We’ll go from full use of body and brain in perfect harmony to an extremely anatomically isolated physical face-off. Specifically, the sport of toe wrestling. Now, for this article, I did attempt to only choose events that have a real, quantifiable following. Otherwise I could go outside and try to swallow an egg, shell and all, and call it my own “weird new sport.” You might think toe-wrestling is another such discipline, participated in basically once or twice for the purpose of a Ripley’s Believe It or Not photographer.
Toe wrestling has far outperformed what was probably expected of it when it was invented by (of course) some drunk friends at a pub, and it’s had its own annual championship since 1976. As to the actual practice, think somewhere between arm and thumb wrestling and then send it south. Competitors lock big toes and attempt to force the other foot-fighter’s tootsie down a la arm wrestling.