Underwater Sports
Underwater sports are typically considered to include:
- Finswimming
- Underwater hockey (also known as octopush)
- Underwater rugby
- Underwater orienteering
- Underwater target shooting
- Spearfishing
- Free-diving
- Underwater ice hockey
- Underwater football (here the football refers to american football not association football or any other variant)
- Aquathlon (underwater wrestling)
- Sport Diving
- Speed lifesaving
Most of these sports are swimfin based. The inclusion of the word "underwater", in the group noun for these sports, is, perhaps, unwarranted but the phrase has become fixed. The term is almost certainly derived from the name of Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques (CMAS), which is also known as the World Underwater Federation. Most have surface based elements. There are many fin-based sports that are not included in this category of sports (including bodyboarding). Freediving includes a few events that are not fin-based (static apnea, dynamic apnea without fins amongst others). Only seven events in speed lifesaving (in both stillwater and surf) use fins.
Most of these sports are minority sports. Underwater ice hockey and underwater football are not competed in or even participated in on an international basis.
Read more about this topic: Underwater Sports
Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)