Headis

Headis is a mix of table tennis and the heading of association football.

[1][2] Headis (head + the ending of tennis) was invented in 2006 by the at that time sport student René Wegner.

The Universität des Saarlandes was the first institution with regular Headis training.

FC Kaiserslautern[7] and the SV Darmstadt 98[8] offer regular training.

[13] Several TV appearances and viral videos online increased the popularity within the last years.

[16] By 2016, there were international tournaments, World and European Championships[17][18] and an estimated number of players of 100,000.

[19] Starting at Universität des Saarlandes the sport spread all over Germany.

They instead choose joke names like "Headi Potter" or "Rolli der Schlächter".

In 2015, four countries competed: Germany, Czech Republic, Switzerland and Belgium.