{"id":174,"date":"2025-06-03T03:21:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T18:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/s4q7jq2n.top\/index.php\/2025\/06\/03\/ancient-myanmar-ball-game-battles-for-survival-in-troubled-nation\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T03:21:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T18:21:28","slug":"ancient-myanmar-ball-game-battles-for-survival-in-troubled-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/03\/ancient-myanmar-ball-game-battles-for-survival-in-troubled-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Myanmar ball game battles for survival in troubled nation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Once you get into playing the game you forget everything,” says 74-year-old Win Tint.<\/p>\n

“You concentrate only on your touch and you concentrate only on your style.”<\/p>\n

Chinlone is Myanmar’s national game and dates back centuries. Branded a blend of sport and art, it is often played to music and is typically practised differently by men and women.<\/p>\n

Male teams in skimpy shorts stand in a circle using stylised strokes of their feet, knees and heads to pass the ball in a game of “keepy-uppy”, with a scoring system impenetrable to outsiders.<\/p>\n

Women play solo like circus performers — kicking the ball tens of thousands of times per session while walking tightropes, twirling umbrellas and perching on chairs balanced atop beer bottles.<\/p>\n

Teen prodigy Phyu Sin Phyo hones her skills at the court in Yangon, toe-bouncing a burning ball while spinning a hula-hoop — also on fire.<\/p>\n

“I play even when I am sick,” says the 16-year-old. “It is important to be patient to become a good chinlone player.”<\/p>\n

But play has plunged in recent years, with the Covid-19 pandemic followed by the 2021 military coup and subsequent civil war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yangon (AFP) \u2013 <\/span> Mastering control of the rising and falling rattan chinlone ball teaches patience, says a veteran of the traditional Myanmar sport — a quality dearly needed in the long-suffering nation. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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