Dodgeball in Asia

The country I come from also has the sport called "dodgeball". However, the game itself is complete different! And believe me, it's complete different and if you just step into the court and play Asia dodgeball , you will find it very difficult to adapt unless you play a game or two, orelse you will be very confuse! 

So let me tell you how different can a single sport play out in different area or countries.

First thing first, let's look at how the dodgeball court been structure in Taiwan (that's my country), shown below. 

As you can see on the picture, the green zone in the middle is pretty similar to Western European style dodgeball court, which forms up with centre line and both end lines on the side. However, we don't have "dead-zone" around the centre line; therefore everywhere on the court can be attack. 

Believe me, we used to have 30 people a side dodgeball game and it was problem-free.

The major differences will be shown here, the red zone on each side of the court. This is the zone where player got hit and they will find their way heading there, but the thing is, people in the red zone are still in the game. 

The red zones are structure this way, if team A is on the right hand side of the court on the picture, and one player got hit on team A, he will be heading to team B's red zone. 

Player in the red zone can try to throw against the opponent whenever they have the ball, they can also pass the ball to their team mate and try to run a tactic, where ball pass around between red zone to its original court and once the opponent got confuse or got distract, they will be throw out easily. 

However, team usually put one player into the red zone before the game, so team can passes the ball around. 

Here is another major differences. One game will only have 1 ball, and game will starts on jump-ball where one player from each team comes to the circle in the middle for jump-ball, the same way as how basketball game starts. 

Once the game starts, player will began to get opponent out and the team got wipe out first will be the loser. Some game allow player in the red zone to come back to the main court once they got an opponent out, however, it's all depend what rules they agree upon before the game. 

A game requires minimum of 1 referee to empire the game, normally will have 2 referees calling the game on both side standing in front of the centre line. As I said earlier, the game can be play up to 30 people a side and can also play with 15 people a side as there's no limit. 

The size of its main court is both 11m long and wide, and for the red zone is shown above. 

It's vey entertain and fun to play under this lay-out. We used to have classes of 30 to 35 people and this is the sport that can bring everyone together as one, and show that we can do something as a team. 

I hope this post would give you an ideal knowledge on how the dodgeball are play out in asia, and if you are interesting in this style, go and have a try!!

Billy,