British Shin Kicking Championships!
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The Brits are always making up new games and here’s Shin Kicking Championships.
I am wondering why this hasn’t become popular as golf…
The sport of shin kicking has been practiced on Dover’s Hill since the early 17th Century. It was a popular part of the original games established by Robert Dover in 1612, and continues to draw the crowds from near and far.
While the painful pastime was so dangerous it died out in Britain by the early 1900s, the sport was re-kindled in Chipping Campden in 1951 – where it continues to be practiced as a far less aggressive version than in earlier years, when players were said to have hardened their shins using hammers and competitors were allowed to wear iron-capped boots.
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