This sounds cool! I remember when I came upon HURLING (the sport) late one evening and it was absolutely incredible. A bunch of guys with no helmets running around bouncing a baseball on the end of a short hockey stick, and then slamming that ball across the field.. I thought surely someone was about to get beaned. Incredible sport.
Hurling should be played with helmets. If it's just a group of friends in a park casually passing the sliotar (ball) to each other and taking practice shots then okay, but not if they were playing a proper game.
This sounds cool! I remember when I came upon HURLING (the sport) late one evening and it was absolutely incredible. A bunch of guys with no helmets running around bouncing a baseball on the end of a short hockey stick, and then slamming that ball across the field.. I thought surely someone was about to get beaned. Incredible sport.
Hurling should be played with helmets. If it's just a group of friends in a park casually passing the sliotar (ball) to each other and taking practice shots then okay, but not if they were playing a proper game.
+1 to helmets. In youth, the very similar sport of lacrosse actually has a higher risk of concussion than football [0].
[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10883126/
It's "hedge petanque". Looks more fun too. Line of sight to the ball is not optimal though.
Sounds lots of fun, but I would not be able to play. Well I probably could but I have always been an extremely slow runner.
Bicycling was different, but running, could never do :)
No disrespect to Ireland at all but this does not look like a real game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyomkya9qG8
It looks like something Michael Scott would have made up. And how do you avoid getting run over?
This is a more accurate depiction of throwing the bowl. It’s a bit more athletic than that guy made it look. https://youtu.be/OwjNenO259Q
"this does not look like a real game"...turns off computer and plays beer pong
There are people ahead who warn/stop cars. It's only really played on quieter country roads.