Highland Fling by 1st Battalion Pipes & Drums Scots Guards 

Next time you will see them they will be in combats, don't mix with with them if you value your bits.

Thanks for your service 😂😂😂

First, competitive Highland dance is not only done by females. Most competitive dancers are female, it's true, probably largely due to the fact that our societies often see dance as too "wimpy" for males to do (despite the fact that I know few "regular" men who can rival the strength of men who are dancers)... but males do compete in Highland dance (look up Gareth and Deryck Mitchelson, Billy Forsyth, David Wilton, Daniel Carr, Tony Cargill, among many others). Competitive Highland dance, as the other person who replied noted, is, like many/most competitive forms of dance, more highly-structured and regulated than the dance practiced traditionally. It has to be, because that's where the competition comes in-- it tends to become increasingly complex and prescribed as competitors must become increasingly better to beat each other. What you see here is closer to the traditional roots-- which, yes, originated at least partially in military training, which is why it would be silly for anyone to feel a male highland dancer as wussy-- than the competitive version you've probably seen at a Highland Games. Don't think of them as one being "better" than the other (as many fall prey to doing)-- think of them as being two slightly different members of the same family, with one having evolved to a very specific purpose.