Welly wanging

See how far you can throw in a wacky game of…

Some sports take years of training to perfect, require expensive equipment and have complicated rules. The sport of welly wanging is nothing like that. All you have to do is throw a Wellington boot as far as you can. It’s simple, satisfying and seriously silly. It’s hard to say for sure exactly why, where and when the sport of welly wanging began. Variations of the game are played around the world, including in Italy, New Zealand and the UK. According to the organisers of the Welly Wanging World Championships in Upperthong in West Yorkshire, England, the game started as a result of a quarrel between two farmers in the village. This resulted in one of the farmers hurling (or “wanging”) his Wellington boot at the other. The village now hosts…

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