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Casteller Time

By Boquisucio on January 5, 2012 | | Comments (10)
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The full screen view is awesome

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By Joe in N Calif on January 5, 2012 11:12 AM
GAWD!!!!  The "it's for the children" types would have CPS all over them here in the US!  Not to mention all the capons who want to protect everyone from everything.
 
By Argent on January 5, 2012 11:29 AM
The stamina and strength needed at the base must be tremendous.
 
By Boquisucio on January 5, 2012 12:15 PM
BTW - Casteller in Catalán means: To Make Castles.
 
By Clemente on January 5, 2012 6:57 PM
I was Google and find your page and it´s interesting and nice. I will come back soon again.
 
By John (Not The Armorer) on January 5, 2012 10:36 PM
WOWSERS!

The little kids with the helmets are fearless and scramble up and down like monkeys.  (yeah- RAACIST!).  Pretty cute.

I think this must be sponsored by the Orthopedic specialists association.  There have to be a bunch of broken bones when these things go wrong.
 
By irish19 on January 5, 2012 11:06 PM
That was way cool!
Joe in CA. Capon is an apt term.
 
By NevadaSteve on January 6, 2012 5:32 AM
How many ambulances do they have on standby?

Impressive - those folks have a lot of guts, but I'd never do it myself. As heavy as I am I'd have to be a base person and I don't think I'd like to have a dozen people fall on my head.
 
By CCO on January 6, 2012 8:46 AM
I wonder if the females have always participated (bet not). In the old days you would only glimpse this in National Geographic, unless it was a slow day on the evening news. 

And to think they told us to quit playing huck-a-buck, but we were using a metal pole as a start point. (Huck-a-buck is a play ground game I don't know how I remember or if I remember correctly. The first guy leans over like he's going on all fours and hugs the pole or tree. The second guy  leans over and puts his head between the first guys knees; I guess your hands go around the guys legs. You keep going until you run out of players. The other side, if I recall correctly, then runs and jumps on the back of the first team one player at a time. The second team keeps going until they run out of players or until the bottom team collapses under their weight or in a fit of nervous laughter. I pretty sure school teachers extinguished the game years ago along with those hard plastic balls on strings that you would knock together.)
 
By CCO on January 6, 2012 8:48 AM
And it is impressive. 
 
By John of Argghhh! on January 6, 2012 10:53 AM
Frankly, that looks like fun.  And those are some brave munchkins.