Medieval sports are so weird. Now excuse me, I'm off to go watch a bunch of guys kick a ball back and forth for three hours, hoping one of them might hit a net with it once or twice.
Naval jousting is still a thing in the southern German city of Ulm (yes, the same one as in EU4). Every four years members of the old patrician families dress up as local historical figures and compete on the river Danube. The event attracts thousands of spectators and it is usually being broadcast on live TV. There's similar, but much smaller events in other parts of Germany, Switzerland and France
Thank you for including Me so America, people tend to forget that these civilizations existed simultaneously with Knights and Vikings. Also you failed to mention the longest running sport Calcio which has been played in Italy since at least the 1400s.
The "hand tennis" eventually evolved into several sports; in País Vasco, Spain, they still play with just their hands, not bare tho, as they use a special type of glove.
I am a zookeeper in chicago and I regularly feed the hippos day old sausages so they have a taste of their home. I put strings on the sausages and swing them around the hippos they get so mad at me and scream but it's an obsession sometimes the hippos try and break out of their cages but I keep swinging those hotdogs in wide circles over their heads. Luckily my boss doesn't know I do this or my coworkers
"Even if states sometimes have problems with each other, arts and sports should not suffer from that. Arts and sports are there to bring the people together - and not to divide them." - Vladimir Putin 🇷🇺
It's a sad thing that we can't just say "BC-AD" any more it's not like the timeline changed, it's just the theophobes can't stand to hear anything about religion or faith. Like they're going to burst into flames if someone even mentions God. It's only recently that man has tried to separate science from religion.
Jousting is the official state sport of Maryland, and it's the only state that uses heraldic colors and coat of arms from England (Lords Baltimore). It was given to the Calverts as an almost feudal land grant in the Americas as a Palatinate for them to rule directly.
It's awesome that in the first second of this video he references DreamWorks Road to El Droado. That's awesome. Btw. That movie was a masterpiece of comedy and humor.
love this. As a suggestion for another video you guys should do one about the naval battles in the roman colosseum. Many people are unaware that the colosseum use to host mock naval battles.
I think the Japanese game show Takeshi's Castle (more popularly known in the western world as MXC - Most Extreme Elimination Challenge) was partially inspired by naval jousting
The Aztec ball game in the first segment usually ended with the decapitation of the losers..there are ball courts found lined with skulls of entire teams
It very much depended. IIRC the vast majority matches and games played for fun and prizes. The ones that had sacrifice as part of it were generally only reserved for very special occassions
Naval jousting is still a thing in various places in France, especially in the south. Among the famous ones, the joust of Sète, combining the charming streets, the crowd excitement and the traditional white-robed fighters.
That’s what I was thinking too. All that’s needed is a goal and it would be an exact combination of the two. Then again, maybe you could compare it to early lacrosse and hockey, cause some versions of early lacrosse didn’t have goals.
@@flyingninja1234 It depended. The vast maority of the time sacrifices were not part of the sport. The sacrifices only came into play under very special circumstances, and were basically "THE BIG EVENT" for a number of years
Could you please do a video about bicycles used in the world wars? I'm sure the german Wehrmacht used them and there are many more armys which used bicycles in combat
Now dog fighting is cruel and awful but horse fighting??? I think that could work!!! But how exactly do you cause a horse to be violent against another to the point of death or serious injury???
Hand ball is still a sport. Similar to racquet ball, the palm of the had is used instead of a racquet. Generally, the player wears a glove with a tough pad in the palm, but some don't wear a glove at all.
Lacrosse is such a cool sport. It’s history is very intriguing. I’m hoping the IOC can figure out a way to get an Iroquois lacrosse team to compete in the Olympics in 2028.
8:46: the sign is from Richard löwenherz … fun fact in the town i live he was held prisoner in the middle age… guess where I live 😝( a littel hint greetings from Germany)
If anyone gets a chance you have to watch the Netflix documentary "Home Game". Its got an episode on Calcio - the game played in Florence since the middle ages. Its basically rughy mixed with MMA - its unbelievable - and they still play it.
John 14:6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 8:58 I tell you the truth, before Abraham was even born, I Am. John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. All who call upon the name of the lord will be saved. Romans 10:13 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 1 John 1:8 Romans :10:9 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. The rapture is imminent! 1 Thessalonians 4:16 By the word of the Lord, we declare to you that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have fallen asleep. 16For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise. 17After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord
Kind of an amusing anecdote for Army Mock Battles that also show how brutal it could be. The "greatest knight" William Marshall (if you played "Vampyre," THAT guy) rose to prominence as a young man on the competition circuit, winning his first tournament despite taking a blow to the skull so severe it bent his helmet onto his head. Come the award ceremony, no one can find the champion until they look in the blacksmith tent. There's William with his head on an anvil, having the smith try to hammer his helmet back into a shape that will actually let William take the thing off. (Is it any wonder this man fought a battle at age 73 in a time when average life expectancy was probably closer to 55?)
Why didn't you cover fox tossing? Two opposing teams would round up some foxes and place the live animals on two large cloth sheets. Then each team would pull the sheets taught flinging the hapless foxes up into the air. Team who flung their foxes highest won.
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I saw a video of an old Finnish contest where men had a foot race carrying their wives over their shoulder. The winner got his wife’s weight in beer.
Sounds about right...
Finnish ppl in a nutshell
And the masters are Estonians
Literally the most finnish thing ever
It is not so old sport. Invented during my lifespan. I am Finnish.
Medieval sports are so weird.
Now excuse me, I'm off to go watch a bunch of guys kick a ball back and forth for three hours, hoping one of them might hit a net with it once or twice.
Have you ever watched a live coverage of golf....?
I prefer the one where they throw and carry the ball, trying to avoid being hit, with the occasional kick through two giant poles
I am quite fond of the game where you roll a ball into wooden pillars
@@blingn27 Have you ever watched a live coverage of darts?
Say what now? Sorry I was busy watching a bunch cars go around in circle for 500 laps. MURICA!
Please do a video on the battle of Delville wood. As a South African it would be truly amazing to see our troops remembered on this channel.
Thank you
Naval jousting is still a thing in the southern German city of Ulm (yes, the same one as in EU4).
Every four years members of the old patrician families dress up as local historical figures and compete on the river Danube. The event attracts thousands of spectators and it is usually being broadcast on live TV.
There's similar, but much smaller events in other parts of Germany, Switzerland and France
Thank you for including Me so America, people tend to forget that these civilizations existed simultaneously with Knights and Vikings. Also you failed to mention the longest running sport Calcio which has been played in Italy since at least the 1400s.
Calcio is such a weird and chaotic sport.
The "hand tennis" eventually evolved into several sports; in País Vasco, Spain, they still play with just their hands, not bare tho, as they use a special type of glove.
2:43 the detail is amazing!
Boat jousting is still practiced in Sete France.
I like how DreamWorks was referenced
Fun fact: Football(soccer in this instance) was banned in 14th century England due to people always getting hurt.
That Klaplinger sounds like alot like Brockian Ultracricket. Wonder if lacrosse might be related, through contact in Vinland.
I wonder if they get sponsorship from Crimson Bull if they are good.
The winners of the Mayan games would get sacrificed.
Not the loosers?
Idk ?
@@bactrosaurus according to the researchers, it was an honor be sacrificed.
@@bactrosaurus No. I heard the captain of the winner team was executed.
Simple history make a sandbox game
Yep
That's ah...that's quite the thumbnail you guys got there.
Yep
You mean the clickbait?
You should have brought up lacrosse. It is estimated to have originated back in 1,100 AD and was used to settle disputes between tribes.
You should make a video on Chris McCandless
I am a zookeeper in chicago and I regularly feed the hippos day old sausages so they have a taste of their home. I put strings on the sausages and swing them around the hippos they get so mad at me and scream but it's an obsession sometimes the hippos try and break out of their cages but I keep swinging those hotdogs in wide circles over their heads. Luckily my boss doesn't know I do this or my coworkers
Ok
Now the world knows, you're smart.
What kind of Olympic games is this?!
3:46 very french philosophy.
very good the video
Yep
Horse fighting?? This is cruel,until the beasts,I mean horses want to fight till death
For a moment i thought in the thumbnail there was a guy with a traffic cone on his head
fascinating! thank you!
Actually it's more like war games militaries still do
So which sport is the thumbnail for this video??
"Even if states sometimes have problems with each other, arts and sports should not suffer from that. Arts and sports are there to bring the people together - and not to divide them." - Vladimir Putin 🇷🇺
Ok
Cringe
So.... handball.
🙂👍 good job
Ikr
So what game was the one on the thumbnail or was that just clickbait?
Bruh one hour ago and already 10000 views
Hmmm, the thumbnail changed…
where is the history of the Apache woman Vietnam ???????????
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Ok
My Channel Do history to and I love History
Yep
It's a sad thing that we can't just say "BC-AD" any more it's not like the timeline changed, it's just the theophobes can't stand to hear anything about religion or faith. Like they're going to burst into flames if someone even mentions God. It's only recently that man has tried to separate science from religion.
AD and BC.
Not too different from today's upper class....
Jousting is the official state sport of Maryland, and it's the only state that uses heraldic colors and coat of arms from England (Lords Baltimore). It was given to the Calverts as an almost feudal land grant in the Americas as a Palatinate for them to rule directly.
Ok
@@redred7289 you mist be blind. It’s the best flag of all!
@@AndrewPonti yes its the best american flag ive ever seen indeed
greetings from germany
Was the owner of the dead horse compensated or was there any kind of prize, because in any medieval culture horses were extremely valuable.
good point, back then horses were literally the equivelant of car in value
I believe you would be arrested and lose all your titles and lands.
Ah yes. 0:04. The Road to El Dorado is my favorite childhood movie since my older brother and I were kids. 😏. It brings me back memories.
It's awesome that in the first second of this video he references DreamWorks Road to El Droado. That's awesome. Btw. That movie was a masterpiece of comedy and humor.
A masterpiece? I think you have life misunderstood..
@@RRswag70 why?
@@RRswag70 what is that supposed to mean
The thumbnail clickbait is unreal
Why is that so funny?
I once went to a few horse fights in Mexico they were more brutal than what I had expected
I fought a horse but lost
The fact that you used Road to El Dorado 0:04 couldnt have made me happier 😄
Yep
6:40
"...because who doesn't love beating a dead horse?"
Lmao
Lol
love this. As a suggestion for another video you guys should do one about the naval battles in the roman colosseum. Many people are unaware that the colosseum use to host mock naval battles.
Yeah they did it with Gladiators. I always loved that one when I read about it.
I went to one, it was epic
Think there already is a video on that
It's pretty well known at this point
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Me and the boys:
I think the Japanese game show Takeshi's Castle (more popularly known in the western world as MXC - Most Extreme Elimination Challenge) was partially inspired by naval jousting
Im Irish and we always have known it as Takeshi's Castle
@@NovaNTS we too, and I’m from Italy
Used to watch that as a kid almost every day after school.
I prefer Takeshis challenge
I visited Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire once, and learned they killed a dwarf jester by kicking him as a football.
Ok
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Ok
Thats odd jesters are usually hands off and the one person that can talk to the king however they pleased and served as a trusted advisor.
The Aztec ball game in the first segment usually ended with the decapitation of the losers..there are ball courts found lined with skulls of entire teams
Yeah stone carved skulls.
Yep
I heard that in the mayan version of the game, only the captain of the winner team was killed.
@@L.P.1987 been to chicken itza, stones carved like skulls line the ball court. Winners were sacrificed..... Only the best for the gods.
It very much depended. IIRC the vast majority matches and games played for fun and prizes. The ones that had sacrifice as part of it were generally only reserved for very special occassions
Naval jousting is still a thing in various places in France, especially in the south. Among the famous ones, the joust of Sète, combining the charming streets, the crowd excitement and the traditional white-robed fighters.
Naval Jousting with motorboats lol
Visited Sete a week ago, can confirm.
Knattleiker looks like a cross between ice hockey and lacrosse, which are both rather violent sports.
what does it sound like?
That’s what I was thinking too. All that’s needed is a goal and it would be an exact combination of the two. Then again, maybe you could compare it to early lacrosse and hockey, cause some versions of early lacrosse didn’t have goals.
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El Dorado might have taken on a different tone if they had shown the Aztec version of the Mezzo American Ball Game :]
The losers were killed.
@@flyingninja1234 no, my dude... they played with a very peculiar pall...
@@turdferguson9356 J K is right though. The losing team lost their heads.
@@flyingninja1234 I thought the winning team was sacrificed...
@@flyingninja1234 It depended. The vast maority of the time sacrifices were not part of the sport. The sacrifices only came into play under very special circumstances, and were basically "THE BIG EVENT" for a number of years
Mock battles reminiscent of stage plays involving story lines, costumes and audience interaction.
Sounds like medieval wrestling to me.
Your Medievil/Middle Ages episodes are so good, please continue to make these.
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And do the Battle of Narva when 15000 Swedes soldiers and 145 Cannons foght 60000 Russian soldiers and 370 Cannons on the 30 november 1700
Interesting
He just says calmly
"Who doesn't love beating a dead horse,"
LOL
these arent weird i do them daily
I now understand why girls live longer than boys
@IMY123 what's finally here
Could you please do a video about bicycles used in the world wars? I'm sure the german Wehrmacht used them and there are many more armys which used bicycles in combat
falconry and hawking part has the most beautiful drawings
A naval tourney still exist in Sète, France
3:50
"Imagine literally smacking the ball with your open handeeouch."
Ok
So... Volleyball?
Now dog fighting is cruel and awful but horse fighting??? I think that could work!!! But how exactly do you cause a horse to be violent against another to the point of death or serious injury???
So tournaments basically became like medieval professional wrestling?
Hand ball is still a sport. Similar to racquet ball, the palm of the had is used instead of a racquet. Generally, the player wears a glove with a tough pad in the palm, but some don't wear a glove at all.
I'm surprised you guys didn't mention tzykanion, the Byzantine version of polo that they adopted from the Sassanid
Modern sports: *EXTREME SLAPPING CONTEST*
you cant compare medieval buhurt to larping... wtf
Could you make an animated documentary of the US Indianapolis and how it sink and people on it were eaten by sharks
The tennis one in France is closer to handball then tennis.
Should actually talk about lacrosse's origins with Native Americans. And how it was even used to take Fort Detriot
Lacrosse is such a cool sport. It’s history is very intriguing. I’m hoping the IOC can figure out a way to get an Iroquois lacrosse team to compete in the Olympics in 2028.
It means tennis evolve to two sports, tennis it self and volleyball?
your midevil tennis sounds alot more like handball to me.
great history
Medieval tennis seems alot like modern day hackey sack, but swapped out hands for feet
Hackey sack or spike ball
2:18 I watched a knights tale so I get this reference
8:46: the sign is from Richard löwenherz … fun fact in the town i live he was held prisoner in the middle age… guess where I live 😝( a littel hint greetings from Germany)
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The sponsor advertisement is a total scam.
So medieval tennis is just 4 square?
Established Titles is a scam though.
Cursed thumbnail
Yep
Knattleikr looks alot like lacrosse that's so cool
Happy birthday dad!
you can now add lord legally anywhere you want in your name now and actually rule over something that isn't the couch.
If anyone gets a chance you have to watch the Netflix documentary "Home Game". Its got an episode on Calcio - the game played in Florence since the middle ages. Its basically rughy mixed with MMA - its unbelievable - and they still play it.
Im a lord now, go to work peasents
Nice video
an ad in the middle of the video now? thats low
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That'd be fun. Boat jousting. As long as I can swim...
...and I can't
absolute madness
Yep
Henry the 8th loved tennis
John 14:6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 8:58 I tell you the truth, before Abraham was even born, I Am. John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. All who call upon the name of the lord will be saved. Romans 10:13
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 1 John 1:8 Romans :10:9 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. The rapture is imminent! 1 Thessalonians 4:16 By the word of the Lord, we declare to you that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have fallen asleep. 16For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise. 17After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord
Kind of an amusing anecdote for Army Mock Battles that also show how brutal it could be.
The "greatest knight" William Marshall (if you played "Vampyre," THAT guy) rose to prominence as a young man on the competition circuit, winning his first tournament despite taking a blow to the skull so severe it bent his helmet onto his head.
Come the award ceremony, no one can find the champion until they look in the blacksmith tent. There's William with his head on an anvil, having the smith try to hammer his helmet back into a shape that will actually let William take the thing off.
(Is it any wonder this man fought a battle at age 73 in a time when average life expectancy was probably closer to 55?)
Early gang
Yep
0:41 that ball game wasn't fun!!! The losing team were all killed!!!
Ive been watching your videos for 3 or 2 years. So can you make something like "operation oluja 1995"
Why didn't you cover fox tossing?
Two opposing teams would round up some foxes and place the live animals on two large cloth sheets.
Then each team would pull the sheets taught flinging the hapless foxes up into the air.
Team who flung their foxes highest won.
That naval jousting,
in Ulm we call it "Fischerstechen" and do it every 3 years am Schwörmontag