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We might be surprised to learn that there were lots of holidays in medieval times which left plenty of time for sports and games. Almost every month had a period of time associated with a religious festival or holy day. They all added up to around 100 days a year, about 14 weeks! Some sports were violent, dangerous, and cruel, at least by our standards. Whether victims were animals or human beings did not seem to matter to the medieval spectator. Animal rights were certainly not on the agenda! The thrill of showing off one’s prowess and fitness in sports appealed to competitors and spectators alike. The lack of rules, protective gear and first aid were the price to be paid for this entertainment. As no formal training was ever given, combat and other sports were the only ways of practising for the real thing when war broke out. Here are 10 wildly popular sports we may not have studied in History class.
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10. Gameball or Soule
9. Hunting
8. Hot Cockles
7. Jousting
6. Shinty
5. Archery
4. Irish stick fighting
3. Hammer throwing
2. Bear and bull baiting
1. Sword fights and dueling
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England in 1500's: Young men are required to own a bow and arrows at 15.
England now: You can't buy a knife until you're 18.
As children, we played a game called 'German Bastards'. One team were the Nazis, if there were 4 of them then they thought of a four letter word, each had a letter in mind and they split up around the streets. The other team were the allies, they had to hunt down the 'German Bastards' and basically do whatever it took to get the individual to squeal. Once all the letters were known, the allies had three guesses as to the word. If they got it right, they remained the allies and the 'Bastards' went again. If they got it wrong, roles were reversed. I prefer to think of it as practical literacy, rather than blind thuggery. This was England in the 90's, good times.
haha Im from maryland and jousting is awesome!! I go to the Renaissance fair every year to watch the joust
3:08 _This was a high impact and high speed sport _*_with little protective gear_*
... besides the full plate armor and shield, of course ^ᴥ^
Noctumus I actually had to pause the video to comment on that odd statement.
Primalxbeast I know, right!?
Not only full plate but especially designed heavy plate armor. Who would call that "little protective gear" ?!
I was literally just about to comment the same thing...smh
I like this channel but a lot of the stuff is utter nonsense and false
Full plate armor modified helmets, extremely heavy Padding under the armor, specially modified saddles, and stirrups, break-away lances, special non penetrating points on the lances,
I appreciated this filmclip much! good job! thankyou
I'm sensing a theme with where these games are from mmmmm
The celts in Ireland sure know how to have a good time.
It is cool to know that so many of those dangerous sports are still around in a way today. Nothing quite as dangerous but I like the idea of the originals not dying off completely.
this was a very interesting video, and i really enjoyed it
#5... Longbow archers could fire more than 1 arrow every 5 seconds (12/min) - the best archers could fire up to 20 per minute (1 every 3 seconds). The average was 8~10 as battles could last a long time and ammunition was not infinite.
Who else thought this meant videogames from the thumbnail?
How did you think that? No offence, but I am curious as to how any video games would be fatal or even dangerous.
Brian Loughran "Age of Empires"? How dare you..
megaflak92 ME!
megaflak92 ME!
Goobingibbles Mc.Dingledogs You can get blood clots from playing for hours straight without getting up and stretching your legs. I take warfarin every day though, so hopefully I'm safe. Well, that and World of Warcraft being far less addictive than it used to be.
Jousting in Maryland is not the same as in the Middle Ages. In Maryland, a jouster is trying to catch a ring with their lance. The rings get smaller as the game progresses. This requires a jouster to ride with as little movement as possible. It's popular at the Renaissance Fair near Annapolis.
I thought you guys would know jousting rarely ended in death softwood tips were stuck on the end of the lances and a joust would end when one of these was broken indicating there had been an accurate hit, this allowed contestants to practice without one person dieting. People obviously did occasionally die but this was relatively a rare occasion, if people had died all the time the upper classes would soon have been wiped out!
Irish Stick Fighting sounds like fun. :D
WAIT HOLD UP, did you just say that Quidditch is now a real sport???????
Wait, did you just say that knights wore little protective gear while jousting? I'm just curious what counts as protective gear if a full suit of plate armor doesn't qualify. I'm not saying it wasn't dangerous, but it's not as if they were jousting in their skivvies.
For DECADES there were Marylanders who clamored to have "duckpin bowling" made the official Maryland sport. Then someone started up the Renaissance Festival in Columbia, & the rest is history.
Who's King Edward the 14th? There was no Edward the 14th.
iluvatar003 40th, they meant 40th.
They meant Edward IV(4th), that's what it said in the subtitles. There was no Edward XIV(14th)
I know this is old but I am kinda surprised that shin-kicking isn't here...
If you want to watch the medieval fighting check out the SCA or Armored Combat League. It's a really fun sport. Not to be mixed up with HEMA though which is newer. But all three of these sports are fun to watch and participate in.
I live in Scotland and I play shinty you don't have to wear a helmet but I do there was a competition
Yesterday called the Mactavish cup
my grandmother's last name is Archibald, and she is from Scotland. we apparently come from a family of Royal archers in Scotland, who apparently guarded the king. hence the name, I guess...
I thought you guys would know jousting rarely ended in death softwood tips were stuck on the end of the lances and a joust would end when one of these was broken indicating there had been an accurate hit, this allowed contestants to practice without one person dying although this did happen on occasion!
You forgot Norse Stick Ball. My dad thought us to play Hurley
Shinty is still played in Scotland.
Some of these 'sports' were more Renaissance than medieval, but overall this video is pretty good!
(BTW, the biggest of the clubs you mentioned is the Society for Creative Anachronism- www.sca.org/ and while the martial sport are really big, there's a lot more to it than sport. And there's branches all over the world. Check out the Newcomers Portland- there likely a branch near you!)
The sport of "sword fighting" is generally referred to as HEMA, or Historical European Martial Arts, and most clubs actually use wood or ballistic plastic practice swords. We train in the longsword, short sword and buckler, spear, and dagger mostly. The poleax or battle ax is not unheard of, however during practice the fighters must be in full harness, which is incredibly expensive, or risk severe injury. The normal protective garments worn during practice are a gorget (armor worn around the neck), a heavy padded jacket known as a gambeson or the more modern HEMA jacket, and a helmet either a steel medieval style or a modern HEMA mask, and gloves (hockey gloves work very well). Ive been practicing this sport for 7 years and have never had any serious injuries, lots of big bruises though, just like any other martial arts safety is a huge concern. If anyone is interested look up the Schola Saint George or the SCA.
As far as I know the SCA doesn't do HEMA. The way they fight is not historical at all, they pretty much fight in armor as you'd fight without armor
gameballs still played every year in Ashbourne,Derbyshire, 1 side of the town vs the other, all windows&flowerbeds are barricaded. I played it myself& yes its dangerous with almost no rules
Soccer and American football? I think you meant to say Football and Rugby
Ben Mongolia The guy on the video has his lips right on America's arse. Maybe it's because he lives in the US but still it gets quite annoying.
Darren Turner Agreed
American football is not rugby.
It is likely he said soccer instead of football because the video of intended mainly for consumption in the States, where what the rest of the world calls football is known as soccer - a shortened form of "association football." Because of its popularity in the US, gridiron football is known simply as football. The term football was originally used to describe any sport played on foot (as opposed to horseback) and using a ball. Gridiron football (American football)
dkstruska oops, hit the wrong button and posted before I meant to.
American football, world football, and rugby all descended from the same game. I'm not sure why so many get their knickers in a twist when an American says "soccer" or calls American football simply "football."
Darren Turner lol its soccer
lol he said little protective gear yet the knights are in full armour lol
Ok, CoD and Hatred don't seem so bad anymore.
Keep it in the pixels guys
dueling is still done today, in germany and here in england as a past time, mostly done away from the public though as it can look like an assault, they allow cold steel training swords and full sharpend metal. And yes the injuries can be nasty, my older brother had his finger sliced down to the bone and iv had my knees paralyzed for weeks. But it helps toughen you up.
Never heard of this. How is it organised and regulated? Is there a league? What do you do to win? So many questions.
+iSquared
Search for mensur.
I have done that myself. sadly with no swords though. but we used bats and other blunt objects. I have even seen a guy use a cinder block tied to a chain in a duel before. it was devastating to say the least.
wada ya talkin abet, your such a druggo
Wtf do these people be playing like for real
Deer is the plural of deer...
Bryan Kohn o deer
Me and my neighbors are gearing up for a gameball match right now. The other town doesn't know we're playing but hey no rules is no rules am I right
what happened to the voice on 5:44 when he says Europe?
I am a self trained in sword fighting and have never lost a fight so number one I would live.
I do want to say that HEMA (historical european martial arts) is actually a lot safer than you make it out to be at the end of the video. At lest official HEMA is. They generally use blunt weapons, and require at least head and hand protection, preferably more.
+Jayden Crowe Maybe, but I've been to these mediaeval matches in Eastern Europe, and it's pretty brutal.
the first one is still played in Spain
Jousting is very ..... um .....
Edward rhe 14th??? Whoa
Is it just me or does Gameball sound a lot like Calvinball played by adults?
King Edward the Fourteenth? Of which country? The last King Edward of Britain was Edward the eigth.
Edward the fourteenth huh? I think I may have missed a few or that is extremely wrong
Soccer? For a channel about facts and information you sure got that wrong.
***** What is the OST for this video?
Thanks so much!
gridiron being tough...
where'd you hear that from
+Darnoc From someone who's played it. Unlike you.
Wait is this that today I found out guy
King Edward XIV??? Of where? Not of England where King Edward VIII ruled briefly in 1936.
So? What does that have to do with the non-existent Edward XIV?
I've been up all night, but I will relisten to the audio when I'm more alert. I may have simply misheard. I''m not sure!
Hot cockles sounds pretty fun >.>
Acting as if shinty is a forgotten game.
+Stainless Steel Delicatessen Yeah I know, it was great to see Wales beat Pakistan in the SHinty world cup this year.
Medieval Games & Sports like blood bowl best games ever these so called "affaleats are wienes" back in my day we played on a football feild of rocks and we threw a stone that looked almost like a football thats HOW MANAMALS PLAY!! OOOOO RAAHHHH!!!
0:12 "American football can be rough" come to australia and play rugby....
acka2001 American football is actually pretty rough, they slam into each other at full force in their scrums and they do them a lot more often. Also, they don't have anywhere near as many rules about tackling as rugby. Despite all their protective gear they still have tons of injuries.
TheRhinehart86 yeah there are rules for tackling but people literally jump onto of each other and try to force the ball into their hands whilst only wearing shorts and a singlet. its the perfect meat-head sport lol.
brownkv081 in japan, maybe. Lol
acka2001
But they need all that protective gear because they're smashing the shit out of each other the whole time. The helmet and shoulder guards are to prevent them snapping their necks, they don't do a whole lot when one guy rams his helmet into another guy's stomach head on at full speed.
acka2001 the gear makes the tackles hurt nore
Archery was the specialty of Freemen, yeoman and peasants not the aristocracy/rich who saw it as a hobby rather than a key skill...it was a blue collar profession not a blueblood sport...
Also seriously???? Jousting no protective gear???? except for Full plate armor modified helmets, extremely heavy Padding under the armor, specially modified saddles, and stirrups, break-away lances, special non penetrating points on the lances, and it had absolutely nothing to do with gladiatorial combat it was a practical demonstration of the knights skill and was intended not only for competition but training and practice. A knight who did well at the joust could not only expect a prize he could command a very high price for his services...as a combatant...Deuing, once again a very practical practice which was usually fairly bloodless, cuts bruises, a few scars but very few deaths...and once again it was a way for a commoner to find a very lucrative way of life as a soldier,mercenary, or bodyguard, for rich employers....And "Modern" Medieval combat has been around since the late sixties and early seventies...I happen to do it myself...axe me about it...
Hey wasn't number ten an early form of rugby
Shi-lay-lee for the record BTW
Edward XIV ???
AKA top ten sports for REAL MEN.
You wanna talk about a medieval sport that can kill you? let's talk about Skin-Pulling, it's a game the vikings made where it's basically tug-of-war but if you lose you get pulled into a pit of fire and burn to death and the winners get the spoils from the raid.
No freaking human powered weapon had a chance of penetrating properly made plate or mail. Not a freaking chance at all.
Battering the metal into a person could injure by poking inward or more often a blade was shoved between plates or in unarmored locations like arm pits, groin or eyes. But arrows didn't punch through metal.
I'm sorry, I gave this video a thumbs down because you had a mixture of sports and games--and even back then they considered a lot of the topics you touched based on as sports not games. I was actually excited, I thought you had a list of games I never heard about that were deadly lol but most of these I have already heard of and knew they were dangerous/deadly.
MrIceBrick Every sport is a game.
Druidtton Darksun But not every game is a sport, and the title says "Games." I was just disappointed.
Well... I gave you a thumbs down for being a pedantic git....guess that makes it even then.