Edinburgh Tattoo 2014 - Zulu Warriors of South Africa

[@harkeb]

I want to see something similar at the start of our international rugby matches!

[@lusandagumede326]

proudly South African , proudly Zulu.... Mageba, Bayeeeeeeeede!!!!!!

[@khumothage4629]

Lusanda Gumede Zulu'ya sabewa!!!! Bayede!

[@robertriddle4923]

They commanded by one of the greatest military minds in the history of warfare, Shaka Zulu.

[@chumizola1847]

soooooo good, proud to be zulu

[@RainettaJones]

African Martial Arts AT ITS FINEST!!!!

[@colinrichards662]

Great performance i could watch them dance all night.....

[@Jenjen-qc5eq]

I can imagine thousands of Shaka Zulu men doing this dance preparing for war, amazing.

[@michailsolomons2427]

This performance is still tame. They have this tendency to jump up in the air and land flat on their backs or on their backsides. I would be winded, my spine and hips crushed and end up with a foncussion😅😅. They also make these scary faces like the Maori from New Zeeland. And this is purely for intimidation. I would run into the hills screaming, but its so cool to see how much of this dance is incorporated into modern hip hop and breakdancing

[@lungisanimasosha9654]

Ukube ngangingemzulu ngangoba ini👏👏👏👏🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

[@arielfornari6595]

Great culture, great people.

[@kalanimaiokalani]

Honestly the leg movements that these dancers perform are so intense and impressive 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@franceshicks5337]

These amazing warriors r so magnificent ❤❤❤ love from South Wales xxxxxxx

[@dayriderschat]

Impressive agility

[@marcellashabazz2542]

Awesomeness. Par None!!! Great Great Great.!! Love From America!! Zulu Are Awesome Warriors. Great Cultural Dance . ..

[@selendriamuganogo7077]

Zulus 💗💗💗💗💗💗 love from black America 😊

[@1ntuthukozwane]

Muganogo is definitely Zulu. Sounds Central or West African. I will attempt to tell what tribe you are from. KaNongo = KaChonco = KaNkukhu = KaKongo or Nkonkoni or Nkwenkweni = Luthuli or Ntuli (South Africa) or Ituri (Central Africa) or Toure (West Africa) = Elephant people or Lunda or Jobe or Ndlovu or Njobvu or Ndau or Ndzau or Nyawo or Ilunga or Mlawu or Jehu or Jahu or Njeru or Seru or Zuru or Nzori or Wasoulou or AmaZulu. Just saying!

[@selendriamuganogo7077]

@@1ntuthukozwane you know what’s ironic? I just made this name up... I’m African American so to know that the last name is Zulu makes me so friggin happy, I’m never changing this KZbin name now that I know ✌🏾🙂

[@1ntuthukozwane]

@@selendriamuganogo7077 There's no such that your name is something made up. Every thought comes from something. Humans were not made to think for themselves but to exercise their will to choose a path back to heaven. You see Zulu means Heaven. That is where we are from and that is where we are supposed to get back to. In Kiswahili, Zulu is Mbinguni and we call ourselves Ngunis or Abenguni in South Africa. So, your thought came straight from heaven. You just need to cultivate the hearing of the things of heaven so that you can also be called a Son of God. There is no sex or gender in heaven so Son of God applies to both men and women. If I were you I would change my real name to this one here. Will make it easier for you when you move to Ghana. Godspeed.

[@robertkarake9791]

Bayete! Ushaga ! Nkosi. Shaka great militaristic mind. Changed warfare in southern and eastern Africa.

[@Landa88]

The introduction made me smile a little ☺️

[@Michelle-qd9gm]

Can’t get over all these different cultures under one roof when many years ago they were fighting one another

[@ptizagovorun2]

Great! I see break dance partially came from South African war dance?

[@marcellashabazz2542]

Break Dance Did not come From This. Remember African Americans Were Never Allowed To Practice African Culture Nor Were Slave Allowed To Speak Any African Language. So African Americans Had Within Their Souls The Natural Rhythm. Therefore African Americans Began A Culture Within America Of Their Own. That Is The Sound Of America. Minstrel... Gospel..... Blues. Rock and Roll Jazz........zedeco. . Rapp. . Hip Hop.... All This Was Started By .African Americans. Now Its Copied All Over The World. Especially. Jazz. Rock&Roll. And Hip Hop. This Is Black Created Music and Dance . Jazz Is A Sophisticated Array Of Sound. Improvisation Implemented By The African American. Then Studied And Copied By Whites. As Most Black Music In America Was. Blacks Were Not Given Credit For Their Music When It Came Out. America Was Throughly Racist Back In The Day. 20's 30's 40's 50's 60's 70's Rap Started In The Late 70's. Now It's Copied By Other Races All Over The World Just Like Jazz and Blues. African American Art Form Jazz.

[@michailsolomons2427]

@@marcellashabazz2542I beg to differ. Africa Bambaata started the culture if Hip-hop and called his followers Mighty Zulu Nation. One of the spins in breakdancing is called a Zulu spin. He watched a movie called Zulu about another Zulu warrior named Bambaatha. He was living amongst gangs in the Bronx and used the dances and battle mentality of the Zulus to create hip hop dancing. It was used to diffuse tension amongst rival gangs. Hiphop and breakdancing is not so old. Go and research the origin. Hip-hop and breakdancing wasn't even what you see today. From the US other countries soon followed and incorporated their local dances into it and the more they battles against each other the more they copied each others moves. At one stage you could clearly identify a dancers country of origin or the country style that influended his dancing by looking at the way he danced. Nowadays dancers copy the best moves. Dances that greatly influenced breaking is Russian Cossack dancing, Brazilian Capoeira taken to Brazil by Angolan slaves and as is clearly seen Zulu war dancing. Hip-hop dancing and breaking was created in the 70's. By then people travelled and had video footage of dancing. So breakdancing cannot be a dance created purely from the soulsof African Americans if there are tribes doing exactly the same moves for centuries. Even the beats are tribal. The culture of dancing in a circle and chanting is tribal. The intimidating faces made are tribal. Maori from Nieu Zeeland and Zulus does it. Those summersaults and windmills you see in Zulu dancing and Capoeira is copied by bboys and hip hop dancers. The circling is even copied from Native American dancing. So as much as you would want to claim that this one is made in America its not. It's very obviously sampled by African Americans and its all good, because the ones who created it acknowledge the origins. Laurent from the French New Style Hip-hop dance duo Les Twins and winners of the World of Dance competition is renowned in the dance scene and on Beyoncé's dance videos for his splits. He tends to jump in the air and land in a split or even jump from heights and land in a split. If you watch South African Jinge dancing they do exactly the same splits. No they didn't copy African Americans. They copy their ancestors. Dancing is as old as time and Africa has some of the oldest tribes dancing in exactly the same way as they did ages ago. Every dance African Americans does can be traced back to some tribe in Africa. Maybe not something you are willing to accept, but its very true. Africans can even prove tha the origin of hip-hop music and beats are in fact African. It's all documented online. The amazing thing is to experience it first hand in person. I hope that one day you have the privilege.

[@michailsolomons2427]

If you study ancient tribal instruments made by indigenous people and the music they made from it you will be shocked to find how sophisticated it is. Drums, flutes, string instruments, tambourine. Have you seen African people worshipping, singing. Dancing in the spirit as as old and as Africa as can come.Rapping? Over here its called praise si going. Reciting poems to music especially drum beats. Beats sampled by African Americans from African drum beats. Unfortunately you are disconnecting yourself from the richest heritage and history you could draw from. You might not have been allowed to keep the language just like our people were often forced to speak the Colonizers languages such as Portugues, English, French and Dutch. But if there's something they couldn't take from you its the way to move and the way to dance and the way to sing. Oftentimes I consider the atrocities of the past. And then I wonder what is worse. Being forcefully removed from the country of your origin to be treated as slaves or to be enslaved on home soil. This dance is from the Real Mighty Zulu Nation. A man who swore never to enslaved or imprisoned by anyone. The training of his warriors was brutal. But for his people it meant that until, today they own their kingdom in the hills. No wonder they could inspire African men looking for and identity and ways to help their fellows get rid of frustrations and anger that caused them to kill each other many miles from this soil and centuries after. I thank my people for their respect and love for their heritage and cultures to have preserved it until now for future generations to come. I do not take away from what the African American people have achieved in a foreign land. In respect them for surviving through years of struggle. But the origins of their greatness is not disconnected from this beautiful continent. I hope and pray that the strings to the past might be reconnected for you

[@mazambane286]

@@michailsolomons2427 damn you really can waffle! Never read so much crap before in life.

[@arynschafer9653]

Goosebumps. Incredible.

[@thabisomazibuko2584]

👐Zulu nation 🇿🇦

[@Katest3r]

This was amazing to watch. The arena is so massive!

[@PalenSkate]

Yeah, they build it and take it down every year for this event! it´s a lot of work I can imagine!

[@robertriddle4923]

the "arena" is the courtyard of Edinburgh Castle.

[@keithskelhorne3993]

spears against rifles,,, they stood, Isanlwana,, they won,, a soldier respects other soldiers

[@dawoodwilliams3652]

It's nice to see that after war, years later these cultures respect and embrace each other and the respect the history and war their people fought in.

[@desmondwilkins9842]

@ you dont sound like an insecure neckbeard at aaaaaall.

[@desmondwilkins9842]

@ how were the first civilizations that all were modeled after and based off of "backwards?" And I'll let you do the math on that one.

[@desmondwilkins9842]

@ I won't humor you any further. I'll let you get on with your no doubt low paying career, loneliness, and sexual frustration now.

[@desmondwilkins9842]

@ well when global warming burns the earth to a crisp from the "something" these "superior" whites are doing, you'll wish everyone had "done nothing" for centuries. Too late to turn back now.

[@robertriddle4923]

It kinda makes you wonder how the 140 defenders at Rourke's Drift must have felt when faced by over 4000 of the incredible warriors.

[@lorenzobrasco7678]

They were men and women and children not one retard or cripple was ever sent to war on front line. They deserve their land and remained family returned to their dynasty

[@kathypeterson]

Beautiful, amazing and special but tame. What would this looked like when the brave men went into war!

[@BrunotteBrandon64]

Super fit movements and drum beats indeed that will scare the %$£" out of an enemy

[@hapijen4828]

Shaka Zulu. ✊🏿 Can see the roots of Hip Hop.

[@michailsolomons2427]

There us a spin in breaking called a Zulu spin. Laurent from Les TWINS is known for jumping in the air and landing in a split. It's a Zulu dance move. Africa Bambaata. Founder of hip-hop called his followers Zulu Nation after watching a Zulu movie

[@hapijen4828]

@@michailsolomons2427 Thanks for the Intel - & raising awareness levels of it.

[@davidsim9907]

That was Amazing!!!!!!

[@gabsilentuli7919]

I love the energy

[@karinecristine1468]

Amo músicas e danças indígenas

[@danielcecilio5144]

Video muito bom

[@chrisholder2269]

To think - these amazing Warriors were once though to be godless heathens.

[@keithskelhorne3993]

as opposed to their beliefs that considered us heathen?

[@Tippy2forU]

So were thought of the Native Americans and all they were doing was defending their land from invaders.

[@untyfm465]

i would like to eat the same food they eat please......i will be ENERGIZED for decades ..WWF/UFC no match!!

[@helenaaparecidamendes8569]

Incredible

[@LOVECATO1]

Beautiful people!

[@nikiwenhlapo2978]

Zulus- they that brought spears to a gun fight and WON!!!

[@willienixon6847]

Pretty friggin cool!

[@RayanneNunes-z7t]

Arrasou

[@RayanneNunes-z7t]

Adorooo

[@silviocamara4096]

Muito bonito

[@charlescorreia7940]

Muito bom

[@gabrielcarvalho3792]

Incrível

[@Jenjen-qc5eq]

I want to see the actual dance that Shaka Zulu warriors performed.

[@africaayandakunene8888]

They were different dance formations for different events, but quite close to each other

[@TheSwedishTraveler]

försöka få en del av dessa moves på brädan Palen?

[@PalenSkate]

vore inte lite atletiskt det!

[@TheSwedishTraveler]

skulle ha varit grymt coolt!

[@Configurations]

damn bet they were freezing

[@robertriddle4923]

actually I was there that night and Edinburgh was going through it's hottest summer on record.

[@hlalefangthamae2548]

N there is winter in south africa!

[@minniemouska4320]

I doubt it is traditional for women to be involved in a war dance. They usually have their own separate dances don't they?

[@colinrichards662]

I believe the women did and still do dance with there warrior men and they also carry a weapon to encourage those warriors.....

[@belindamak1608]

Women participated in war..if u had physique

[@archangelariel1836]

Europeans were the ones to spread the patriarchal bullshit most cultures follow today🙄 Women were warriors as well traditionally.

[@caimaccoinnich9594]

Women usually don't perform war dances. But it's not forbidden to them by any means. It's just not commonly done. Professional dance troupes prefer to have both men and women probably for reasons of not living 2000 years ago. South Africa is in the 21st century afterall. Women doing those dances WASN'T really done, but cus there's no rule against it and SA is a free country, they participate in modern times often enough

[@michailsolomons2427]

They had separate dances but performed at the same events. Their dances are meant as encouragement for men marching into war. The dances have different names also. Here its combined.

[@phumeoli]

False. Maidens are not in Zulu warrior dance

[@caimaccoinnich9594]

Nowadays they do join. Especially in professional troupes

[@mandycook9037]

There are ladies in there

[@qifiHD]

? better dance moves than me =(

[@Briselance]

It's all about training, training, and training. :-)

[@michailsolomons2427]

Centuries of training

[@richardhunter1591]

Did I just saw a naked lady perform?

[@Tippy2forU]

And. Big deal. Who cares if she is naked?

[@Briselance]

+Tippy2forU Well, it's not often that there is a naked lady at a military-related event like this one, right?

[@miriamruth1]

No not naked just tradition, feel it with soul not eyes

[@NoDnaJustRsa]

Yes 😂

[@michailsolomons2427]

Probably only barechested. We don't see being naked with erotic thought in mind. But i agree that it might be shocking for someone not used to it. Sorry no real life blurring possible

[@regisalencar2768]

❤ asmei

[@kieraolivia5313]

These came to my school

[@jellyfish7720]

try again?

[@kieraolivia5313]

Jelly Fish what

[@jellyfish7720]

These came to my school? they aren't things.

[@michailsolomons2427]

These people or dancers came to my school you meant

[@MrRageQuitChicken]

ZULUL BRUCE U

[@thesmithersy]

"Men of Harlech, stop your dreaming......."

[@untyfm465]

Zulu World

[@mandycook9037]

And these poor things were doing this on solid tarmac respect to them

[@michailsolomons2427]

They are used to do it on the ground anyway. That's the crazy part. It's done barefoot on any surface. And this is still a bit tame. They jump up in the air and land in splits on any surface. They can handle it

[@sandilemfeka4658]

Yigolo likanyoko lelo Msunu. Uzobiza abantu bakithi ngezinto nja.

[@cowsandduck6162]

wakanda

[@patrickasplund]

We all know why we clicked...

[@afrikanking4022]

And they say Zulu girls are virgins impossible

[@ferdinanddestouches3085]

Well, who can compare "this" with european forces wearing uniforms and playing instruments...

[@caimaccoinnich9594]

Africa wins 🤣

[@michailsolomons2427]

😂😂😂 I'm from S.A. just standing next to a modernnZulu man can be scary. They scary around that silent, confident air. Imagine one whom approach you like that. Spinning, doing somasaults, splotting, shouting, bodyslamming themselves. Me I will run or deadfaint

[@nampjones8265]

You can see this every week in the NFL

[@zgmkwambo5306]

Nina beSilo