The Rules of Scottish Highland Games - EXPLAINED! 

The Highland Games - Scotland's summertime tradition. I stumbled upon the Loch Lomond games last year and it was pretty sweet. Let me know if you've been to see any of these events?

Feels like the various Strongman competitions owe a lot to the highland games.

So, it seems as though the most popular of the Highland Games consist mainly of throwing heavy stuff. Sounds like a good time.

Just when I think you’ve run out of sports to explain, you’ve proven me wrong again! Great work!! PS - I’ve asked this before, and I’ll ask again for any and all of the Canadian fans of this channel.. DO Y’ALL WANT A “NINH EXPLAINS THE RULES OF RINGETTE” VIDEO?!

I love being scottish (btw some scottish schools allow these games to be played)

Two-time competitor, acceptable performance… this was a simple but great video! Gets me excited and thinking of coming out of “retirement”!

Null explains... Jugger Please!!

@Ninh Ly thanks for this video. I ended up going to see the Highland Games a couple months after watching this and had a blast!

Of the obscure sports you've covered, this is one I have actually seen in person! I saw them have a Highland Games competition in Nova Scotia as part of a local Canada Day celebration when I was up visiting my great-uncle's summer home.

I would love to see a sprint at the world stronman events. That would be so interesting to see

Love this episode, Ninh.

Boy, this video makes me wish I lived in Scotland, especially the music and dance. Great work as always. Lang may yer lum reek!

Splendid work as always, Ninh! Hope to see a video on track and field athletics in future!

I've been looking forward to this sort of vid. I was about to recomend it. I don't have to. Ninh you're a LEGEND. I have a feeling i've said that before! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Thank you Ninh for making this video

Excellent!

I had to watch this video as my English homework and it was very fun to watch! Thanks ^^

Great video, Ninh! Glad you took the time to cover the athletic competitions. However, you missed a hugely important "other event" at the end - musical competitions. There is an international community of thousands of bagpipe bands, and tens of thousands of soloist bagpipers, drummers, harpists, fiddlers, and singers who travel all over the world to compete against one another.

Keep making great videos Ninh

I would love to go to Scotland, climb a Munro and attend a Highland Games. Thank you. This is a really nice video.

I live in Glasgow and I have family in the Highlands so I quite often watch them

Great video as always.

Highland games are huge here in the States, and I attend several every year! If you wanted to you could almost go to one every weekend. I have a good friend very involved as a competitor in the games.

Cheers fur th' video. th' end ay it an' th' graphite loons was oan point.

You should make a video about the field events in athletics as well as the track events, I think it could be interesting and help people understand how different the events are.

Thanks. I'm hoping to compete in my local highland games next year, but needed a rundown of the rules. I might need to go to home depot to buy some sort of caber.

Yes!!!! I asked and I have recived! Thanks Ninh Ly for covering this amazing sport😊 next on my personal wishlist(I understand you have your own list and order, just want you to know theres a demand lol😅) Jugger!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ninh has explained everything..n nothing left out. ... Don't worry i will mail you some of my native weird sports.. 😊

went to the Gathering of the clans way back in 2009 in Edinburgh. An absolutely epic weekend :D

The Highland games are my KILT-Y pleasure

SUPER COOL !!!!

Thank you for these viedos!!

NICE!!!

L9ve it. Great vids.Thanks dude

I don't believe this has been mentioned yet, but Jugger rules explained would be great.

There are a total of 10 events, but in most games they don't host the mile run, so the games are 9 events. They are, 1. The open stone, a 16lbs stone that you can move to build up speed in the trig, basically it's shotput. 2. The Braemar stone, that ninh showed, is a 22lbs stone that you can't move except to throw. This is a stand and put. 3. Weight over bar, simply stand under the bar and lift. The weight differs based on weight and gender. Men it's 56lbs, lightweight men (under200lbs) 42lbs, and women 28lbs. 4./5. The Hammer throw, this is 2 events because one is the heavy hammer 22lbs, and the other the light hammer 16lbs for men. Women heavy 16lbs, and light 12lbs. This you must stay in place as you swing the hammer around 2 or 3 times before launch, farther the better. 6./7. Weight for Distance, again the weight changes from class and gender. Men 56lbs heavy, and 28lbs light. Lightweight men 42lbs heavy and 28lbs light. Women 28lbs heavy and 14lbs light. In these events you can spin in the trig to build up speed. 8. The Sheaf Toss, in this event the goal is to get the sack, sheaf, over the bar using a pitchfork. Men use a 20lbs lightweight men 16lbs and women 12lbs. 9. The Caber toss, most iconic of the games. The weight and size of the caber, the giant pole, changes from game to game. The point is not for distance but to turn the caber over end over end. Scoring is based off a clock with 12 being a perfect score. Anything less than 9 or more than 3 on the clock is a no turn. Good job on the overview Ninh. I've started competing in these games myself and I can tell you that these games are a lot tougher than they seem.

Canne de Combat and Jugger would be great!

I’m Scottish and have shamefully never been to a Highland Games. I hear it’s great fun tho

I remember first hearing about the Highland Games from my mom, and the first thing I said after hearing what the events were was "I'm beginning to sense a theme here"

Man, if I ever get big enough then I want in. Most of these competitions look like fun

Nice Sir 👍✔

Great video! can you do Ninh explains the rules of indoor hockey?

It would be nice if you could put the masses and leghts also in metric units

boy do i want to go to scotland now! I love cultural sports like these...

You know what would be awesome? If Ninh explains the rules of *Marblelympics*

6:15 Nice view

Hey! I love your videos! But can you speak about Jugger :) A real new sport with fun rules. This community need help!!!

More than half of that sports are similar to the Traditional Basque Games (Herri Kirolak), you should check them out!!

Please make a video on the rules of Sanda/ Sanshou!!

I was just at the Gourock highland games

Please consider doing a video on the rules of Pato

The Highland games are one of Scotland's proudest inventions.

The still for the stone put in kengo!

Good video but you're missing a few things, the games are scored like a decathlon with everyone competing in all events, stone put as you describe is just braemar stone which is no less than 22lbs but there's also open stone which is no less than 16lb and is literally shotput with a rock in a trig. Cabers are scored for points based on clock position and degrees lifted if you don't turn it and there is a formula for the total points of a perfect turn based on length, weight, and taper of the caber since no two are alike. Also hammer usually has a 16lb and 22lb light and heavy event. Traditional order of events is braemar stone, open stone, heavy weight for distance, light weight for distance, heavy hammer, light hammer, caber, sheaf, and heavy weight over bar.

I was not ready for 6:16 🤣🤣🤣

The fact that you don’t have over 500 thousand subs baffles me

do a video on downhill mountain biking

I’ve always been curious about the traditions and customs around Highland games outside of the contests themselves. The contests and events usually seem to require a lot of strength and explosive power, which is something I can get behind. Would you ever do the rules of Naginata or Shorinji (Chinese) Kenpo. They’re admittedly similar to Kendo and karate, but it appears that scoring in competitions and some penalties may vary.

6:10 Ninh you pervert, great video though

2:39 when you play Getting Over It too much...

Please do the BTCC! Thanks

Looks like dangerous stuff

19'6", that's one big pole. And to top it off, it weighs 175 lbs! Wow!

Oh how I do miss the Highland Games !!!!💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

With the stone put is the distance measured to the landing point of the stone or the location it rolls to?

We also have sport like the tug o' war in the Basque Country. We call it Sokatira.

Cornhole next, please!

You should do: The rules of Hornussen (Swiss sport)

IN MY FAMILY BACKGROUND, MY ANCESTORS ARE FROM IRELAND AND ENGLAND. I THINK I HAVE SCOTTISH IN MY DNA TOO. I ENJOY WATCHING HIGHLAND GAMES, DANCING AND BAGPIPES ARE VERY SOOTHING TO ME.

Do a video on Jugger! The sport of the future!

Nihh you should make a video the rules of sasuke/ninja warrior explained

Tug'o'war my childhood in France, didn't even know that's scottish!

Ninh a question Is highland games as you shown here, is it a collection of events like athletics consists of different events like 100 meters, shortput, long jump etc. Is this like that?? Is it popular in other countries apart from Scotland. You are great Ninh, you know a lot of sports like this sport, Greco-Roman wrestling, floorball, Gaelic football,disc golf etc I came to know these only after I saw your videos , I would like to meet you face to face someday.

Great video! It makes me proud to be Scottish. Oh well, half Scottish. And I loved the bagpipes in the background. Thank you.

Please do Tchoukball

Does the stone ever bounce bad and crush someone's shin in? There's got to be instances where the stone smashed someone's leg or foot...

Hay ninh, could you do a rules of trampoline video? Not many people seem to know about it, and I think that should change.

Make a video on Rounders

I wonder if I'll ever see this on ESPN.

Gaa Handball please. 5 time world champ teaches in my school

4:07 in 1912 Olympic Games they have that

Eles também podem usar camisa e chapéu de renda .

I'm From Scotland and i done some of these games befor

Please do Kata karate rules

What ur fav sport to play

Explain the game of ball of the mayas

Do beerpong rules next😂

Explain soccer tennis and street soccer

Ninh-SMR

Who thumbs downed this video!? This shits baller.

Is it true that an Australian holds a few records? His name is Damian Birkenhead.

It's a great shame that there was none of the original sound track - the Thunk of the caber, the pipes for the dance, the cheers of the crowd - the ... um ... what's "ambiance" in Gaelic?

I don’t know if you take requests or not, but I do have a sport you haven’t reviewed yet Pickleball

Wow. We have that tarik tambang in Indonesia. XD

The long awaited spin off of top 10 weirdest sports

Hey Ninh why not use the metric system??

Can you do a rules of Relay Ball next it’s on my page I have a short video of it

The best thing about the gathering has to be the whisky tents.

Is this a once a year contest? Like the tough man contest

Do the Oina the national sport of Romania