Strange sports in Scotland

[Longshank]

In reply to Mistress:

Here's another link from the BBC you can watch the video from past events.

The video highlights the carnage thats created people breaking bones, splitting heads open, blood, members of the crowd being taken out. etc etc everything you would expect from people tumbling down a steep uneven hill

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire...erolling.shtml

[Mistress]

Originally posted by Longshank
The games involves finding the steepest hill you can and then roll a big cheese down it. As a participant all you need to do is to just hurl your self down the hill after the cheese who ever catches it before it stops wins the cheese,lol thats the prize.

People can end up with broken bones but its a great laugh watching it.

[i]lmao

Thanks for the link Longshank... lol

And it does sound totally hystrical.. lol.. but I would image.. much funnier watching it in person.. It is totally something that I would love to see

[Mistress]

Originally posted by Longshank
The video highlights the carnage thats created people breaking bones, splitting heads open, blood, members of the crowd being taken out. etc etc everything you would expect from people tumbling down a steep uneven hill

[i]lmao....




Could you image this? lol.. well I'm sure you've seen it? lol.. but man.. did you see that dude with the split open head.. lol.. OMG..lmao...

[Longshank]

In reply to Mistress:

LOL, I thought you would like them.

If your ever in the UK about May/June head down to Gloucester and see it for your self. If your feeling brave why not enter? lol

I'm trying to find the links for the game in Derbyshire I cant remember the name at all. If I do find it I'll post the link.

Later

[Talon]

lol...yes I too have seen the Cheese Run...and it rocks...

To my knowledge also noone has ever beaten the cheese in the history of the event...and these people really are crazy..lol..they just throw themselves down that hill..lol

I also liked the barrel rolling..thats nuts too....

and hi Longshank...welcome to the site

[Mistress]

[i]lmao....

Longshank Thank you for the sites. Aye, I enjoyed them very much.. lol...

And I've done some crazy stuff in my days.. lol.. but I cannot ever see myself... rolling down a hill after Cheese! lmao.. I'm don't even eat cheese all that much.. Image gettin a broken bone over it? lmao...

So where is this Cloucester? and I was in the UK last June.. No one told me about this... I would have loved to have seen it..

Talon This is a fact eh? lol.. No one has even caught the darn Cheese? lol.. Why? OMG.. lol..

And what is this Barrel Roll? Same thing? .. lol.. and I would also Image it would be a heck of a lot easier to catch a Barrel then a slab of cheese? lol..

[Longshank]

In reply to Mistress: Sorry I took awhile to reply I've been away to the Lake District.

Gloucestershire is a county in the South of England near Bristol (well just a little further north). You will hear most people in the England refer to it as Cheltanham and Gloucestershire. (the two main towns separated by the M5 motorway, the nearest airport is Bristol or Birmingham and then travel south through the Cotswolds)

http://uk2.multimap.com/map/browse.c...0&scale=200000

Here's a good site to show the delights of the Cotswolds and Gloucestershire area

http://www.visit-glos.org.uk/


The Barrel role is another Traditional event in England. It happens in a few towns ,ie, Lewes in Sussex in Novermber. It involves the whole town congregating in the village center where the participants all gather at the start area. A barrel is filled with Tar and set on fire they then have to pick it up put it on there shoulders and run through the town with it. The idea is to keep going until it gets to hot or the barrel falls apart. Once it gets to hot you just pass it to the next person in line and so on until it falls apart. There is no track they run through the crowd if you go to watch be prepared to get out of the way....FAST!!! There was a sky TV programe on it an American show which showed how fun/dangerous it can be.

Here's a link.
http://www.britannia.com/history/devon/otbarrel.html

theres also barrel role which is just the rolling of barrels down the street in a race or relay style again funny watching it. The Armed forces do a bigger style of the race. (search the web for English events, there's hundreds)

Cheers