Tour Scotland Travel Video Throwing The Hammer 2018 Highland Games Birnam Highland Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of athletes throwing the hammer at the Highland Games on ancestry visit to the village of Birnam, Highland Perthshire, Scotland. A round metal ball, weighing 16 or 22 lb for men is attached to the end of a shaft about 4 feet in length and made out of wood. With the feet in a fixed position, the hammer is whirled about one's head and thrown for distance over the shoulder. Hammer throwers sometimes employ specially designed footwear with flat blades to dig into the turf to maintain their balance and resist the centrifugal forces of the implement as it is whirled about the head. This substantially increases the distance attainable in the throw.

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