Meet the Basque Stone Lifters

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  • Опубліковано 16 чер 2024
  • Step into the world of Basque rural sports (or Herri Kirolak), where raw power and tradition collide.
    Meet Joseba, an incredible father and the driving force behind a Stone Lifting school in Spain, that's breaking barriers and shattering stereotypes. He's not just teaching the right techniques, he's igniting a passion for strength and determination in the next generation.
    Get ready to be amazed by Udane, Joseba’s unstoppable 18-year-old daughter. In a sport once exclusively dominated by men, Udane's indomitable spirit and dedication are paving the way for a new era. With the guidance of her father, she's mastering the art of lifting stones of all shapes and sizes, proving that strength knows no gender.
    00:00 Intro
    00:16 Understanding the History
    00:47 Shapes, Sizes, Variations and Tradition
    1:56 A Family of Stone Lifters
    2:37 Making Sport Inclusive For All
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  • @GreatBigStory
    @GreatBigStory  10 місяців тому +34

    Share an emoji that would best describe your face, if you were to lift one of these stones 👇🏋

  • @simonsaysism
    @simonsaysism 10 місяців тому +127

    There's something about sports like this, and Gaelic highland games, that I appreciate so much more than typical weightlifting. Maybe it's the connectedness to culture, or the way you can see how it arose from work/labour to become a reason for fun and celebration.

    • @longschlongjohnson6470
      @longschlongjohnson6470 10 місяців тому +13

      It's a more practical sort of strength. Not that regular weightlifting is bad for people by any means, but yes the way it reflects the lifestyles of people or their ancestors makes it more relatable and fun to watch for most people I think.

  • @alibenkahn5092
    @alibenkahn5092 10 місяців тому +38

    Wonderful! I'm a female weight lifter and love seeing women and girls participating in sports like these 😊

  • @its.PR4N4V
    @its.PR4N4V 10 місяців тому +203

    And people wonder if Aliens built the ancient structures. It was definitely humans.

    • @its.PR4N4V
      @its.PR4N4V 10 місяців тому

      @@marshallmcluhan33 true. It could be that aliens do exist. But don't you think that there is a bigger chance that structures were built by humans

    • @fireaza
      @fireaza 10 місяців тому +28

      "Come on! Everyone knows people in the past were complete morons, who were barely capable of putting a bunch of sticks and leaves together to make a house! There's no way that a group of people, who probably rolled around in their own faeces, were capable of this!" -People

    • @zizimugen4470
      @zizimugen4470 10 місяців тому +20

      @@fireazaand yet the ancient Greeks were pretty darn close to knowing the circumference of Earth. Gotta respect the ancients. They knew a lot, we know more, but they knew some things we don’t!
      Btw crystals are nifty totems that we assign psychological importance to. They have no power in and of themselves, besides the radioactive ones.

    • @paulb8030
      @paulb8030 10 місяців тому +4

      @@zizimugen4470yo, that description of crystals as psychological totems is spot on

    • @zizimugen4470
      @zizimugen4470 10 місяців тому +3

      @@paulb8030 being a geologist who loves the hippie scene, helps me to clear up the patchouli-scented bullshit. :P

  • @El_Makong
    @El_Makong 10 місяців тому +16

    thanks for bringing up the quality of video uploads! the subtitle is back, which is helpful. though, the energy is not quite the same as the old ones..step by step, i guess? keep up the great work

    • @Eisenbison
      @Eisenbison 10 місяців тому

      If they cared about "great work" or being honest, they'd take down their video about Billy Mitchell's world record and make an apology video for keeping it up for so long.

  • @newvillagefilms
    @newvillagefilms 10 місяців тому +7

    That female stone lifter rocks! 🤘

  • @root-beer
    @root-beer 10 місяців тому +1

    love u gbs!

  • @howardmenkes2926
    @howardmenkes2926 6 місяців тому

    Amazing!

  • @p5gBand
    @p5gBand 10 місяців тому +2

    Thank you GBS for brining us stories like these that 'lift' our day higher (see what I did there?) Emoji huh? I would probably have this look while lifting stones ->

  • @jhsounds
    @jhsounds 10 місяців тому +22

    The channel sure knows how to make clickable videos.

    • @zaqwsxcde54321
      @zaqwsxcde54321 10 місяців тому +7

      and NOT clickbait. its nice

    • @Eisenbison
      @Eisenbison 10 місяців тому

      They also know how to keep perpetuating lies about a fraud like Billy Mitchell...

  • @chrisc7764
    @chrisc7764 9 місяців тому +1

    I'd love to see a video on how they cut their stones into cylinders and spheres (or pour). They're obviously not using sonotubes and Slater atlas stone molds

  • @mikeboix3315
    @mikeboix3315 10 місяців тому +73

    Get ready for hundreds of basques complaining about the "spanish" bit in the video title :P

    • @xxxxxx-tq4mw
      @xxxxxx-tq4mw 10 місяців тому +11

      I don’t know about today but i spent about 5 wks in the summer of 1970 at a campground on the Atlantic right outside San Sebastián, Franco’s summer house btw, and distinctly remember Franco’s civil guards with those tricornered hats, constantly harassing Basques right on the beach just about everyday, while i a foreign tourist, was never once approached for my I.D.

    • @Eisenbison
      @Eisenbison 10 місяців тому

      My only complaint is that they haven't taken down and apologized for their Billy Mitchell video yet.

  • @fainterdot
    @fainterdot 10 місяців тому +5

    One must imagine..

  • @HorkCorp
    @HorkCorp 10 місяців тому +1

    Upload on Tuesday? Great!

    • @GreatBigStory
      @GreatBigStory  10 місяців тому +2

      Yes 🚀 We're working towards bringing you more videos ☺

    • @KotsiosSymeou
      @KotsiosSymeou 10 місяців тому

      ​@@GreatBigStoryCool!

  • @ScorpionStrike7
    @ScorpionStrike7 10 місяців тому

    Cool

  • @youtubebeliever8047
    @youtubebeliever8047 10 місяців тому +3

    👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

  • @godzuke9856
    @godzuke9856 2 місяці тому

    No wonder why I like strongman competition

  • @JustJulyo
    @JustJulyo 10 місяців тому +3

    Always like to listen to these videos without reading the subtitles

  • @Fuck_whoever_took_my_name
    @Fuck_whoever_took_my_name 10 місяців тому +7

    where do I get a spanish stone to start lifting?

  • @alfrancisbuada2591
    @alfrancisbuada2591 10 місяців тому +3

    Atlas raises a glass at us doing his work for him

  • @bluesnake198
    @bluesnake198 10 місяців тому +1

    Anybody else shocked they do this in bare feet?!

  • @fernandozubia2741
    @fernandozubia2741 10 місяців тому +2

    Aúpa

  • @yellowboot6629
    @yellowboot6629 10 місяців тому +1

    👍❣️... 🏋️🥃

  • @robertheller4583
    @robertheller4583 10 місяців тому +1

    Talk about getting Stoned

  • @JMPT
    @JMPT 10 місяців тому

    GBS Nice 🪨

  • @itmethang
    @itmethang 10 місяців тому

    I actually though the town name is Oreo 💀

  • @ABSOLUTELY_LM
    @ABSOLUTELY_LM 10 місяців тому +1

    All I can think about is hernias

  • @jvstAsYouAre
    @jvstAsYouAre 10 місяців тому +2

    1:35 wait that guy is cheating

  • @Angel_Gomez
    @Angel_Gomez 10 місяців тому +2

    Why did you change the name of this video? These are basque Spanish stone lifters.

  • @xanitbrown6609
    @xanitbrown6609 10 місяців тому +25

    Great big story, this is a BASQUE sport and tradition, and not a Spanish one. In Basque, the art of arrijasotzailea is one that is not very popular, but is growing as mentioned. Gauz batzurekin, informazioa geio izan behar da.

    • @CharlieMile
      @CharlieMile 10 місяців тому +6

      It does say that it’s basque: 3:26

    • @tnt88000
      @tnt88000 10 місяців тому +3

      As far as I know, I'm Basque hence Spanish

    • @xanitbrown6609
      @xanitbrown6609 10 місяців тому

      @@CharlieMilethat is true but the title is a crucial part of the information of the video.

    • @meisrerboot
      @meisrerboot 10 місяців тому

      It says so in the title

    • @xanitbrown6609
      @xanitbrown6609 10 місяців тому

      @@meisrerboot Now yes

  • @dalilalagioia9775
    @dalilalagioia9775 10 місяців тому +4

    0:38 Eren Jeager

  • @markgoddard2560
    @markgoddard2560 10 місяців тому

    I lifted a stone once.

  • @bentcn8511
    @bentcn8511 10 місяців тому

    Olympians

  • @jprice_
    @jprice_ 8 місяців тому

    This is proper way of doing inclusiveness, girls watch something and they are like hey, we want to do this. So they are brought in. Not a company being legally forced into hiring quotas, lol.

  • @brickfilm2103
    @brickfilm2103 10 місяців тому

    Qeeee

  • @susanmandeville693
    @susanmandeville693 10 місяців тому

    I worry about toes....

  • @joselder6495
    @joselder6495 9 місяців тому

    Salsa background? 😂

  • @Jk-uc4ts
    @Jk-uc4ts 10 місяців тому

    HUH

  • @gordonb1528
    @gordonb1528 10 місяців тому

    Hard to WATCH the video and READ the words at the same time. It would make much more sense to use a translator.

    • @TPLS2
      @TPLS2 10 місяців тому +1

      They’ve had this style for years you could just put the video on .5 or .75 speed

  • @zekescott7858
    @zekescott7858 10 місяців тому +1

    1st

  • @widgetfilms
    @widgetfilms 10 місяців тому +8

    I would be careful calling Basque "Spanish". There is a lot of violent history there. Still, cool video.

  • @kazeshinidvash
    @kazeshinidvash 10 місяців тому

    Atletico Madrid has this unwritten rule where they only sign player from Basque country

    • @Marc_Araujo
      @Marc_Araujo 10 місяців тому

      Athletic Bilbao not Atletico Madrid...and they do sign non-Basque players (like those born in Navarra and La Rioja), they just need to come up through Bilbao's academy.

    • @kazeshinidvash
      @kazeshinidvash 10 місяців тому

      @@Marc_Araujo yes athletic bilbao the Bilbao city is in basque.

  • @tomashopkins6196
    @tomashopkins6196 10 місяців тому +24

    The are NOT "Spanish stone lifters," they are BASQUE/VASCO stone lifters, and this is a video about a BASQUE cultural sport. The people who work (and title their videos) at Great Big Story, need to learn more about this GREAT BIG WORLD

    • @LEV1ATAN
      @LEV1ATAN 10 місяців тому +12

      But it is in Spain? Right?

    • @tomashopkins6196
      @tomashopkins6196 10 місяців тому +8

      @@LEV1ATAN Presently, but not the past, and not in the future (just ask the Ukrainians about the whimsy of this). How does this sound "meet the Soviet stone lifters?" A video ABOUT a cultural tradition should not be labeled under the imperialist state that colonized them and then tried emphatically to erase their culture (I encourage you to check your history under the policies of Francoist Spain here).

    • @saidtoshimaru1832
      @saidtoshimaru1832 10 місяців тому +3

      @@LEV1ATAN I don't think you would dare to say that to people who can pick up 329 kg.

    • @Ghhyuttgg
      @Ghhyuttgg 10 місяців тому +8

      Basque is Spain. You just don't realise it yet.

    • @saidtoshimaru1832
      @saidtoshimaru1832 10 місяців тому +4

      @@Ghhyuttgg There are also basques in France.

  • @ghinannafsiaqila4629
    @ghinannafsiaqila4629 9 місяців тому

    Don't ceparate woman woman are cool like man

  • @bootyhacker5509
    @bootyhacker5509 10 місяців тому

    Sisyphus

  • @jjgadget0638
    @jjgadget0638 10 місяців тому

    First comment

  • @aylyi-huh9355
    @aylyi-huh9355 10 місяців тому +1

    video about Basque and yet they speak Spanish

    • @Marc_Araujo
      @Marc_Araujo 10 місяців тому +1

      There's a Spanish part and a French part.

  • @DonoVideoProductions
    @DonoVideoProductions 10 місяців тому

    Makes as much sense as any other sport, I guess. The irreversible toll it takes on their bodies? Not so much.

  • @Rudrakxh
    @Rudrakxh 10 місяців тому

    Bro thinks he's Sisyphus

  • @potatomatop9326
    @potatomatop9326 10 місяців тому +5

    More like meet the folks who never ever cares about their foot.

  • @TheGilgameshLore
    @TheGilgameshLore 10 місяців тому

    I would love to date a stone lifter girl

  • @greenlightxbpg
    @greenlightxbpg 10 місяців тому

    New great big story just don’t hit the same 😔

    • @RybatQ
      @RybatQ 10 місяців тому

      It will get better.

  • @eclogitetack
    @eclogitetack 10 місяців тому +2

    Good god that would stunt someones growth so badly

  • @Eisenbison
    @Eisenbison 10 місяців тому

    Remove your video about Billy Mitchell. Every day you keep it up is an admission that you're not legitimate and that you don't care about the truth.

  • @Renwoxing13
    @Renwoxing13 10 місяців тому

    this is amazing, inspiring... great and all that ... but :
    This dad, for all his good intentions & well meanings :
    He is destroying his daughters body, *SADLY !¡!*
    As we all know, or as I would hope that *MOST OF US KNOW* - the female body is not equipped to lift such heavy weights, and *ESPECIALLY* not their skeletal structure, hips, etc.
    She will pay dearly for her youthful endeavours as she gets older, and her poor old man will only realize is all too late !!!
    This girl is going to end up like *RONNIE THE KING COLEMAN* - who, for all his greatness, legendary feats, and unbeatable stature in life ... is a mess right now for messing around and lifting *"LIGHT WEIGHTS"* ... and Ronnie is a man with a skeletal and muscle structure designed for hardship....
    Well... all I can do is send a prayer her skeletons way !

    • @TryinaD
      @TryinaD 9 місяців тому

      Lmao, I want you to say that to all the female weightlifters who are active or retired

  • @masterimbecile
    @masterimbecile 10 місяців тому +3

    At least some people have fun passing stones.

  • @Nathalie-2aq1swzx
    @Nathalie-2aq1swzx 10 місяців тому +1

    Vos vidéos détournent les mauvaises pensées 😚

  • @Nathalie-2aq1swzx
    @Nathalie-2aq1swzx 10 місяців тому +1

    Vous avez bon goût😻