Becoming a man in South Africa - Jim Hamilton

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  • Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
  • Big Jim and former Exeter Chiefs strength and conditioning coach, James Parkes, take a trip down memory lane as Jim recounts his teenage experience of being sent to South Africa by Leicester to improve his rugby.
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Комментарии • 62

  • @SNOK1986
    @SNOK1986 10 месяцев назад +47

    I am from Durban, played club rugby there for many years. I can confirm Jim has our respect. He took some beatings but he never backed down, took it all head on.

    • @TheDruzza
      @TheDruzza 5 месяцев назад +1

      who you play for bru?

    • @chrisfalcon9804
      @chrisfalcon9804 4 месяца назад

      which club?

    • @chrisfalcon9804
      @chrisfalcon9804 4 месяца назад

      still no response from him hei probably playing for the Springboks now...moegpoese are embarrassing

    • @kyle6792
      @kyle6792 2 месяца назад

      Gonna go out on a limb and say he played for the Durban collegians or Harlequins as a boy I played for the harlequins and hated playing them collegians with the red and black bloody jerseys

  • @maaifoediedelarey4335
    @maaifoediedelarey4335 10 месяцев назад +26

    Welcome to the South kant 🤠

  • @09hunterboy8
    @09hunterboy8 2 года назад +28

    Jim was a fun guy at Oldies, always smiling and giving us good “banter” . He could maul to the cows came home . I think it was 2000/2001, he played u21 with boycheees .

  • @Graham159871
    @Graham159871 2 года назад +25

    Jip, SA mentality, you have to front up to the challenge, even if you take a beating, it earns respect. I remember taking a few shots from compatriots and having the best party with the same lads afterwards 👌

  • @trevoroutim8519
    @trevoroutim8519 10 месяцев назад +25

    Jim you are a legend. Fighting in schools amongst boys in SA was a rite of passage back then. You proved yourself, so the boy who hit you gained your respect.

    • @greatleapforwards
      @greatleapforwards 3 месяца назад +1

      guess I never went through that rite of passage because I never fought anyone and neither did any of my mates. Mostly was the bullies and arseholes that did the fighting

    • @bwarrior6340
      @bwarrior6340 3 месяца назад

      @@greatleapforwards well then you have no rite of passage then. Go sit in the corner, softy.

  • @eugenebrink8305
    @eugenebrink8305 6 месяцев назад +4

    This is a great story. True legend. Greetings from SA 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

  • @grantsmith5081
    @grantsmith5081 2 года назад +23

    I remember those nightfever R20 drink as much as you can …. Respect that you played for DHS old boys 👍

  • @francisplatt93
    @francisplatt93 10 месяцев назад +15

    Jim, I lived in Pietermaritzburg and the roughest okes were from Durban. Those DHS old boys were another story. Unfortunately, SA is an aggressive place but you survived it! Legend you are.

  • @wesrobmat
    @wesrobmat 11 месяцев назад +28

    Lol when I was 10ish some kids beat me up and took my bike. When I went home my Dad (Afrikaaner) said “Don’t come home without your bike”. Then closes the door on me. I learned a valuable lesson in taking a beating.

    • @nolan1907
      @nolan1907 4 месяца назад +3

      Truth son. My toppie one day threw me out the house, said face him and he closed the fucking door, the guy fucked me up so bad, back then I thought my dad must hate me a lot, but now I think that maybe it was a good thing, getting fucked up makes you better.

    • @acelovesdiyschristopher7023
      @acelovesdiyschristopher7023 4 месяца назад

      ​@@nolan1907🤨

  • @bobovanzyl3008
    @bobovanzyl3008 2 года назад +14

    jim Hamilton jou yster! Greetings from South Africa.

  • @mahlanguism
    @mahlanguism Год назад +11

    How I managed to avoid getting beaten up in this country with my small frame and lippy chirps is one of the great mysteries of this world.

    • @gregsoul
      @gregsoul 9 месяцев назад

      Mate. It was your size. I remember or matric break up day our srawniest noisest boy being handcuffed to a tree by the cops, naked, at Emarrentia Dam. Funny stuff.

  • @koosduplooy8811
    @koosduplooy8811 2 года назад +10

    Great stories, love the detail in them!

  • @waynerockman1242
    @waynerockman1242 10 месяцев назад +6

    Can listen to Jim all day👍👍

  • @robinwilson730
    @robinwilson730 10 месяцев назад +2

    The application of physicality has always been entrenched in the South African DNA.

  • @chrisnaude2929
    @chrisnaude2929 2 года назад +20

    Durban is a bit k@k like that.

  • @CharlCrowie1
    @CharlCrowie1 10 месяцев назад +3

    I use to live in KZN , hated how fights broke out for any stupid reason, don't miss it at all

  • @user-ey5zh9du8f
    @user-ey5zh9du8f 3 месяца назад

    DHS old boy here...loving this

  • @aaronnaidoo1
    @aaronnaidoo1 9 месяцев назад +2

    You tell a great story Jim.

  • @francoisdutoit6206
    @francoisdutoit6206 11 месяцев назад +7

    Legend Jim ❤
    Love your stories.
    I went on Matric Holiday (Spring Break) with Ollie le Roux, LEGEND, funniest gentleman you will ever meet.
    As tge saying goes, Africa aint for p....
    Thank you Jim, you are a Legend ❤

  • @WarrenFelix
    @WarrenFelix 10 месяцев назад +3

    Great content Jim. 💚🏆🏆🏆🏆💚👊🏾🤙🇿🇦

  • @wot4922
    @wot4922 10 месяцев назад +1

    Durban boys are just as passionate today. Durban Girls support them on Rugby days and the noise is hectic.

  • @RabbitholeIsrael
    @RabbitholeIsrael 2 года назад +6

    south africans can get aggresive when drunk. my brother was one of those guys fighting when drunk. he is as strong as an ox. once took out 3 guys on his own. one night almost lost his one eye with a guy kicking him in the face while he was sitting on someone beating him up. After that he decided he had to change his life a bit. good old days. he was like 6ft 2 and 130kg back then.

  • @nox6885
    @nox6885 10 месяцев назад +10

    Dope guy Jim. Always gives SA props. Shot chana 😅

  • @jksinorbit
    @jksinorbit 11 месяцев назад +9

    Karate water is a bit of a problem in ZA

    • @KingPangalang
      @KingPangalang 4 месяца назад +1

      LOL! My wife and friends have banned me from drinking karate juice. I always think I'm the life of the party, until I hear the stories next day. Gives new meaning to doos dronk

    • @cameronlowry8034
      @cameronlowry8034 4 месяца назад

      ja nee, bannewyn het nie brieke nie

  • @francoiswilliams
    @francoiswilliams 2 года назад +18

    Welcome to ZA

    • @forret
      @forret 2 года назад

      Reminds me of the Francois Pienaar bio when almost killed a guy after a night out. Double hard bastards. Not surprising SA is a factory for rugby talent

  • @TheTrueUnbeliever
    @TheTrueUnbeliever 10 месяцев назад +3

    This is the truest story about Durban I have ever heard. 😂

  • @knowmean
    @knowmean 10 месяцев назад +3

    Jim, you deserve a South African passport. Respect from Durban old boy

  • @bradleytichauer8515
    @bradleytichauer8515 2 года назад +8

    Haha!! When you leave Night fever you get in your car quickly or you are likely to get into a fight 😆 🤣 then you hit cool runnings for come down 😆

    • @markbrown-sb2zm
      @markbrown-sb2zm 2 года назад

      I got pointed with a gun in the face in cool runnings,and saw a biker have two foot long blades takeb off him at the entrance,it got dodgy sometimes deep in the night.

    • @myshepspud1
      @myshepspud1 4 месяца назад

      I remember getting weed when it was still criminal at Cool Runnings. Really really dodgy as it's middle of town and a one way when you leave, used to be so skrik for cops as they would catch you by that one way.

  • @imanviviers2229
    @imanviviers2229 2 месяца назад

    At the blue bulls every one is protection the players we are like one big family

  • @True-yj3ur
    @True-yj3ur 2 года назад +3

    Guys I'm sorry but I could follow/hear what he was saying 😅😅😅

  • @marshallbravestar031
    @marshallbravestar031 10 месяцев назад +3

    Night fever =tight bever

  • @timwannell6477
    @timwannell6477 2 года назад +3

    I had a black eye, bleeding nose and lip, then after the game hugged the fella, we all had several ales and sang stupid songs in the clubhouse- no animosity after the game.
    Good bless rugby

  • @mattdrbarnard
    @mattdrbarnard 4 месяца назад

    I miss my old rugby club days in Dirtbin., Night Fever, pigs nights. Beach runs till you puke. College Rovers 🙌

  • @travismailsa1
    @travismailsa1 3 месяца назад

    As a man in South Africa, you are made tough from the day you leave your mothers womb - if you have a father of course.

  • @user-kj8lq7mo2s
    @user-kj8lq7mo2s 4 месяца назад +2

    Those are the cities boet come to the MINING TOWNS.
    welkom klerksdorp rustenburg friday nights and its payday eish its chaos.

    • @pieterrossouw8596
      @pieterrossouw8596 4 месяца назад +2

      grew up in Potch... always hated playing against miner's kids. We mostly won on the scoreboard but the next day it didn't feel so great. Also their fields we basically just 60-70% dirt lots of times so away games sucked. I mean you get grassburns and grazes in every match, but there's a big difference between a grass field and a compacted dirt field.

  • @TheWhoever118
    @TheWhoever118 11 месяцев назад +4

    Hard men don't get in to fights. Naffs get in to fights.

  • @user-ey5zh9du8f
    @user-ey5zh9du8f 3 месяца назад

    Nightfever next to the racecourse was ledgendary luckily you weren't a Glenwood boy you'd have really got it then!

  • @JeffreyThomas-th2ps
    @JeffreyThomas-th2ps 9 месяцев назад

    Many handbags got thrown 😮

  • @internal1000
    @internal1000 9 месяцев назад

    Your one of US! Baseball bat to the nose 😂

  • @lukeozade9957
    @lukeozade9957 Месяц назад

    He was as strong as an ox until he ran into a real ox in os Du randt vs the boks and got flatlined in a tackle😂

  • @deerfootnz
    @deerfootnz 9 месяцев назад

    I got hit by a pole too. So I married her. True story.

  • @Fraapindy
    @Fraapindy 3 месяца назад

    This story is not true. The POME’s all got their asses kicked.

  • @louisduplessis5167
    @louisduplessis5167 4 месяца назад

    Hey Jim.. was liking ure shows.
    But the blasphemy is unacceptable and poor form m8.
    Im unsubbing and want to encourage my christian brothers to do the same.