 All right my friends, what is going on? Welcome back to another Rugby Player Reacts video. Today we're doing La Crosse. In fact, for the last three or four videos we've done La Crosse, we've had a little look at Frisbee. Frisbee's actually quite interesting and we're gonna continue that too. But today's La Crosse, Rugby Player Reacts to La Crosse. Now, from what I've seen so far, it's definitely a mixture, it's a hybrid sport of many sports actually. The thing that I enjoy the most is probably the sidestepping, it's the duking, it's the beating defenders one-on-one and that's what I enjoy about any sport. I mean basketball, football, Rugby, AFL, ice hockey even. So I'm learning slowly but surely and today we actually have quite a lengthy video. It's Yale versus Virginia, the 2019 NCAA La Crosse national championship game. I don't know how these two teams actually got to that point. I assume after the game we should probably do a bit of research on that. But I don't wanna see the final result, I wanna react to this with you guys and well, there's nothing left to do but to do it. What I will say is that this little face-off, first thing I thought was it looks like two balls going at it, two rams, you know, going pfft. Then I thought, holy shit, that looks like a scrum in Rugby. And then I thought, no, that looks like a restart in ice hockey. And then I thought, no, no, it's none of those. It's a hybrid, it's called La Crosse. So let's get into it guys. And we're actually gonna finally see what happens. What happens here? I feel like they both put their stick up against one another and then the first one to sort of break away at the right angle may be the one that keeps the ball but we're about to see our very first restart. Interesting, interesting to say the least. It's almost like wrestling as well, isn't it? One-time award in College La Crosse. Joey Cessar, the striker. Oh! It's Matt John. Over to the pressure of Matt Grandin. They shot seed, and he recessed the shot clock. On the seven goal game of the 70s. Jack Tye, Frank Sincero. What a goal. The senior front-long islander with the first-sale goal. There is one other thing I wanna see, La Crosse. The longest goal ever scored. Good luck stopping that. Actually, the goalie was pretty close to stopping that, really. Oh, bro, look at that fucking stadium. Nice bit of footwork to get some distance. Here we go, watch this. Gets himself a little bit of space. Oh, it's the screen. Fuck, we got basketball players here too. Wow, this really is a hybrid, isn't it? He called the screen from the power forward. The point guard, bang, gets past him. Turns around for the 180 shot. Straight in. Yeah, I like that. Damn. Good save. Where was the goalie? Oh, there he is. Damn, that's a bit dangerous, isn't it? Bro, where's the ball? He established that. Yes! I thought it was going to be a goal. Man, I can imagine if you got a bit of speed in this game, if you got some nice footwork, you could definitely get yourself open a lot, couldn't you? Especially in the midfield. Not so much near the goal box, I'm sure. You know, it'd be pretty, there'd be a lot of traffic in there. Okay, so some guys have short sticks, some guys have long sticks. I did hear something about that in the previous video, actually. Is it defensive players have a long stick? They have to have at least four long sticks on the field. I thought he tried to hit him, I thought he tried to fucking backhand with his stick. Big check. See, it's interesting, I wonder, like, wonder what parts of this game the fanatics really enjoy the most. I couldn't say. Bang again. Go, son! Gets a fucking stick in the back for your trouble. See, that wouldn't be easy, man, so he's gone and he's obviously right-handed. He'd much rather throw that way, he's turned around and thrown the other way. That's like being ambidextrous, that's impressive. The spin move, the spin move at the right time could really open you up towards that goal. The footwork is definitely my favourite part. Oh, freestyle! Damn. Vice. At the beginning of the season, where do you think he stands now? Wow, look at number six! What are they doing? Yeah, beautiful restart against the ball. See that coming. He's jealous with the high heat to Bigs. Wonder what would a good score be? Would it be ten? Ten in one game? I'm sure it'd be similar to football, actually, you know, the lesser schools would get smashed and the top schools would be pretty close. Wonder what the highest point score in a game of lacrosse is? Splits them. That was just about to say, yeah, play and make it taken. The importance of ground balls. The winger's scrap. Twenty-two in white, the best in the game. He causes the turnover, the scoop, the sprint, the celebrate. All his skills on display. The winger's at the face-off, that's for Yale right now. It's the freshman, Jane Newman. Change your... Eight-four. Come on, Yale. Where is Yale from? Here is Yale. CT, what's that, Connecticut? Connecticut. Let's have a look. Let's have a look where you are, mate. East, west, south, mid. Oh, we're by the water. That looks quite nice. Where on earth is that? That is, oh, shit, up above New York. Okay, and Virginia is here. We're both on the east coast. Kind of. That gives this offense another opportunity. Matt Moore has been missed to a sister all season long. Find the All-American, Michael Grouse. And with that assist, Matt Moore has 80s. That needs help with your Yale's defense. What is the slide come down? Moore against the short step. Moore shoots, scores, the slide, never came. And that's a hat trick for Matt Moore. I was going to say, another cool thing that a player would want is a hat trick, right? But you've got to know that Matt Moore is going to be able to draw a double team here. Nobody goes. That communication starts in this game. So you get that defender on your outside, or your inside. You do a nice spin move. And, yeah, the spin move is definitely a killer for this game. And engage. Big five, but I'll tell you what. It's the plays in the middle of the field. Oh, no, not again. Oh, here we go. This kid's amazing. Nice number two, 23. So, okay, so, hang on. So he's literally... Okay, so the ball is actually facing backwards in the motion. He brings it up, turns it around at the top, and then blings it back down and gets hit for his troubles, too. Beautiful goal. Bro, okay, let me get this straight. Like, still no idea. Oh, look at this footwork. B-b-bang. Spin round. Back step. Where are you going? That's when you want a long stick, isn't it, to keep it away from the defense. And Virginia gets it back. Wow. Dangerous pass, nearly picked off. I think I saw that hit in the previous video. That's a clean hit, because he's got both hands on the stick, and he doesn't go for the head. I actually remember him saying clean in the previous video. So the shot clocks 60 seconds, but that was the end of a quarter. Okay, so the ball actually goes down into a smaller pocket of the net. And so when you bring it up like that, it gets it into that bigger part of the net, then you bring it over and you fling it out. So you're actually, you probably, until you're ready to pass or shoot, you probably want to have it in that smaller part so that even when it's upside down, if you go like that, it's not going to fall out. Is that what I'm seeing here? It looks like the goalie. The only difference between, I've just worked this out, the only difference between a goalie and a normal player is the size of the net. Which makes sense. It's like, okay, okay. There's people out there who are fanatical about hockey. Okay, field hockey. If you're going to line up a game of hockey versus a game of lacrosse, any day of the week. And I've watched many, many games of hockey. So there's a chance I could probably get into this game. Actually, I only watch hockey in the Commonwealth games or the Olympic games because New Zealand's not bad. That reminds me. There's a guy from New Zealand who hit me up last week about watching lacrosse. And he told me that New Zealand have a national team and they're not bad. Maybe we should look that up. He gets their opportunities. You know Matt Brandow can make and count seven goals against Penn State, the semis. It's pretty barbaric, isn't he? He's like... The long sticks. Oh, we're at a short stick now. Get that leverage straight in the top corner. Oh, don't know about that. That's a beautiful score, isn't it? Literally scraped the underside of the crossbar. Watch that spin move. 12-8. What a save. Beautiful interception. The pick. Come on, score it, score it. Yo, clean interception. That's a nice play. Minute to go. Oh, yeah, we're getting desperate. Had the goalie out of the box. What a goal. What a way to finish. Huge degree of difficulty. Yeah. I will say that all of these guys look very, very similar in size. There's been no like outstanding, you know, crazy big, either fat or tall or even just really, really muscular or even really, really fast, to be honest. I don't know if that's just these teams or not, but I'm definitely going to have to look up like the biggest players or the fastest players, the longest shot among other things. Ah, well, I got one back. Oh, it looks hot out there. Shot, Virginia. Okay, guys, that was a bit of fun. That was, well, about 25 minutes long, that video, and any La Crosse fans that are here. I hope you enjoyed. I hope you can, you know, at least have a look at Rugby, because that's why I do these videos, because I want to bring Rugby to the world. 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