Talk:Kabaddi

How can a person both "hold his breath" and "chant "kabaddi, kabaddi, kabaddi"" at the same time? Something not right here.

Info on the attempt to enter the Olympics would be nice. Rich Farmbrough 12:39, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Origin of Kabadi -tamilnadu, said by a Tamilnadu newspaper

"is a team contact sport that originated in Tamil Nadu, India" ------and its clamined by a tamilnadu newspaper. If no any third party neutral source can be found, i request administrator to remove this line about originating it in tamilnadu. 82.225.253.30 (talk) 21:07, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Done! As simple as visiting the International Federation's website, which mentions nothing about Tamil Nadu, or any other region of India. Please note that this website is now under surveillance for partisan claims and bickering, after the simultaneous removal of weasel words denigrating Pakistan. Tapered (talk) 17:16, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Kabaddi King

Someone the other day had something about Kabaddi king written here, its nice to see its been deleted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.23.56.9 (talk) 14:54, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Red Rover?

Is this game similar to Red Rover, played in western cultures? Hoof Hearted 18:18, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

There is not much emphasis on chain making or breaking in kabaddi. Human chains are used only as a effective means of trapping the raider.--B. Srinivasa Sasidhar 17:17, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Chain Rule

"the defenders must form a chain, for example by linking hands; if the chain is broken, a member of the defending team is sent off"

Is this correct? I've just wtached an old tv match and this wasn't the case, nor is it mentioned in the rules at [[1]]. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.41.48.238 (talk) 21:48, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

I think it is incorrect. As for as i know, Chain Rule says that if the defenders have formed a chain and the attacker tags or touches one (any one) of the defenders and makes back it safely, all the defenders who were part of the chain are out. 122.163.7.6 (talk) 20:09, 4 April 2009 (UTC) Adi

Uncited Claims

I am worried about a lot of this article. There is a part that reads "not much is known about the origin of this game. There is, however, concrete evidence, that the game is 4,000 years old.". These two sentences seem to utterly contradict each other, and neither are cited. I am not a Kabaddi expert at all so would appreciate someone with some knowledge providing some evidence for either of the statements. As it stands a lot of this article is not cited and I doubt the ability of much of it to be backed up by evidnece. I'll leave some time so that someone might come forward, but otherwise I seriously believe that much of it should be deleted or replaced. Quoth 31 (talk) 22:00, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Doubtful recent modifications

This section recently added not only spoils the presentation but seems doubtful as well

There is a popular belief that Kabaddi originated in the South Indian State of Tamil Nadu. A folk history of the game tells that it developed from a game of Tag.

Tag is a playground game played worldwide that involves one or more players chasing other players in an attempt to "tag" or touch them, usually with their hands between two young boys the rule of holding one's breath being added later. The game is known by many names, all of

Tamil language. origin: Kabaddi, Sadugudu, Gudugudu, Palinjadugudu and Sadugoodatthi. The word 'Kabaddi' could have originated from the Tamil words 'kai' (hand) and 'pidi' (catch).

--90.2.81.15 (talk) 22:24, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

International Kabaddi Federation

International Kabaddi federation is the apex body to govern the game in the world. The 1st Circle style world cup was also organised by Government of Punjab after having taken permission from IKF. IKF is a sports organisation and on the page of kabaddi should be mentioned. Deorajchaturvedi (talk) 06:58, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Kabbadi World Cup

Why is the World Cup section dedicated to revering India's participation?

There is no good reason for a column giving India's position - nor India's last game - and the section should be entirely re-written to give the facts in a non-partisan way.

Foot of our stairs (talk) 23:34, 13 February 2011 (UTC)