Fortissimo 2013 Massed Pipes and Drums Broadsword Dance Set

[@andrewhammond1949]

Did it when I was young and fit as a member of the Tasmania Police Pipe Band. I also think it help to win the heart of my beautiful bride!

[@likeitout]

It was actually danced AFTER a victory as part of the celebrations. The final insult to the enemy after gathering their weapons from the field was to dance on their swords, the warriors showing of their dexterity to the young women by not touching the blades. If you look carefully, the formation of the hands, the fingers shaped into points and the prancing of the feet, are meant to imitate the behaviour of the victorious stag bellowing his triumph and prancing around his harem after defeating a rival.

[@sosolin100]

Thank you for that. I have often wondered about the history of the dance. I love watching them. It must take so much skill to be able to do this.

[@likeitout]

@@sosolin100 It does. The dancer mustn’t touch the blades which is harder than it looks.

[@sosolin100]

@@likeitout Wow, must be so hard to do especially when they are not looking down at their feet.

[@sosolin100]

@@likeitout I am reading a lot about Scottland in the 1700s. About the Clans and the battles they face. I really find it all so interesting.

[@andrispimenovs5129]

Thanks for the comprehensive comment. I did not know that. Greetings from Latvia.

[@faziah1163]

MERCI ❤️ TRÈS gracieux💙 Toutes les danses du monde entier ont une signification🌹 LOVE AND BLESSINGS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@adamcharney]

I play the highland pipes in a pipes and drums band, and I think this is class. ✌

[@raysie34]

This dance was preformed before battle and legend has it if your foot touched a blade you where going to get wounded.

[@joshpascual7539]

This is great historically interesting 👍 🤔

[@jaspernewboy]

@@joshpascual7539 and entirely fabricated.

[@aprilross909]

Actually if there foot touched it meant they were gonna die

[@dragonhistory5005]

@@aprilross909 wrong. If you step on the blade you die. If you only touch it then you will get wounded

[@goosefootjones7196]

Hell yeah

[@johnemerson1363]

I do believe the dancers are to gentlemen and two ladies. They are all great!

[@danabachor8064]

I love Scotland's history and culture! Thank you very much for the video!

[@PiperStart]

Very nicely danced, and well played by the band. The Marches, strathspeys, reels were a delight, and the interlude with Scots Wha Hae as the dancers prepared themselves was a pleasure to hear.

[@duncancallum]

Brilliant dancing for sure , as a Scot one loves they way you dance and the brilliant bag pipe playing

[@mauricearpin7946]

Never mess with a country whose national sport is throwing telephone poles

[@firebyrd437]

I watched this last year at our Highland games those lads can fairly throw but most never managed to get it to turn over, those than accomplished that is something to see

[@BA-ng9bx]

😂

[@paraiso5099]

Hay unas danzas españolas que son similares. Muy bella ejecución, gran finura y elegancia

[@thethinker8805]

Total respect for Scotland the pipes and the kilt and God help anyone who calls mine a skirt

[@waynethomas3638]

or dress!

[@trulla212]

I'd never ever dare to ... !!! 👋😊👍🌲🇩🇪

[@ab-zg8pt]

Spotted the American lol

[@gailtrotman5256]

Be still my Scottish/Irish heart ❤ !

[@dvrn86]

Great to see Canada maintaing that Highland culture.

[@BunnyUK]

But given the Woke PM, how much longer?

[@gailtrotman5256]

Our Prime Minister is 1/2 Scottish! His beloved maternal grandfather was James Sinclair, born in Grange, Banffshire in Scotland in 1908.

[@dvrn86]

@@gailtrotman5256 ahh there ya go, learn something new everyday. That explains his dashing good looks.lol

[@milacherevko8207]

Когда смотрю эти танцы, а они мне нравятся за грациозность, точность движений, то представляю отчетливо жизнь людей в средние века. Королевство оно и есть королевство! Как все-таки красиво!!!

[@glasgowbrian1469]

In case anyone doubts how soldiers wore the kilt, consider this. When I was young in Glasgow, men in kilts were not allowed on the top deck of buses or trams. And commanding officers had a mirror on the floor to check soldiers were in correct attire. Also, because the kilts were heavy, they didn't fly up in an average wind. And if a guy didn't close his legs when sitting with his regiment in front of the Queen, she would get an eyeful - he'd get the cooler and a bollocking!!!

[@sambrownbridge7917]

In school once I read a book that mentioned that kilts are worn without underpants and the librarian said she'd be too embarrassed to use stairs

[@jacksimpson-rogers1069]

There is the famous story of the two ladies who noticed a kilted fellow who'd had enough usquabae to have lain by the roadside to sleep. One says to the other "D'ye suppose he's regimental?" response "We could look if we're careful" It turns out that he is, and they tie a ribbon round IT. He wakes up, needs to urinate, inspects the apparatus, and addresses it "I dinna ken what ye've been at, but I'm proud ye won first prize."

[@richardcleveland8549]

Wonderful exhibition of a traditional dance. Many thanks for posting this.

[@Cochise85]

Wonderful. Very similar to Montenegrin Highland dancing

[@Fonseca429]

How I love Scotland culture.

[@macarchers]

i love British culture is absolutely great

[@АлександроваСветлана]

Красиво! ❤. В 2004 дни Шотландии в Москве . На всю жизнь! Клан Н драма и ВВС Великобритании вери вёл!!! Спасибо! Хороший концерт!

[@BrightWulph]

My gosh, imagine the stamina you have to need to complete all those jumps. D:

[@glasgowbrian1469]

I think Scottish Highland dancing was devised as exercise for fighting men. They needed stamina. Wouldn't surprise me if they did sword dances in bare feet. However, country dancing is social and dances could be devised by a regiment dancing without women, if there weren't any around. E.g "Reel of the 51st division" was devised in a German POW camp.

[@gailtrotman5256]

Dance of any sort is excellent. Working up to it!

[@amapola53]

Beautiful!

[@giuseppinaciani3986]

B. I. S . B. I. S complimenti eureka siete unici bravi ok😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@stefanoinnocenti6]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 - Greetings from Florence👋👋👋

[@marie-christinemontegu9503]

En Terre Canadienne . Magnifique ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@sicilydrummer]

Beautiful : Three Guys and One Female, The Perfect Combo!

[@kiltloon]

Actually, it's 2+2 isn't it?

[@PietroCaporaso1957]

👍 3+1

[@JimmiAlli]

It is definitely two men and two women

[@JoahnNorghe]

Very very excellent Scottish Bravure

[@jacobkeppler1984]

Very cool highland dance

[@Niar_Production_Official]

beautiful dance and kilts

[@annamariagiuliani1957]

Bellissimi e bravissimi!

[@PierreRiopelClone]

Nice tradition.

[@vacuumlover1]

How to Scottish dance Hold tiny cookies in your fingers Put your hands above your head Tippy toe dance and twirl

[@OHagan]

Excellent ☘️

[@patriciaemiliagozzi7040]

EXCELENTE !!!! BRILLANTE !!!!

[@morganelegaret4380]

ENCORE,ENCORE ,ON EN VEUT PLUS....

[@lilianthompson8413]

Totally Fabulous

[@maddalenaalesse8091]

Bellissimo!!!!

[@elainebmack]

Am I wrong, or is this in Ottawa, Ontario? The buildings look familiar.

[@robertargent6741]

E Mack yes it is. On Parliament Hill.

[@margaretharrison9267]

Fabulous

[@janetmackinnon3411]

Wow!

[@giuseppelogiurato5718]

Very good... Makes my blood boil, like it should... Nice to see men doing it for a change (instead of little girls).

[@PipingPringle]

At least one of those dancers appears to be a woman :)

[@giuseppelogiurato5718]

@@PipingPringle you're right! ... She's definitely not a "little girl"; that woman could probably beat me up with one hand tied behind her back! 😉👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@margaretblack8538]

@@giuseppelogiurato5718 🤣🤣🤣👍

[@rojanemarycaleffi]

Perfeito

[@latish8355]

Beautiful❤❤❤💋💋💋

[@RazawHama-r8t]

ئێستا زیاتر لەهەڵپەرکێ تئ ئەگەم جووڵەکانی بەواتای جووڵەو ئیش وکار دێت لێرەدا لەجلە کلتوریەکان دا باسی داهێنانی خوری و جل و بەرگ و گۆرەوی دەکات هەروەها جۆری موزیکەکەش زیاتر پەیوەندی بە شوان وئازەڵداریەوە هەیە جووڵەی دەستەکان و بەرزکردنەوەی پەیوەندی بەکارە دەستیەکانەوە هەیە

[@sathiavathithiagarajan7476]

Is it TRUE that nothing is worn below the kilt?

[@jacksimpson-rogers1069]

I have done so, on occasion. I'm pretty sure it is the regimental tradition. One Edinburgh Festival, on the esplanade of the Castle, there was a kilted activity which caused some of the kilt hems to flip up, and a few lads ran from the sides to flip them down again.

[@sathiavathithiagarajan7476]

@@jacksimpson-rogers1069 Thank you for your response

[@ruysdaelhuerta4624]

Me encanta

[@jamesorth6460]

But can they do the Jarabe Tapatio dance?

[@lozannevanniekerk5489]

❤️

[@paulabradley656]

Wonder if William Wallace would have taken part in something like this?

[@margafdez8912]

Me recuerda a la jota que se baila en Aragon y Castilla.

[@sunvulcansunvulcan5337]

*POKÉMON RANGER PIPE BAND*

[@Bruce-1956]

This is more like something Walter Scott thought up, has little to do with Scottish tradition.

[@jacksimpson-rogers1069]

In Mark Twain's book on the Mississippi, he has an adverse opinion of Scott's fondness for the aristocracy. He's right, but nevertheless I like "Young Lochinvar", "Jock o' Hazeldean", and at the age of six or seven I learned to sing the justifiably bloodthirsty "MacGregor's Gathering".

[@bensourivong2874]

What are the tunes?

[@m.f.m1006]

I LOVE SCOTLAND

[@BarrySuridge]

These are Canadians.

[@duncancallum]

And dancing like a lot of their ancestors who come from Scotland , so what is the problem Barry.

[@alvindurochermtl]

duncancallum He’s just point out a fact that they are Canadians. So what’s the problem?

[@alvindurochermtl]

@Scot-Irish UK I have served in one of these regiments in Canada and I don't consider myself a Scot. In fact the Canadian Black Watch is located in Montreal and many Jocks in the ranks are French Canadians.

[@jacobkeppler1984]

Pipes and drums ceremonial guards and 48th highlanders the black watch royal highland regiment of Canada royal highland fusiliers of Canada

[@АлександроваСветлана]

Извините я ошиблась в 2002году!

[@karlscher5170]

Swords are good. Axes would be better!

[@patriciamckee4310]

THe one chick that is taller than everyone else made the synchronicity seem off.. or maybe it was offf

[@underthesign1]

That's a guy

[@waynethomas3638]

the woman is the only one with any dancing skill!

[@laurafratini5349]

♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🥰👍👍👍👍🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@pietersiahaija4698]

" ... "

[@MrRatherino]

Scotch lives matter

[@kipperstewart1906]

The guy with the task was terrible.

[@mairiconnell6282]

The dancing was to be desired. Very Argh! Flat footed, no upper Arm control, actually really bad but I gusess you are having a go I hope you didn't pay for the Outfits.

[@ivandinsmore6217]

Nice skirts.

[@michaelkoopman7274]

@Sir Isaac Brock Yes, even this Dutchie knows it is called either a tartan or kilt.

[@ТатьянаПлотникова-х4ж]

Этих, в юбках да в Якутию , вот это были бы танцы.

[@TRACTS4JESUS]

JESUS SAVES AND EXCEPT A MANBE BORN AGAIN HE CANNOT SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD JOHN 3-3 , LOOK UP BBN RADIO

[@pavelbel684]

Не пойму это бабы или мужики танцуют как бабы?

[@ЛяззатСмагулова-ы2н]

Это шотландцы. Мужчины.

[@ДинараИсаргапова-н4ф]

🤣😅😂

[@ricardodibartolomeo3969]

I love Scotland's history and culture! Thank you very much for the video!

[@macarchers]

ed io la cultura degli Britons é molto bella

[@alicemilne1444]

@@macarchers Eso es la cultura de los Escoceses, no la de los "Britons".

[@macarchers]

hi Alice la cultura de Escocia hace parte de la cultura BritanicaReino unido de la gran Bretaña e Irlanda del norte

[@alicemilne1444]

​@@macarchers Como Escocesa y ciudadana británica, yo te digo que no. Los paIses que costituyen el Réino Unido (Inglaterra, Escocia, Paìs de Gales e Irlanda del Norte) tienen todos su propia cultura. La palabra "británica" sóle tiene sentido en distintos contextos, pero no en cuanto a la música y la dansa tradicional. Y la música, los kilts, el diseño de las empuñaduras de espada, tanto como la dansa de espadas son todos de orígen de la cultura gaélica que se situaba sólo en Escocia. El pueblo gaélico nunca era británico. Era un puelbo distinto desde los tiempos antiguos. Lo que vees aquí es la tradición de los Escoceses que se ha mantenido en Canada en los regiones donde habia una inmigración masiva de Escoceses. Son los de descendencia escocesa que mantienen su antigua cultura en Canada, Australia, Nueva Zelanda y los EE.UU. En el Réino Unido son sólo los regimentos escoceses que mantienen una banda de gaitas.

[@carola.campbell86]

Beautiful!