History of our Sport...some really cool video
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Topic: History of our Sport...some really cool video
Posted By: Alan H
Subject: History of our Sport...some really cool video
Date Posted: 2/10/12 at 8:14am
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These are short video's, but there are some athletics in all of them. Bill Anderson is featured in the 1959 video. Whoever did the standing stone putt in 1959 had some serious pop and extension. There's some HWFD in the 1930 video..bunch of caber and you all might be interested in how stone and hammer technique has changed. Take some time and watch the Giants of the past do the business.. Braemar Gathering video, 1930...dumping rain.. http://www.britishpathe.com/video/flooded-out" rel="nofollow - http://www.britishpathe.com/video/flooded-out Braemar, 1934 http://www.britishpathe.com/video/royal-braemar/query/Braemar Braemar, 1951, with some names mentioned....caber, hammer, stones... http://www.britishpathe.com/video/braemar-gathering-2/query/Braemar" rel="nofollow - http://www.britishpathe.com/video/braemar-gathering-2/query/Braemar Braemar, 1954 http://www.britishpathe.com/video/braemar-gathering-3" rel="nofollow - http://www.britishpathe.com/video/braemar-gathering-3 Braemar, 1959, with Bill Anderson, I think... maybe Grant Anderson? Bills father? http://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-clans-gather-aka-braemar-highland-gathering" rel="nofollow - http://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-clans-gather-aka-braemar-highland-gathering If you like this stuff, there's a bucketload of it on the site... There's actually video of King George...the current Queens grandfather, arriving at Braemar in 1919. ------------- Alan Hebert Geezer-In-Training |
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Posted By: KiltBill
Date Posted: 2/10/12 at 9:01am
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Thanks Alan! ------------- Remember Kay Cummings, Father of the Highland Games in the Southeast and my friend. Lets Go Run With The Big Dogs! |
Posted By: Mr. Natural
Date Posted: 2/11/12 at 1:15am
Bad newbie. You go sit in the corner and think about what you did. And maybe you should watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JxUOGkGmXU" rel="nofollow - this . ------------- Dave Barron |
Alan H wrote:Posted By: Ali.G
Date Posted: 2/11/12 at 4:38am
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Wow! Great to see those old boys throwing, Henry Gray throwing heavy ham 98` back in 1954 amazing, same shafts and hammers today and Jock Maclellan winning the hammer way back, George Clark was a legend and first to toss the Braemar Caber, looks a little shorter tho.lol.
I Wonder if they were on medicine for their BALLS shrinking, ;-).
I love just watching them throw probably because they have all judged me throwing at some time and great to see them in their prime and also see how they used to putt the braemar stone haha how the rules have changed.
Great Links, now if someone could buy them and put them in a video for us that would be great.
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Posted By: stormer
Date Posted: 2/11/12 at 5:58am
| 1950s ally was you not starting around then?.. |
Posted By: Greg Hadley
Date Posted: 2/11/12 at 6:37am
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Posted By: Ali.G
Date Posted: 2/11/12 at 6:54am
| Aye, I was probably floating about in a whisky bottle somewhere on speyside in the 50`s. |
Posted By: Alan H
Date Posted: 2/11/12 at 8:04am
OK, OK...color me ignorant!  I would appreciate some elucidation as to who these guys are!Honest truth, I was so jazzed to find these things that I just watched them about 5x each and didn't listen to the commenatary much, so I missed a bunch of names. Looks like Alistair got a kick out of 'em! ------------- Alan Hebert Geezer-In-Training |
Posted By: Alan H
Date Posted: 2/11/12 at 8:11am
AWESOME! I've never seen that before. LOVING IT, and I'm only halfway through the first YouTube vid.. I would *love* to get this, looks like it's an old VHS tape. ------------- Alan Hebert Geezer-In-Training |
Posted By: jpfitness1
Date Posted: 2/11/12 at 1:22pm
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It was fun to watch some of the greats and early years of the games. I noticed a couple things after watching a couple of the clips. First off, the parades went a lot faster back then. Their legs were just speeding along. LOL Secondly, I've never seen so many people in the crowd watching US!!!!! I know some of you guys have competed worldwide and in many levels of championships, so maybe you have competed in front of that size of crowd. That just looks and probably feels amazing. Thank you for sharing these with us. ------------- Josh Plumb I may not be good, but I'm consistent |
Posted By: MacRae73
Date Posted: 2/17/12 at 3:08am
OUCH !!............
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Posted By: ROB EVANS
Date Posted: 2/17/12 at 7:20am
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Thanks Alan that was great stuff ------------- If Spencer Tyler is the gamma bomb of explosion, you and I are like single-serving flan cups in his lunchbox. Pasty, Jiggly, Delicious, but otherwise not very explosive. DUNCAN MCCALLUM |
Posted By: Alan H
Date Posted: 2/17/12 at 8:00am
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Braemar, 1958... Alistair, do you recognize those guys names? Take a look at how the lads throw the stone! Thing are a bit different, eh? http://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-meeting-of-the-clans" rel="nofollow - http://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-meeting-of-the-clans Cowal-Dunoon...1938 Footage of hammer and LWFD, just to prove that there's nothing new under the sun..LOL http://www.britishpathe.com/video/dunoon-cowal-highland-games-lner/query/hammer+throw" rel="nofollow - http://www.britishpathe.com/video/dunoon-cowal-highland-games-lner/query/hammer+throw Cowal, 1931 More hammer, caber and 28 WFD http://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-cowal-games-2" rel="nofollow - http://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-cowal-games-2 Cowal, 1928 http://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-cowal-games-4" rel="nofollow - http://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-cowal-games-4 Braemar, 1969... Bill Anderson with hammer, and some other lads I don't recognize.. http://www.britishpathe.com/video/highland-games-3/query/Braemar" rel="nofollow - http://www.britishpathe.com/video/highland-games-3/query/Braemar OK, that's enough. I could waste HOURS on this site! ------------- Alan Hebert Geezer-In-Training |
Posted By: dl_buffy
Date Posted: 2/17/12 at 8:27am
------------- --------- I have very few social interaction skills, so I just throw stuff instead. |