People have and will compete in absolutely anything, so there must be a contest out there that’s perfect for your skill set — no matter how bizarre.
1. Mobile Phone Throwing
Finland is no stranger to bizarre sports, as their annual wife-carrying world championships prove. The Nordic country is (or was) also famous for the indestructible Nokia cell phones, so it kind of makes sense that they’d also come up mobile phone throwing. The core idea of the contest is very simple — fling a cell phone farther away than the others and you win. Yet, there are multiple categories for phone size and style, according to the official rules.
2. Dog Grooming
Dog beauty contests are nothing new, but in those cases, the fussy grooming usually happens before the competition. However, in the World Dog Grooming Championships, the grooming is the competition. There are plenty of categories in the competition. The participating teams compete in different styles, there are categories for specific dog breeds, and so forth.
3. Olney Pancake Tossing Race
Here’s one for the ladies. We’re saying that because only women are allowed to participate in the Olney Pancake Tossing Race. Organized annually in the British town of Olney, 25 women dress in tradition housewives’ costumes. They then race 415 yards through the village — all the while flipping a pancake on a frying pan in their hand.
4. Being Covered in Bees
There aren’t official championship games or a league for wearing thousands upon thousands of bees on your body. Maybe there should be, though, since people keep doing it all the time. It seems that some folks really get into breaking the world record for being covered in bees. They might wear the bees as a beard on their faces, or just allow their entire bodies to be swarmed.
5. Hobby Horsing There has to be something weird in the water in Finland, because they keep coming up with one outlandish sport after another. Not only did they invent wife carrying and phone throwing, but also hobby horsing — the contest of “riding” a stick horse. Just like in real horse riding, the contestants race through a track with various obstacles. And they do it with a hobbyhorse between their legs.
