Off to the mall for dodgeball

A player takes a high leap to dodge a ball thrown by the opposing team during the dodgeball tournament.

ALTHOUGH dodgeball has been played in Malaysia as a competitive sport for nearly a decade, the growth of the sport remains slow as it is unknown to most people.

Dodgeball enthusiast Lim Thiam Meng, 22, believes that because newcomers to the sport can only learn to play it through existing dodgeball clubs, it has become an obstacle to the growth of competitive dodgeball.