Stuart Hogg v Willie le Roux | World’s Longest Spiral Kick | Ultimate Rugby Challenge 

France have been doing beautifully so far let’s hope you guys can stay on your A Game for the six nations because England and Ireland have found some new spirit in their game plans

@@Wolfsong27FlyHalfFullHeart Scotland as well

@@Wolfsong27FlyHalfFullHeart This is precisely why I've said I'm looking for this particular edition. Scotland, Ireland, England and France look like very serious contenders.

Allez les bleus

I said the exact same thing!

It belongs in the Louvre

Need a bigger rugby pitch

We'd love to see it! We need everyone that wants to see it to Tweet him and ask him to get involved!

Mate he could kick it across a whole country

Hey we need it to at least be a contest 😁

You can't do a challenge like this without Steyn, pretty sure he'll beat everyone.

Frans Steyn hits drop goals from 60m, he's too overpowered for Hogg😂

Actually his punting wasn't exceptional

Yes! I dunno why they would put Willie

They didn’t pick frans streyn because he’d kick the ball clear out the stadium and that’d be annoying to fetch and document every single time😭💀

Gaffie du Toit would've been the champ if he was still available. Percy Montgomery aswell.

No!He will kick the ball out the stadium.

Frans one of the last few that still enjoys a spiral torpedo

Spot on. 😆👌

I promise sir, the dog did rest my tape

This aged like milk

Then, “it got chewed by a dog” 😂

He saw it on the line that's why

​@@beno8983 I promise sir, I really did do my homework

Exactly, wind & altitude when it comes to kicking

Frans Steyn: Cute.

They needed to make it fair at least

He would have won

Bring Andy Goode for the North, he would have done +70m as 16 year old

Difficult to measure when it’s in the stands

He is enjoying life on the plaas

Same here bruh I just recently joined a club and I'm waiting for my 1st match

I think it depends where you come from. In South Africa I think it's still called a torpedo

we needed frans

Wrong South African 🙄

@@l.a.benjamin6222 Frans steyn?

@@nicolasnel7788 nope Willie is the wrong guy...he wasn't evens suppose to move past Boland Cavaliers

@@l.a.benjamin6222 you mean school 3rd team

Was there any significant difference in altitude where these kicks were made? Obviously that would have an impact on the distance.

​@@jimmylovescake6813looks like Willie is in the Cape region, so do not think there was much, if any, difference.

You should make a video to prove the injustice ;)

Cold conditions that hogg had are a disadvantage though plus having watched both many times hogg has a better and longer spiral

I’d say he has another 10 from 77..

@@mr.codingmaster2 I think Willie did pretty well at sea level and with no wind behind him! But it was fun to watch

Lescaboura, the one stride place kicker.

@@kenrehill8775 The last toe kicker as well

@@williamweir1547 ah yes I forgot that

Yeah at least do it in an enclosed stadium without wind same ball same grass etc. If your gonna bother to do these competitions at least put in a bit of effort

I think That was an old lady kicking the ball mate ...... ... No wait it was Stuart Hogg easy to confuse the 2

@@graytoby1 oh shush ya donk

80m

Why you comparing you to an athlete that played in the rwc though?

Le Roux is in much warmer conditions and is also (probably) at higher altitude, both of which will have a big impact on increasing the length of his kicks. having watched Hogg play a ton i cannot recall an opponent kicking further from ball in hand than him. so i would say if they were both to kick in the exact same conditions Hogg would win relatively comfortably.

@@Demondoink1 tbh it’s all about the bounce as Willie said. And taking a long run up isn’t feasible in a game. Teams also have different kicking strategies with Northern Hemisphere teams preferring to kick deep whereas Southern Hemisphere teams preferring to comb it. So it’s difficult to judge who is better quantitatively.

Willie was at his high school alma mater which is in Stellenbosch. At 137m above sea level, it's hardly in the stratosphere

That's Willie for you - you'd always expect him to do better.

@@Demondoink1 Frans Steyn says hi 🤣 but jokes aside, Willie is basically at sea level, he's near Cape Town.

honestly at altitude in SA you're getting a good 5-10m more distance. Sometimes more.

Was wondering the same thing! Torpedo!

Amen to that boet

Cus the whole point of the spiral is so it can role into touch

Cause measuring it from where it rolled would encourage them to actually spiral kick instead of just boot it

@@jacobalford7889 only in play; when used from a penalty or free kick, the carry distance is usually what counts.

@@Karma-qt4ji and that's why players never use a spiral for those anymore

@@roryodriscoll3008 Sure they do. It is not uncommon to see kicks to one side of the field (predominantly right side) being spirals because it arcs the ball towards the touchline and not away from it if the kicker is right-handed. That aside, the quality of the kick in rugby is always down to where you land the ball because where it ends up after that will always have an element of luck involved. Great kicks are penalised for bouncing the wrong way, terrible kicks reward the kicking team with a favourable bounce. So if we disagree on my reasoning, can we at least agree that where the ball lands is more skill based than where it rolls to?