The Pillow Fight League which featured stars like Eiffel Power, ChamPAIN, Polly Esther, Olivia Neutron Bomb, Dinah Mite and Bobbi Pinn ran for five years with over 65 live events. The company based in Toronto recently put itself up for sale.
If you think fighting with a pillow is easy and pain free think again. Athletes often ends up with cuts, scrapes and bruises and in some cases concussions, black eyes and loose tooth.
Some of the rules (from wiki):
1. Women Fighters Only. No Exceptions.
2. Fights have a five minute time limit and are won via pinfall, surrender, or referee stoppage. If a fight ends at the time limit with no winner, a winner is declared by a three-judge committee.
3. Punching, leg drops, clotheslines, submission holds, and other moves are allowed as long as a pillow is used to execute the attack.
4. Preventing an opponents' pillow strike by holding her pillow results in a warning from the referee. Judges may choose to include these warnings as part of their judging criteria if a fight goes the distance.
5. No eye-gouging, biting, scratching, hair pulling, or low blows.
6. No rude, lewd, or suggestive behavior.
7. Loading a pillow with a foreign object such as a brick is strictly forbidden.
Besides Toronto, events have been held in Montreal and New York (darn I missed it!) I often pillow fight with my daughter and wife and think to myself after a few minutes. Darn this is exhausting!
Talk the TALK
1) Are you ready to get smack down with a Pillow with me???
2) When was the last time you got in a pillow fight?
Comments (48)
pillow fighting is a pretty dangerous sport.
J. Cabrera: why do you think they made it? Same reason as lingerie football so men can sit around and gawk. disgusting. This used to be a fun and innocent game
funny sport
Ah ah ah I love this*
ahahhaahh awesome, pillow fights , having friends over and or a slumber party.... so cool
this is fantastic
that looks like fun!!
I don't remember the last time I got hit with a pillow but let me hit you first and MAYBE you can hit me back with one LOL
love itt
Is this a joke?
awesome.
Haaaaaaa!
havent had a pillow fight in ages LOL its fun though
Interesting, I never knew pillow fighting was a blood sport. If I ever have kids, I am going to have to keep them away from that.
MH Chow: ha ha no tag team with me?
Amy Chen: ha ha i do that with my daughter too
They can fight with me. Two on one.
I play with my daughters all the time. It can be quite a work out.
Steph Yen: You have to broaden your thinking then. lol j/k
Eliza Grace: People will turn anything into a sport.
Wendy Smiles: I challenge you! LOL
Andrea Lam: I play it all the time!
Rosalie ♥: LOL no kidding!
something i would never imagine to be a sport.
This is a fun activity why turn it into a sport?
Sparkle Rain: i think you can find one in Youtube.
Marissa Parks: lol and I thought you were a sweetie
jello birdie: Um sure it is.
Sarah ♔♡ H: ooh them fighting words. lol j/k
Whitney Dunaway: Lol on?
A A: ha ha most things can be sports amazingly.
crispy ☮: what the duck. As long as I can use a bowling ball.
LOL really dang you definitely can get injured with anything. This definitely is a sport I can play haha :P!
looks like a fun sport
Marilyn M.: ha ha ha yes it is. =)
J. Cabrera: Hah me too. =)
Wow, it's a sport! And I always got in trouble for it when I was younger. lol
I would love to see a video of a match to see how exactly they compete.
BOOOM That's the sound of me just hitting you at 100 mph. Hah!
THIS IS UNREAL!!!
I would take crispy on, but I get the first hit. Kidding.
Agreed. ! ;p
mylittlecasey *: lol. Only the way the PFL plays as well as CRISPY. She's hardcore.
Something I wouldn't have imagined. The things people come up with!
I'll play with you, but I want to use a brick though.
pillow fighting is fun but a SPORT? lol I don't know about that!
I would love to play with those girls.
Bricks?? Eye gouging? Geez! It seems like such an innocent sport/activity because it's something we used to play as kids. I guess the times have changed! :/