American Athlete Reacts To The Most Feared Rugby Team In The World | The Sprinboks Are Brutal Beasts 

They get fed three main things; Pap, Black Label & Braai.

New Zealander/kiwi here. As much as we hate you tough bastards 😂, you guys are always the ones who give it to us when we match up. You springboks play a very physical game and it always forces us to play at our absolute best to be able to compete. It’s always a blast watching the AB’s and the Springboks duke it out 😂 A lot of respect we have for the South Africans 🔥🔥🔥

Congrats to South Africa for your win in the Rugby World cup again. As a heart broken Kiwi I am proud of the AB's but have mad respect for your boys too! Our teams gave a good game!

Springboks , the only team bringing South Africans 🇿🇦together.🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️

As a South African I'm proud that our rugby boys aren’t as disgraceful as our soccer boys.

It's not for the faint hearted love. We love the game. Proudly South African. 🇿🇦

Springboks one of the few things we have left here to be proud of. Our boys always bring us together.

I was never a follower of Rugby but hey the way this boys display resilience and patriotism makes me feel that if every sporting code was to follow their plan of action, we would definitely become a different country, to my surprise they are not egoistic just simple Boys when you meet them on the street, may the good Lord guide them as they rewrite history ❤❤❤

Our passion for our country makes the South African Rugby Team, Springboks, so dangerous. We play for our country and represent our diverse country. For us as Springboks, it is more than a game.

As a proud South African I'm happy that our boys is the most feared team

Its not just the Springboks every one South Africa are warriors ❤🇿🇦👊

South Africa may have its problems but The Springboks unite this country

It's good to know we are known for something positive 😂😂

The formation you asked about at around the 4:45 mark is known as a scrum. This is performed by the forward pack who are always quite a bit heavier than the backline. The forward pack or simply forwards, are in the South African context human wrecking balls who now in the modern game are also fast. It is not uncommon for pack weights to tickle the one tonne mark typically coming in at around 870 to 990kg's in top flight rugby. There are 8 per team arranged in a 3/4/1 formation. The scrum is part of structured play known as setpieces. What you see around the 7:55 mark is known as a ruck(ball on the ground) or maul(ball not on the ground, ie ball is held by a player and another or others are contesting possession) and this is part of unstructured play. Traditionally left to forwards because of their sheer physicality, it is in the modern game, more or less a free for all for both forwards and backs(backline) to gain possession or try and gain possession of the ball so as to gain advantage and score. I may stand to be corrected on some of the more technical point of these, but that's more or less the nutshell....

Rugby 🏉 bring south Africans together always. Thank u for the 4th win champions of the world. We salute u together we conquered. 🇿🇦🇿🇦💚

You know at a time where our country is in shambles seeing this team playing so well gives me so much hope .🌻💫

Dude the Springboks senior team is physical certainly but they are on a slow lane compared to High School kids in South Africa, now that's where SA Rugby brutality is taught, those kids are just pure muscle and bulldoze anything that goes anywhere near that Rugby ball,those kids are ruthless bro, the senior team has actually toned it down a notch. Love my SPRINGBOKS🇿🇦✌🏿

Proud south african 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

As a South African citizen I am very happy to have Springboks at our team 🇿🇦🇿🇦

Fun fact, Chestlin Kolbe the number 14 is Wade van Niekerk the 400m world record holders cousin... Speed is in the Family!!!

Rugby is huge here; I think it was made particularly special when we won the world cup in 1995 with president Mandela at the game. Rugby is more than just a game for us. 🇿🇦

Watching this as they just raised the Webb Ellis Cup for the 4th time, twice in a row as Workd Cup champs and the captain making history as the first black national captain to hold, raise and win twice in a row. Listen???? The Bokke are truly our national treasure and we're truly grateful to have such a formidable team!!!!! ❤

I'm watching this on the eve of the RWC final and we south Africans are filled with so much pride, hope and elation for our springboks!! Bring the cup back home boys 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦❤️🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

Our Rugby Team is awesome!! When you mention our rugby team it stirs a passion inside that make you proud to be South African! Yahoo Boetie!!!!!!!

Can we all just appreciate the touchline ref running and catching up to some of the fastest players in the world @2:12

This video is just another reason why I am proudly South African.

Proud South African here!! We are super proud of our rugby team.. 😃😃.. that's a scrum.. 😊

Beer, braai ,biltong and rugby. Proudly 🇿🇦

I know we love our Rugby players but I think the coach also had a hand in the team's success at the last World cup Rassie made sure that our players were fit enough to go a 80 min game and still be able to push it in the last 10 min.

As a proud South African I can say that We are such a passionate country and our Springboks have made us incredibly proud. We love our Bokke 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

Kiwi here, I have to South Africa v New Zealand are always some of the most intense games to watch, love how passionate the SA team and supporters are about rugby.

Our boys have true grit, strength, and power. We are made of good stock. Go Bokke❤🇿🇦❤

Love those boys....proud South African💪🏾

I love your reactions to our team 😂😂😂...and I LOVE our team! 🇿🇦❤️🇿🇦 I'm so proud of them for winning the world cup this year...for the fourth time in the eight games played since we've been allowed to compete in the world cup. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

We love rugby. Proudly South African 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

I love your commentary 😂😂😂 I am so proud of our guys!! Well done, SA 🎉❤

So proud of our team! South Africa is not for sissies 💪🏻🇿🇦

Not just the team,the whole nation

😂DIE BOKKE is die beste 🙌🇿🇦 Resilience & humility at its finest…that’s what we made of in South Africa ❤️🥳

As a South African this gives me absolutely chills 🇿🇦

"The Springboks play boring, one dimensional rugby" yeah right. That's why they are three times rugby world champions.

Proudly South African 🇿🇦 GO BOKKE!!

As a mom in SA with a 9 year old boy who loves playing rugby at school, even the school rugby is not for the faint hearted 😂

We are always very happy when it is SA versus NZ. Two best teams in rugby.

The factor that you are talking about that they have is something that we as South Africans learn even when we play at school... The pride, the courage, the determination etc is everything we live and breathe every day.

The one thing South Africa has been guaranteed to have for decades is really fast & incredibly skilled wingers😂…I don’t know how we always get lucky with that position but damn we have an abundance of wingers man😂…them boys are entertaining.

I'll tell you this much about the Springboks... Doesn't matter where they come from but when they are out on that field they are a family but to answer your question as to what these guy's are fed probs biltong and boerewors with pap(one of the few things i enjoyed when i visited RSA) but also it's more complex than that.. each person has their own background that has shaped them to be who they are today and who they are on the playing field. The Springboks are a team that can unite an entire country. It is one of S.A most passionate sports

Proud Springbok supporter, our men are amazing! Just wanted to say that its got nothing to with bullying- its a very physical game but there's also a huge mental part to it too, its about getting under the opponent's skin. Love our Bokke!!

#1 team from the cradle of mankind, Bokke Bokke the Pride of South Africa😎🇿🇦

3 world cup victories for South Africa, only equaled by New Zealand. These two teams encompass the biggest rivalry in the world of rugby

Really proud of our Springboks-rugby team and our Proteas- cricket team. #Proudly 🇿🇦

Love the appreciation of the rules by both players at 6:36 . . Tackler releasing the offensive player after the tackle and the tackled player releasing the ball after being tackled.

The guy you mentioned wearing the “hat” also called a scrumcap or headguard in rugby there are two in our South African team , Kurtley Arendse (yellow hat) and Cheslin Kolbe (green and black hat) both short , strong and fast

To answer your question @4:50, that is called a (set)scrum, ref calls for it for light offences mostly committed by the team in possession of the ball. The scrum is contested by the forward players of the two teams(positions #1 to #8). The forwards are usually the bigggest players as their jobs requires more mustle than does the backline.

I may be a hockey player, but I love the representation of our national pride 🇿🇦

For us rugby is not a matter of life and death. It's more important than that. Proudly South African. World Champions 🏆

Two of my favourite players Faff De Clerk aka the giant slayer and Cheslin Kolbe both play for the Springboks

RUGBY IS THE ONLY SPORT THAT BRINGS SA NATION TOGETHER. We all become one when the Springboks play. I love South Africa and my Western Province rugby in Cape Town.

Great individual players + great team work = magic

🤣 what a great edit. I am very proud of what SA Rugby is doing. Thank you for highlighting our skills and passion. You made me smile today, thank, you. And yes, we are a very complex mix of breeds. Resilient.

Most expressive sport I have ever experienced and viewed. Fathers this is where I learned of maintaining composer under extreme fitigue conditions. But the more you play a game of rugby even "touch Rugby" is like nectar to the average male mind. The game goes on after the fall. Rugby taugh me how to get up after the knock. Knowing when to stop. Understanding when the whistle really blows. I feel my country. I hear their pain but more you watch our rugby something happens. With the right coach ( Rassie). It's something to see. Long awaited and and people's choice for coaching springboks! 1995 w cup final NZ VS RSA

If I wasn't Swazi I would want my sons to play for this National team. Their game is always the most beautiful thing I have ever seen

This is why we are 3 times World Champions. Holding the title at the moment. We come out of the womb loving this sport😂❤🇿🇦

Thanks for doing this. Love it. World Rugby Cup has started. So Let the games begin. Bring the trophy home Bokke.

We are really spoilt for choice with backline these days... Kolbe, Am, Mapimpi, Aarendse, Moodie and more excited for WC2023

There is actually two little guys with the hat on (scrum cap) it’s Cheslin Kolbe and Kurt Lee Arendse, they’re both very good players

So proud to be south African rn😂

That thing where they huddle and band together, that's called a scrum. What do they feed the Springboks? Pap, vleis (meat) and chakalaka. Who is the little dude in the scrum cap? Probably Cheslin Kolbe. Other little dude is Faf de Klerk. Loved your reaction!❤ Had me laughing so hard every so often. Proudly South African.

The springboks have the potential to become the best team in the history of the game this year

Our passion for our country they go all out and hard proudly south african

The Spilringboks - Won the world cup for rugby 3 times, now in the quarter finals for the present world cup, 2023. One of the strongest and most strategically superior teams in the world, no doubt about it.

It's called a scrum my man. The Springboks top feature. It's literally a force against force where both teams are pushing as hard as they can to make the other team move backwards. We are playing a big match for the world cup rugby today! Go bokke!

Our Springboks have also had some rough years which have made the wins so much better. You will often see in Club/League rugby where International players will target each other so that when the time comes to pick the Springbok Squad for the season, half of our best players get "taken out" in league, like the "Super 15" where clubs from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa all play for the League Title.. Kind of like in the NHL clubs where you have players from Russia, France, USA and Canada playing together and then playing for their country against each other when the Olympics comes round. So if a top springbok is playing for an SA club, against a NZ club, the NZ club players will target that one top player so he cant play internationals, its hardcore! So basically.. That shitty tacktick MADE the Springboks tough AF and hardened them ALL!

As a South African I am proud

Best thing for me is that even as a fairly divided country, when someone picks on a Bok player- he is backed up by the whole team. That’s what SA needs

Fun fact. We (South Africa) are current World Champions and this year is the next Rugby World Cup. So if anyone wants to watch the Springboks play this year is the time.

Proud Southafrican 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦❤❤❤

The team are fed on Braai's and Sadza. And Pap en Vleis. They are also always given the psychological advantage of playing rugby as if they are fighting a war to protect their fellow countrymen. Whenever they play, they always play super physical. Our number 1 opponent the All Blacks from New Zealand have said it was always the heaviest game to play when playing the Springboks because of how physical and attritional our boys make it. Because our Boks don't just tackle, they tackle with their everything as if their very lives depended on it. Which is why they make it hurt. And because the Boks make it hurt, they don't get hurt easily either so it's fantastic. 4:57 That's called a scrum. Basically the forwards numbered one to eight on their shirts are part of the forward pack and they are involved in the scrums and lineouts officially. Lineouts being, ball goes out and an opposition hooker (#2 on his back) throws the ball in to two lines of forwards one line from each team. This enables opposition to contest the lineouts but it also tests the strength and tactics of the forwards packs against each other. Early on in the game, the forwards packs were only used as battering rams in scrums and catchers in lineouts. They never trained to run, that was the job of the backs (#11-15) and then scrumhalf (#9) would connect between the two getting the ball from the forwards and throwing it to the backs. The Flyhalf (#10) is the standard kicker. However, as the game got more professional the forwards would start running as well, the kicker isn't necessarily #10 although he usually is, and basically if a player has the ball he must run it. Lastly, the idea of the guys dotting the ball down over the goal line initially was a variation of soccer or football where you didn't get any points there, that was the place where the Flyhalf would then attempt to kick the ball through the posts over the crossbar. And naturally the further out wide it was the further back the kicker had to stand. However, since the game got more professional the try as it is called, players dotting the ball down over the line, became a way to score as well and since it wasn't easy they gave it a bigger point incentive than the kicks over the posts. So 5 points for a try, 2 points for conversion, kicking the ball through the posts following a try and 3 points each for either a penalty kick or a drop goal. So it's also an amazing simply for how many different ways there are to score.

That head helmet guy he just pops out of nowhere I swear a true springbok like the animal jumps like crazy too😍

Makes me proud as a South African!

We met Even Etzebeth over the Christmas holiday and seeing him in person is just wow! HE IS A ABSOLUTE BEAST!

Proudly South African our boys don't drink English tea and wat croissants no sir,,,they Pap,Wors and Chakalaka ❤

I must say OUR SOUTH AFRICAN RUGBY TEAM IS DAMN STRONG. ❤️

These guys make me proud to be a South African 🙌❤️🔥🔥💪

My youngest brother is only 11 and plays rugby, my 13 and 18 year old have to think twice if they wanna fight him. I also act tough cause I am older but I know given the chance he would squash me like a slice of bread. He is very respectful though and still the baby of the family. With that note, anyone who can be his agent? He is very good and based in EC but he goes to a rural school that doesn't have resources. Also open to private school suggestions that offer Sports Scholarships, he is alse very intelligent, we call him Young Sheldon. Thank you for reading 😅

The All Blacks and Springboks have played each other 103 times, with the All Blacks leading the series 61 to 38, with 4 matches drawn. Currently the rivalry between Australia and New Zealand is one the most played of any two international rugby union teams, and having played against each other 175 times, the All Blacks lead the series 122 to 45 with 8 draws Of the 43 matches with England , New Zealand have won 33 and England 8, with two draws. The All Blacks have won 48 Tests against France's 13, with one match drawn.The All Blacks first played against Ireland in 1905, have played a total of 36 Test matches, with the All Blacks winning 30, Ireland winning 5, and 1 match drawn.

My theory is that it starts with high school. The boys are rough and play with guys from the farms (they are big boys). They mellow down but become aware of their surroundings due to the crime in the country and can run if need be (away or to help). There is a lot of pride in their country and team so there's pressure to perform. They are gentle giants but don't mess with them, or the country's women. My nephew is the VC of his first team in an all-boys school. His skinny butt looks confused in the team pictures. Lol, he will learn. If I remember correctly during the 1995 world cup Jonah Lomu (New Zealand) gave some issues cause he was massive and hard to stop. The S.A. team managed to get him down by 3 of them holding onto him. If there is a will, there is a way and South Africans are really good at finding a solution to a messed-up situation while laughing. P.S. That dome they were doing is called a scrum.

4:55 - It's called a scrum whereby both apposing teams basically try out-muscle the other team to contest for the ball. Usually a scrum down is called after a player has knocked the ball forward from open play or a penalty (You get 4 options, tap and play, scrum, kick for the line or kick for posts)

Springbok is the best .it will never ever let you down. They are really magnificent

In terms of your question regarding what we eat, it’s good old South African meat - beef, chicken, pork, lamb and our vegetables my friend. We also drink anyone under the table and will take you for a morning run with a breakfast martini in your belly before you have a strong breakfast to head off to work to go conquer your day. We’re also South Africans - we are Africans. We are bred to be fighters and warriors. From birth, we enter this world to dominate everything outside of the SA tribe. Rugby isn’t for babies and it’s our No. 1 sport man. It doesn’t get more real than this.

Im from south africaand to answer your questions were just built different

We won the world cup 3 times im proud of my boys we love them all

That massive man here is simply known as beast and number 6 is my hero siya kolisi

Rugby players get paid well, but nowhere near NFL salaries. Love your reactions. The US has an excellent rugby comp going, it just needs more exposure within the US and more money. Their are some very very good young players in the US coming through at the moment, The US is going to be a rugby force in the next few years. I'm a Kiwi rugby fan, There's a world cup this year, and South Africa are definitely front runners. They are formidable, dangerous and explosive on the field and will dismantle any team, including the AB's.

This is what I a fellow South African want to see

And we have a very humble loving captain. Love you Siya Kolisi

The huddle type thing you asked about is called a scrum

When 2 teams do a formation to re start the game it's called a SCRUM, the team that was infringed against , gets to the start the game by putting the ball into the scrum- then it becomes a test of pure power each team of 8 players try force the opposing team back & away from the ball.

New sub, I'm half South African. The Springboks are NEXT LEVEL!

Cannot be more proud of our South African team.