Dear Nicholas, I'm afraid it'll be a while before we see another performance like this. Of course the other best colles (at list both Xiquets de Valls, Terrassa and Tarragona) will work hard to improve their level and competitiveness. But this milestone is absolutely historic and very difficult to equal, let alone surpass. In any case, I agree that competitiveness in this new season will be breathtaking.

thats stupid. they almost died here. dont you see how they fall? and everyone is happy... pretty pathetic

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Es este catalán 🤔

🇬🇧🇪🇺 For foreigners. Catalonia is already free. It is part of Spain because that is how the majority of Catalans want it democratically. Those who speak of Free Catalonia want to use violence so that they can get what they want within a minority. 🇪🇦 Para los extranjeros. Cataluña ya es libre. Forma parte de España porque así lo quieren la mayoría de Catalanes democráticamente. Los que hablan de Free Catalonia quieren usar la violencia para que ellos puedan conseguir lo que quieren dentro de una minoría.

@@Daniel-fp7qn En què et bases per dir que la majoria dels catalans volen quedar-se dins d'Espanya? Totes les eleccions des del 2015 les han guanyat partits independentistes i les últimes els vots independentistes van superar el 50%. Vam intentar fer un referèndum legal segons les lleis espanyoles per poder saber que és el q volia la gent i no ens van deixar. Vam fer un referèndum igualment i va guanyar el sí. Deixa de dir tonteries. Els castellers són una tradició de la nació catalana.

@@Daniel-fp7qn for foreigners. this is an example of a guy from spain saying bullshit. he coments to many videos that have a relation to catalonia just to spread this bullshit and hate.

Totalment d'acord Antonio. També és emocionant veure participar en els castells a joves i nens d'altres llocs, paÍsos, races i origens. Avui hi han catalans de quasi 200 idiomes materns diferents, i de ben segur, només el Barça pot competir amb els Castells en capacitat d'integració i cohesió social.

Penso que va més enllà de fer país - per a mi els castells són un símbol de fer humanitat.

És fantàstic. Quan m'enyoro (visc a Alemanya de fa 12 anys) miro vídeos de castellers😊. Tot just ara he fet cap a aquest vídeo perquè jugava amb la meva filla a fer castells (hi ha un joc d'una empresa de Reus que es diu "el nan casteller travel") i sempre li poso música típica quan juguem (i com a tu, les primeres notes de gralla també em posen la pell de gallina). Amb els castells es poden ensenyar moltes coses: treball en equip, tenacitat, etc. Quina sort tenim, de poder formar part d'una cultura tan rica!

they all injured... see that fall. poor little girl and others

@@lenicois909 Not at all. Just bruises and some dislocation. The Castells are designed and built with safety as the first priority, and even more so with that of children. In fact the cheerful "poor little girl" that worries you can be seen celebrating her success at 5:27 She always says that she has never been afraid to go up.

Mazgoan tadwadi

No des nada por sentado, Rapaz Golez. Hoy en dia las mejores Colles cuentan todas ellas con ingenieros y sofisticados programas informáticos para diseñar sus Castells. Y al margen del buen rollo, que en el mundo casteller se da por descontado, la competencia entre ellas es feroz. Puedes dar por descontado que esta nueva temporada será sobrecogedora. Seguim!

La fe mueve montañas ...

En el món casteller la paraula IMPOSSIBLE no existeix. Fes memòria i pensa que es deia el mateix dels castells "nets" , de10 pisos , etc i mira com està el panorama avui en dia.

@@baltasarcaubet8271 ben cert!!

Nice Spain 👍

@@Daniel-fp7qn I didn't know they also make castells in Cáceres or Madrid. Ets més curt i no neixes.

@@husa0190 Home no, però a València i Balears sí

@@antoniomari4126 i Andorra i ara Copenhague ....

Link?

You can see her on the right at 5:27 . She looks happy but as if she is not yet aware of what she has just achieved!

Not at all. Just blows and some dislocation. Only in the past, when human towers were designed without safety in mind, had there been some very rare cases of spinal cord injury.

Yeah, you can see the kids that were up there celebrating in 5:27 😄

Why not? :)

Si, pots veure a tota la canalla que hi havia al castell a 5:27

Not only is she OK. She is happy and proud of herself as well . And on top of that (never better said) the most popular girl in town! 😉

Look at 5:27

Es preciosa sí. Asturias es más bonito lo único 😏

Si tan orgulloso te sintieras de ese proyecto nacional frustrado de Gran Castilla llamado España, no escogerías un nickname pretendidamente prusiano, además mal escrito.

@@baltasarcaubet8271 baltasar, no has pensat que poster es un estranger i que lo de "parte de españa" ho podría estar dient amb total sinceritat?

@@Robertreus92 amb una foto de nazis fent el salut romà com a avatar... Ho dubto moltíssim.

romper record guiness

It was a very difficult tower, nobody has been able to do one like that before. There is 4 ways of finishing a castell, as: "intent" (attempt, when it falls before building it), "intent desmuntat" (disassembled attempt, when it doesn't fall but they disassembly it before finishing ), "carregat" (assembled, when they finish building it but falls on the disassembly) and "descarregat" (disassembled, meaning assembled and disassembled). Only the last two are considered successful attempts. So after months or years of practicing it they were the firsts to assemble (carregar) a tower like that, and after the fall nobody was hurt so double win 🙂

But it was a disaster

@@rimix739 it wasn't.

😅😅

I tant que si! Uns estan orgullosos del seus vistosos origens valencians, i els altres n'estan de fins on han arribat els seus continuadors catalans afegint-hi enginy i força. Ja han fet algunes manifestacions de les seves destreses respectives en comú. Les trobades d'uns i altres son sempre emotives, i tant de bò que vagin en augment!

🤣🤣🤣 Castells are designed to be safe. No one has NEVER died in Castells history!

It's very safe compared to most sports, but there have been, I think, four recorded deaths. A 12 year old died some years ago, which led to helmets being worn in the top three levels in 2006. Overall though, it's pretty safe.

​@@baltasarcaubet8271 unfortunately you're wrong, there has been two deaths in 150 years of having registries about that in castells, but from 1936 to the 1970s the government repressed the expressions of catalan culture and there were not many castell exhibitions in those years (so really 115 years of actually doing exhibitions with registries of injuries). It's sad that they put the helmets, mouth protections and other protections only after Mariona's accident, it should've been way before...

@@baltasarcaubet8271 Apa tio, el nom Ramón Rovira no et sona ???.

Link?

Absolutely!!

No one was injured

There are no serious injuries. Falling is something very common and they are prepared for it, otherwise they would not do it.

@@Daniel_Meyer newspaper articles tell otherwise. some went to the hospital. are you saying the newspaper is lying?

@@gattetta they were. read some article and you will see. in all those towers people get injured. some goes to hospital also. but sure the newspapers all lie about this. 😂

This Catalan tradition dates back to centuries ago, just as the Indian one. They both have their particularities and uniqueness. Since the Indian towers have recently been influenced by the Catalan castellers more organized structures, there's a healthy competition between both, to see who makes the highest tower. At some point the Indians had this record, but as far as I know it quickly returned back to the Catalans after the firsts 10 stories castells were made :)

Noone broke any bones LMAO

That boy you are talking about is a girl. Her parents are probably also part of the colla. Anyone who watched this live saw the interview with the girl shortly after this. Whole families participate together, along with neighbors and friends. These collas train how to do this and safety is a big part of that. There have been four documented deaths in Castells in over 250 years. Americans have no problem sending their kids onto the field to play football or baseball, and neither of these sports can boast a record like that.

@@nicholasbadgley9295, being a girl changes nothing unless you think that a girl's life matters less than a boy's (I didn't finish watching out of disgust). Whole families used to participate together in ceremonies involving human sacrifices in the past. Fortunately those days gone by. Hope this barbaric custom disappears soon as well.

@@robert111k I just meant to clarify about it being a girl. Thank goodness this isn't disappearing, and no one is sending kids up to be sacrificed. Catalans rightly take a huge amount of pride in doing castells. These are all amateurs and it's a huge community activity. Collas (teams) do more than just make towers. They host community events, donate to charities, etc. Castells is safer than almost any other team sport, and certainly than any contact sport. 30 years ago there were a handful of teams. Now there are over 100, including university teams. The fact is this has never been more popular in Catalonia. As an American, I love seeing a community working together to do something like this rather than the chest thumping "look at me" silliness of any of the major North American sports. Barbaric is sending boys and men out to pummel each other into oblivion to get a football across the goal line, yet we (the USA) put billions of dollars towards cheering that on.

look at 5:27 the girls where celebrating just a moment after falling.

It's not a dangerous activity. Her father is the designer of this structure.

Au, ves els toros

Y tu, con que te emocionas,?.

En qué mundo vives

Doncs si, per que és l'assoliment d'una fita col·lectiva, llargament planificada, treballada i desitjada, on mai res es deixa a l'atzar. No pots ni imaginar els llaços, complicitats i sentiment de comunitat que generen els castells, per que no hi ha res de comparable. I a més son la màxima expressió de la manera de ser i de fer del poble català. Y si me permites un consejo en tu idioma (así lo aproveches del todo), nunca olvides que la envidia sigue al mérito como la sombra al cuerpo, y que además acorta la vida.

Sí, todavía existe gente con sensibilidad sobre la faz de la Tierra...