This video is very truthful.. We Dutch go CRAZY when there is ice... Even the days before there's actually ice and the temperature is still way to high, people go CRAZY.

@megalondonkleuter

3 жыл бұрын

YEAH!! I do not want snow, I want ice !!

@jcaessens

3 жыл бұрын

Wij maken altijd wel een meest uit goede weersomstandigheden. Als het vriest gaan we massaal schaatsen. Als de zon schijnt zitten we met z'n allen op het terras en doen we zoveel mogelijk buiten activiteiten.

@steve00alt70

3 жыл бұрын

what about weed?

@papriikaNL

3 жыл бұрын

@@steve00alt70 I think most tourist smoke it. I do know a lot of dutchies who smoke weed.. But it's a lie every Dutch guy is high al the time

@prozeeterps

3 жыл бұрын

fietsen en zoeken naar de perfecte plas

The winter of 1977/1978 was so cold, with much snow, that instead of using the bicycle to go to school, I was ice-skating to school every day. Skating was the safer option. We were skating on the sidewalks and the bike lanes. Fun memories. The winter of 2010/2011 was likewise. It happens. The Elfstedentocht is not a myth. Even the king did it, when he was young.

@hansdevreught5459

3 жыл бұрын

I believe the first one was the winter from 79/80. The temperature dropped from 8 to -18 on december 31 and Meatloaf had his hit "pradise by the dashboard light". Half way January there was one "warm" day when it rain: ijzel, a centimeter thick: yes, I did skate to school in that week: on the roads. The only reason we had not the Elfstedentocht was due to the isolating snow. The ice we had was called kwalsterijs. Ice made of snow, not safe at all.

@gardenjoy5223

3 жыл бұрын

@@hansdevreught5459 There were several cold winters back then.

@petralimon

3 жыл бұрын

Yes!!! I remember ice skating to school on the all over frozen streets! Cars were not able to drive there, so it was very safe. And I remember watching two Elfstedentochten. I was a student during the last one (1997) and loved to sleep in ;) but I set the alarmclock to watch every minute of it. Great memories...

@davidprins5504

2 жыл бұрын

When there was a thick layer of ice on the street i had to deliver the morning news paper my balls are stil l hurting

0:25 I checked and 121/130 medals are from speed skating (400m track), 5 short track speed skating, 3 figure skating and 1(!) for snowboarding. So 93% are from long track speed skating, and 99% from ice skating.

@LunaKoops

3 жыл бұрын

The snowboarding one was great, it was the 100th golden medal we got and if I'm not mistaken it was likely to be Sven Kramer's but because he made this huge blunder with the lane switching it instead went to Nicolien Sauerbreij, the first golden medal we ever got on snow.

@PetraStaal

3 жыл бұрын

@@LunaKoops good memory.

@Jilhoa1

3 жыл бұрын

And our most decorated Olympian is a skater, Ireen Wüst!

@gwaptiva

3 жыл бұрын

And Sven Kramer doubles as the captain of the Canadian ice hockey team... so add 2 more golds there :P

@oxithius_official

3 жыл бұрын

@@LunaKoops We got more snowboarding world champions in the free range and extreme sports like half pipe and tricking, but those aren't olympian sports ;)

This video made me SMILE. I'm such a proud Dutchie!

@laurensdeputter1114

3 жыл бұрын

And you have just made me cringe

@mikastevens3401

3 жыл бұрын

Im not

@jorritwoudsma7530

3 жыл бұрын

Welkom bij de familie

I don't skate myself, not a fan, but I've had a massive smile on my face these past few days seeing everyone anjoying themselves on the ice. Tiny kids skating like they were born on their skates, adults messing about with chairs, wannabe tough kids with their hockey skates looking all intimidating to the girls (well, at least they think so) and beautiful figure skating through it all. Old time entertainment. It was amazing to see!!

@yaels2505

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah it was so amazing! It was like a natural amusement park where there was something to do for everyone. I also saw kids with remote airplanes, people with their shoes on the ice and beers just celebrating carnival, these sailskaters, families that were just sitting by the side chatting over coffee while their kids were sleighing on the ice. And everybody was so happy and exuberant! I think everyone could really use this, i know i'm still 'aan het nagenieten' :))

Don't forget 'Koek en Zopie'...

@Sjaan_Banaan

3 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@AMC-ko7yr

3 жыл бұрын

Wat is dit? Lol nooit van gehoord

@Sjaan_Banaan

3 жыл бұрын

@@AMC-ko7yr nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koek-en-zopie

@DreadX10

3 жыл бұрын

En snert.

@prozeeterps

3 жыл бұрын

@@DreadX10 voor 7 euro per bakkie echt nederlands ja hahaha

Fun fact when this video was Uploaded the water froze and we could Iceskate!! I've never Skated on better Natural Ice than that week. And it was on my birthday, It's the best present I could ever get. I'm so suprised that other countries with more Ice than us don't ever use it appropriatie.

I’ve been in ice fever for the last week and been skating since Wednesday as others where still falling thru!

@no.2MCRfan

3 жыл бұрын

Yesterday i went skating for the first time this year and there were a lot of people that still fell through. Be careful!

@DreadX10

3 жыл бұрын

The more you weigh, the longer you have to wait until it is safe for you to skate......

@jlammetje

3 жыл бұрын

@Alec The dragon to be fair, when I was a kid (33 now), we could sled and ice skate basically every single year. And my parents have stories of ice skating to school, because in their time it was even more regular that every ditch was frozen over. It’s really due to global warming that it’s not that cold anymore.

@prozeeterps

3 жыл бұрын

@@jlammetje wist je dat ze het weer kunnen beinvloeden? over een tijdje word het weer koud let maar op, en doe onderzoek in cloud seeding en haarp mede nederlander! ze verbergen nogal veel haha

@jlammetje

3 жыл бұрын

@@prozeeterps "ze". Sure sure. Zit dat nou lekker, zo'n alu-hoedje?

I never knew my dad was a skater, and in just in a casual conversation, when I was about 18, dad told a mate that he was a marathon ice skater and had won races and showed us medals. I myself is like bambi on ice, as useless as tits on a bull.

@McmcTimboJimbo

3 жыл бұрын

Dat laatste gast

I liked the joke about forgot their sticks. It’s such a pity (ice)hockey isn’t populair in The netherlands which is kinda strange. We could’ve been very good. We’re the best skaters, the best (field)hockeyers and we got the right posture.

@DreadX10

3 жыл бұрын

Or is it that we never figured out how to stop (skating)? Despite being a Bruins fan, I cheer for: www.nhl.com/player/daniel-sprong-8478466 as well. (And for Chara, of-course, can't forget what that big dude did for us).

Really loved this video as a Dutch person especially when the women said we've developed skating as a survival skill😂

One of my favorite books growing up was “Silver Skates”, the story about two poor Dutch siblings that wanted to enter this skating race to use the award for their bedridden father. The whole book was about skating and there was this chapter where the town boys traveled out of town by skating. That had cemented Netherlands’ image in my eyes as “the skating nation”. Other than windmills and wooden clogs of course.

From 1980 on throughout the '80's, I lived off and on in Holland. In '95, I wanted to go to Belarus but it was easier to fly first round trip to A'dam, and get my ticket round trip to Minsk from A'dam. I was pretty sure of my clothing choices (it was late December/early January) for White Russia, since I'd been living in Utah several years. After a couple weeks of below zero Russian weather, I returned to Holland for a couple of weeks to visit my children. And it was MUCH warmer there. HOWEVER... I completely forgot about the vochtigheid (humidity)! Holy crap! I froze my butt off the whole time I was there! Lol! My feet were always cold and I just couldn't get the chill out of my bones. I'm originally from Southern California and knew about vochtigheid. I'd simply forgotten in winter, in Holland, they have it there too! Its sooo nice to see everything freeze up this year... Too bad it's already melting. Geen Elfsteden tocht deze jaar, denk ik. Jammer, hoor!

Dankjewel Bart, altijd weer superleuk om te kijken!

Ik zit altijd zo te genieten van deze filmpjes.

Not this being posted the day I'm gonna go ice skating--

@all_is_well_Mara

3 жыл бұрын

haha ik heb gisteren geschaatst 🤩

@prozeeterps

3 жыл бұрын

@@all_is_well_Mara nice ik vandaag nog ff kon net

My dad did pass the Elfstedentocht twice. He even has a picture on the bridge near bartlehiem

I actually DID go to school in many winters in the 80s.. I lived in Friesland and it was shorter to just hop on the ice and skate to the school yard instead of taking the roads. I am pretty sure we could do that in 1984 85 86 and 87. At least 30 kids would do this and so we had a whole area in the school reserved for our wet boots and skates.

This video was "very gezellig". 👍

I'd sprung my back a week ago. But went skating anyway. It was only an hour, but was so happy I went!

If the ice is thick enough and it is midweek, everyone takes a day off work, or an afternoon off work or school to skate or speed skate long distance tours of 5 to 25km. Because if you don’t, the thaw could have begun and the ice could be gone or unsafe by the time it is weekend. We don’t have long periods of freezing weather anymore. I once had an employer who gave the afternoon off (with pay) to go skate a long distance tour of 20km. The whole office, all 46 of them (including the CEO) participated in the race. It always starts and ends at a cafe or a hot drink stand near the ice, where you can buy hot wine, hot chocolate, pea soup or just coffee or a beer. It is always fun and a big event in every town. Every town has a speed skating club which organizes these long distance tours on ice and they are also publicized on a list on the website of the national speed skating corporation so you know where they are, when, which distances, how much the starting fee is etc.

Ik heb al geschaatst op de vijver, woohoo! (and I felt like JESUS! 😂)

My grandfather was from Friesland. When he was young, they visited family when there was ice. Then they could skate to them.

As someone who lives in the town that has the netherlands‘ best ice stadium i can tell you some of the dutch olympic ice skaters are the nicest people ever. When they aren’t training they are helping the little kids on the ice, it‘s really sweet.

@elenaspano5067

2 жыл бұрын

hi! can i ask you what town that is?

@froggiebcg

2 жыл бұрын

@@elenaspano5067 the town is called Heerenveen, the name of the ice stadium is Thialf

@elenaspano5067

2 жыл бұрын

@@froggiebcg thank you so much! I'll be moving to Amsterdam in September to study at UvA and since I'm a figure skater, I thought it'd be nice to visit maybe just a couple of times an Olympic stadium. I've never been to one!

@froggiebcg

2 жыл бұрын

@@elenaspano5067 i'm not completely sure if Thialf is a olympic stadium but there have been lots of world champion ships in speed skating there! The ice at Thialf is very special and that's why it's so populair (don't know why it's special cause it's a secret they will never tell).

@elenaspano5067

2 жыл бұрын

@@froggiebcg right right. the dutch are the best at speed skating hahaha. no wonder they win most of the olympic medals in the sport. do you happen to know if they only have a speed skating rink or also a normal one?

Im as a fries lives in Leeuwarden just on walking distance from the finish. Normally we would need to take a pretty long walk around lakes Etc, but now 02-02-2021 we are just walking across

Super jealous that I'm missing the skating now. 😔 As a long time competitive ice skater in the US, it's rare to skate outside (especially in Texas where I live).

Nice video

I hope you all got to enjoy this years week of frost and two days of skating!

True

I am Dutch by birth but i hate skating since it is only done in comfortable halls. I loved it in the past with "Ard Schenk, Kees Verkerk and Jan Bols". Those days they did it under the cold blue sky. Real circumstances with real exitement.

In our inner inner we skate for wartime to defeat the enemy. It once happened we won a battle with the Spanish a long time ago!

The two blades, that's fun because that's normal for us to learn ice skating. Like behind a chair. I learned on "frieze doorlopers". I miss the "koek and zopie" stories.

i have skate three times the elfstedentocht.(eleven city tour) I can t talk or write about that without tears.

@longstockings

3 жыл бұрын

You sir, have the most appropriate family name to go with your elfstedentocht - medaille. Kudos.

@sjaakdewinter6258

3 жыл бұрын

@@longstockings If my name was summer, I had written the same.

I've had 1 "Ijsvrij" day in my life and my friend and I from a town outside the city were the only ones at school while the rest from the city didn't go.

0:28 The Netherlands has won around 120 medals in Olympic history and only 2 of them were not from longtrack skating or short track speed skating, Nicolien Sauwerbrij won gold at the 2010 parallel giant slalom snowboarding and Kimberly Bos who won a bronze medal at the 2022 womens skeleton event.

skating to work. Maybe roller skating? ;)

I hear Texas had Ijsvrij this year as well.

I had a bad case of 'schaatskoorts' last week. Then on the day I was meant to go skating I learned that I had to go in quarantine, because I got a notification on my corona-app. Have had the app for about 6 months and it never notified me. As if it was trying to time it as bad as possible! So I have to wait another 8 years before I can skate on the canals:'(

@yannickm5429

3 жыл бұрын

You don't HAVE to, it's recommended. Having this app dictate your life this way is pathetic. Especially with an outdoor activity such as ice skating where the chance of contamination is basically 0. You don't even know for sure if you have covid..

@erensuicmez768

3 жыл бұрын

Jij bent echt gek😂

Elfstedentocht ! as well

ok you convinced me let me grab my skates

3:20 - there is no reason at all to call it a myth as the marathon has been documented, it's last one was in 1997, so It's not a suprise that little amounts of people remember this.

Traditional skating with the rescue mechanism on them?

1:05 actually, most of us learn skating very early. I think I was four or five or something when I was on ice for the first time (only walking on ice, no skates yet haha)

@hansdevreught5459

Жыл бұрын

learning to skate? my parents gave me skates and said tonight you can skate... Well, it was a lot of falling on my face. ;-(

Hi, vanavond in de uitzending van RTL Boulevard maken we een item over de kou buiten. Ter ondersteuning van dit item zouden we graag jouw video gebruiken. Zou dit mogen met bron? Groet, RTL Boulevard.

How do they do in figure skating or ice dancing?

Ik ben zaterdag nog wezen schaatsen op het " kleine zeetje" in Spakenburg, op mijn Noren. Maar in 1997, toen er voor de laatste keer een Elfstedentocht was. Reed ik op het kleine zeetje, met mijn eerste auto. Oeps, een BMW 318 I. Net mijn rijbewijs, nog nooit zoveel lol gehad op het IJS. GROETJES UIT SPAKENBURG NEDERLAND GERBEN T

How did the Dutch do against Eric Heiden in 1980 Olympics? Where was Eric Heiden from?

i couldnt go because of work 🥺 we were ment to take the day off with out class towards the ice

I love the cold and the snow and ice. I hate skating. Probably one of the very view Dutch persons. I love watching others have fun skating though.

Well historically the Dutch did use the frozen canals etc. For transportation. So Katie couric isn't totally incorrect. That is quite a long time ago tho.

Well this is actually how we connect with Canadian people, we understand ice conditions, no worries, we got from Australia I believe it never freezing, but hey no problem, come and join our party, no worries,

What is the rescue mechanism? lol

Why do we love the ice? Because it is not allways there but when it is, we take days of from work to go skating. Ice fever? Oh, definitely. Krakend ijs is goed ijs.

These interviews have to be 2 or 3 years old at this point.

Oke. Mssn toch een puntje voor het schaatsen naar werk of school. Ik weet toevallig dat toen mijn moeder jong was zei ooit eens naar school is geschaatst.

us dutch people see something with the dutch, we click.

I've Been Skating today... 😊❄😊❄😊❄😊 unfortunately next week The Ice is gone

I think I was born in the wrong country/on the wrong continent. Seriously. I am a Dutch who actually HATES cold, snow and especially ice, unless it's ice cubes in coca cola on a warm summer day or ice cream. I get such severe winter depressions each year that I save up money and move heaven and earth just so I can go for a month's holiday to some tropical country from halfway January to halfway February. I don't care about the summer holidays, even if I have to work all throughout them. But in winter I literally need an escape from my depression. I hate that Covid-19 really destroyed any of those plans this year. And I have been locked up inside my house now for more than a week because I don't like walking in the snow and today I am afraid to break my neck because everything turned to ice. Yesterday I did go outside with my fiance but there was no joy in it, I was clinging on to his arm for dear life. With one weak knee and my own clumsiness I don't risk anything. I always have a storage of canned foods just in case I have to experience days like this, so I don't need to go to the supermarket. God, I hate this so much. Can't wait for the next weekend when somehow they expect temperatures of around 15 degrees. But yeah, wouldn't be the first time. 2 years ago I was hanging in a hammock in Uganda when my friends in the Netherlands started sending me pictures of snowy landscapes (obviously anyone sending me those kind of pics got a pic in return of me in a T-shirt and short chilling in a hammock with a very healthy sun tan). But when I returned on 13 February the first weekend I could already wear one of the summer dresses I bought in Uganda. 😆 By the way, don't think I am rich for being able to fly to the tropics each winter. Not at all. I am just proud to have that Dutch quality of being "zuinig" so I can save enough money from the little income I have so I can flee every year (guess "zuinig" when it comes to saving money is one of the very few things that make me proud to be Dutch, although guests won't feel it from my hospitality, offering a small cup of coffee with just one cheap small biscuit is not my style and guests are always welcome to stay for dinner). Just no fleeing the terror this year. If it wasn't for my engagement and my fiance somehow keeping me a little bit sane and have reasons to smile I would now be totally crumbling apart. I was born on the wrong continent for sure.

I am Dutch and I am very very glad thats is over!(today)

@keaponlaffin6737

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha! 👍

ik heb een paar keer geschaatst, maar ik heb altijd moeten lenen omdat die van vorig jaar te klein waren

Srsly tho, the days where the lakes were frozen, the entire city was on ice. I aint never seen that many peeps of the city together

that fallout shirt tho :O

Fun fact, during winter, the Dutch have used skaters to supply fortress cities while fighting for their independence against the Spanish crown

I once cylced over a frozen lake, I'm as dutch as they come

van Benthem '85 - '86 met de hele klas voor de buis!

@annemariedusselaar9862

3 жыл бұрын

Ik stond in Franeker te kijken, was 10jaar en bij oma op bezoek 👍

@SiegfriedDeniz

3 жыл бұрын

@@annemariedusselaar9862 ha leuk, ik trouwens ook net 10 😂

@PetraStaal

3 жыл бұрын

I keek ook samen met klasgenoten op school. De finish was rond het middaguur dus toen de school uitging renden we naar huis om daar de finish te zien.

@annemariedusselaar9862

3 жыл бұрын

@@PetraStaal wij hadden die (halve) week vrij van school misschien ijsvrij ofzo, weet ook nog dat de bussen stampvol waren

Don't forget Koek en sopie.

Pffff, give me some ice skates!!

"Nei twa kear nachtfroast wol de Hollanner der foar Hy ropt om 't hurdst: 'de tocht der tochten, die gaat door' Mar wy Friezen witte better iis is samar ek wer wetter En dus hâlde wy de kiezzen op elkoar"

and you better believe it. we rule!

Ik ben 1 x naar het werk gegaan op schaatsen. 15 km over de weg omdat daar goed ijs was. Op het water waren allemaal bubbels

About the comment where Dutch people do not go to work on skates, I have a Dutch colleague who told me that in the seventies there was a winter so severe that people could not bike, walk or use their cars. So then she did skate over the canals a few kilometers to go to work. It has happened in the past, but the winters recently have just been too mild☺

We zouden deze week elfstedentocht praktisch gezien kunnen doen maar ja..... corona 😑

@jochemmaat7405

3 жыл бұрын

nee het ijs is ook niet dik genoeg

@janjochem20

3 жыл бұрын

het in het noorden warmer dan in het zuiden deze keer. we hebben gewoon pech. als deze kou nog een weekje duurde dan kon het misschien wel

@Nickysan1980

3 жыл бұрын

Nee joh, heb gisteren een groot gedeelte van de elfstedentocht geschaatst en op vele plekken was het ijs echt niet dik genoeg om honderden mensen te houden.

Canals canals canals. If you watch this video you think that we have everywhere canals.

@david6054

3 жыл бұрын

I mean... we do... From wide ones for shipping to narrow ones for farming.

wat zijn expats?

holy shit its Calvin Rans

I read that because of Covid people will have to be limited as to how many may skate. The 1.5 meter and mask will have to be observed - which only makes sense. I have seen pictures of those Ice Sailboats. They look like a lot of fun, as long as someone experienced is with me.

they're tall and they're fast

4:34 Looks like the hair has a face and is talking because of the distortion.

Bart kun je misschien regelen dat engelse mensen een dagje meelopen met Nederlandse studenten?

The ice is NOT 2 centimeter, but al least 4 centimeter.

This Dutch person doesn't go crazy when there's ice. I want spring all year 'round. Frozen lakes also mean most of the sidewalks are frozen too. I have a 14 month old dog who enjoys the snow and ice a little bit too much, so I did a lot of slipping xD

1:58 is a liar. I can’t even remember the last time it was possible to skate during Christmas. Our winters are rarely strong enough anyway.

@jayagajjar8278

3 жыл бұрын

Haha that's what I thought, but I guess she's talking about the ice skating rink set up in the grote markt

@DutchSapphire

3 жыл бұрын

The last white Christmas we had was in 2010, so it’s possible she was there in that time

Laat ze een keer Fries beluisteren

En "Heb je zin ?". Wanneer komt dat weer eens terug ?

Iedereen is hier schaatsgek, behalve de NS. Eén vlokje sneeuw, alle treinen ontregeld. Ook zonder sneeuw een puinhoop. En om een Russische zich bezorgd zien om de dikte van het ijs is wel zorgelijk.

Tf are mountains?

@joshuddin897

3 жыл бұрын

Der berg in german

When William from the USA and Calvin from Canada find the courage to say something negative about the Netherlands, resigned to the inevitable cascade of vitriol that will be thrust upon them for it, they will be truly ingeburgerd.

@DreadX10

3 жыл бұрын

Aye, stop caring what other people think and just do your thing, is a clear sign of being 'ingeburgerd' (being part of the Dutch team/mentality) .

Hoi Bart! Wil je de naam van jouw kanaal veranderen naar LEARN ENGLISH? Hier wordt meer Engels gesproken dan Nederlands!!

If you really wants to see a crazy nation> wait for "the elfstedentocht" (eleven cities tour)

@hijtohema

3 жыл бұрын

We've been waiting for 24 years and counting. Don't hold your breath.

@sjaakdewinter6258

3 жыл бұрын

@@hijtohema Klimaat warmt op, zie het somber in voor de toekomst.

@hijtohema

3 жыл бұрын

@@sjaakdewinter6258 Ik ook.

3:21 "I don't know if it has ever occurred, maybe it's a myth..." :-) The 11-city marathon has been held organized only 15 times since 1900, but the current climate change makes it less and less likely. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfstedentocht#History

@craftgames1882

3 жыл бұрын

Climate change causes warmer weather overall but also more extreme weather. So it could be that because of climate change we will have more extreme winters.

In the corner we call it pootje over

I know another video for only dutch people know this : what is a prakkie :p

so runners forgot the Foosball or so what a bullshit ?

In the right neighborhood you can't walk 50 meters without hearing somebody claiming he's Jesus.

I skated to school in 1978 tyvm. as did about half the country at that time. Won't happen again for a looooong time, unfortunately (and then modern tech will destroy those dangerous icy streets).

Toepasselijk

Elfstedemtocht moet door gaan.

@ptr9006

3 жыл бұрын

Het gaat sowieso niet door, hier in Friesland is het niet heel koud

@mariadebake5483

3 жыл бұрын

@@ptr9006 😪😪😪😪

@all_is_well_Mara

3 жыл бұрын

het vriest niet hard genoeg

@mariadebake5483

3 жыл бұрын

@@all_is_well_Mara Nee...😭

@jochemmaat7405

3 жыл бұрын

Dan zakt iedereen door het ijs

I am dutch but don't like skating

@david6054

3 жыл бұрын

Thats what you get for not listening to pop, only drinking lemonade, making boys walk your dog and still asking your mother if you can go on a date with someone. You just never learned to live :| (For those who are not Dutch, it is a joke refering to a old Dutch song called "Even aan mijn moeder vragen" by Bloem)

@annemariedusselaar9862

3 жыл бұрын

@@david6054 vreselijk liedje, jeugdtrauma

@david6054

3 жыл бұрын

@@annemariedusselaar9862 Haha snap ik. Dat heb ik met een bepaalde boskabouter

@annemariedusselaar9862

3 жыл бұрын

@@david6054 😄😂

@Guust_Flater

3 жыл бұрын

More precise, you don't like falling.....🙄😜

bart vind je dit wel normaal??

The canadian at 1:19 wtf the sport iceskating was invented in europe so what is he talking about