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Bolo Soccer
Like regular soccer, only with a large soft bolo | |
In case you don't know, a "bolo" is a weapon made from three steel balls that are each attached to a rope, and the other ends of each of the three ropes are knotted together at one place. When thrown, even if one of the balls misses the target, probably the rope won't, and so the balls end up wrapping
around the target and significantly decreases its mobility.
Now imagine a bolo made of three soccer balls.
Now play soccer using it!
I'm not kicking this dude about
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[calum, Aug 02 2011]
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(COMING SOON, to a sport near you: BaseBolo, SoftBolo, Bolo Hockey, FootBolo/RugBolo, Bolo Tennis, BasketBolo, Water Bolo, Bolo Golf, Bolo Polo, Volley Bolo, and Bolo Ping Pong.) |
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Bola-Bowling would be a little to easy. |
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Was hoping for a game with one team having an inflated pig's bladder (Manchester United, hopefully), and the other team equipped with Mauser 1921-pattern machine pistols.
Deeply disappointed.
(I've heard of them called "bolas", but never "bolo") |
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They are called bolas. A bolo is a form of machete.
Incorporating either into soccer, baseball, basketball, or
any equally dull and boring game would make them
far more entertaining. If using the machete, however, I
suggest there be only one; the opposing teams must vie for
control of it as well as the ball. |
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Out of ill-advised interest rather than need, I constructed
my own bola and occasionally take it out with me when I
go rabbit hunting. I have yet to get it anywhere near my
target, but at least I haven't hurt myself with it in a while. |
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// How would you kick 3 balls at once // |
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Nonono; each player should have two machetes, one in each hand. |
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Advantage: bolas. Skilled throwers would quickly be
supplementing thier armament with their now-
incapacitated opponents' bolos. |
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What everyone else has said about bolo knives. |
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Plus, soccer is traditionally FOOTball. Bolas are a hand-thrown weapon. How do we get from hand-thrown to no-hands-allowed, in any coherent fashion? |
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I also object to bolas being called a weapon. They are generally non-lethal, used for capturing animals (the gauchos may kill the animal, but the bolas usually don't). |
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Isn't the point of a bola that it gets tangled around
its target? Receiving a pass would be easier than in
the conventional game, but passing onwards to
another player would be very difficult. Might work
for *American* football, though, where there's
normally a single pass per play. |
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Yes, definitely American football: include multiple
bolas in the game, in addition to the regular ball,
and "long-distance tackling" would be possible. |
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Bolus soccer could be fun. |
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"Can someone here sign for a shipment of Boas? No?!? Just great. Now can someone please help me get all of these snakes back on this plane?" |
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