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More Weird Sports

by Sol Neelman

Photographer Sol Neelman

Edited by Mike Davis and Chuck Squatriglia

Text by Cousin Rob Hart and Brandy Rettig

Published by: Kehrer Verlag

Imprint: Kehrer Verlag

112 Pages, 11.80 x 9.45 in, color illustrations

Hardcover
9783969001134
Published: April 2023

$40.00

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Weird, weirder, weirdest. New works from the sports universe of Sol Neelman

In this third volume of his series Weird Sports, Sol Neelman revisits the joy and community surrounding people’s love of nontraditional sports. They include surreal competitions like: Barbie Jeep racing, log riding, redneck shing, medieval rugby, cheese rolling, lightsaber fencing, mochi lifting, and live monster wrestling. Many of these events are more performance art than competitive sport, a celebration where a participation trophy is the ultimate medal of excellence. All Weird Sports aim to achieve the same goal: bring together like-minded, creative, and active humans, often in costume and usually with cheap beer in hand.

As it so happens, this photo collection wraps up right at the very start of the pandemic, creating an unintentional time capsule of life and laughter before the world came to a halt.

Sol Neelman (b.1970) is surely one of the most unusual sports photographers in America: the failed athlete turned sports photographer has a passion for offbeat sports people play in their spare time, which he subsumes them under the blanket label "Weird Sports." After a decade as a newspaper staff photographer, he went freelance, which has given him the freedom to pursue his lifelong photo project on sports culture around the world.

Neelman lives in his hometown of Portland, Oregon.

Chuck Squatriglia is WIRED's story editor. He coordinates daily news coverage and oversees homepage promotion for WIRED.com.

Brandy Rettig aka Rettig to Rumble is a roller derby player.Her resume includes being on the 2007 WFTDA western regional championship team (with Rat City), finishing 2nd at the WFTDA national championships (2007 with Rat City and again in 2010 with the Oly Rollers) and captaining her Grave Danger team to the 2007 Rat City Rollergirls league championship.

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