Crazy assed sports

**majurey** · 07-06-2009, 12:19 PM

APologies for the break in service. Seems like we may be running out of examples to show. Anyway, today's CAS is brought to you from the same makers of cheese rolling, viz. the Brits.

A particularly intelligent one, this. It involves kicking, lots of straw, and white lab coats.

YouTube - Shin Kicking

**icedog** · 07-06-2009, 12:42 PM

I know places where you could be seriously killed for doing something like this:
YouTube - Morris Dancing in Oxford

**Garry** · 07-06-2009, 01:01 PM

Originally Posted by icedog

I know places where you could be seriously killed for doing something like this:
YouTube - Morris Dancing in Oxford

**Galopede** · 07-06-2009, 02:15 PM

The morris dance is called Young Collins. I know as I play it for my side in Gloucester! As for the Scots not being morris fans, we have an occasional Scottish fiddler who hails from Aberdeen and even wears a kilt when plating at weddings. He's a brilliant fiddler but has problems with some of the morris tunes as the tempos can be all over the place!

One of my side was hospitalised after a stick dance at a festival in Dorset! Mind you most of them were the worse for beer and were going at each other right 'ard! His opposite missed and smashed several of his fingers!

Morris done properly is dangerous!

Gareth

Another thing, those blokes in white lab coats kicking each other in the shins is at another Gloucestershire event, the Dover's Hill Games, also known as the Cotswold Olimpics (sic) near Chipping Camden.

I think we've mostly cornered the market in daft sports in Gloucestershire...

**Garry** · 07-06-2009, 10:39 PM

Originally Posted by Galopede

The morris dance is called Young Collins. I know as I play it for my side in Gloucester! As for the Scots not being morris fans, we have an occasional Scottish fiddler who hails from Aberdeen and even wears a kilt when plating at weddings. He's a brilliant fiddler but has problems with some of the morris tunes as the tempos can be all over the place!

One of my side was hospitalised after a stick dance at a festival in Dorset! Mind you most of them were the worse for beer and were going at each other right 'ard! His opposite missed and smashed several of his fingers!

Morris done properly is dangerous!

Gareth

Another thing, those blokes in white lab coats kicking each other in the shins is at another Gloucestershire event, the Dover's Hill Games, also known as the Cotswold Olimpics (sic) near Chipping Camden.

I think we've mostly cornered the market in daft sports in Gloucestershire...

I'll take back everything I said ( it was all in good jest I hope you realise ) and hearing there's Kilts involved makes it all the better

cheers ..... Garry

**Quick Orange** · 07-06-2009, 10:49 PM

Originally Posted by icedog

I know places where you could be seriously killed for doing something like this:
YouTube - Morris Dancing in Oxford

**majurey** · 07-07-2009, 09:38 AM

Gareth -- you can't just feed us some info like that...

WHAT THIS THREAD NEEDS IS PICTURES!

Come on, let's see how hard you are in your Morris gear.

**Casulo** · 07-08-2009, 10:41 AM

Not exactly a sport, but interesting.

**Seraphim** · 07-08-2009, 05:55 PM

YouTube - Hurling - the fastest game on grass

**loueedacat** · 07-09-2009, 12:53 AM

Finland ends Estonia's reign in wife-carrying

AFP/LEHTIKUVA/File – German Thomas Spiegl carries his wife Anke Kindlin during the wife-carrying World Championships in Sonkajarvi, …

Sat Jul 4, 3:46 pm ET
HELSINKI (AFP) – Finland put an end to Estonia's 11-year reign and took gold and bronze on Saturday at the annual Wife-Carrying World Championships held in Sonkajaervi, central Finland, organisers said.
Taisto Miettinen raced through a 250-metre (273-yard) course with two hurdles and a pool in 62 seconds, carrying Kristiina Haapanen on his back. The winners beat Estonia's Alar Voogla and Kristi Viltrop by 0.1 seconds.
Miettinen has been attending the competition for a decade now and said he was pleased to finally win.
"A couple of times I have lost by 0.1 seconds and I have stumbled. Our win tastes now really good," Miettinen said in a statement.
Although Estonia's long chain of wins in wife-carrying was brought to an end, Voogla said he was happy with silver and added the cool and cloudy weather had an impact on their race.
"It was not our day, in the cool weather it was slightly difficult and the run did not go as planned," he noted.
Finns Heikki Hannukainen and Heini Rauhamaa came in third and were some six seconds slower than the victors.
Sonkajaervi village, located some 490 kilometres (302 miles) north of Helsinki, has in the past 14 years made its entertaining wife-carrying competition known around the world and this year competitors came from eight countries including Australia, Ireland and Czech Republic.
The race was inspired by the legend of a local thug, Herkko Rosvo-Ronkainen, who lived in a forest and is said to have snatched food and sometimes ladies from villages in the region.

Thread: Crazy assed sports

LinkBack

Thread Tools

Display

The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to Galopede For This Useful Post:

Posting Permissions