My video you are reacting to here mate, so nice one. I notice you put your own music over the top but I hope when you were watching you had the original music, because I take a lot of time syncing the clips. But nice reaction! I can see why you'd be intrigued as a lacrosse guy. I am sure by now you'll have looked up the rules but the main to know is that you can catch it and carry the ball (a sliotar as it is called in Irish, pronounced like shlit-er) in your hand, but only for four steps. Think of travelling in basketball. After that you have to transfer the ball to your stick (we call it a hurl, or hurley depending on which part of the country your in) which is why you'll see them balancing it. You can only transfer back to your hand one more time after that and then you need to get rid of it. You also can't throw the ball like a baseball or whatever, it has to be a slap with the palm (known as a hand-pass). As you can see this makes the game extremely faced paced, it's known as the fastest game on grass. I recommend you check out my part three video - kzread.info/dash/bejne/c2tnssqCnpy_hto.html But even better might be to check out some full match clips. Here's a good shortish clip, last 5 minutes of the 2014 All-Ireland Final - kzread.info/dash/bejne/aod-ys2ylJC-iNY.html

@MenkeYT

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Stephen! Great Video! I did listen to the original audio! Just for music copyright I didn't include it in the recording! You did a great job with this thank you!

@adammcintyre88

3 жыл бұрын

Hey if you liking AFL look into international rules is a combo of AFL and Gaelic football..

@bustabloodvessel5327

3 жыл бұрын

I've watched your videos before and they are top quality. You have done a lot to promote the wonderful game and bring it to audiences that would otherwise never have seen it. Maybe one day the GAA will recognise your efforts and maybe get you on board in a partnership to do promotional or educational videos. Your efforts are much appreciated by many in Ireland so keep up the great work. 🇮🇪👍

@raytracer2651

3 жыл бұрын

Fair play bud, this would catch on like wildfire if introduced in schools over there,

Hurling is over 3000 years old it’s the best sport in the world I played it when I was a young girl in school with boys and later with girls it’s the fastest sport on grass I love it no one gets paid most go to training after work play your match and go to work the next day I’m so proud to say this sport is part of what it means to be Irish

Shout out to the ladies who play Camogie the womens equivalent!

@wandaeneryx

3 жыл бұрын

YES SIRRR

One of the best things about hurling in my opinion is it is unprofessional 99% of the time you play for where you grew up, top players play an intense game on a Sunday and still go to work the next morning. People play purely for the love of the game.

@seamus1965

3 жыл бұрын

I think it would be better described as an amateur sport played at an extremely professional level.

Whenever I watch videos of people reacting to hurling I always wish I could talk to them for 30 minutes about the sport. It’s an incredible game.

@matthewbanville4814

3 жыл бұрын

I no i live in Lisdowney +thats where i play the game

@carolinemunds9683

2 жыл бұрын

I love that sport this m favourite game

@martindunlop5849

2 жыл бұрын

Same boat 👍

I grew up in Canada, and one of my friends was massive into Lacrosse, and he used to describe it as the fastest field sport in the world. I always argued with him that Hurling was much faster. Well about 4 months after we had this argument, the main canadian sports network, TSN showed the All-Ireland Hurling final, and he phoned me up to concede the debate lol. One very strong contending theory for the origins of Ice hockey, is that it developed from Irish and Scottish Immigrants to Canada adapting their sport to the Canadian winter. The Scottish version of Hurling is known as Shinty, and to this day in Canada Shinny is slang for a pick up game of hockey. One video that explains the rules well, though does butcher some of the pronounciations of some of the Irish words is this one. kzread.info/dash/bejne/lJ16xcmOcpyentY.html Another Irish sport you should check out is Gaelic Football. Similar to hurling in many ways but involves a round football kzread.info/dash/bejne/lmRtrLl-Yau2crQ.html

I was really happy to see you getting so excited for hurling, I grew up in tipperary, where it was basically a crime not to play as a kid

@Hello-jr7no

2 жыл бұрын

Hon tipp 💙💛

@coralandy7955

Жыл бұрын

Mup Tipp

As an Irishman living in America, your reaction was fucking awesome! Almost brought a tear to my eye lol. Glad we gained a fan! ❤ Fun fact if you didnt know, its officially the fastest field sport in the world that uses a ball.

@danielcurtin9263

3 жыл бұрын

The "stick" is commonly mispronounced as a "hurley" but it is actually called a Hurl!

@danielcurtin9263

3 жыл бұрын

It is also why as boy in Ireland I grew up loving Lacrosse haha. Being America it was a lot easier to find videos. #UpTheRebels

You should watch an actual match. It's so exciting to watch. Each of the 32 Irish counties has their own colours and it's amateur so they play for the love and honour of their county.

Welcome to the ancient game of hurling. Its over 3000 years old. It was played for young Irish warriors preparing for war or battle..

Those players in the green are part of the best team in the country! Luimneach Abú!!!

@dubhainoceanntabhail5262

3 жыл бұрын

Déise abú

As qn irish person i have to say your pronication of the word gaelic is 100 percent spot on, you say it like an irish peson does without hesitation

@cheiftain732

Жыл бұрын

Yeah it was bang on

You finally looked at Hurling. An insane but fantastic sport.

I love watching people from other countries watching GAA for the first time. They can't believe the skill, pace and the fact they can beat the shit out of each within reason.

Hey man, I am also a former lacrosse player and I reacted just about in the same way as you did. Picking up a hurl and silotar and hitting, passing, and so on, is amazing and you owe it to yourself to try it at least once. There are teams all over the world, and the equipment is cheap!

Scotland play a similar game called Shinty. Occasionally Ireland and Scotland play each other in a Hurling/Shinty Hybrid rules game. Ireland also play Australia in a Aussie Rules/Gaelic Football Hybrid tournament as well, which is known as the International Rules series

@niallocallanain3579

3 жыл бұрын

Shinty was like Winter hurling but the GAA founders favored the Summer game and Winter or Ground hurling eventually died out or was amalgamated as hurling. In the Isle of Man a similar game called Camog is played.

@paraic9163

3 жыл бұрын

True but today Hurling is a far bigger more professional sport with crowds up to 83,000. When Ireland play Scotland, they mostly choose players from lower leagues to keep it competitive because elite hurlers are serious athletes unlike in shinty.

@OhEidirsceoil

3 жыл бұрын

@@paraic9163 true, true. But the shinty players are competitive, fair play to them n have won a few series against us despot the much poorer organisation there

I always think 80.000 fans watch you sunday then monday your a copper teacher or farmer . I love it .

The 2013 all ireland hurling final and replay final. The most entertaining series of games in modern hurling history

I remember hearing ice hockey came from Hurling.

@lukem9712

3 жыл бұрын

It would have from Irish immigrants etc.

@dubhainoceanntabhail5262

3 жыл бұрын

Immigrants from Cork and Waterford.

I love Hurling. We used to get it on TV in Australia but not anymore.

I love watching americans watch hurling they are always so interested in the sport

I just saw that the ball can travel up to 120kph which is roughly 74mph. That’s a fast travelling ball

Fastest game on grass, fact! Greetings from Galway Ireland where we are fanatical about Hurling!

Hurling dates all the way back to the legend of Setanta and Cu Culán, it's one of Ireland's most famous legends and we learn it in school! In Ireland the biggest hurling rivals are counties Tipperary and Kilkenny, you should definitely watch the highlights on one of the matches, in all Ireland finals it's usually those two counties who are against each other

@tadghmurphy7807

2 жыл бұрын

Not any more!!!!

I just caught up on my videos to watch lol.... i knew you would lap this shit up Menke 👍😎

i think New York might have a hurling team, I'm pretty sure they have a Gaelic football team, but i think there's a hurling one too.

La crosse and field hockey are derivatives of hurling,a 3,000 year old Irish game.

I am Irish and i am from Limerick (which is in Ireland). At the time I am writting this comment it is 4 days before the all Ireland final where Limerick is playing Waterford. Both of these teams have only won the all Ireland a handful of times but still are able to get into the all Ireland final through perseverance. This is to me the beauty of hurling. (Plus the fact that locaps play for the local teams!)

@MenkeYT

3 жыл бұрын

It was a great game! I watched it yesterday and did a live stream, it was alot of fun. Your team won!

@drethi818

3 жыл бұрын

@@MenkeYT thanks it's our second time winning it in the last few years and only our ninth time winning it ever!

@henrywalsh3849

3 жыл бұрын

We have 30

I was about 16 in 2006 and I was watching the all Ireland final with my boss at the time and I always remember him saying he didn't touch the ball yet and he's sweating for death 🤣

Seems like a sport that I could get in to.

got a hurley into the face in 1983... a lot of blood.. I had train track braces on my teeth, had to go to hospital to have my gums picked out of the braces...

Hey Menke “Bathurst 1000 is about to start 🤪10:30am until 5 or 6 pm tonight . 161 laps

Looks like a mashup of lacrosse, hockey and Gaelic footy

Nearly every All Ireland Hurling Final of the last few decades is available in full on KZread. Pick a year, and watch that year's biggest sporting event in Ireland. Welcome to the rabbit hole.

@polheg1

3 жыл бұрын

I love Hurling. Although I am originally from Derry, I've been living in England for almost 40yrs. Channel 4 used to show the finals, but no more, so I've been starved. Thanks for the heads up.

It comes from Ireland, but some places in America do play it, but mostly in Ireland, over 2000 years of history in it.

Cú Chulainn 🇮🇪 *Clash Of The Ash* 🇮🇪 Interesting facts - London won the All-Ireland Hurling Championship in 1901. Also New York(The Exiles) play in the GAA Championship. Both Hurling and Gaelic Football played there. Their home ground is Gaelic Park and its every Irish Countys dream to draw against them as its like a free holiday. Warwickshire and Lancashire have also competed in the past at Hurling. In Gaelic Football the only time the All Ireland Final was held outside Ireland was in 1947 to mark the centenery of the Irish Famine in which Cavan(Winners) played Kerry. It was played in the Polo Ground in NY. Only 12 Teams currently compete in the All Ireland Hurling Championship(Liam McCarthy Cup). #ClashOfTheAsh

Check out International Rules (aus Vs ire) . AFL Vs Gaelic Football. Some great fights

In the UK just hockey is field hockey, you have to specify if you mean ice hockey. I played lacrosse at uni here. It’s a great sport, very technically skilled and physically tough. I had more painful injuries in Lacrosse than I ever did in Rugby.

You can watch games live on gaa go. The final is on Dec 13th.

New York does have a team in the GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association) but that's about as far as it goes in America

There is a team in New York as well. Check out Limerick wining the All Ireland Final in hurling.

Checkout Camogie the woman's version, The stick is known as called in Irish Caman or in English hurley or hurl. Camogie is the Irish name. Caman og which roughly translated to English young hurley or small hurley. Hence the women's version's name. Today both men and women play with the same size hurleys and are often personalised. The pictures at the end of the match players they are not crying they have 'emptied their tanks' or they have given their all. It is play all over the world checkout USA GAA. Welcome to the worship of hurling and camogie

You should also check out Gaelic football, just to confuse you more

I’ve actually heard that ice hockey and I think maybe lacrosse actually came from hurling that irish immigrants from famine times adapted when they came to America and Canada Also check out Gaelic!

@qwertyTRiG

3 жыл бұрын

Lacrosse has a history about as long as hurling. They're surprisingly similar, but definitely independent. Both are warrior sports.

@Daisy-ct3nh

3 жыл бұрын

@@qwertyTRiG what? 3,000 years,? Don't think só.

@qwertyTRiG

3 жыл бұрын

@@Daisy-ct3nh Why not? It's an Irequois sport, and they have a long history.

It's Lacrosse with added murder. Not played it since secondary school. :-)

Hurling has been described as a mix of hockey, baseball and attempted murder. It’s an amazing sport. 3000 years old, and you have to be shit cool to be around that long.

@anettecortez

2 жыл бұрын

you had me at attempted murder lmao I was expecting you'd mention rugby 💀

Alternative title: american guy nuts at the sight of a hurley stick

You might enjoy this short bit of hurling to the tune of Alleluia. For context it was a supporters take on Waterford (the Déise is gaelic for that county) and the All Ireland trophy is called the Liam McCarthy Cup. Sadly the Déise haven't won it for decades. kzread.info/dash/bejne/fXps1rZ9Y8vOhsY.html

Hurling highlight videos on KZread are only a Soft side you have to see the full game to understand it. It’s a bloody & great game with great man that does great commentary as well in Ireland we like it on the tv 📺 or by the radio 📻 most older people will listen to it by the radio as the radio commentary does a great talk and description of the game. Look up this game Limerick & Kilkenny 2019 on KZread This match has spectators to give the roar and shout of the match experience Of being there.

You should watch a full game. I'd recommend the 2016 All Ireland final between Tipperary and Kilkenny

@The_Republic_of_Ireland

3 жыл бұрын

That was some game

@denisoshea333

3 жыл бұрын

Ya tipp r the best team🟦🟨

The stick is called a Hurley Stick. The ball is bound leather. That is call a slither. It is the fastest game in the world. Check out Gaelic football.

Watch the Last 5 Minutes Of Kilkenny v Tipperary - 2014 Hurling Final

For more interesting sports you need to check out Sepak Takraw - it's possible the most insanely acrobatic thing I've ever seen

@qwertyTRiG

3 жыл бұрын

Sepak takraw is awesome!

Check out the video Hurling the fastest game on grass. It goes through some rules and lots of action

Keep bringing up lacrosse this is a lot different shins fingers and everything else will be broke, play it and you'll know

Menke "how have i not heard of this" me your American that's why haha the attitude of most Americans is if it aint American it doesn't exist but im glad your trying to expand your knowledge mate :))

I really think they should add more padding, it wasn't until recently that they made helmets mandatory, the level of injuries you get in this sport is insane even leg injuries are rough, guys always smacking your legs with a wooden axe.

3000 years of history. We trained armys with hurls . Literally trained armys . Its part of the irish soul

hurling has 3000 years of heritage and they don’t get paid they all of normal jobs the more do it has a hobby and represent their county

I invented a sport like this when I was a kid (around 9 years old). Then my older cousin told me that was called Hurling and it was an Irish sport. I was really disappointed as the previous sport I had invented when I was 8, which had a soccer goal and a round ball that you could pick up with your hands, turned out to be an Irish sport called Gaelic Football. Maybe I was Irish in a previous life. Anyway, I have watched these two sports over the last 35 years. The teams are the Irish counties. Such as; Cork, Kerry, Antrim, Armagh, Galway, Derry, Kildare, Down, Limerick, etc. I don't know if Kilkenny has a Gaelic Football team. I think Kilkenny has won the most Hurling championships. Kilkenny makes me think of South Park "they killed Kenny!' 😀 I just found out that they had a London (UK) and a New York (USA) team in the Gaelic Football comp. They had to stop because of covid. That must be the first sports league to have teams in three countries and in two continents. At one stage the Australian National Basketball had a team in Singapore. So together with the Australian teams and the New Zealand Breakers. If Singapore is in Asia. 3 countries and 2 continents. But teams in N.Y. and London, that is so cool.😀😀😀 I hope they can get it going again in the future. Check out the Gaelic Association nearest you. They have teams and competitions all over the world, where there are Irish people. So almost everywhere. www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/

Hurling is a 3000 year old sport only played in Ireland they do not get paid for playing but the sport is well known in America usually the champions of Ireland goes to America for a holiday

By the way this was made much much much before lacrosse . Like thousand years before lacrosse . It was made for warriors to train before battle.

Ninh Ly explains it very well but he does pronounce the name of the ball wrong (It's pronounced "Slitter") Spelt Sliotar kzread.info/dash/bejne/lJ16xcmOcpyentY.html

@gastrickbunsen1957

3 жыл бұрын

I was just about to post the same link kzread.info/dash/bejne/lJ16xcmOcpyentY.html

Lol Hurling has a different meaning in Australia (to hurl is to blow chunks).

@MenkeYT

3 жыл бұрын

Same in America... Lol

Hurling.. Give AFL players "sticks" and there ya have it..

@dbuckley100

3 жыл бұрын

😂 AFL players wouldn't keep up with these guys level of fitness for 5 minutes.

@paraic9163

3 жыл бұрын

Well AFL is just a bastardisation of Gaelic football so makes sense :D

@BassMatt1972

3 жыл бұрын

@@paraic9163 AFL started as a game that was played over a mile field, over a couple of days, to keep the convicts from killing each other.. (I come from South Australia, a free, non convict State!!)

@paraic9163

3 жыл бұрын

@@BassMatt1972 interesting..

@BassMatt1972

3 жыл бұрын

@@paraic9163 The exact origins of Australian football are a little unclear. The first 10 rules were written down in Melbourne in 1858. These rules may have had some similarity to the various un-codified forms games of football (games played on foot) that were being played in Britain at the time. These games included the predecessors to rugby and soccer. There have also been some suggestions that Australian rules was inspired by the Aboriginal jumping game of Marngrook, which involved kicking a possum skin filled with charcoal. An early description of the Marngrook does indeed bear resemblance to Australian Rules. "The men and boys joyfully assemble when this game is to be played. One makes a ball of possum skin, somewhat elastic, but firm and strong. The players of this game do not throw the ball as a white man might do, but drop it and at the same time kicks it with his foot. The tallest men have the best chances in this game. Some of them will leap as high as five feet from the ground to catch the ball. The person who secures the ball kicks it. This continues for hours and the natives never seem to tire of the exercise." Mr. Thomas, Aboriginal Protector, 1841. Over the next 50 years, more rules were added and many of these rules might have been proposed by Irish immigrants or Convicts familiar with the Irish sport of caid. Australian football; a hybrid of Caid (Gaelic football), rugby and marngrook?

Hockey was inspired by hurling when irish imagrents traveled to canda during the Irish famine in the 1880s and since in canada the snow and ice comes very soon they started playing hurling on ice that's how hockey was invented

@MorteDallAlto

3 жыл бұрын

The Famine was from 1845-1849, just fyi.

@CathyD1976

2 жыл бұрын

@@MorteDallAlto there were Irish in the US before 1845

@MorteDallAlto

2 жыл бұрын

@@CathyD1976 I didn't say there weren't? The person I replied to said the Irish famine was in the 1880s, and I just let them know that it was 1845-49.

The "stick" is simply called a hurley. 5 of my mam's 7 brothers play hurling. It is not a sport for people who dont mind getting hurt, it is rough game. Yeah the rules can be complicated for people know the sport. Please enjoy. Oh I am in a wheelchair and I also play the sport. Rules are simular except we play with the sliotar pronounced (slither) and this ball is hard made from cork off a tree.

Camogi . Womens hurling. They are godess

You need to check out the fastest game on grass, that will give you more info on hurling

Take a look at clubs in the states! They pop up all over the place!

The channel Play Hurling has a good video where he teaches some lacrosse players some hurling skills.

Most US citys and schools have a team . Plus if you got good you could enter the all ireland as boston NY london all have teams

This compilation is one of the best iv seen showing hurling . My only comment on it Dosent show the poor keepers in the best light. The keepers are gods of the sport they perform miracles every game. Goals are nit that common

Cork know as the rebel county the man you see at the end holding the liam Mccarthy cup is christy ring greatest hurler ever in the red and white of cork

Helmets only became compulsory in 2010 as well. Love all GAA games.

You should see them play a game in New York,they have hurling and gaelic football teams their.

Play sunday 90 000 fans . Free . Go to work monday . For parish county and pride . Amature sport

Watch the Geelong vs Brisbane AFL game tonight at 7:40

Where is the US are you from there are like GAA clubs around the place and there are championships run too!

The stick is called a hurley

now do Magic of CURLING

If theres any irish communities where you live, I'm sure they play Hurley or Gaelic football... Also go have a look at Irish road bowling..

you should watch a full game of hurling look up the all ireland final from 2018 with limerick (green) and galway (brown)

Never seen a sport like this, looks fun, the sticks remind me of a maori warriors club,. Very similar, just not green.. you should show us a lacrosse game if you know how to explain it, it's not a known sport outside of the usa, I've only seen it on american movies like american pie..

@frednerk5959

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry mate your wrong there! Lacrosse is played in Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and a bit in Queensland. Melbourne University has the second oldest Continuous running club in the world, Brampton Excelsiors in Canada being the oldest. But yep Menke give the rest of Aus a taste of Lacrosse! (And DON'T forget Box Lacrosse -maybe explain the difference)

@stevenjohnston3328

3 жыл бұрын

We play lacrosse in aus and I think it's a native American game? Don't quote me on that though.

@adamarycurtis7016

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I played softcrosse at school and lacrosse in South and Western Australia

Lacrosse is derived from hurling i think it was taught to the native americans by irish missionaries

@galoglaich3281

3 жыл бұрын

Julian Mcwey No lacrosse is an ancient game of the native americans it has nothing to do with hurling .Both were tribal games to train warriors for war ,but that just means they evolved similarly on different continents not that either was influenced by the other.

they also don't get paid to play this sport they play it because they love the game. its not about money for them

Hurling is amazing, it's 99% only played in Ireland and it's fully amateur. All players will play in front of crowds up to 90,000 on the weekend and then go back to their regular day job on the Monday. Nobody gets paid to play it. I'm pretty sure it's the fastest field sport in the world.The players are crazy too, they only made wearing helmets mandatory about 10 years ago and the players fought against it. You should give a few others a go, these ones are good - kzread.info/dash/bejne/dZeiltukdtC-o6w.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/eWd51smxqtyXkag.html

My cousin plays for the Kilkenny minors that’s the lads in black and yellow

the one for the girls is called camoige

Lacrosse is not in the same league with Hurling, which is much more violent! I like both though.

This game is over 3000 years old

U watching the geelong game later I’m in aus

Watch hurling the fastest game on grass next

Check out GAA hurling skills and tricks

Here if you want to know more about hurling if you haven’t already read up on it I can show you and tell you a bit more about it if you want

Please react to the EHF Champions league highlights from the 2019/2020 season!!

You should watch some sideline points

Sorry mate your wrong there! Lacrosse is played in Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and a bit in Queensland. Melbourne University has the second oldest Continuous running club in the world, Brampton Excelsiors in Canada being the oldest. But yep Menke give the rest of Aus a taste of Lacrosse! (And DON'T forget Box Lacrosse -maybe explain the difference)

Our sport is absolutely nothing like lacrosse 😂

When you go for a point its not you v goalie its you v the angle and distance of the goal. Teams all over north america canada . New hurleys made too not ash like ours but fibre glass .