Welcome to USA kabaddi Association

USA Kabaddi Association is a member of The World Kabaddi and Kabaddi Pan American Associations. Our mission is to govern, regulate, develop and promote all forms of kabaddi at all levels in the United States of America. Further, USA Kabaddi Association shall seek to enable USA kabaddi players to achieve sustained competitive excellence and successfully compete in local, national and international competition.

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Through a diverse Board of Directors that has representation from across the USA diaspora, USA Kabaddi Association will lead the sport to new heights by creating and administering value added programs to grow and develop the sport.

The officers and members of the USA Kabaddi Association will have their names indelibly etched into the record books for the formation and sustainability of the USA Kabaddi Association.

About Kabaddi

Kabaddi is a contact team sport. Played between two teams of seven players, the objective of the game is for a single player on offence, referred to as a “raider”, to run into the opposing team’s half of a court, tag out as many of their defenders as possible, and return to their own half of the court, all without being tackled by the defenders, and in a single breath. Points are scored for each player tagged by the raider, while the opposing team earns a point for stopping the raider. Players are taken out of the game if they are tagged or tackled, but are brought back in for each point scored by their team from a tag or tackle.

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Although unverified, theories from various sources state that kabaddi originated from the vedic period of ancient India. The game was said to have been popular among the Yadava people; an abhang by Tukaram stated that the god Krishna played the game in his youth, while the Maharashtra contains an account of Arjuna being able to sneak into hostile areas also take out enemies unscathed—a passage said to parallel the gameplay of kabaddi. There are also accounts of Gautam Buddha having played the game recreationaly.

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Despite these conflicting claims, modern kabaddi is a synthesis of the game played in various forms under different names in the Indian continent. India has been first credited with having helped to popularise kabaddi as a competitive sport, with the first organized competitions occurring in the 1920s, their introduction to the programme of the Indian Olympics Game in 1938, the establishment of the All-India Kabaddi Federation in 1950, and it being played as a demonstration sport at the inaugural 1951 Asian games in New Delhi. These developments helped to formalize the sport, which had traditionally been played in villages, for legitimate international competition.After being demonstrated again at the 1982 Asian Games in Delhi, Kabaddi was added to the Asian Games’ programme beginning in 1990.

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