Extreme Sports Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling Race 2023 | VLOG

Come with 9B4M The Family to Cooper's Hill Cheese Roll in Gloucester, UK. This is one of the most extreme races in the world!
Why did cheese rolling start?
Some say it was all about claiming grazing rights on the common and land around Cooper's Hill, others believe it could have been a fertility ritual.
How fast can the cheese roll?
The cheese can reach speeds of up to 70mph, contestants run down the hill - the first runner to the bottom wins and the cheese is the prize.
Participants race down the 200-yard (180 m) long hill chasing a wheel of Double Gloucester cheese. The event has a long tradition, held by the people of the local village of Brockworth, but now people from all over the world take part.
The exact origins of the event are unknown, but it is thought to date back to at least the 1800s. Some believe that it originated as a pagan fertility ritual, while others believe that it was simply a way for villagers to have some fun and exercise.
Whatever the origins, the event has become a popular tourist attraction, with thousands of people flocking to Cooper's Hill each year to watch the cheese roll.
The rules of the event are simple. A 9-pound wheel of Double Gloucester cheese is rolled down the hill, and the first person to reach the bottom wins.
There are no prizes, but the winner does get to keep the cheese. The event is notoriously dangerous, with participants often sustaining serious injuries. In 2013, a woman broke her neck in the race.
Despite the risks, the cheese roll continues to be a popular event, and it is sure to continue for many years to come.
00:00 Introduction
00:29 9B4M Intro
01:02 Hike To Cooper's Hill
03:04 1st Cheese Race
04:24 1st Uphill Race
08:06 Down Hill Races
11:40 Unofficial Races
Here are some additional facts about the cheese rolling event:
The event is held on the Spring Bank Holiday, which is the last Monday in May.
The hill is 200 yards long and has a steep slope.
The cheese is rolled down the hill at a speed of up to 70 mph.
There are no prizes for winning, but the winner does get to keep the cheese.
The event is notoriously dangerous, with participants often sustaining serious injuries.
Despite the risks, the cheese roll continues to be a popular event, and it is sure to continue for many years to come.
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[@davidmorris3981]

As an American, your family have seen more of the UK than 90% of we born Brits - certainty more than me.

[@SantoshKumar-pf2pv]

❤. no I HB gf gf ex ex app so sh Zn.😅😮😢😮😮😢🎉

[@mannsjewellery]

Says the American

[@xeviphract5894]

Superb account of the event. The fact that this year's womens race winner was unconscious as she crossed the finish line gives an idea of the dedication to cheese rolling there was on display.

[@jemmajames6719]

More about being crackers, if you excuse the pun!

[@alexrafe2590]

Gotta hand it to you Mac, when it comes to keeping your videos varied, imaginative and attention grabbing you’ve got the knack. Excellent soundtrack too. And the Brits are the most inhibited, repressed, buttoned down people in the world? 😮 Hmmm

[@brentwoodbay]

@@alexrafe2590 Well the winner of the women's race was a Canadian, from just up the road from us!

[@jonathanfinan722]

@@alexrafe2590 it’s Briton, not Brit.

[@alexrafe2590]

@@jonathanfinan722 hmm, I'm not sure in what obscure corner of the Kingdom you live, but actually referring to the people of Great Britain in the abbreviated form of Brits is fairly commonplace. For example check out several of the other posts in this thread. And so I'm fairly relaxed with keeping that usage in my post.

[@jonescrusher1]

The metal soundtrack to some people climbing up a hill, just superb.

[@bobbybigboyyes]

As the famous phrase states, "Mad dogs and Englishmen out in the midday sun!" 🤪😂🤣🧀🧀🧀

[@PeterGaunt]

If this doesn't persuade people that there is a large streak of insanity amongst we British then nothing will :-) It'd be great to have more of your kids' views on this.

[@masterbeethoven8209]

This is one of the very few videos, that actually manages to capture just how steep that hill really is.

[@TheCornishCockney]

There are loads of crazy traditions in our slightly insane country. Isle of Man TT Bale push in Cornwall,where huge bales of hay are pushed around a village,there are always injuries Morris dancing,shin-kicking,wife carrying……all are big local events and there many more.

[@JJ-of1ir]

I loved this reaction even though the Brits are so mad to even THINK of doing this. Is there a similar event any where in the world I wonder? Glad you are your family had a good day out. All good wishes to the mum to be and, of course, her mum!

[@abarratt8869]

There are other cheese rolling events, but they're all hampered by the fact that grass covered 1:3 slopes open to the public are quite rare. So they tend to be somewhat tamer affairs!

[@Trebor74]

Brits may be mad to invent this but with international entry's the madness is obviously infectious.

[@anitaherbert1037]

Look up the Atherstone ball game. As a nod to health and safety they added to the No killing rule, no strangling or eye gouging. Only possible in a country with free ambulances and health care at point of service.

[@Tacsmoker]

@@anitaherbert1037 that game existed well before free healthcare and ambulances lol

[@anitaherbert1037]

@@Tacsmoker and health and safety professionals.....it was originally fought over bag of gold

[@marilynmees1690]

Thank you ... I thoroughly enjoyed that. I live 2 mins away from Coopers Hill (in Little Witcombe) and, as a local, I have never attended the cheese rolling (we locals just go into hiding !!!!!) ... but I found your coverage really informative ... I truly had no idea that there were THAT many people attending. What a 'bonkers' event ... pleased you and the family enjoyed it ... its soooooooo Gloucestershire !

[@wildwine6400]

That uphill climb looks brutal too, itd be hard work but id be more inclined to doing that than ragdolling down the hill 😅

[@carolineb3527]

When you first moved over here, Mac, did anyone tell you that the inhabitants of this green and pleasant land are all mad as a box of frogs? Oops, we must have forgotten. 😉😁😜

[@MacandBlair]

😂

[@krysab6125]

Aww, Trey and the stick! 😂 Bless him, that's a proud tradition for any child on a walk in the UK

[@FrancesS715]

I have watched this event on KZbin many many times over the years and your take on it is by far the best from the spectators' view, it's much more real! I've been at events where there are fell runners and I am in Awe of what they can do! but this is just nuts!!

[@seeker1432]

Excellent footage. I've never been, But you done a real good job filming the event. Think i saw a few Japanese coming down the hill. This is the type of mad stuff they do.

[@abarratt8869]

Looks like you had a grand day out, cheese rolling and a nice walk along some green footpaths :) There's a high chance that one of your children is going to want to participate in the race, when they're a bit older! Picking up a walking stick along the footpath is traditional. I'd get one all the time as a kid, despite my parents' fervent wishes!

[@eileencollins8799]

It’s not just the hill that’s steep, the gravity is extra strong in Gloucestershire.

[@PearlGourami]

😂

[@miketriggs2156]

The cheese spins so fast going down it creates its own gravity field

[@xhogun8578]

😂

[@rundmk00]

due to all the dense people there to do this? :-D only joking i would love to do it

[@JonsTunes]

I lived nearby. As a fit young kid i entered the uphill race. It's an absolute killer 🤯

[@Badgersj]

Rugby players practising their tackling techniques at the bottom!

[@wildwine6400]

This is great! Never seen it myself in person but be hard to find someone who hasn't heard of this cheese rolling event, as you said, social media has got it a lot of attention. Glad you had a good time

[@tonywilkinson6895]

So happy to see you went to this event,thanks Mack and family.🧀🧑🏼‍🦼😊

[@primalengland]

I love watching these guys and gals. Very British activity.

[@richt71]

Great video. Think your daughter summed the event up perfectly..cool and very dangerous!

[@ginibelle1416]

Those people must be crazy lol. Laughing hard at Trey's walking stick hahahahaha🤣🤣🤣 I love your family. Thank you for a fun video Mack🙏♥♥♥♥♥♥

[@MacandBlair]

👍🏾

[@doobiedootwo3517]

So pleased your kids got a view, when i saw the crowds i thought they wouldnt be able to see a thing !

[@maxinemuhammad5979]

What fun madness I have never heard of this thanks for sharing these county shows they are interesting and informative 😍😍😍❤️❤️❤️🎁👍🏿👍🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

[@Tripoddd1704]

Great video as always mate! I love how your daughters accent changed from British when she was off camera to American on camera at 13:20 haha!

[@eileencollins8799]

Proof that some of my fellow Brits are bonkers.😂

[@chrisshelley3027]

This is a wonderful reaction by you all, I'll not forget "walking stick" in a hurry, that gave me a good laugh, lots of really good footage from you of the hill from an angel which we don't see usually, I understand why not, but it's good to get a different perspective of the event, thank you for sharing this :)

[@bobbyboko6317]

If I want cheese I just go to the local Co-op 😂

[@Lemmi99]

Another brilliant video Mac. I'm not surprised Blair sat that one out.

[@PearlGourami]

Craziness but looks like lots of fun 😅

[@garybarnett583]

Love the boy’s walking stick!😂

[@ratowey]

That brought back some memories, I went before the pandemic, I`d forgotten how beautiful the walk was. Great video Mac.

[@MacandBlair]

👍🏾

[@garryparsons1344]

Spanish have Bulls, we have cheese, and I think ours is much more dangerous !

[@craftycasting9578]

this isnt far from where i live and grew up did run this once but i was much younger then came in 5th and was very broken for adout a week hope you enjoyed it

[@dantemedici8179]

Great video ! Always wanted to do the cheese roll 😂

[@frankparsons1629]

Well done! A great day out. Just goes to prove that the Brits are Bonkers!!!

[@Kevin-mx1vi]

Welcome to British bucolic insanity. 😂 That's the best video I've ever seen about the cheese rolling, too !

[@TheOwlsarewatching606]

What a great day out!

[@aliciabalchin4559]

It looks terrifying, but fun .

[@anitaherbert1037]

The only thing more dangerous and mad than this is the annual Atherstone Ball game. A left over from the middle ages. The granddaddy of all team ball sports not on a horse. As a nod to modern health and safety some new rules have been added to the Do Not Kill. Now there is No Strangling, and No Eye Gouging.

[@JahBeatSoundSystem]

Thanks ☺️ 😊

[@carllawrenczuk9173]

What is it with the 2 Gloucesters and their nutty competitions. The greasy pole in Glouc. Mass. Is pretty cool too 👌🏻😊

[@jasonsmart3482]

Crazy times but well known the cheese rolling.

[@johnmunro4952]

Thank gawd for the NHS!

[@terryloveuk]

Some people say us Brits are insane, I prefer "excentric" ... but I'll live with insane

[@allanbooth8301]

I was there last year when Abby lambe of north Carolina won the female race. When you first see coppers hill 😮😮. It's extremely steep, almost vertical... Looks like the crowd was bigger this year

[@lewilewis3944]

Some great shots, is that your drone footage? I used to live 2 miles from here on the main road into Gloucester. Cheese day was ambulance siren day. Last year (i think) a girl won it with a dislocated shoulder on the way down. She didn't cry, cheese is a powerful medicine.

[@goldenlabradorskye]

Completely nuts.......but great fun.

[@williamlarge69]

I thought you might have tried it mac it would have been a better mac'n'cheese if you had won 😂 great video and seems the kids enjoyed it

[@andypandy9013]

I can sum this lot up with a good, old fashioned British saying: "As mad as a box of frogs"! 🤣

[@vikingraider1961]

You wouldn't do this without socialised medicine!

[@stephenwhite345]

Magic pure magic

[@charliesauntie7197]

Do your children have any hints of a British accent. Looked like fun thanks for sharing 🙏🏼🇬🇧🇺🇸

[@kevinhayes7830]

Who ever said the British aren't eccentric 😂

[@antonycoan9424]

At least the weather was kind for these mad fools

[@TheEmpressgoth]

All I Can say is Whoa Nelly!

[@rahjah6958]

I never knew they had rugby players tackle the people crossing the finish 😂

[@jonathangoll2918]

During my teens I lived in Cheltenham, and we had friends in Brockworth (on the outskirts of Gloucester). Once from their garden I viewed the Cheese-rolling through binoculars. I was pleased to see that this year the race was held on Whit Monday, as it should be. In years gone past the movable feast of Pentecost was called Whitsunday, and this race was traditionally held the day after. The authorities keep trying to stop this, but how do you stop a tradition at least 200 years old? I'm not sure what the authorities are most worried about, the safety of the participants or the spectators. It is not a good thing to have large crowds on a steep slope. Officially, the Rolling started as a competition by 1820 at least; I think the winner got the best grazing rights. But I suspect it might have much more ancient roots. There are very old traditions in Gloucestershire. The villages in the Cotswolds - this is on the edge of the Cotswolds - have, like many English villages, very ancient parish boundaries dating back over a 1,000 years. Now in the 4th century AD, there were Roman villas for the wealthy in the area, and there is evidence that some of these parish boundaries were simply the boundaries of the Roman villa estates! And the builders of megalithic monuments such as the Rollright Stones - over 4, 000 years old - deliberately put these monuments on boundaries, because the ancient idea was that the spirit world was nearer at boundaries. And the Rollright Stones are still on a boundary... So I don't find a possible explanation of the Cheese-rolling too far-fetched: that there is a link with ancient sun-worship, and the cheese represented the sun.

[@angelcoops511]

My walking stick 😂😂😂

[@terrym3837]

Nice and eccentric are the people on this island 😂

[@keith1222]

Great to see you enjoying some strange British excentricities!

[@85stace85]

Absolute nutcases 😂😂

[@JP-oe4ry]

getting rubgy tackled at the end seems abit excessve, surely they could have a soft crash barrier.

[@callumcurtis15]

This is what happens when you have free healthcare 😂😂

[@harryselwind]

Good point and gave you a like. Though maybe Britain became the first country with universal free healthcare because its people do things like this.

[@Sarge084]

Shame we have a Government trying to dismantle the NHS though. Give them another term in office and healthcare free at the point of use will be a distant memory. Oh, and one more point, it's not free health care, we pay National Insurance, we just don't make a payment when we need life saving medical intervention.

[@harryselwind]

@@Sarge084 We were making jokey comments. Not political statements. I don't need to be told how the NHS works. Oh, and one more point:, "we just don't make a payment when we need life saving medical intervention" we don't make a payment for pretty much everything else too, from broken fingers to gender reassignment surgery. I didn't mention such things in my original comment because, like I said, they were meant to be jokey.

[@callumcurtis15]

@@Sarge084 So if some has never worked in there life are they still entitled to healthcare? And I get your point and I probably had paid way more in over the years than I have cost the NHS even with my 3 surgeries, but at least at no point have I thought to myself how will I be able to afford this, witch to me is worth way more .

[@Sarge084]

@@callumcurtis15 Have you paid insurance on your car for years and not made a claim but someone else has made several claims? That's how insurance works! As for not making any payment, it depends who you are, if you're a foreigner you will have to pay, if you're a full time housewife and mother you obviously won't have paid NI but you'd still be entitled to healthcare free at the point of use. EU nationals with settled status living and working in the UK have NI contributions deducted at source and yet they still have to make an additional payment, now *that* doesn't seem fair does it!?

[@keysersoze4322]

My walking stick 😂

[@shaunwild8797]

They should have rolled cheese down the hill on the uphill race. 😁😁😁😁

[@slayerrocks2]

Like Donkey Kong?

[@zippybanana2691]

Rugby Team to politely "catch" you 😂😂😂, saw one guy get tackled at the bottom to stop him, he left the bottom of the hill on a stretcher into an Ambulance 😂

[@MacandBlair]

But it was polite... 🥲

[@AndrewwarrenAndrew]

Think you've just got Gut Barging and Bog Snorkelling left to watch

[@cdkmonkey2699]

Good init

[@waferinepete]

Bonkers event only in England

[@KC-gy5xw]

It's more fun when it's muddy...

[@gerardburton1081]

Heaps and heaps of sore backs and legs the few weeks.

[@if6was985]

I have bills to pay therefore i won't do this, however i fully support anyone who's stupid enough to do this...all for a ball of cheese...and not the good cheese my friends grow...😮

[@frankgunner8967]

A sport for Gentleman lol

[@jamespasifull]

It's not a 'race', it's a chase!! They're trying to catch a wheel of cheese!

[@MacandBlair]

True

[@danforbes4513]

:)

[@gmdhargreaves]

You have to be just the slightest bits nuts to even attempt this! The crowds this year were the biggest ever, they need to start charging money or build a temporary stadium

[@MetalRocksMe.]

No no money ruins everything

[@robertstallard7836]

The whole idea is that it's informal and not "organised", so there's no-one to take action against if it goes pear-shaped.

[@phoenix-xu9xj]

I’m thinking Blair has given birth and this was pre-recorded.

[@DomRivers67]

This year a woman won, despite ragdolling the last bit stone cold unconscious

[@MacandBlair]

That was crazy... she won unconscious! 😳

[@user-vs9ex9po1r]

Having watched numerous races I've come the conclusion that the most dangerous & worrying part is being tackled at the finish by huge over zealous marshalls! Have any participants been injured by them ? Could not a safer way be found to stop participants ?

[@MacandBlair]

Safer... mayber. But more entertaining... no. 🙃

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

When you have free healthcare 😂

[@maxmoore9955]

We don't need Guns in Britain, We can do ourselves with Grass and a Slope .

[@seedhillbruisermusic7939]

mate this race has not been going on for hundreds of years, it's recent. I know you americans think anything older than 100 years is ancient but this hill race isn't even that old. Its a late 20th century invention.

[@MacandBlair]

According to the city of Gloucester: "The first written evidence of cheese rolling is found from a message written to the Gloucester town crier in 1826; even then it was apparent the event was an old tradition, and is believed to be at least six hundred years old. " Source: www.visitgloucester.co.uk/things-to-do/history-and-heritage/cheese-rolling-in-gloucester

[@kadumvlogs13]

6p

[@timeteller3364]

Never ever heard of a county in England called Glot-chister. STOP BUTCHERING OUR ENGLISH LANGUAGE

[@MacandBlair]

Get a youtube channel and you can pronounce it however you like. 😎