Celtic Classic

What?  the superbowl of highland games and you think that people on a highland games forum care about that?

looooooooooooooool!

But there was a quick thread, it's on page 263 now.

Seriously though, congrats to Brock for being that NATIONAL CHAMPION.  The throws were big all weekend.  I mean look at the winning throws...

BS - 42+

OS - 55+

56   - 47+

28 - 92+

HH - 117+

LH - 140+

Sheaf - 34+

WOB - 18'

Wow.

Adam is totally right, so ill try to put together a lil something til the results get posted. 

As most know, or maybe dont know, the Celtic always kicks off on friday night with a caber for distance challenge event.  A short light stick, with a line painted for the toss.  furthest point gets measured.  All of us try a different variety of runs, various timing on the pull, agles to try and get it downhill, etc.... it's a fun event, and one i have historically been terrible at.  with luck on my side, i squeak a win out here, with pretty much everyone within a few feet. 

Saturday, we threw the light hammer, braemar stone, 56 wfd, caber, sheaf.  Hammer as the first event is not fun.  Brock and KO open up on fire, both going 137+.  Betz in the 130 range, quite a few 120s.  KO leads until the last round, brock blasts a 140+, Betz does some catching up at 134+. 

Braemar stone i felt good about, i opened big only to foul it.  Lots of people going 40+ (with a 24+lb. stone), so it's pretty tight.  I go 41'8 for the win, and add a foot on extras.  The field records are Peturs, so we can forget about ever chasing those down. 

56 wfd brock with a 47+ on his last to take the win. RV and KO around 45, irrc, sean with 44+, and i *think* everyone else was over 40. 

Sheaf - HB3 can throw some serious sheaf.  him and ryan at 34, wow, that's high.  Will BArron and DAve Barron both with monster sheafs days, and over 30.  KO was sitting in 3rd at this point, fails to clear 28' and drops to 7th. 

Caber - a fairly easy stick with lots of turns.  nothing really exciting.  multiple 12:00s.  A request was made for a bigger stick next year. Zolk steps in a hole, rolls his ankle all kinds of nasty.  ends up being ok, comes back and kills the stick.   

Sunday we thew heavy hammer, open stone, 56 WOB, 28 wfd and a challenge caber.  Brock owns the hammers, with a big 117 ftw.  KO not far behind at 114, betz, HB, RV, all in the 110ish range. 

Open stone - RV opens at 55+, wow.  Lots o 50+ throws, KO with a huge 51+.  I go 51 on my first, and 55+ on the next to take the win. 

56 WOB, as Will had said previously, 16' will get you last place.  Myself, Dave Barron, and Zolk were the only standers in the bunch.  With the exception of Dave Brown and his side style at the lower heights, which is totally badass.  Zolk gets a 17 stand, i go 16'6", HB3 spins his way to 18' and the win, Brock, KO, and Betz, right behind.  RV loses points here, and tightens up the top 3, who have pulled away from everyone. 

28wfd - its between brock, betz, and vierra at this point, with brock just needing a "normal" throw for him to keep the lead.  He gets it at 91+, sean goes 92+ and takes a few cracks at the WR, RV up there as well, WB goes 83, Dave Brown 82, KO 85.

Challenge caber - same caber as the day before, everyone tired and dead, lots of turns, no real excitement here. 

I dunno who has the results, but even those of us that were there are anxiously awaiting to see. For me, i'd like to imagine for a moment that i was healthy enough to throw hammers, and see what coulda been.

It all played out like this:

1. Brock

2. Betz

3. Vierra

4. KO

5. HB3

6. Dave Barron

7. C. Smith

8. Dave Brown

9. Zolk

10. Will Barron

well, how'd i do?

KO- We're doers/athletes....not watchers/fans on this board. I love to watch you pro boyz jack stuff, but I'd MUCH rather throw myself . I WOULDN"T pay to go to a game and watch you studs toss if I can toss myself anywhere - even practice.Sure I'm INTERESTED in who wins ya'lls contests(only because I've met lots of ya'll and like you personally) , but ya'll are a very small elite club that 99% of us have NO chance of being in and your tosses usually are so much better than ours that it seems unreal .I care alot more about how Don or Myles throws than ya'll. Any club I can't get in doesn't really interest me - I'm an American- it's ALL about me............like Adam says , do a recap and let us enjoy the experience through you - 'cause almost none of us have a prayer of even getting past the ropes. .......This is NOT a criticism of pros - just one opinion of why we(ams) aren't like bunch of sychophantic(sp) bodybuilder wanna-bes.................we ARE tossers - just not as good as ya'll.

M-BAAB wrote: KO- We're doers/athletes....not watchers/fans on this board.

Speak for yourself.  There are a bunch, myself included, of fans on this board.  One of the coolest things that happened to me all weekend happened while i was sitting in the airport on Monday.  Phone rings and i look down to see that it's Ken Lowther calling me.  He's calling to give me congrats on my stones, from one big stone thrower to another i guess.  That is a retired thrower, and now obviously a fan who still reads the board.  That phone call made my day. 

M-BAAB wrote: Hell, I don't watch football either

Really?

I'll have you know i check the scores every monday to see if Mike Baab has thrown anything far.  Along with everyone else.

Bwhahahahahahahahahaha!!!! 

Your membership packet is in the mail Baab!

As for the other Pros, you may be right about that, i can't answer for them.  Interesting though...