For foreigners. Catalonia is already free. It's 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. Thanks for watching this video, we Spaniards are strong and united people and this is proof of that. Thank you from Catalonia 🖤🇪🇦

@@Daniel-fp7qn Catalonia is part of Spain because it lost the War of Succession (1701-1714) agains Castile and France. It lost it because Britain and Austria sold Catalonia in exchange of territories and other concessions: Gibraltar, Menorca, Parts of Canada, The Netherlands, Parts of Italy, the exclusive right to trade slaves between Africa and America, etc., etc. Spain also had to accept the Salic Law, which was one of the causes of the three Guerras Carlistas and, indirectly, the ETA terrorist war (See Treaties of Utrech 1713). Catalonia has never attacked Spain. The Spanish Government attacks Catalonia systematically.

@@asotoniu ZZZzzzzz....

@@ndorib Too many words and no pictures is more than your brain can handle?

​@@Daniel-fp7qnpolitics have nothing to do with castells. Saying castells only happen in Catalonia and are a Catalan tradition is not politics, it's a FACT. It's like saying flamenco comes from Andalusia, or fallas and paella are Valencian. If we wanted to talk about if Catalonia should or not be part of Spain, that's a whole other matter not related to castells.

You are always welcome.

@@taulguedi637 Exacte. We will receive you with open arms, pal.

Y dónde está Cataluña?

@@rosabenito7676 Ahora mismo, en la mierda por culpa de España. Pero estamos trabajando para cambiar eso.

Ten en cuenta que, tal y como están las cosas, se te podría acusar (y con razón) de delito de odio. Cataluña está en España porque es España; en cuanto a las fobias particulares o grupales que tenga cada cual, ahí no entro. Saludos, compatriota.

​@@rosabenito7676 Catalunya actualmente es un pais (que no estado, no os tiréis a mi yugular aun😅) dentro de España. Geográficamente está en el noreste. Espero haberte ayudado 😊

@@P0L_03 Cuántos países, según tú, hay en España?

And handicap for the NOT SO LUCKY ONES

And the losers, they are also blessed with discipline and camaraderie.

Strength, Balance, Courage and Sanity !!!

You don't have to think that. In Catalonia good music is appreciated like anywhere else. And many of the greatest flamenco artists are Catalan. In fact there is a "PALO" of purely Catalan falmenco such as RUMBA CATALANA.

When your from a town/small city of 5.000 to 20.000 inhabitants, "Castells" can be really a good way to socialize, but it's not really a need.

REALLY HOW COME YOU NEVER FREE YOURSELFS WHEN MOORS WHERE THERE PUCKS!!

Catalans ARE Spanish, yesterday, now and forever.

@@leogaspacho4334 because catalans only way to unite or colaborate is doing those towers.

For foreigners. Catalonia is already free. It's 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. Thanks for watching this video, we Spaniards are strong and united people and this is proof of that. Thank you from Catalonia 🖤🇪🇦

Catalonia was never independent, it was a county of the Aragon crown. Please stop repeating lies.

@@MrsLizziee As always there is some spaniard saying that our culture and history does not deserve respect, but well, all can read a history book and there is a dear of agreement between historians who are neither spanish (conservatives) nor catalans about our history (and spoiler, it seems to be like catalan historians says)... Catalonia was a part of Aragon Crown as an independent territory under the name of Comtat de Barcelona during XII-XIV centuries and Principat de Catalunya in XV's and more, and Catalonia was used normaly to speak about theland (not titles) from XII until our days. And was "independent" because Crown of Aragon, as soon as federal empires in center of europe, was a federal union of different lands as equals. Crown of Aragon is the name that took te territory unified under the crown, but with two (in the beginning) territory united's as equal, Kingdom of Aragorn, and County of Barcelona (And after, Regne de Valencia, Mallorca, Sicily and Naples) in fact the Aragonese Crown flag is the flag from Barcelona's County House adopted by the crown when the realm was founded. But, well all of these are just history, the most important thing now is our right to become a free contry if we want, and does not matters if we were a contry, nation or just a bunch of people with same spirit of liberty, but we want spain's goverment respect our rights :)

For foreigners. Catalonia is already free. It's 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. Thanks for watching this video, we Spaniards are strong and united people and this is proof of that. Thank you from Catalonia 🖤🇪🇦

@@MrsLizziee , it was, since 1714 Catalonia is just a part of Spain. You are free to read about it

Catalan is Spanish. Castilian is only one Spanish language out of various that gained national dominance, but there is more than one Spanish language.

For foreigners. Catalonia is already free. It's 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. Thanks for watching this video, we Spaniards are strong and united people and this is proof of that. Thank you from Catalonia 🖤🇪🇦

Yes, there is a video where catalan castellers make a castell for Dahi Handi in India. Was very cool.

No. València és la muixeranga, no és el mateix.

A tot arreu han de sortir els axafaguitarres,quins pesats i torracollons

Y toma, y dale, y sigue, y dale y toma que catalán paquí y pallá en la sección de comentarios .... basta ya, como si a un australiano le importase algo el sentimiento de identidad. Si va de Castells! no del pu****ñetero romanticismo local. Ya está bien, a ver si nos salimos de la burbujita y nos damos una vuelta por Hispanoamérica, así nos enamoramos de algo más que de nuestra ombligo.

For foreigners. Catalonia is already free. It's 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. Thanks for watching this video, we Spaniards are strong and united people and this is proof of that. Thank you from Catalonia 🖤🇪🇦

@@Daniel-fp7qn mi familia es y a sido siempre Catalana .. Mis bis Abuelos y sus antepasados solo conocian su propia lengua ...al igual que mis otros antepasados Gallegos ...Las torres son costumbres propias, esto no es nada de nacionalismo pero ciertas cosas solo pertenecen a ciertas culturas ..Como por ejemplo la queimada, la sardana o el flamenco

For foreigners. Catalonia is already free. It's 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. Thanks for watching this video, we Spaniards are strong and united people and this is proof of that. Thank you from Catalonia 🖤🇪🇦

@@Daniel-fp7qn Really? Catalans want to be in spain? we don't know it, spain don't let us vote and uses violence to stop the referendum few years ago, so don't talk about violence. You are happy because you feel yourself spanish but not all of us fell that and we only want to vote it in freedom. In fact, the majority of our parliment as pro independence so.. but dosen't matter, te world se in 2017 what happened and one thing are the economic and politic interests and other one is freedom. As many conutry's arround the world who speak an figth about freedom even if the economic and politic interets stay agains us, we will keep fighting.

The reason they don't, is when the upper group falls, they don't land on a hard surface that'll break their bones. The helmet will help if a small object lands on it, not when a bigger object, in this case a human, lands on it. It'll do more damage than without. They are trained to either bow down their heads or look straight up, when the group above them fall. I'm not a participant, I've just seen a few videos with this and had exactly the same thoughts as you. 😄

I'm wondering the same thing. I think this is madness. It's mesmerising to watch but scary.

They wanna do it that’s the point. They are the most important on this game.

It's much more save than other sports (like judo, for example). Just take a look to the numbers.

Only 3% of castells fall, and there's been only 1 death in recent history, and that was before the helmet's introduction. In Catalonia, there are more injuries due to children's football league than to castells... It's actually safer than most popular sports! :)

Lol covid probably had a blast at that event

This was before covid

Recorded in 2018

Boohoo

It’s a tradition

This has been around for 500 years

That has never happened in 5 centuries but yes, sure. Lol

Only 3% of the attempts fail. And most of the falls end in no injuries at all. But falls are spectacular and they are over represented on TV.

Well, we find your tradition of school shooting much more barbaric to be fair.

Documentaries always exagerate the amount of falls due to its spectacularity. Only 3% of castells fall. Actually there are more injuries in Catalonia due to football than to castells!!! Physicists in Catalan universities have studied castells and have concluded that the people at the base reduce the impact by 60% (they work like an airbag!). Also, a special helmet for the children has been developed to avoid any possible damage, as well as the traditional "faixa", which is the thing around the tummy, which reinforces the spine, avoiding spine injuries. Although it doesn't seem that at first glance, it's actually pretty safe!!! :)

They're not risking their health. In Catalonia more child are injured annually due to football than to castells. This is actually pretty safe :)

@@pizzaipinya2442 I do not believe that this information is correct, or at least that you are interpreting it correctly, because football takes place throughout the whole year, and this is only once a year, so of course there will be more football-related injuries, but it is clear to anyone with common sense that this it can't be safer than football!

@@fikaa2388 you're wrong. There's the championship in Tarragona once every 2 years, but these people train every week and also every time there's a town's holiday there are castells too. The average must be at least one performance every week, without taking into account all the training sessions.

@@fikaa2388 These people are professionals who, as I said, train every week. There are techniques on how to fall correctly, and studies show that the people at the bottom act like an airbag, reducing the impact a 60%. Even more, the helmet was specially designed in Catalan universities to be the safest for castells (it's not a normal helmet). In addition, take into account that only 3% of castells fall, the rest are completed without any problem :)