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It’s a very popular Asian game. It mostly practices in Malaysia, in Thailand and Laos. To play, you need to be 6 players, 3 in each team and you will need one or several thagraw. The thagraw is a ball of the size of a small balloon, it’s made of bamboo. The game consists to hit the thagraw while using the only your feet. Sometimes, the referee accepts some different contacts like: using the knees, the torso and the head. Every team has the right to hit a maximum of 3 times, a little bit like volleyball.
To play you must find a badminton field. Every team takes position each side of the net. In following those indications: 1 the giver, 2 the server and 3 the kicker. To start the game, the giver must thru gently the thagraw to the server who kick it to other to opponent team. The players never change of role or position until the game is not finish. The team who serves in first does 3 consecutive services, after the service change to the other team, and so on after each 3 services.
 To make some points, the players must succeed in making fall the thagraw in the limits of the adverse land or that these last send back the ball out of the limits. Well on, if the adverse team made a mistake, the other team marks some points. The mistakes can be: an overtaking of the hit permitted, an illegal hit, a foot in the net, it’s similar to the rules of the volleyball game. The victory is acquired when a team gets 21 points.
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