{"id":18561,"date":"2018-05-24T12:47:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T11:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carbisbayholidays.co.uk\/?p=18561"},"modified":"2021-06-15T16:47:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T15:47:22","slug":"traditional-cornish-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carbisbayholidays.co.uk\/blog\/traditional-cornish-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"The Traditional (yet unknown) Cornish Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sport permeates everything and no more so than in the quaint, traditional towns and villages of Cornwall. In this article, you find a list of unusual sports that you could only take part in down here.<\/h2>\n

You have Football, Rugby, Cricket of course and with all the beautiful coastlines watersports too. Sailing, bodyboarding, kayaking, kite surfing and canoeing. Cornwall is very well known as a mecca for surfers too with people travelling all over the world to ride the waves here. However, we are going to dive into the lesser known physical activities from the county, proper Cornish sports that even get the locals scratching their heads.<\/p>\n

Cornish Wrestling or “Wrasslin”<\/h3>\n

Cornish Wrestling, or in Cornish dialect \u201cwrasslin\u201d, it\u2019s one of the oldest sports still played in Cornwall. Wherever the mine workers travelled they practised this sport of \u201cwrasslin\u201d, unlike typical wrestling, the Cornish version has the combatant wearing tough jackets, to make it easier to hold on to their opponent.<\/p>\n

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All holds have to be taken on the other wrestler\u2019s jacket. Holding below the waist or grabbing fingers or wrists isn\u2019t allowed. The objective is to throw your opponent and land him as flat as possible on his back, the winner is decided by 3 referees or sticklers as they are known.<\/p>\n

You can discover wrasslin<\/a> for yourself and even give it a try yourself, check Cornish Wrestling<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n

Hurling<\/h3>\n

Hurling, not to be confused with Irish hurling, this Cornish sport is a kind of medieval football played with a silver ball. The game only takes place in Cornwall in the towns of St Columb Major, St Ives and Bodmin (St Ives museum has a hurling ball on public display).<\/p>\n

If you want to witness Cornish hurling<\/a>, there are matches played on Shrove Tuesday and the second Saturday following, in St Columb Major. It\u2019s an annual event in St Ives taking place on the Feast Monday each February (the feast is on Sunday nearest to February 3rd).<\/p>\n

The game starts at 10:30 am when the ball is thrown from the wall of the Parish Church by the Mayor to the crowd below on the beach. Once upon a time, this game was played by the men of the town but nowadays it\u2019s played by the children.<\/p>\n

International Mining Games<\/h3>\n

The Camborne School of Mining<\/a> hosts the International Mining Games at the King Edward Mine in Camborne which normally happens around March. Student teams from all over the world (including USA, Brazil, Australia and Europe) compete in seven gruelling events:<\/p>\n