Welcome to TonySPN, a semi-regular series in which Content Creator and Resident Sports Aficionado Tony takes you through obscurities and amusing oddities in the world of sports. Don’t worry, “No More Sports Questions!” folks, we’ll make this fun.

It’s been a month since the end of the World Series, and you might be wondering: Where are the daytime sports? From April until the fall, baseball provides a steady stream of sporting events that you can throw on your TV while working or anything else you might be doing during the day. It’s the perfect sport to have on while doing something else. You can pay attention to it, or not, as the situation demands, and even if you don’t watch it, it’s premium background noise.

For many, the World Cup stepped up and is scratching that itch, but what if you want to try something a bit different? You might want to check out kabaddi, a sport that originated in India. Given that India’s time zone is 11.5 hours ahead of Central Time, it’s a great solution to anyone looking for a sport to watch in the late morning.

So what is kabaddi? It can be best described to Americans as a combination of tag and Red Rover. You can either read or watch a detailed description of the rules, but the basis of the game is simple. A team of seven defenders line up on one side of a court, while one raider enters enemy territory.

Once the raider is there, their job is to touch as many opponents as possible, and return to the center line. They get a point for everyone they touch, and can touch them by just about any means necessary. You tag them with your fingers? It counts. You kick them or tap them with your toes? It counts.

But you’ve got to run back to the center of the court, and remember: It’s one against seven, and they will try to stop you from returning. Seven players try to tackle the raider if they touch someone, and if they are successful, their team earns a point. Successfully touched defenders will be out, while a successful raid can revive out defenders, bringing them back into the game.

As the number of defenders decreases, the stakes are raised for both the raider and defenders. If the raider gets every defender out, called an “All Out,” they are awarded an extra two points. But if the raider gets tackled when three or fewer defenders are on the court, that’s called a “Super Tackle,” and the defending team gets awarded two points instead of one.

The kabaddi that will be most accessible (that is, on a four-letter streaming service) in the United States is the Pro Kabaddi League, which changes a rule that has been central to the game for a long time. How long? If this rule goes back to its purported origins in Tamil Nadu 4,000 years ago, then it’s an ancient, ancient rule. As in “there are accounts of the Buddha playing kabaddi” ancient.

The twist to a traditional kabaddi raid is this: You have to do all this while holding your breath. If you breathe, your raid is over. This might seem hard to enforce on the surface – how does a referee determine a player isn’t breathing? But there’s actually a simple solution, and it’s the name of the game. By having players chant “kabaddi” repeatedly throughout their raid, that exists as proof to officials that there is a continuous exhalation.

Chanting “kabaddi” isn’t the only way to do this. In Dilip D’Souza’s 2015 article about this rule change for the PKL, he notes a story about an uncle who grew up playing rules where you told a short story to prove you were holding your breath in enemy territory. I would love to experience this, as adding creative fiction to a sport sounds like a promising experience.

Instead, the raids in the PKL are limited to 30 seconds, which trades off the added intrigue of breath-holding for a guarantee of at least 80 raids throughout the 40-minute matches. I very desperately wanted to know the longest recorded breathless raid in a kabaddi game, and sadly came up short.

Kabaddi is growing fast, though, with nearly half a billion (435 million, specifically) people tuning into it in 2014. Only cricket drew more viewers. It’s also starting to gain some international traction, as well. It’s been a feature of the Asian Games since 1990, but recently it’s gotten some international competition in Europe. Who’s the dominant force in European kabaddi? If you guessed Poland, great job, as they’ve taken two of the three titles in the European Kabaddi Championship’s history. Take that, Holland and Cyprus!

So if you’re looking for a sport to put on to get you through your mornings, check out kabaddi! It’s an entertaining, strategic sport unlike any you’ve ever seen before.