.” I’ve done that for years, though?

this hurts my feelings

Now I want to watch some kabaddi.

That ladies voice is therapeutic

The worst time of my life was playing netball, but Dad was the Principal of the small country school and I was needed to make the numbers up. The only game our team won was when I didn't play. And I'm a kiwi!

British Bulldog was never played enough at my school. Only ever played when the teachers weren't there.

Wait wait wait, tackling

This video was fascinating. btwwtf is netball?

yeah Go Kabadi!

The reality is that netball causes more injuries than basketball because the players are forced to stop suddenly & its usually in the middle of a twisting motion! Wheelchair-basketball is a much harder game to play as no one has a height-advantage, plus the net remains the same height!

Who else is looking for “kabaddi” video but IMMEDIATELY after this video?!? 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤦‍♂️

the restraining order is only towards the person holding the ball. when it is thrown in the air you fight and push out other player to get the ball. i was both a basketball player and a netball player and i can tell you that i have never gotten seriously injured from playing basketball but i had cracked an ankle and dislocated a knee playing netball. and what the hell about the backboard. its not that hard to actually aim into the net you know.

In computer version of Blood Bowl (which is American football with orcs and elves and lots of violence) one of the commentators sometimes says that the whole ball part seems pointless, as it distracts from the violence. Maybe someone should tell Games Workshop about Kabaddi.

as a horrifically asthmatic but, at the least, TALL child, i'm quite grateful at all the nonsense added to netball. they stuck me as goal keep: no running so no asthma attacks and no need to catch nor throw anything because my only job was to get in the way! unfortunately, once everyone else had growth spurts i found myself out of a job & was retired from inter-school sport, though my peers still had to suffer my presence in PE until i was allowed to drop it. thankfully, being good at making up games that conveniently didn't require running meant i wasn't ENTIRELY avoided at lunchtimes. (there was that ONE time someone caught on to how i kept "referee-ing" this one game i'd dubbed "Squirrel" and they eventually realised i'd set them up in a game mathematically/physically unlikely to be won or end on purpose)

hang on wasnt this covered before by an earlier episode, about basketball?

I used to watch Kabaddi on Trans World Sport. Loved it.

As someone who doesn't know what netball is, I don't know what netball is

I've never heard of it before. Is it played in the USA?

I'm tall and I'm really bad at netball so I agree it's a load of nonsense! (sour grapes I confess😂😂😂)

kabaddi is pretty intense

I just hope that Sandy and Holly managed to heal from their school-induced trauma.

Can the QI Elves add their research to the Netball Wikipedia page please. It is somewhat brushed over in the history section there.😉

aww I like netball :(

Also Netball is Chiropractor heaven.

Because the Beeb were too busy showing us lose in the semis to screen these last two XLs from Series P!

Was introduced to the game in South Africa. I tried to keep an open mind especially because most of the girl students at the school where I taught were crazy about the sport. But to this American guy, it really is a cross between basketball & ultimate frisbee and is much, much worse a game than either of those two. It just feels poorly designed, and I guess this clip helps explain why.

That's really not Kabaddi! For people's edification, here's what happens: Person sent out on offensive has to keep on repeating "kabaddi" while trying to make contact with as many people in defense as possible, AND then making contact back at the zero line. Whoever is "touched" by the Offensive person is out, and the point is to eliminate the defense

Ninh Explained...

The reason the raider in kabaddi has to repeat the word is because they aren't supposed to inhale while out of their side of the pitch. Saying "kabaddi" lets everyone know you aren't breathing.

Never heard of netball... Just heard of kabadi last week! I'm sure I'd be horrible at playing both.

Sandi is gorgeous. I would play whatever damn game she wants me to play.

How did Jessica Hynes feature in a 1903 photograph, holding the ball?

This is the first time I've heard of kbaddie

I like netball, as the women are so tall and leggy,

I think they should actually make it a rule that footballers have to say "football" every time they kick the ball 😂

F for "floundering"

Football? Which code?

Netball is one of those sports like gymnastics when it would be better if the competitors were naked.

I hate sport, but Kabaddi actually sounds like it might be fun.

Sandi, why are you wearing a Souwester at the end of this video?

Subtitles for those of us who are hard of hearing would be helpful.

Wow, never seen this sport before.

Yo Mommy Yo Daddy, We're going to play Kabaddi

😂

The only reason we even mention netball is the English team is quite good at it.

I looked up kabaddi On KZfaq and was able to find some matches did not understand scoring at all

Anyone else here play Open Gates? Kabaddi sounds very similar to it

England just got third in the Netball World Cup. Awww...Most sports favour a certain body type. I certainly wasn't any good at sports.

Not tag.. Not Bulldog... *_Kabaddi_** !*