American Reacts to Scottish Highland Games

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American Reacts to Scottish Highland Games
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@LB1973 3 жыл бұрын

To give you an idea of how freakishly strong these lads are back when I was gardening during my Uni holidays (back when I was a rugby player and actually fairly strong myself) One of the highland games lads drove a tipper wagon and we were doing some clearance work, My workie mates and I got what was basically a fair sized tree and we dragged, pulled and heaved the thing to the side of the tipper, we managed to get it to shoulder height, the three of us were buckling under the thing, sweat pouring, knees trembling with the weight. This one hand comes down from the bed of the tipper grabs a branch and deadlifts the tree off our aching shoulders and pops it into the back of the truck like it was a matchstick, never forgotten that.

@vereybowring 3 жыл бұрын

I am a highlander so used to see multiple local games every year, you know the event is over when drunk pipers start doing pub crawls while playing. The hammer event is something to watch - from quite far away as there have been incidents over the years. The solid straight handle is harder to control than the hammer you see in normal track and field. Not shown in this video is also tug of war which can be quite brutal as well. Also you say you love the sound of the pipes, then I suggest you look for The Red Hot Chilli Pipers. . .

@lancastrian123 3 жыл бұрын

The Red Hot Chilli Pipers often go to the USA, so you should see them live, they are brilliant.

@mattpayne3349 3 жыл бұрын

I've tried quickly to do an internet search but can't find anything but I do remember that maybe forty years ago at the annual Highlands Games at Queens Park, Geelong, Victoria, Australia an official or he may have been a spectator was killed by a stray hammer.

@jimmyboynottknown7713 3 жыл бұрын

@@mattpayne3349 now he's properly down under .

@pamt7740 3 жыл бұрын

Never mess with the Scots. Great guys!!

@foundationofBritain 3 жыл бұрын

Edward I, Longshanks & Hammer Of The Scots ! Disagrees ! Respect to The Scots from an Englishman.

@pamt7740 3 жыл бұрын

@@foundationofBritain Respect to the Scots from an Englishwoman!!

@garymcatear822 3 жыл бұрын

@@foundationofBritain Longshanks son would not disagree.

@jimbob-tz4zb 3 жыл бұрын

@@foundationofBritain Ask Henry De BoHun

@jimmyboynottknown7713 3 жыл бұрын

@@foundationofBritain the earlier name for him until the people changed and the tables turned

@michaelnolan6951 3 жыл бұрын

I used to have photo of my (English) dad tossing the caber as a young man. He was literally the toughest and strongest man I knew as a kid but I'm told he came dead last in the competition. He always said "Jocks are tough."

@TheEclecticBeard 3 жыл бұрын

Those things are between 90 and 150 pounds. That's a heavy awkward ass thing to be tossing. Kudo's to your dad for tossing it regardless of how far.

@peterbrown1012 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheEclecticBeard the caber has to land upright and fall away from you.

@Retrospective. 3 жыл бұрын

What a charming story, God bless your old man, thanks for sharin' :)

@douglastodd1947 3 жыл бұрын

@@peterbrown1012 landiing and it falling back towards you is not recommended as it can result in a wee dwarf having to be dug out of peaty ground with bump on head.

@gmf121266 3 жыл бұрын

I went to the highland games at Dunoon a few years back. There was a sign some joker had put up. It read, "Contestants should always prevail to let go of the hammer as being dug out of the ground scores no points and results in unnecessary delays."

@tonytotten408 3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂👍

@matthewtandy2698 3 жыл бұрын

This is what happens when a country is relaxed on health and safety legislation, large heavy objects get thrown around as sport. Gotta love Scotland, don't ever change.

@AhsokaTanoTheWhite Жыл бұрын

Aye, it's survival of the fittest. Health and Safety is for the English.

@andyquin5386 3 жыл бұрын

After the battle of Culloden the Highland clans were banned from carrying or owning weapons, so the Highland games were invented as a way for the Highlanders to pit their strength and skill against each other.

@TheEclecticBeard 3 жыл бұрын

After watching this, I see they might be a bit dangerous with weapons since this is what's done without them.

@YOGI-kb9tg 3 жыл бұрын

it shows where the scotts get the barbarian trope from in alot of historian films and in fantasy

@andrewshaw1571 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheEclecticBeard The highland charge with targe and claymore was of particular concern to the british forces (which also included lowland scots). They instituted a bayonet drill to stab at the opponent to the immediate left of the one facing them to blunt the charge and avoid a drawn out melee. Same drill but reversed direction that the romans used to do against their enemies.

@davidhoward2487 3 жыл бұрын

@@andrewshaw1571 Very interesting..Thanks for the info...

@Alan_Mac 3 жыл бұрын

Nonsense. Highlands Games as an event were a late 19th C construct.

@joschlunde 3 жыл бұрын

*Olympics:* Throw this as hard as you can _What am I throwing?_ A stick _Ok_ *Highland Games:* Throw this as hard as you can. And make it do a full flip. Oh, and make sure it lands perfectly straight. _errm, ok. What am I throwing?_ A tree _What?_

@richieb7692 3 жыл бұрын

Off season they work installing telegraph poles. Saves time and money, as they don't need machinery, the just pick them up, and chuck them into position.

@bremCZ 3 жыл бұрын

To Scots it's a stick.

@nikkiscotland8860 3 жыл бұрын

@@bremCZ aye a stick can't beat the Highland games

@bobbybillionXRP 3 жыл бұрын

Bagpipes give me to goosebumps, good fighting music. Love em

@kimberleyjanemcnab5343 3 жыл бұрын

Don’t know where you are from Dominic, but I can tell you that you are closer to the truth than you think. The “pipes” as they are referred to in Scotland, are actually classified as a weapon. This was because they were used to gather the clans before battle and after the Jacobite uprisings the English band all weapons in Scotland. In order to include the pipes in this ban they were reclassified from instrument to weapon. Another fact, my clan, McNab, were the pipers for the ancient kings of Scotland.

@jimmyboynottknown7713 3 жыл бұрын

@@kimberleyjanemcnab5343 aye i mind in school they said the english tried to ban our pipes .

@seedhillbruisermusic7939 3 жыл бұрын

that was the Queen handing out the trophy at the end. She loves the Highland Games.

@matthewmeakins6474 3 жыл бұрын

I did wonder if he recognised the Queen and Prince

@TheEclecticBeard 3 жыл бұрын

I knew that was the Queen. I think it's pretty cool she's the one that was handing out the prize.

@matthewmeakins6474 3 жыл бұрын

Love your vids bro

@davidhoward2487 3 жыл бұрын

@@SimSim-zf9if You think?...No, you obviously don't..It's not a duty it's whilst they're up in Scotland, they aren't on duty then...

@garymcatear822 3 жыл бұрын

@@SimSim-zf9if The Queen does love the highland games, it is the highlight of her year and has been attending since before her own coronation.

@andystockall3418 3 жыл бұрын

As a Brit with a Scottish mother and English father I love your insights brother. Honest and down to earth with no pretentions. Keep the reactions coming

@jamestitterton1627 3 жыл бұрын

That brand is a single malt whiskey. Scotch is a blended whisky. The malts are a more smoother and rounded flavour. Though the Isles malts have a high peaty taste.

@Insperato62 3 жыл бұрын

Your comments about the Hammer thrower embedding his feet into the ground and then turning and the possibility of damaging his back - Scotland gave Golf to the world, and I've never met a Golfer that didn't have a bad back!

@DylanS99 3 жыл бұрын

SCOTLAND 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@stuarty811 3 жыл бұрын

Don’t want to be the grammar police here but Scots has one T in it,and we don’t like getting called “ scotch” that’s the drink 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@maconescotland8996 3 жыл бұрын

There's no 'e' in whisky either !!!

@paddythomas7416 3 жыл бұрын

I don’t want to be the vocabulary police but that’s not a grammatical error, just a misspelling. And it’s either whisky(Scottish and Japanese) or whiskey (Irish and American)

@BRIANJAMESGIBB 3 жыл бұрын

Agreed I am a Scot There is no 'ish' about it Furthermore, to be germaine and quite frank- for which we have certain renown, 'scotch' is NOT A N O U N . . . but if y'are askin eh'll hae a Bunnahabhain :)

@maconescotland8996 3 жыл бұрын

@@paddythomas7416 The Yanks have problems spelling (and pronouncing) some parts of the English language, maybe that explains whiskey ? Masataka Taketsuru, the "father figure" of Japanese whisky did his professional training in Scotland, grain and malt distilling, and married a Scots girl - that explains why it's whisky over there.

@hendryde-lux4287 3 жыл бұрын

Bit of an interesting fact here (maybe), supposedly the reason Americans use the word Scotch still to describe us is because when America was discovered by the Europeans the Scots were called the Scotch at the time, the term actually being used by the Scottish themselves, this evolved to become the Scottish or the Scots but hung on in USA

@CycolacFan 3 жыл бұрын

Always impressed by the accuracy of their direction when throwing, must be brave standing out in the field knowing there’s 50lb of metal flying toward you...

@lextex3280 3 жыл бұрын

Been to the Highland games a couple of times.. Good to watch..

@daveturner6006 3 жыл бұрын

I'm English and proud of it, but, I love the pipes too. A good piper can carry you that last fifty yards right into the enemy's trench line!

@davidhoward2487 3 жыл бұрын

Do you mean Mad Jack? Marvellous eccentric man!

@tersse 3 жыл бұрын

they use tree sap to help the hammer stay in their hands till they want to let go.

@helenbailey8419 3 жыл бұрын

Very interesting,wondered if it was wax.Thank-you

@chrism8325 3 жыл бұрын

The Scotish Hammer throw... Why Roman legions never took scotland lol

@Derry_Aire 3 жыл бұрын

The Roman Legions never took Scotland because us Northumbrians stopped them getting there!

@garymcatear822 3 жыл бұрын

@@Derry_Aire Well that's bullshit for a start, the Romans trekked 3 times into Scotland over a 300 year time period and 3 times they exited Scotland with their tails between their legs.

@Derry_Aire 3 жыл бұрын

@@garymcatear822 Well you're just daft, as you're making my point for me. How did they only make it to Scotland 3 times in 300 years I wonder? They only made it to Scotland 3 times in 300 years because the Northumbrians kept kicking their ass before they ever got to Scotland.

@Artur-hg1qg 3 жыл бұрын

@@Derry_Aire Well because once they got they’re the toughest legion in Britain was wipe from the face of the Earth and not only that how could of the Romans built Hadrian’s wall if they did not occupy the area dumbass or that would’ve meant we would not had a Hadrian’s wall as there would be attacks and would just not be worth building it for the deaths if Northumbria was not occupied.

@tomlucas4890 3 жыл бұрын

@@Artur-hg1qg Funny not a mention of Antonines wall which runs thru Central Scotland. hundreds of miles north of Hadrian's.

@charlesvt2010 3 жыл бұрын

have been at the games as a teenager (hundred years ago ) three times nothing but fond memories

@strangelyjamesly4078 3 жыл бұрын

Brute strength is also a technique. Modern day sensibilities mean that during competition undergarments must be worn with the kilt. Everyone else is swinging in the breeze.

@MarkOfArgyll 3 жыл бұрын

My home town, Dunoon used to hold the World Highland Games championships. Pipe bands from all around the world, highland dancers from around the globe too. It really was something to see with tens of thousands of visitors coming to our wee town, plus we had the US Naval base just two miles away, so you can imagine the festival vibe that was going on!

@russcattell955i 3 жыл бұрын

You are right Mark, more than a sports meeting. A social event, friends old & new have a great day out.

@mikefleming8945 3 жыл бұрын

This starts off at the Lonach Gathering in Strathdon, where we see the highlanders going round the arena, having been on the go since early morning marching around the locality. My big brother is one of the highlanders carrying a pike. Guessing it's the first March just after lunch, they all look sober. Robbie Shepherd was commentator there and also at Braemer, where the Queen is presenting the trophy to the winner, Bruce Aitken who is from Auchenblae. Glenfiddich sponsor the heavy events championships and of course Robbie pronounces it correctly.... He's probably had a few on the day.

@murraymarshall5865 3 жыл бұрын

One traditional part of the games that wasn’t included was the beer tent, while it is called the beer tent there are usually a few drams of whisky downed there too. 🥃🍺

@erikaitsumi3852 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve been almost every year to the Dunoon Highland Game. Great watching them march through the town. Bagpipes drown out any other noise

@MrNigelTBean 2 жыл бұрын

One of the finest spectacles of military dignity, sportsmanship, and rivalry in the World.

@Cobalt-Jester 3 жыл бұрын

I will just add to my previous comment. If you ever get chance to go anywhere in Europe. Pack a warm coat and a woolly hat and visit Scotland. It's one of the most beautiful scenic places I've ever been been to. When I used to be a delivery driver for a company and heard they were opening 5 shops in Scotland I lobbied so hard for me to be the delivery driver. Just so I could get paid to go up there every week and look at it. lol... It really is some of the best looking scenery. Don't get me wrong. I'm not scottish, I have no Scottish ancestors (well maybe now I do as our family is Irish, and some could've gone up there haha). Go visit the distilleries It really is something that needs to be scene at least once. ;)

@ruadhagainagaidheal9398 3 жыл бұрын

5:55 If that hits you on the head you’re .... dead...”. Nope , we’re Celts buddy, you can’t hurt our heads. True story, When I was 25, I was in a motor vehicle accident and I was slammed on my head into the bulkhead of a VW mini bus at over 80 mph. The impact broke my neck in two places and three more spinal compression fractures further down my back. My head, the point of impact, was undamaged. Like I said , I’m a Celt. Nearly 50 years on and I still have back trouble, but I’ve made a pretty good recovery considering the injuries.

@nuttz22 3 жыл бұрын

Lmao canny hurt oor heids, yaaas!

@Backs4more 3 жыл бұрын

Some well kent faces there, some of them still competing now. That was a mix of a few games, from the Lonach Gathering to the Aboyne games and also the Braemar Gathering with the Queen.

@markc7955 3 жыл бұрын

Scottish person reacts to American reacting to Highland games. 😁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 This is just everyday here. Lol

@charlestaylor3027 3 жыл бұрын

Robin Williams visited Billy Connolly at the Lonach Highland Games and ran the 4 mile hill race twice

@leedave9314 3 жыл бұрын

Lonach gathering is great! As a kid billy Connelly would drive through my town of Inverurie on his trike every few days in summer and stop by and yap with the locals, and going to the Banchory show and seeing the market of cattle and funfair rides and a lot of loud music and drink of course! I miss it there really isn’t a culture like Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@joshpullman1690 3 жыл бұрын

I reckon I might have been there that year, I went when I was about 10, 11 and 12, my grandad lived on a lochside not far removed.

@thrand6760 3 жыл бұрын

in case you didnt know, the Queen of United Kingdom, Queen Elizabeth II gave the trophy and the man he was talking to is the Queens Husband Prince Phillip the Duke of Edinbrough Thats how big these game are.

@stuie46 3 жыл бұрын

Residing at Balmoral a lot helps too.

@KF-cx8bm 3 жыл бұрын

love your content , its different and interesting than everyone elses

@galoglaich3281 3 жыл бұрын

That announcer was actually speaking standard english not scots dialect/ language or gaelic

@JohnBS75 3 жыл бұрын

Loving your evolution in the last 3 months. “I’ve never had scotch” to “this lagavulin single malt is amazing”

@markthomas2577 3 жыл бұрын

They got The Queen to hand out the prizes!

@ASH.......................1976 3 жыл бұрын

Yeh,I wasn't expecting that either !

@Westcountrynordic 3 жыл бұрын

@@ASH.......................1976Its the Highland games that take part near her Scottish holiday home and she is the Patron. Queen Victoria 1st attended the 1848 event and from then until 2020 the reigning monarch has always attended

@ASH.......................1976 3 жыл бұрын

@@Westcountrynordic thanks fella,I would never have know that 👍

@stucutt2828 3 жыл бұрын

@@Westcountrynordic Never knew that... Thanks for the enlightenment

@richieb7692 3 жыл бұрын

Queen Elisabeth II Loves going to the Highland Games, and has often said that it is the highlight of her year. ( maybe because she is there to relax and enjoy the games, then hand out the prizes at the end, I'm just guessing that though)

@nikithomson7782 3 жыл бұрын

There's nothing more stirring to a Scot than the pipe and drums 💙

@stewartmackay 3 жыл бұрын

I'm from the northern highlands of Scotland but in the 1990's I lived in the US for 5 years. I was shocked to see that the biggest highland games in the world (at the time) was the Grandfather Mountain highland games in Washington State. There were over 300,000 people there over a single weekend. I did well being an 'actual' Scotsman & had a lot of drinks bought for me. They are really proud of their Scottish heritage and connections, I was humbled by the whole experience. Nowadays there are very few true games left, it used to be local people (which was the whole point) and now it's almost all athletes and semi-professionals. Probably Strathconon Games is one of the last of the originals.

@ASH.......................1976 3 жыл бұрын

Glenfiddich is the name of a whisky ,the event must be sponsored by them 👍

@michaels2007 3 жыл бұрын

Best channel Edit: it’s kind of ironic his second channel has more subs than his main one

@TheEclecticBeard 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@Jamal_Tyrone 3 жыл бұрын

what is the other channel???

@Slikx666 3 жыл бұрын

I didn't see any of my family there, but trying to make out a tartan from a distance isn't easy.

@mrducky2878 3 жыл бұрын

im faster than the flash when he uploads I stop everything to watch the vid :D

@michaels2007 3 жыл бұрын

Same 😂

@TheEclecticBeard 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for that. Very much appreciated.

@davedavidson2833 3 жыл бұрын

Those activities like tossing the caber and hammer throwing etc go back centuries and was all about one's prowess. That was in the days when men were men and the sheep were frightened lol.

@ryank1273 3 жыл бұрын

They used to have chairs in churches, and whenever Scots got angry, they'd throw the chairs. So they decided to use pews instead, thinking that they wouldn't be able to throw them. This is the origin of caber tossing! Sidenote: this was something I read online and is more of a joke, and I don't actually know the real origin of caber tossing.

@stewart63 3 жыл бұрын

Highland games are great fun to watch and a nice day out, especially the smaller ones at town shows. Something similar in Scotland to look up is the Dinnie Stones, current record is held by US strongman Brian Shaw I believe

@johnw6389 Жыл бұрын

7:31 It's ok... the queen didn't know what he said either... 😂😂

@gogglescot4226 3 жыл бұрын

Love the pipes and drums too, check out Tom Walker and the Red Hot Chilli Pipers, great tune 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸

@stevo728822 3 жыл бұрын

0:56 The long spears they are carrying are historical medieval Scottish weapons. They were used to form a "Schiltron" infantry formation, a spear formation to defend against attacks by English cavalry. Most successful at the Batlle Of Stirling Bridge in 1297.

@iantrott9152 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it :)

@arthurfnshelby4335 3 жыл бұрын

Friend of mine lives in Braemar Scotland, the Queen attends these games. Him and a few friends went out for a few drinks the night before the games, after the pub shut one said I’ll take short cut over the field where the games were held. He jumped up on a wall only to find a laser beam hitting his chest and a voice shouting ‘ get off the wall or the beam becomes a bullet. He sobered up pretty quickly, it was the Queens protection force.

@Moanymarc 3 жыл бұрын

Haha I'm from Scotland and couldn't understand the guy announcing the winner 😂😂

@Kodiak1234 3 жыл бұрын

I’m Australian and I could understand it a bit as my parents and other relatives are Scottish 🤣

@danielferguson8304 3 жыл бұрын

Must be a dirty weeegeee

@John-kr7iz 3 жыл бұрын

love how glenfiddich is sponsoring the games

@johnbyington3458 Жыл бұрын

The square ones are a different weight. Stickem increase their grip. The Caber (pole toss) simulated infantry running to a with a breaching ladder.

@jjcustard6378 3 жыл бұрын

Can hardly hear you talk, especially when the music is playing in the background

@davidhoward2487 3 жыл бұрын

I had to put subtitles on!

@devonsteve2347 3 жыл бұрын

The resin used on their hands when throwing the hammer is to stop it slipping out of their hands when ‘winding up’, used to use a similar resin for tug-o-war, so you could keep rip of rope.

@stuarty811 3 жыл бұрын

When I worked in a sawmill my uncle used to ask me to get him the sap from the cut trees for him when he did the games

@tSp289 3 жыл бұрын

With the hammer throw, in Wales there was a semi-formal law called tŷ un nos (one night house) for a while to prevent squatting, where if you could put a house up in one night on certain areas of public land and have a fire burning in the morning, you could claim the land around it for free, as far as you could throw a hammer or axe from each corner of the house. It was supposed to show if you were fit enough to throw a hammer far you could probably deal with farming that much land, and helped to house the people made homeless by rents and land enclosures. It derived from much older local laws, and makes me wonder if there was a similar tradition in Scotland, and maybe in England before the 'English' came in from Germany, France and Scandinavia.

@theotherside8258 Жыл бұрын

I remember doing a lot of these at school for a while. The footwork is the main work.

@zozobear3893 3 жыл бұрын

While growing up in the highlands I use to help with setting up the highland games park

@BRIANJAMESGIBB 3 жыл бұрын

All very useful in a highland charge. The pikes draped with wet tartan plaid (blanket) to catch the ball shot in use and then various objects on the run of the route chucked out from the charging mass (battlefield preparation ;) while musketry shoots down the line of advance aiming for command and any identified competent elements culminating in a mass of pistol fire at close range with various boulders and a couple of cabers tossed to cross any ditches/remaining standing opponents line. With the icing on the cake chucking heavy shit into upstairs windows from against the wall of the building . See 'Battle of Killiecrankie' :)

@mrducky2878 3 жыл бұрын

you should react to the opening of the 2012 Olympics its SICK

@Pete_R 3 жыл бұрын

The Queen and James bond haha

@mrducky2878 3 жыл бұрын

@@Pete_R hahHahHah:)

@youneverseeanoldmaneatinga7416 3 жыл бұрын

Oooh good suggestion man 👏🏻

@davidhoward2487 3 жыл бұрын

Omg! The industrial beginning, is the most spectacular of any I've ever seen!

@mrducky2878 3 жыл бұрын

@@davidhoward2487 he should live stream it bc its long!

@TheHarrip 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine the Queen giving you a trophy 🏆 Also Prince Phillip talking nonsense to the guy was hilarious.. he never fails to ask stupid questions 😂

@bobdoyle8929 3 жыл бұрын

King John forbade the Scots to have any arms or to train for war in an attempt to subjugate the Highlanders, so the canny Scots turned throwing stones and boulders about. They needed hammers for building, driving fence posts in and of course the blacksmiths need hammers, these were given longer handles. For building up leg and upper body strength, The Highlanders would use these "games" to keep them battle ready. Imagine what strength you need to throw a tree-trunk, 24ft end over end? If you have ever watched Mel Gibson in Braveheart? you will get a feeling of the relationship between the English and Scots

@Sagalands 3 жыл бұрын

Braveheart has nothing to do with it!

@nuttz22 3 жыл бұрын

Scottish vs english is mostly banter tbh But the thought of equality and not dancing to the pipers tune. Braveheart was terrible movie, not even close!

@ward1ism 3 жыл бұрын

@@nuttz22 I wouldn't say terrible, it's still enjoyable to watch. It's just not historically accurate.

@angussoutter7824 3 жыл бұрын

The spikes on the shoes stop you getting thrown when you throw the hammer, the stuff on their hands is resin from fir trees

@angussoutter7824 3 жыл бұрын

Aye the Breamar highland games is quite the same as the rest of the highland games 😊

@KeithWilliamMacHendry 3 жыл бұрын

Big man, try a single malt Scotch whisky rather than a low end blend like Cutty Sark, it's rough as a badgers erse. I recommend the Singleton Tailfire, a Speyside single malt from the town of Keith. Add a splash of water which opens up the dram, absolutely marvellous.

@smcp5044 3 жыл бұрын

Agreed, Cutty Sark is for cleaning shite off yer shoes.

@mauricestevenson5740 3 жыл бұрын

No one with a beard like that could not like the bagpipes...

@Topcat0676 3 жыл бұрын

It was honey to make his hands sticky to help with the grip

@ukladyfan6231 Жыл бұрын

I hope to go to a Highland Games as it’s like an olympics with kilts and pipes fabulous

@martindunstan8043 3 жыл бұрын

Yet again EB another brilliant review regarding the British Isles(now you must believe us to be mad tribes😂) thanks buddy you are keeping lockdowns entertained 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👍🇬🇧👍🇺🇸👏👏🍻🍻

@mgytitanic1912 3 жыл бұрын

Everyone likes Scotch, it's finding one to suit the palatte. Every Scotch is different. Only go for the single malts, with the possible exception of Black Bottle. Cutty Sark is a blend and is awful.

@golfencrucible1074 3 жыл бұрын

On the note of whisky, you might want to try some single malts. Blended whisky is for the appetite of the modern world, but try some pure single malts (more expensive) and you’ll get a real taste of Scotland.

@vic5594 3 жыл бұрын

The only thing blended whiskey is good for is to add to marmalade

@craigtweedie1765 3 жыл бұрын

This is how the clans settled disputes and rivalries

@tobiasmills9647 3 жыл бұрын

Cause the English banned all forms of weapons from the Scottish while we were trying to rule them

@johnnosiennek7066 3 жыл бұрын

Yet even now the Campbells and the Stewarts tents are kept as far apart as possible at these events

@thrand6760 3 жыл бұрын

@@johnnosiennek7066 They keep the Campbells tents away from the McDonalds aswell, its amazing how big parts of history are still presserved in something as small as tent placement...

@Sean-gr4od 3 жыл бұрын

Well in this incarnation it was more invented for the amusement of Queen Victoria (1800's) and does not even predate the USA just like family tartan and modern 'Highland' culture in general were all invented retrospectively after the union with England. (1700's)

@Alan_Mac 3 жыл бұрын

@@tobiasmills9647 Idiot. The English never banned weapons.

@straycat1674 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve seen some games I don’t know if they’re just stateside, I’ve started adding keg throws. Obviously they empty the keg first words delivered to them empty. Because that would be a waste of beer.

@catrionamackenzie4933 2 жыл бұрын

A lot of the modern Olympic sports come from the Highlands Games. I'm from the Highlands and been to do many of these. My brother is a piper and my uncle is a pipe major. I have a school friend who tosses the caber.

@karlkuttup 3 жыл бұрын

if you like the bagpipes you should listern to the cumbrian pipes more range and softer tones and semi notes

@twt3716 3 жыл бұрын

Great vid as always. Just a little info for you. The Scotts are hard bastards through and through. Years ago when the Scotts soldiers would march for miles in the freezing weather and the rain used to soak into their kilts, drain to the hem and freeze. It would rip their thighs to shreds. But they kept on going. Hard bastards.

@1998TDM 3 жыл бұрын

But also the warmest, most generous and funniest of people. Just don't pick a fight, they don't go down.

@twt3716 3 жыл бұрын

@@1998TDM very true. The Scotts make great friends and despite their reputation they are veey genourS people.

@davidhoward2487 3 жыл бұрын

I heard that the Gillie to Queen Victoria, john Brown, had his legs ripped, by his kilt, and infection set in, it's what killed him!

@DjNikGnashers 3 жыл бұрын

My mate had a set of bagpipes once, and left them in his car on the back seat, when he parked in town. An hour later he returned to the car, and noticed the car window had been smashed, and there were two sets of bagpipes on the seat.

@tonytotten408 3 жыл бұрын

💩🤯

@derbyphoter 3 жыл бұрын

And yes that was HM Queen Elizabeth II presenting the cup to the champion as she attends each year

@Rog5446 3 жыл бұрын

They usually have a foot race at most highland games.

@wallywombat164 3 жыл бұрын

Love ya vids mate, but i would love em a lot more if ya had some volume.

@davinaburden7529 3 жыл бұрын

These are normal run of the mill guys too.. You should watch a Shinty match.. ❤️

@mattsmedley.onehandedgamin9029 3 жыл бұрын

I live in the UK and I must go to see this one year.

@sndrka12 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the respect you give to our country's games.

@25dimensionsfrancis42 3 жыл бұрын

The American Southern accent is my favourite American accent . Is it like Britain where the accent within the same region can depend on how thick the accent is spoken.

@rockinbillyboy 3 жыл бұрын

I would say that the sticky stuff was to give him grip.

@hectormackenzie9008 3 жыл бұрын

I've really enjoyed your reaction to the Highland games. Have you watched the other traditional Highland sport of shinty? It would be great to see what you make of it. It's similar to the Irish sport Hurling. All the best!

@BigglesBot1979 10 ай бұрын

Give me goosebumps the bagpipes hairs stand up to

@bonnyvonny5182 Жыл бұрын

Had the privilege to go to the Pitlochry games and it was magnificent

@tobiasmills9647 3 жыл бұрын

The caber toss basically is just a phone pole

@colin4685 3 жыл бұрын

Us scottish are a hardy bunch! :D

@mattouli 3 жыл бұрын

I assume this is Braemar? There are lots of smaller games all over though, strathpeffer was my local one

@gabbymcclymont4167 2 жыл бұрын

Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 is a completely different country from its friends, uh hum. We are nutters but proud with it, I’ve lived all over the world but I’ve never had such laughter as I get in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😂 but that maybe because I get understood and can understand the patter (the way we speak). You would love Scotland,I hope one day you get to visit, we won’t disappoint.

@whovianhistorybuff 3 жыл бұрын

There was one game they (happily) don't play anymore where you took a dead cow and you had to tear it's limbs off one by one with nothing but your bare hands.

@Lostmissionary 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine hearing the pipes and drums and then those guy appearing out of the gun smoke coming for you. Bloody hell they must of scared the living sh*t out of their opponents. If anyone wonders why there was a British empire? These sort of guys are the reason why. Fabulous.

@robertkidd6270 3 жыл бұрын

My big buddy Allan Pettigrew broke the world record for haggis hurling at the Ardrossan highland games back in the eighties .. still stands till this day but he is a big bugger lol... Check out Duke of Cumberland wrestling....you see this at a few games in Scotland. .. my bud John and I joined the wrong queue and ended up fighting pro's instead of novices lol 22stone John got two broken ribs from the Canadian champion and I beat the European champion,I was 10 stones but kung fu daft Good video man cheers😆

@gordonstewart8258 3 жыл бұрын

The hammer toss is dangerous, and even experts can come to grief. I knew a champion hammer tosser who lost control on the release, and had so many different injuries that he was crippled up for over a year.That's why the rub resin on their hands.

@masonbell8840 3 жыл бұрын

I love the pipes too.

@helenbailey8419 3 жыл бұрын

Love your beard.Up close you are younger than I thought

@Alex-yu3wg 3 жыл бұрын

That iis Braemar games and those walking after the pipes are 'The Men of lornach' the only private army in the world.

@jennifercufley1728 3 жыл бұрын

The Atholl Highlanders are known as the only private army in the world. From Blair Atholl. Queen Victoria made them her private army when she stayed there.