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Bubble Soccer, SUP Yoga and trampolining … HK goes mad for crazy sports
Don a zorb, practise your aquatic yoga and reacquaint yourself with a ball pond this summer, writes Jenni Marsh
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Bubble Soccer is everything you'd expect of a sport inspired by a Japanese game show.
Players squeeze into zorb-like inflatable bubbles and - as in the beautiful game - two teams try to score goals, albeit while adjusting to a humpty-dumpty physique.
The result is ridiculous amounts of fun (see www.bubblesoccer.hk). Who cares if you can't properly see who's on your team, or if life in the bubble gets increasingly sticky, when tackling consists of bouncing into your opponent at top speed?
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The Japanese had no hand in Stand-Up Paddle Yoga, though - for this we can thank the Hawaiians (and Berlin-born athlete Nadine Bubner and Canadian Diana Cheung who have brought the sport to Hong Kong).
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SUP Yoga (www.supyogahongkong.com) sees yogis hold hatha and vinyasa poses while balancing on a 10 foot-long paddleboard, just off Stanley Main Beach. Sessions last two hours (HK$500) and are rounded off with dim sum or tacos.
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