Armed and ready to play Tak Ball, a stunning game
Published on Mar 6, 2012
L.A. Nightlight's Thomas Taylor runs with the ball to score a goal as Philadelphia Killawatts' players chase him with stun guns during an Ultimate Tak Ball (UTB) game in Bangkok on March 2, 2012. The rules are simple: throw a ball into the goal to score a point. But what makes this game unlike any other is that all the players are armed and ready with stun guns. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
BANGKOK (REUTERS) - The rules are simple: throw a ball into the goal
to score a point. But what makes this game unlike any other is that all
the players are armed and ready with stun guns.
It's Ultimate Tak Ball, the brainchild of a few hardcore sports fanatics who say it is the sport of the future and are in Bangkok for an exhibition game.
Each game consists of three periods that last for 7 minutes each, with two teams of four players each. Any player in possession of the 60cm medicine ball is open to unlimited shocking by the players on the opposite team.
The stun guns pack 3 to 5 milliamps of electricity, which is only about 10 per cent of the power of the taser stun guns used by police. Fired on contact with an opponent, the guns produce a twitching feeling, according to players. 'It never gets better, you just get less afraid of the stun,' a smiling Mr Damien Ryan, 24, said during a break in a match in Bangkok. 'But it's one of the best feelings ever.
It's Ultimate Tak Ball, the brainchild of a few hardcore sports fanatics who say it is the sport of the future and are in Bangkok for an exhibition game.
Each game consists of three periods that last for 7 minutes each, with two teams of four players each. Any player in possession of the 60cm medicine ball is open to unlimited shocking by the players on the opposite team.
The stun guns pack 3 to 5 milliamps of electricity, which is only about 10 per cent of the power of the taser stun guns used by police. Fired on contact with an opponent, the guns produce a twitching feeling, according to players. 'It never gets better, you just get less afraid of the stun,' a smiling Mr Damien Ryan, 24, said during a break in a match in Bangkok. 'But it's one of the best feelings ever.
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