All wise i.e. Elvis '77, submits to the erroneous use of punctuation and maintains, in his defence/defense, that he would not score well either on an IQ test.
Camán folks, grab your hurley, or perceived by the masses as the wielded battle axe of the bog trotting brute!
Rest assured fellow natives, these are the utterings of a patriot, albeit a well oiled one!
Normally I mute videos with terrible songs and just watch the video but this video and the other video about the GAA I don't because I think it suits the video perfectly. I used to watch this a lot when I lived in Ireland now I don't get to watch it much because I'm in the UK and it's not shown on any channels - well none that I can find.
@Mobey1 I recently moved over from Ireland to the UK. BBC usually show the All Ireland, for other matches your best bet is to find the nearest Irish Bar to you they normally televise most matches
How often does someone get the bones in their hand smashed to small bits by the "axe" that the opponent is swinging at you while you grab the ball in midair?
Not really, there's a 2 point system, over the bars is a goal and worth 1 point, in the goal is worth more, the goalies are just as capable at stopping the ball as hockey goalies.
I love how fast and violent this sport is. They used to show a programme called Gaelic Games in the UK several years ago, I watched it on a regular basis.
@Cytoskeleton1 if you watch a real match it is very fast. players strike the ball 80+yards. Action turns from one side of the pitch to the next in a matter of seconds.
ah jesus lad, im a keeper myself and its fairly easy to read the player comnig towards ya and you dive before it comes and you hope that the good lord himself saves it for ya :D:D:D
@CyeOutsider That used to be a danger until the GAA made it a rule that every hurler of every age group must wear a helmet. Back in the day you could get worse that a smack on the head! But then again, look at the athletic skill of these lads...
@AlexMoensChannel ye as @eamonnca said it's would be in america to and im actully goin to america next yr to train/coach and under 20's club, i actully played for my county, which is dublin until i was injured, the dublin team is the one's in the blue at 3:08,
My friend told me the first things that pop into his head when he hears "Irish" is "Beer, & IRA terrorists". My other friend, thank God, said "Freedom fighting culture, kind people, Guinness, and Gaelic sports that I still don't understand how they play these sports w/ that skill & don't get $". You can tell which one is the smarter one. Hurling is the best sport BY FAR!
some of you guys watching this video are probably American. let me tell you something ....you guys have the completly wrong idea about irish people. im irish, lived here all my life.americans have this idea that irish people sit in pubs all day chatting with leprechauns. if you Yanks want to see modern day irish culture look up " The Rubber Bandits.
@23greenmount This seems like one of the most high skill team sports I've ever seen. They're amateurs? That's incredible that someone could devote this much effort into learning just for the love of the game. Incredible.
i am from America, and must say that European spots are much better, and involve much more skill than our sports. Wish that these sports, rugby, hurling, gaelic football, would make it across the Atlantic!
Best sport there is...the Yanks are always speechless when I show them this video. It shuts them up when they're talkin' about how much skill their "sports" require. Haha, hell! Lacrosse and Hockey can't match this sport-I know 'cause I play them-describing Hurling is very hard, so just say "the best sport in the world skill-wise"
@joshrobdaddy no way is aussies rules a faster game of hurling, a hurler can drive the sliothar 100m+ in seconds, the play can change from one end of the field to the other and back again in seconds, while afl is big running game, there is no way they can move the ball faster that in hurling, and besides ye have the mark in afl which stops play every minute, imagine if hurling stopped every time somebody made a clean catch.
@razor111432 ok some good points there irishmen... but afl players run 20km a game and they play on after a mark more often than not these days... so i suppose im trying to say that its faster by way of run and carry. hurling probably faster passing-wise you're right.
@joshrobdaddy yeah but running 20km in a game doesnt make it fast, it's fairly impressive to run that kind of distance during a game but i think you're missing the point. If you race a hurler with an afl player they would be probably be the same speed, and i'm sure the afl player could run for longer, but my point is about the speed at which hurling is played in every aspect of the game not just how much distance we can cover. afl just doesnt compare to hurling
@razor111432 i can see what our saying we cant move the balls as fast as you guys can, its completely different in that aspect. but from a generally athletic perspective, it is more important for players to be able to run quick in afl than in hurling, its alot more focussed on run and carry and you dont wanna get tackled or hit. If you put a rover (especially an abo, there is alot of them in the afl these days) against a hurling player in a foot race, rover would win most of the time.
@joshrobdaddy i presume a rover "does what it says on the tin"and is very fast, i'm not too sure of the positions in afl but is it the ruckmen that are always massive 6ft6 guys? race one of those against a hurler! you guys also have big advantages to maintain a high pace considering you have interchanges, we dont, you have 4 quarters, we have halves and you guys are professionals and train 4 times a day preseason,we train 4times/wk and work full time.Youtube doesnt lie, hurling has to be faster
@razor111432 true that.. a 7ft ruckman would have no chance against anyone in a sprint. but as for midfielders, they are looked at in the draft with a huge emphasis on their pace, and believe me, it's a tough draft to even get into, they're all freak athletes. but the bottom line is hurling is faster in the way of passing, but footy is faster by way of run (I think anyway ;) ).
wow, this rules! I have one question, though: how common are injuries? it looks like your hands could get wrecked pretty easily with sticks flying everywhere.
@thejasoninator Not to sound bad here cause this is extremely rare occurance but people have died playin the sport i knew a fella who got a belt of a hurley into the neck which cut his airflow and he dropped dead on the pitch but that was years ago but injuries are commen but im a hurler and id describe hurling as the best game in the world ..... bar being the fastest sport in the world on grass its also recognised as the oldest sport in the world in general it bein 3000-4000 year old sport :)
I love how the description says "the skills of baseball, hockey, and lacrosse" when hockey is a variant of hurling, and lacrosse was edited through the observations of hurling. And in baseball, you have a glove to catch a high-speed and there's no contact
Allow me to chip in - rugby is cross country wrestling with a ball !.....and is great great game, and so is hurling. Did someone here say rugby and gaelic football are similar ??? Thats a bit like saying golf is similar to photography.....or that american football is similar to boredom....except that they are the same
@thGory1 Preach it brother! I've never understood why people describe Gaelic football as a combination of soccer and rugby. It's no such thing! It's got nothing whatsoever in common with rugby except for kicking the ball over the bar. I always describe it as being 'like' a combination of soccer and basketball, which is a lot more accurate.
@Kodiou Diarmuid O'Sullivan from Cloyne in Co. Cork. Great player and leader of the Rebels (Cork), known as "The Rock". His younger bro now plays for Cork, known as "The Pebble", Cork still haven't replaced him!
Why have I never heard of this! I was watching Blitz with Jason Stathom and in the opening scene right before he beats them up he says "It's a hurling stick for the Irish game of hurling." I though to myself any sport that uses a stick shaped like an axe have to be interesting. It is this game looks amazing. I am an American and I am thinking to myself why do Brits, Scotts and Irish like "football" so much when they have a sport like this around?
@jrangle Well it's really only Ireland that it's played. There are some other countries, American, Holland and Belgium that play it too.
As for "football" that's what I was saying to @JamesBoy4LifeMan4Luv . Soccer is overrated, and ruled by money. This is amateur. These lads don't get paid to play this. They train twice a week, with games on Saturdays, and they have normal every day jobs. None of this celebrity crap you get with soccer players
Looks like fun. I don't agree with catching the ball - I don't think you should be allowed to handle the ball at all, apart from the keeper. But it must work. I've only seem one game (the final I think, involving the yellow and black striped team) and while it was riveting, I found the constant stopping for penalties a bit annoying. It's something you need to grow up with. Beats hockey.
@JamesBoy4LifeMan4Luv That'll be Kilkenny in black and yellow. They're the most successful Hurling team in history.
Definitely it's something you need to grow up with. You can't just pick up a Hurley and go at it, maybe you could explain that to our wrestler friend on here, who seems to think he's fucking Chuck Norris . . .
@sXeLodge I havnt noticed him - maybe it IS Chuck Norris, ha ha!. To be honest I cudnt help but laugh during some of the video: when they were running and balancing the ball on there hurleys... I found myself thinking back to grade 1 or 2, those egg and spoon races - I never dreamed they would be useful for something!
@JamesBoy4LifeMan4Luv hahaha, that's true. I even remember doing that as a kid at the sports day, and thinking "How could I possibly need this skill in future life?" and it turns out, you kinda do.
The Gaelic sports are underrated I think. Everything seems to revolve around soccer.
@sXeLodge I dont get soccers popularity. I suppose its a simple game. Hurling and Gaelic are a great spectacle, but complicated. Soloing the ball as well as bouncing, tapping the ball to each hand... add the egg and spoon bit in the hurling and it all looks too tricky! Then the soccer world cup rolls around, 45 min halftime in game one, 0-0. I'm sorry, but fuck that! Game highlights: 77th minute, Luigi Pippiti puts it in the net and runs all over the field going bananas, full-stop. Shit.
@JamesBoy4LifeMan4Luv Soccer is overrated. And you get all this Carlos Tevez shit, where he refuses to come on as a sub but still takes his huge pay cheque.
That's the one thing I do love about GAA, is that it's all amateur sport. It's nice to be able to see a sport that isn't totally ruled by money. They play because they want to, not because of the huge money deals.
@sXeLodge The GAA players want to play because their sport is actually fun to play - which makes it strange it hasn't caught on, but it probably looks too hard. If there were a field nearby I'd play, but I have an Aussie Rules background and it's not hard to get us interested.
@MrFocaleile No... I said I'd like to play 'if there was field nearby'. The nearest field is some 40km or more out of the city, in the southeast. I'm 7km to the northwest. I can't do it. There are 6 Gaelic clubs around Melbourne and they play on one fucking ground! ha ha! I'm a little drunk as I write this. GAA is free flowing. Looks a bit hard to get the ball back, sans tackling, but once you get used to it I am sure it's a dream to play. I wish we got it more on the TV, from Ireland.
Can you please make this content available for mobile use as well...I keep trying to recruit people to play hurling, and this is the video I'd like to show them on my phone.
Good video! You`ve done a good job explaining, I reckon it`s hard for other nationalities to get this game. You should make another video of "injury`s" or "bad tackles"
I personally think that hurling is a fantastic sport. Problem is that Gaelic is just more popular. Maybe it is just easier to be better at Gaelic but hurling has a massive history from Irish mythology. I think it's poorly represented, which sucks, because it's a brilliant sport.
Problem is that with catchy music, quick editing, any sport can look compelling. While there seems to be potentially spectacular elements about this game, I'll reserve my judgement until I see an unedited play sequence. Watch US football highlights and it seems cool until you see all the stoppages a real game has. Aussie football also has tons of boring stuff beyond highlights, same with cricket or baseball. Large field outdoor sports always have some downtime and filler moments, even soccer.
@ eamonnca1 Can you please make this content available for mobile use as well...I keep trying to recruit people to play hurling, and this is the video I'd like to show them on my phone.
so this must be the game that all my two irish immigrant workmates, carrol o'shannon and carol o'shannon wanted me to look up on youtube. Here I was thinking it was called "pearling" and that it was a game that you played online
@pseudonominous The goalie has three defenders on the full back line in front of him who would basically kill to protect him .....so as the yanks say......you are all set ;-)
First time I saw hurling was back when ESPN was a real sports channel, I thought it was awesome . . . and bloody dangerous. Wish we could watch it here in USA.
@LoveStrawberryXx hah yea, its supposed to be shoulder to shoulder only, but in many of my matches it was shoulder to chest or shoulder to face lol and then theres always the good hurley to the shins or knees when people pull through. definitely my kinda game :)
@Redrockglen You just feck away off mate. Im from belfast btw. Yes, Im proud to be Irish, NOT british. So. Go. Fuck. Yourself. Okie? Right KayyThnxBaii.
@LoveStrawberryXx No one plays hurling in Belfast, We play our National Game in Cork and we are fucking good at it, play Gaelic Football aswell unlike the other 31 counties who play only 1 game
@Redrockglen Umm,last time I checked nearly every guy in my school, and others, plays for a hurling team. Same with gaelic football. So go do your resarch before you start trollin, okie?
@Redrockglen And can I not post a friendly comment on here without some arsehole like you ruining it? Seriously, you have nothing better to do! Go get a fucking life.
@capetown99 First of all you are unqualified to speak on behalf of Cork GAA coming from a County without a single All Ireland title to their name. In my lifetime I have witnessed my County win all Irelands in both hurling and football. I was born in 1990 and if you check the record books i think you will find no person my age from any other county can say they witnessed their county win hurling and football All Irelands in their lifetime.
What do you want a medal? I knew people who dedicated their lives to Ulster GAA Hurling and Football and were murderd for it. I'm 42, I saw Jimmy Barry Murphy play in Croke park when I was a kid so dont lecture me on what you've seen or havnt seen.
You claiming that first of all no one plays hurling in Belfast and then changing your mind and saying those that do are shit doesnt wash with me. You respect all teams, weak and strong.
@coirpeach1 We won the double in 1990, In 2010 Cork played in both hurling and football semi finals. And you saying Cork are not good now is a bit rich when your own county were never any good at anything. The only sporting success in Antrim is Linfield FC and I dont think you would be a fan of them!!!!!
@Redrockglen I know that but we are in the same situation as you,Waterford and Cork dont have any good strong players coming up for another 3 to 4 years.Dublin are on the way up in both Football and Hurling..Tipp and Galway have got the younger players coming up...
@HarfordLax16 Core is made of cork, surrounded by layers of string and a two-part leather cover stitched together on the outside. It's roughly the size, weight and hardness of a baseball.
@HarfordLax16 its a hard solid sphere slightly larger than a tennis ball, consisting of a cork core covered by two pieces of leather stitched together ... Some balls have a type of plastic ball inside the leather which gives i slightly better bounce but if you catch it wrong its fairly easy to break a finger/thumb! :L
Lacrosse is a also considered a fast sport
Aohco8a 1 week ago
@Aohco8a but its gay
ACHUBBYHORSE1 1 day ago
Why do only some of them have helmets?
Jonte135 1 week ago
@Jonte135 they didnt have to where helmets but now its compulsory.if you dont,you get fined
4TCRONAN 1 week ago
@4TCRONAN Ah ok, looks extremely dangerous if you don't.
Jonte135 1 week ago
@Jonte135 its up to you if you want one
scozc1 3 days ago
All wise i.e. Elvis '77, submits to the erroneous use of punctuation and maintains, in his defence/defense, that he would not score well either on an IQ test.
Camán folks, grab your hurley, or perceived by the masses as the wielded battle axe of the bog trotting brute!
Rest assured fellow natives, these are the utterings of a patriot, albeit a well oiled one!
ErinElvis78 1 week ago
I think this would be fun until I got crushed in the skull with an axe shaped stick....
KATOMATE01 1 week ago 2
Why is the first I'm seeing of this? I'd love to play this!
SleepNoJutsu 2 weeks ago
My brother was at a Hurling match where a guy got his nuts broken. True story.
durachta 2 weeks ago
this looks awsum to watch :D
Casin01 2 weeks ago
Normally I mute videos with terrible songs and just watch the video but this video and the other video about the GAA I don't because I think it suits the video perfectly. I used to watch this a lot when I lived in Ireland now I don't get to watch it much because I'm in the UK and it's not shown on any channels - well none that I can find.
Mobey1 2 weeks ago
@Mobey1 I recently moved over from Ireland to the UK. BBC usually show the All Ireland, for other matches your best bet is to find the nearest Irish Bar to you they normally televise most matches
McGooch32 2 weeks ago
@Mobey1 Rte also have a thing like the iplayer now but i'm not sure it works in the uk
akkarin18 2 weeks ago
Hurling - Helmet= optional, Balls= mandatory
MattiusIV 3 weeks ago 9
Greatest game on Earth- Fact.
joesoap81 3 weeks ago
How often does someone get the bones in their hand smashed to small bits by the "axe" that the opponent is swinging at you while you grab the ball in midair?
warp9988 3 weeks ago 4
@warp9988 Hand injuries happen but they're not very common. Players are taught from a young age how to protect themselves.
eamonnca1 3 weeks ago 5
@warp9988 You use the hurley to protect your hand while it's in the air, have the bas behind your hand 1:23
okee9 1 week ago
Going to Ireland in February for 4 months, so I hope I can see a few games!!
MaxP117 3 weeks ago
@MaxP117, the all Ireland hurling championship will have started,get to a game
scozc1 3 days ago
The goalies seem more pointless here than in football.
VIVIsectVI 3 weeks ago
@VIVIsectVI
Not really, there's a 2 point system, over the bars is a goal and worth 1 point, in the goal is worth more, the goalies are just as capable at stopping the ball as hockey goalies.
30Ciaran 3 weeks ago
I love how fast and violent this sport is. They used to show a programme called Gaelic Games in the UK several years ago, I watched it on a regular basis.
eclectica1 3 weeks ago
It doesn't mean it's fast when you put a fast music in background
Cytoskeleton1 4 weeks ago
@Cytoskeleton1 if you watch a real match it is very fast. players strike the ball 80+yards. Action turns from one side of the pitch to the next in a matter of seconds.
DASHTEK1 3 weeks ago 2
is this called lawn or field hockey in north america? looks familiar but i don't know where from.
87images1 1 month ago
@87images1 no, its pretty different from field hockey bc its mostly played in the air (where field hockey is played mostly on the grass)
deltasalmon 4 weeks ago
Irish Sport <3
aRMPshow 1 month ago
This looks fucking awesome! I need to find a club near me that plays this...
debbi3d 1 month ago
this is amazing! rubgylacrossebaseballsoccer!
screspi1 1 month ago
why is there even a goal keeper? it seems imposable to stop a ball that size in a net that big. but still looks pretty fun
gearsofMEAT 1 month ago
@gearsofMEAT bigger goals makes for better goalkeepers. A good keeper is great to watch
MrFocaleile 3 days ago
@gearsofMEAT
ah jesus lad, im a keeper myself and its fairly easy to read the player comnig towards ya and you dive before it comes and you hope that the good lord himself saves it for ya :D:D:D
mocgoc 1 day ago
seriously this game looks so intense
UncleSamProduction 1 month ago
The officials look like secondary school science teachers with labcoats on!
mattg109 1 month ago
Armagh will be up there soon;)
Dhegarty182 1 month ago
yup, its a wooden axe and we all have at least one in our houses
paddyoshea55 1 month ago
It looks easy to get smacked in the head. Half of them are not even wearing helmets. Yikes.
CyeOutsider 1 month ago 2
@CyeOutsider That used to be a danger until the GAA made it a rule that every hurler of every age group must wear a helmet. Back in the day you could get worse that a smack on the head! But then again, look at the athletic skill of these lads...
slapshot37GNR 1 month ago
funny how the refs are wearing white lab coats. great sport though!!
xAVERAGeGENTLEMEnX 1 month ago
to intense for my eyes
BENGOESforGold 1 month ago
@AlexMoensChannel ye as @eamonnca said it's would be in america to and im actully goin to america next yr to train/coach and under 20's club, i actully played for my county, which is dublin until i was injured, the dublin team is the one's in the blue at 3:08,
fineirish2 2 months ago
.... does no one else see the clear hazards of swinging a giant plank of wood at face level on a crowded field?
kingcole55 2 months ago
@AlexMoensChannel irish
sebastianthegreat2 2 months ago
My friend told me the first things that pop into his head when he hears "Irish" is "Beer, & IRA terrorists". My other friend, thank God, said "Freedom fighting culture, kind people, Guinness, and Gaelic sports that I still don't understand how they play these sports w/ that skill & don't get $". You can tell which one is the smarter one. Hurling is the best sport BY FAR!
slapshot37GNR 2 months ago 2
This looks like an amazing sport. Thanks for posting.
justejacknola 2 months ago
this is exactly like gaelic football with the scoring and all. But @thGory1, gaelic football is closest to australian football+soccer.
zephdude 2 months ago
some of you guys watching this video are probably American. let me tell you something ....you guys have the completly wrong idea about irish people. im irish, lived here all my life.americans have this idea that irish people sit in pubs all day chatting with leprechauns. if you Yanks want to see modern day irish culture look up " The Rubber Bandits.
guitarboy781 2 months ago
@guitarboy781 Funny comment, though I wouldn't actually say The Rubberbandits sum up our culture haha.
ARAGORN41 1 month ago
@blishize like reading your comment
957xbox 2 months ago
One Day..
internetplaneta 2 months ago
Yeah, this is awesome.
EponymousKid 2 months ago
@AlexMoensChannel It is in America and there's probably a club near you. It's getting into American colleges too. See the other movies on my channel.
eamonnca1 2 months ago 3
Great Video, depicts all the skills, pace and brilliance of the game... lovely compilation, well done-
Theramgmbh 2 months ago
name of the song?
musicalman354 2 months ago
People have to relise aswell that none of these players get paid for playing this sport.
23greenmount 2 months ago
@23greenmount This seems like one of the most high skill team sports I've ever seen. They're amateurs? That's incredible that someone could devote this much effort into learning just for the love of the game. Incredible.
justejacknola 2 months ago
i am from America, and must say that European spots are much better, and involve much more skill than our sports. Wish that these sports, rugby, hurling, gaelic football, would make it across the Atlantic!
MCMCMC12ify 2 months ago
Man the irish where playing this when the egyptians where still building their pryamids.
JordoF6 2 months ago 22
@JordoF6 Pyramids might be more advanced.
Badlogic2 2 months ago
Yeah they were if you know newgrange in ireland if you dont you should look it up it is 3000 years older than the pyrimids
Mr11tadhg 3 weeks ago
@JordoF6 you mean when the aliens were building the pyramids...
aepps2 2 weeks ago 2
@aepps2 Or that yeah i believe that also,never know the ets might have gave the first hurley stick to my countrymen.
JordoF6 2 weeks ago
This is the BEST Gaelic sport, it shits all over hockey or Yank lacrosse!
MrKRH74 2 months ago
Best sport there is...the Yanks are always speechless when I show them this video. It shuts them up when they're talkin' about how much skill their "sports" require. Haha, hell! Lacrosse and Hockey can't match this sport-I know 'cause I play them-describing Hurling is very hard, so just say "the best sport in the world skill-wise"
slapshot37GNR 2 months ago
@joshrobdaddy no way is aussies rules a faster game of hurling, a hurler can drive the sliothar 100m+ in seconds, the play can change from one end of the field to the other and back again in seconds, while afl is big running game, there is no way they can move the ball faster that in hurling, and besides ye have the mark in afl which stops play every minute, imagine if hurling stopped every time somebody made a clean catch.
razor111432 3 months ago
@razor111432 ok some good points there irishmen... but afl players run 20km a game and they play on after a mark more often than not these days... so i suppose im trying to say that its faster by way of run and carry. hurling probably faster passing-wise you're right.
joshrobdaddy 3 months ago
@joshrobdaddy yeah but running 20km in a game doesnt make it fast, it's fairly impressive to run that kind of distance during a game but i think you're missing the point. If you race a hurler with an afl player they would be probably be the same speed, and i'm sure the afl player could run for longer, but my point is about the speed at which hurling is played in every aspect of the game not just how much distance we can cover. afl just doesnt compare to hurling
razor111432 3 months ago
@razor111432 i can see what our saying we cant move the balls as fast as you guys can, its completely different in that aspect. but from a generally athletic perspective, it is more important for players to be able to run quick in afl than in hurling, its alot more focussed on run and carry and you dont wanna get tackled or hit. If you put a rover (especially an abo, there is alot of them in the afl these days) against a hurling player in a foot race, rover would win most of the time.
joshrobdaddy 3 months ago
@joshrobdaddy i presume a rover "does what it says on the tin"and is very fast, i'm not too sure of the positions in afl but is it the ruckmen that are always massive 6ft6 guys? race one of those against a hurler! you guys also have big advantages to maintain a high pace considering you have interchanges, we dont, you have 4 quarters, we have halves and you guys are professionals and train 4 times a day preseason,we train 4times/wk and work full time.Youtube doesnt lie, hurling has to be faster
razor111432 3 months ago
@razor111432 true that.. a 7ft ruckman would have no chance against anyone in a sprint. but as for midfielders, they are looked at in the draft with a huge emphasis on their pace, and believe me, it's a tough draft to even get into, they're all freak athletes. but the bottom line is hurling is faster in the way of passing, but footy is faster by way of run (I think anyway ;) ).
joshrobdaddy 3 months ago
This shit looks brutal ... would not want to get whacked with one of those.
stuckupcurlyguy 3 months ago
@stuckupcurlyguy its very very sore :L the pain makes u pumped tho.i play gaelic mainly so thankfully dnt gt hit 2 often :L
iiEliTezz1 2 months ago
wow, this rules! I have one question, though: how common are injuries? it looks like your hands could get wrecked pretty easily with sticks flying everywhere.
(American here)
thejasoninator 3 months ago
@thejasoninator Not to sound bad here cause this is extremely rare occurance but people have died playin the sport i knew a fella who got a belt of a hurley into the neck which cut his airflow and he dropped dead on the pitch but that was years ago but injuries are commen but im a hurler and id describe hurling as the best game in the world ..... bar being the fastest sport in the world on grass its also recognised as the oldest sport in the world in general it bein 3000-4000 year old sport :)
gotnuts344343 3 months ago
@thejasoninator Broken fingers are common, but a bit of tape will sort that out and you keep playing.
ARAGORN41 1 month ago
These sports are much more entertaining than soccer... particularly Italian soccer! We're having the dumbest, most boring season in years!
stefanofocacci 3 months ago
except there's no skill involved in baseball
bellyflop55 3 months ago
I love how the description says "the skills of baseball, hockey, and lacrosse" when hockey is a variant of hurling, and lacrosse was edited through the observations of hurling. And in baseball, you have a glove to catch a high-speed and there's no contact
slapshot37GNR 3 months ago
Allow me to chip in - rugby is cross country wrestling with a ball !.....and is great great game, and so is hurling. Did someone here say rugby and gaelic football are similar ??? Thats a bit like saying golf is similar to photography.....or that american football is similar to boredom....except that they are the same
thGory1 3 months ago 3
@thGory1 Preach it brother! I've never understood why people describe Gaelic football as a combination of soccer and rugby. It's no such thing! It's got nothing whatsoever in common with rugby except for kicking the ball over the bar. I always describe it as being 'like' a combination of soccer and basketball, which is a lot more accurate.
eamonnca1 3 months ago 6
@eamonnca1 any idea who the guy at 0:40 is? He's a flipping machine!
Kodiou 3 months ago
@Kodiou Diarmuid O'Sullivan from Cloyne in Co. Cork. Great player and leader of the Rebels (Cork), known as "The Rock". His younger bro now plays for Cork, known as "The Pebble", Cork still haven't replaced him!
TheClawwwwww 2 months ago
Why have I never heard of this! I was watching Blitz with Jason Stathom and in the opening scene right before he beats them up he says "It's a hurling stick for the Irish game of hurling." I though to myself any sport that uses a stick shaped like an axe have to be interesting. It is this game looks amazing. I am an American and I am thinking to myself why do Brits, Scotts and Irish like "football" so much when they have a sport like this around?
jrangle 3 months ago
@jrangle Well it's really only Ireland that it's played. There are some other countries, American, Holland and Belgium that play it too.
As for "football" that's what I was saying to @JamesBoy4LifeMan4Luv . Soccer is overrated, and ruled by money. This is amateur. These lads don't get paid to play this. They train twice a week, with games on Saturdays, and they have normal every day jobs. None of this celebrity crap you get with soccer players
sXeLodge 3 months ago
Looks like fun. I don't agree with catching the ball - I don't think you should be allowed to handle the ball at all, apart from the keeper. But it must work. I've only seem one game (the final I think, involving the yellow and black striped team) and while it was riveting, I found the constant stopping for penalties a bit annoying. It's something you need to grow up with. Beats hockey.
JamesBoy4LifeMan4Luv 3 months ago
@JamesBoy4LifeMan4Luv That'll be Kilkenny in black and yellow. They're the most successful Hurling team in history.
Definitely it's something you need to grow up with. You can't just pick up a Hurley and go at it, maybe you could explain that to our wrestler friend on here, who seems to think he's fucking Chuck Norris . . .
sXeLodge 3 months ago
@sXeLodge I havnt noticed him - maybe it IS Chuck Norris, ha ha!. To be honest I cudnt help but laugh during some of the video: when they were running and balancing the ball on there hurleys... I found myself thinking back to grade 1 or 2, those egg and spoon races - I never dreamed they would be useful for something!
JamesBoy4LifeMan4Luv 3 months ago
@JamesBoy4LifeMan4Luv hahaha, that's true. I even remember doing that as a kid at the sports day, and thinking "How could I possibly need this skill in future life?" and it turns out, you kinda do.
The Gaelic sports are underrated I think. Everything seems to revolve around soccer.
sXeLodge 3 months ago
@sXeLodge I dont get soccers popularity. I suppose its a simple game. Hurling and Gaelic are a great spectacle, but complicated. Soloing the ball as well as bouncing, tapping the ball to each hand... add the egg and spoon bit in the hurling and it all looks too tricky! Then the soccer world cup rolls around, 45 min halftime in game one, 0-0. I'm sorry, but fuck that! Game highlights: 77th minute, Luigi Pippiti puts it in the net and runs all over the field going bananas, full-stop. Shit.
JamesBoy4LifeMan4Luv 3 months ago
@JamesBoy4LifeMan4Luv Soccer is overrated. And you get all this Carlos Tevez shit, where he refuses to come on as a sub but still takes his huge pay cheque.
That's the one thing I do love about GAA, is that it's all amateur sport. It's nice to be able to see a sport that isn't totally ruled by money. They play because they want to, not because of the huge money deals.
sXeLodge 3 months ago
@sXeLodge The GAA players want to play because their sport is actually fun to play - which makes it strange it hasn't caught on, but it probably looks too hard. If there were a field nearby I'd play, but I have an Aussie Rules background and it's not hard to get us interested.
JamesBoy4LifeMan4Luv 3 months ago
@JamesBoy4LifeMan4Luv
Yeah i get what your saying, but to be fair name another sport that has less stopages, and dont say soccer thats altogether the slowest thing going.
MrFocaleile 2 months ago
@MrFocaleile No... I said I'd like to play 'if there was field nearby'. The nearest field is some 40km or more out of the city, in the southeast. I'm 7km to the northwest. I can't do it. There are 6 Gaelic clubs around Melbourne and they play on one fucking ground! ha ha! I'm a little drunk as I write this. GAA is free flowing. Looks a bit hard to get the ball back, sans tackling, but once you get used to it I am sure it's a dream to play. I wish we got it more on the TV, from Ireland.
JamesBoy4LifeMan4Luv 2 months ago
And there's me thinking Quidditch was the fastest game on grass...silly me :P
olivershepherd 3 months ago
Why is the umpire on left pointing at the umpire on right 2:43??! He clearly has the green flag like... :P
Limerick9824 3 months ago
2:43 Why is the umpire on left pointing at the umpire on right??! He clearly has the green flag like... :P
Limerick9824 3 months ago
@eamonnca1
Can you please make this content available for mobile use as well...I keep trying to recruit people to play hurling, and this is the video I'd like to show them on my phone.
Thanks,
Scott Cooper
Akron Hurling
cooperparadigm 3 months ago
I do forget how good this sport is unreal !
IRELAND921 4 months ago
is there any clubs in new york
BIGLOAD68 4 months ago
Looks like fun
revilo412 4 months ago
Good video! You`ve done a good job explaining, I reckon it`s hard for other nationalities to get this game. You should make another video of "injury`s" or "bad tackles"
funkymacfunk 4 months ago
I never looked into hurling until just this very moment. I have a new life goal. I need to play me some hurley.
herrincardia 4 months ago
the best thing about this is they r not paid so its all honour
murf503 4 months ago
My friend of Irish background introduced me to this.
APESHIT!!!!
BIG UP HURLING, by far one of the craziest sports I've ever witnessed, if not the craziest.
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ceeteebars 4 months ago
Great clips . and Fair play to you on explaining the Game to newbies .
Eamonca1
1970000100 4 months ago
GaelicGames2011's
channel
Has hurling matches in Hd
If anyone is interested.
1970000100 4 months ago
That actually looks really fun!
NoshRunner 4 months ago
I personally think that hurling is a fantastic sport. Problem is that Gaelic is just more popular. Maybe it is just easier to be better at Gaelic but hurling has a massive history from Irish mythology. I think it's poorly represented, which sucks, because it's a brilliant sport.
Katazka 4 months ago
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Problem is that with catchy music, quick editing, any sport can look compelling. While there seems to be potentially spectacular elements about this game, I'll reserve my judgement until I see an unedited play sequence. Watch US football highlights and it seems cool until you see all the stoppages a real game has. Aussie football also has tons of boring stuff beyond highlights, same with cricket or baseball. Large field outdoor sports always have some downtime and filler moments, even soccer.
15V31F 4 months ago
@15V31F Check it out then and report back to us...
ARAGORN41 1 month ago
GO ON THE CATS!
Eyelaashh 4 months ago
Got to say this is the best video iv have seen on the beautiful game of hurling...Its a credit to the maker.....Suas na Déise
coirpeach1 4 months ago
deffintly an awesome video, one of my favorites.
ajvarelas1 4 months ago
up the banner!
StBigC 4 months ago
wow really...
nikoicee 4 months ago
@ eamonnca1 Can you please make this content available for mobile use as well...I keep trying to recruit people to play hurling, and this is the video I'd like to show them on my phone.
Thanks,
Scott Cooper
Akron Hurling
cooperparadigm 4 months ago
some of these dudes would probably put MLB players to shame. give them some batting practice sessions, asap.
dchockeygoali07 4 months ago
@BigWyatt01 fastest sport in the world
1Supernoober 4 months ago
u have four steps with the ball in your hand
ethanbev1804 4 months ago
IT'S OVER 9000 !!!
12345TheRonan 4 months ago
dont get too close to the guy hitting the ball...might need face reconstruction
getupkid203 4 months ago
@getupkid203 No now everyone has to wear helmets and when your hit it`s not that bad you get used to it
lhoganl33 4 months ago 2
so this must be the game that all my two irish immigrant workmates, carrol o'shannon and carol o'shannon wanted me to look up on youtube. Here I was thinking it was called "pearling" and that it was a game that you played online
spanky8477 5 months ago
@pseudonominous The goalie has three defenders on the full back line in front of him who would basically kill to protect him .....so as the yanks say......you are all set ;-)
mickeyreal 5 months ago
This game scares the piss outta me I wanna play it now
Dud30981 5 months ago
kinda like gaelic
CODLoVeR11 5 months ago
First time I saw hurling was back when ESPN was a real sports channel, I thought it was awesome . . . and bloody dangerous. Wish we could watch it here in USA.
WMalven 5 months ago
This game is badass!!
34point5ish 5 months ago
It would be cool if they could all get helmets that match their team colors. Maybe some not-so-ugly helmets, too.
Fairmont4ever 5 months ago
people saying the goalkeepers could never save a shot, look at 5:02
hurlin is the best sport in the world! im from kildare so there isnt the highest standard of hurling but i still play it and love it :D
kornrok123 5 months ago
Up the MHC! hurling.net
benobp17 5 months ago
This is why i'm proud to be Irish ^^ I always loved doing hurling in school. I think its the fastest non contact sport in the world?
LoveStrawberryXx 5 months ago
@LoveStrawberryXx I don't know if I'd call it non cantact
benobp17 5 months ago
@benobp17 Its supposed to be. :P
LoveStrawberryXx 5 months ago
@LoveStrawberryXx hah yea, its supposed to be shoulder to shoulder only, but in many of my matches it was shoulder to chest or shoulder to face lol and then theres always the good hurley to the shins or knees when people pull through. definitely my kinda game :)
benobp17 5 months ago
@benobp17 Why dont you play it then? :P
LoveStrawberryXx 5 months ago
@LoveStrawberryXx Proud to be Irish? half the country dont play their national game. You are probably from Kerry stick to the bogball
Redrockglen 4 months ago
@Redrockglen You just feck away off mate. Im from belfast btw. Yes, Im proud to be Irish, NOT british. So. Go. Fuck. Yourself. Okie? Right KayyThnxBaii.
LoveStrawberryXx 4 months ago
@LoveStrawberryXx No one plays hurling in Belfast, We play our National Game in Cork and we are fucking good at it, play Gaelic Football aswell unlike the other 31 counties who play only 1 game
Redrockglen 4 months ago
@Redrockglen Umm,last time I checked nearly every guy in my school, and others, plays for a hurling team. Same with gaelic football. So go do your resarch before you start trollin, okie?
LoveStrawberryXx 4 months ago
@Redrockglen And can I not post a friendly comment on here without some arsehole like you ruining it? Seriously, you have nothing better to do! Go get a fucking life.
LoveStrawberryXx 4 months ago
@Redrockglen
Thats a load of shit. A lot of the hurlers from Antrim play in Belfast along with hurlers from Belfast themselves.
capetown99 4 months ago
@capetown99 They are shit hurlers.
Redrockglen 4 months ago
@Redrockglen
Your first comment was "No one plays hurling in Belfast" and now its "theyre shit hurlers".
So do they or dont they? You never ever insult annother hurling county no matter how weak they are.
Your an embarrassment to Cork GAA.
capetown99 4 months ago
@capetown99 First of all you are unqualified to speak on behalf of Cork GAA coming from a County without a single All Ireland title to their name. In my lifetime I have witnessed my County win all Irelands in both hurling and football. I was born in 1990 and if you check the record books i think you will find no person my age from any other county can say they witnessed their county win hurling and football All Irelands in their lifetime.
Redrockglen 4 months ago
@Redrockglen
What do you want a medal? I knew people who dedicated their lives to Ulster GAA Hurling and Football and were murderd for it. I'm 42, I saw Jimmy Barry Murphy play in Croke park when I was a kid so dont lecture me on what you've seen or havnt seen.
You claiming that first of all no one plays hurling in Belfast and then changing your mind and saying those that do are shit doesnt wash with me. You respect all teams, weak and strong.
capetown99 4 months ago
@capetown99 I can lecture you all you want coz you havent a clue what it takes to win an all ireland.
I respect teams that earn my respect, Antrim do not have my respect.
Redrockglen 4 months ago
@Redrockglen What do you mean other counties only play one game??Cork aint so good now..
coirpeach1 4 months ago
@coirpeach1 We won the double in 1990, In 2010 Cork played in both hurling and football semi finals. And you saying Cork are not good now is a bit rich when your own county were never any good at anything. The only sporting success in Antrim is Linfield FC and I dont think you would be a fan of them!!!!!
Redrockglen 4 months ago
@Redrockglen Im not from Antrim, im from Waterford and I played for my county.....
coirpeach1 4 months ago
@coirpeach1 Waterford have won fuck all as well
Redrockglen 4 months ago
@Redrockglen I know that but we are in the same situation as you,Waterford and Cork dont have any good strong players coming up for another 3 to 4 years.Dublin are on the way up in both Football and Hurling..Tipp and Galway have got the younger players coming up...
coirpeach1 4 months ago
@Redrockglen HaHa Dubs for the double next year. This year was just the warm up!
ballockybill 4 months ago
@ballockybill The Dubs cant beat Cork in hurling or football. Ye will only win the double if ye avoid Cork.
Redrockglen 4 months ago
haha i feel sorry for the goalies in that sport... there's no way in hell you could stop a ball except blocking it with your face
gsofficial 5 months ago
the most badass game on da planet
themorrissey100 5 months ago
hey is there any kind of club in the San Francisco California area?
jasonisthedude 5 months ago
@jasonisthedude There's three clubs in San Francisco. If you've never played before then contact the SF Rovers, I'm sure they'd be happy to have you
eamonnca1 5 months ago
@eamonnca1 thanks! it looks like an amazing sport and very unusual, id love to try it some time :D
jasonisthedude 5 months ago
@eamonnca1 people tell me that this is also the most dangerous sport....is that true?
ClanChattan14 5 months ago
Wow this is actually really cool haha I play lax and this is pretty similar. Awesome!
Fightingirishajf 5 months ago
Looks cool but i would rather not play it and stick to lacrosse. What is the ball made of?
HarfordLax16 5 months ago
@HarfordLax16 Core is made of cork, surrounded by layers of string and a two-part leather cover stitched together on the outside. It's roughly the size, weight and hardness of a baseball.
eamonnca1 5 months ago
@eamonnca1 Ouch, thank you.
HarfordLax16 5 months ago
@eamonnca1 so basically a two-piece cricket ball?
ashleythwaites1989 4 months ago
@eamonnca1 its harder than a baseball!
richiem95 4 months ago
@richiem95 no, but it has ridges and is slightly lighter
MrFocaleile 2 months ago
@MrFocaleile Its still harder!
richiem95 2 months ago
@richiem95 no man its actually not, a proper baseball is very hard an heavy compared to an oneills sliotar
its like a rock against a hurl
MrFocaleile 2 months ago
@HarfordLax16 its a hard solid sphere slightly larger than a tennis ball, consisting of a cork core covered by two pieces of leather stitched together ... Some balls have a type of plastic ball inside the leather which gives i slightly better bounce but if you catch it wrong its fairly easy to break a finger/thumb! :L
richiem95 4 months ago
This game is insanely cool.
Dontdisstheguy33 5 months ago
how many steps with the ball in hand?
jakegiles2 5 months ago
@jakegiles2 4 steps .. only allowed to catch the ball twice while in possession.
Carbon1398 5 months ago
ANTRIM ALL THE WAY
CELTIC88BARCA 5 months ago
That looks like it hurts a lot.
ThrashingKangaroo 5 months ago