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  • @darrendm8037
    @darrendm8037 2 роки тому +47

    I tried woggle hopping after a night out and earned my scout "Midnight trip to A&E" badge!

  • @daniellamcgee4251
    @daniellamcgee4251 2 роки тому +83

    I just looked him up. There's a 'Gettyimages' photo of 'Jumping' George Corner woggle hopping over his own Victorian letterbox in his garden, aged 79 years. He had just raised £1000 for disabled children. Mr. Corner is also featured in Colne Valley Postal Museum. What a wonderful, healthy, and unique way to find passion, purpose, and meaning in life!

    • @wellybobs4403
      @wellybobs4403 2 роки тому +3

      sorry to tell you but he died long ago. if he was still alive he would be 120 years old.. And probably still up for it.

    • @jacquelinehillson9589
      @jacquelinehillson9589 2 роки тому +6

      She’s talking past tense 👀

    • @handsoffmycactus2958
      @handsoffmycactus2958 2 роки тому +3

      Why have you wrote Gettyimages in inverted commas?

    • @handsoffmycactus2958
      @handsoffmycactus2958 2 роки тому +3

      @@wellybobs4403 no sh t Sherlock

    • @BadgerBotherer1
      @BadgerBotherer1 2 роки тому +3

      @@wellybobs4403 He died in 1979.

  • @Jumpmaster337
    @Jumpmaster337 2 роки тому +47

    Woggle hopping has a better ring to it than parkour!

  • @piccalillipit9211
    @piccalillipit9211 2 роки тому +47

    *OH WOW - I LIVED NEAR HIM* as a kid - about 200m down the road - I remember the post box in his garden

  • @bonlives4eva
    @bonlives4eva 2 роки тому +21

    I jumped over a land mine..... Love it!

    • @1969Kismet
      @1969Kismet 2 роки тому +2

      Hence the important of prepositions. In this case "over" and "on" have a very different results ; )

  • @nigden1
    @nigden1 2 роки тому +28

    By his bearing, and demeanour, he looks like ex military to me, top man.

    • @handsoffmycactus2958
      @handsoffmycactus2958 2 роки тому +17

      They were all ex military then? Haven’t you heard of WW2?

    • @nigden1
      @nigden1 2 роки тому +3

      @@handsoffmycactus2958 Of course, my father fought in it, my uncle didn't.

    • @dutchleedsls25
      @dutchleedsls25 2 роки тому +11

      More like WW1 if he was 71 in 1971

    • @blehblah9309
      @blehblah9309 2 роки тому

      He's wearing what looks like an MoD beret without a badge on, but he didn't bother shaping the bloody thing properly.
      Half wonder if he's smuggling a pillar box.

    • @normanboyes4983
      @normanboyes4983 2 роки тому +2

      @@blehblah9309 Hope you are content with your perspective.

  • @dermitdrApe
    @dermitdrApe 2 роки тому +8

    amazed to see that post boxes were emptied 5 times a day back then! insane.

  • @jeanlefranc3817
    @jeanlefranc3817 2 роки тому +55

    God, we could really use more Georges in 2022.

  • @MrMann0123
    @MrMann0123 2 роки тому +17

    My car... a land mine... just casual there

  • @Dushmann_
    @Dushmann_ 3 місяці тому +1

    I love how his idea of "abroad" is Scotland, Wales, London and Ireland

  • @buxvan
    @buxvan 2 роки тому +4

    I remember watching this on Nationwide back in the mid 70's. Bet I can't leapfrog when I'm 71.

  • @johnaldred6864
    @johnaldred6864 2 роки тому +8

    I'm. Glad someone POSTED that .!

  • @johnnyswift7773
    @johnnyswift7773 2 роки тому +8

    Pure gold✨

  • @d.k.1394
    @d.k.1394 2 роки тому +2

    Lovely chap

  • @slipnpitch1894
    @slipnpitch1894 Рік тому +4

    71 years old. Bloody amazing

  • @GhastlyCretin
    @GhastlyCretin 2 роки тому +5

    WoggleHopping might be the most British term I've ever heard.

  • @hilaryepstein6013
    @hilaryepstein6013 2 роки тому +23

    Woggle hopping - who knew. Good for you George. Age is just a number and if you're fit it doesn't matter if you're 71 or 21.

  • @sinbin001
    @sinbin001 2 роки тому +4

    Only in Britain. Love it . ❤️❤️

  • @charlesklimko492
    @charlesklimko492 8 місяців тому +4

    Looks / sounds like a Monty Python sketch.

  • @lafreewaylafreeway
    @lafreewaylafreeway 2 роки тому +4

    Wow….brilliant 👍👍👍👍

  • @vanessahawarden9028
    @vanessahawarden9028 Рік тому

    Spectacular!

  • @Mirrodin82
    @Mirrodin82 2 роки тому +9

    Back when tv was entertaining

  • @carmelhughesparolya899
    @carmelhughesparolya899 2 роки тому +2

    Brave man 👏

  • @alancheatley4378
    @alancheatley4378 2 роки тому +1

    Dont think he would like emails, nothing to jump over lol

  • @Maximustard
    @Maximustard 2 роки тому +13

    That is, a first class post

  • @SunShine-dk6rk
    @SunShine-dk6rk 2 роки тому +2

    Awesome.

  • @maggieb369
    @maggieb369 2 роки тому

    What a cool dude

  • @fairytaleworld777-v8
    @fairytaleworld777-v8 3 місяці тому +1

    so cute xx

  • @QIKUGAMES-QIKU
    @QIKUGAMES-QIKU 2 роки тому +1

    Careful.. One slip and you miss the Woggle and get a Gobble ! 😁💯❤

  • @lundsweden
    @lundsweden 2 роки тому +9

    Dude is 122 now and still jumping pillar boxes in 2022!

  • @paulwestwell7160
    @paulwestwell7160 2 роки тому +1

    Jumping pillar boxes in heaven now? George Albert Corner 11 Jan 1900-October 1979 R.I.P.

  • @cheeseapples27
    @cheeseapples27 6 місяців тому +1

    Parkour, parkour parkour! parkour!

  • @alexmarshall4331
    @alexmarshall4331 2 роки тому

    Batley... Home of Fane Acoustics!!!

  • @justinsmith1177
    @justinsmith1177 2 роки тому +2

    Wow the Post Box is emptied 5 times a day.

  • @Rick-wk7hr
    @Rick-wk7hr 6 місяців тому

    The first free runner 😊

  • @natalliaf6387
    @natalliaf6387 2 роки тому +3

    Good on him. Hope you're doing well, SIr George Corner.

    • @markofsaltburn
      @markofsaltburn 2 роки тому +12

      He’s still going well at the fine age of 132.

    • @natalliaf6387
      @natalliaf6387 2 роки тому +2

      @@markofsaltburn goes to show we should all be hopping boxes

    • @eNuff_Said
      @eNuff_Said 2 роки тому +3

      @@markofsaltburn Nah, he's 122. His age 71 + the 51 years from 1971 to now. Still impressive through.

    • @heresjohnny602
      @heresjohnny602 2 роки тому +1

      @@eNuff_Said Woosh.

    • @officialdazer
      @officialdazer 2 роки тому +1

      @@eNuff_Said He's dead

  • @OrangeTabbyCat
    @OrangeTabbyCat 2 роки тому +14

    Britain is the only country that Monty Pythons can come from. They didn’t make this stuff up, it was all for real.

  • @davedogge2280
    @davedogge2280 2 роки тому +9

    This guy leap frogged over a Wehrmacht officer when he stormed a Normandy beach and plucked his Luger from his holster and never looked back.

    • @chadgun4135
      @chadgun4135 2 роки тому

      To old for D day

    • @stephenchappell7512
      @stephenchappell7512 2 роки тому +2

      @@chadgun4135
      Indeed being born in 1900
      he was possibly 20 years too old
      People born his year did fight in
      WWI though

    • @eddie4324
      @eddie4324 2 роки тому

      @@stephenchappell7512 At 44, he could have been a senor NCO. Not sure what his military record was, but he was just about young enough to be fighting in WW2.

    • @stephenchappell7512
      @stephenchappell7512 2 роки тому

      @@eddie4324
      That's why I used the word 'possibly'
      My uncle Trooper D S Moss
      (1920 - 1941 2nd RGH)
      was more typical of WWII fighting age

  • @marjoriejohnston3038
    @marjoriejohnston3038 2 роки тому +1

    Same age as I am now. Wow.

    • @prawncrisp5951
      @prawncrisp5951 2 роки тому +1

      And how’s your woggle-hopping these days, Marjorie?

  • @markofsaltburn
    @markofsaltburn 2 роки тому

    I remember this

  • @thebat7048
    @thebat7048 2 роки тому +4

    The Godfather of Free-running and Parkour 🤪

  • @johnshields6852
    @johnshields6852 Рік тому

    That's great, I'm 63 and workout everyday, my body is as flexible and strong as when I was 20, I'm actually stronger, if you shake my hand you'll know it. Good luck. 🙏🇺🇸

  • @Jestersson
    @Jestersson 2 роки тому +5

    Men of his era were cut from a different cloth.

  • @Veni_Vidi_Vortice
    @Veni_Vidi_Vortice 2 роки тому +1

    Notice that he gave telephone boxes a wide berth.

  • @79narz
    @79narz 2 роки тому +1

    Still at it , saw him down the bull ring in Birmingham yesterday, gets a bit annoying after a bit tbh .

  • @kerry1754
    @kerry1754 2 роки тому +2

    Only the British, so proud

  • @steveknight391
    @steveknight391 2 роки тому +3

    George was a top bloke and often jumped in fancy dress! There are colour clips later from the 70s of him woggle-hopping in full hunting gear!

  • @keill35
    @keill35 2 роки тому +4

    He trained a dolphin? To jump over a letterbox? Nice.

    • @rabih1978
      @rabih1978 2 роки тому +1

      They must have had an early version of sponge bob

  • @kingspunkbubble
    @kingspunkbubble 2 роки тому +2

    I imagine those top ornaments could cause a problem or two.

  • @spider-ham7140
    @spider-ham7140 Рік тому

    Jumped over a land mine?! What?! Lol

  • @hellie_el
    @hellie_el 2 роки тому +2

    ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @jockiron
    @jockiron 2 роки тому +3

    Old George died in 1979.

  • @steve24822
    @steve24822 2 роки тому

    So that's how parkour started!

  • @redbird9658
    @redbird9658 2 роки тому +1

    Before health and safety stopped us doing everything.

  • @alexgreen3662
    @alexgreen3662 Рік тому

    Park tour 70’s style

  • @highbury1972
    @highbury1972 2 роки тому

    George jumped over a Land Mine, Trained a Dolphin to jump over a Letterbox and his hardest task was training Paul Sykes to punch a shark in the Fooking Ear hole!!

  • @wood_stone_iron
    @wood_stone_iron 2 роки тому +1

    After you let your grandfather play Assassin's Creed for the first time.

  • @miguelmontero7160
    @miguelmontero7160 4 місяці тому

    So how high is a woggle anyways? Like neck-height or right below that?

  • @petetrundell5454
    @petetrundell5454 2 роки тому +2

    What a hero.
    There’s no shortage of batty Yorkshiremen out there. Just ask me kids!

    • @Togidubnus
      @Togidubnus 2 роки тому +1

      Q. How do you know you're in a room with a Yorkshireman?
      A. He'll tell you.

    • @MeTube3
      @MeTube3 2 роки тому +1

      I remember one, played a couple of spells for Leeds. David I think his name was. Took after his mum Nora.

  • @gabriel771100
    @gabriel771100 2 роки тому +6

    Nowadays, people can't even jump out of bed.

  • @MattTweeks
    @MattTweeks 2 роки тому

    "PARKOUR!"

  • @tonyhancock3912
    @tonyhancock3912 Місяць тому

    I've jumped over a cluster bomb

  • @cambs0181
    @cambs0181 2 роки тому

    So he basically invented parkour

  • @martinmartinmoone3104
    @martinmartinmoone3104 2 роки тому

    An elderly " boy scout" from Yorkshire, wasn't Jimmy savile an elderly Yorkshire man who liked boys?

  • @DaraM73
    @DaraM73 2 роки тому +2

    From pillar to post?

  • @ok2760
    @ok2760 2 роки тому +4

    Amazingly, this guy is still alive!

    • @jimmyp7928
      @jimmyp7928 2 роки тому +7

      Doubt it, he'd be 122 years old.

    • @stephenspence1192
      @stephenspence1192 2 роки тому +4

      That would make him 122 years old. I don,t think so.

    • @ok2760
      @ok2760 2 роки тому +1

      @@jimmyp7928 I saw him recently

    • @ok2760
      @ok2760 2 роки тому +1

      @@stephenspence1192 he lives near me, I saw him a while ago

    • @blastfromthepast8344
      @blastfromthepast8344 2 роки тому +16

      @@ok2760 Was that before or after you saw Elvis, John Lennon, Nessie and a flying saucer...?

  • @professormcclaine5738
    @professormcclaine5738 Рік тому

    He's bound to offend someone .

  • @MrRawMonkey
    @MrRawMonkey 2 роки тому

    5 collections a day at the first letter box

  • @dad_jokes_4ever226
    @dad_jokes_4ever226 2 роки тому

    How Parkour started

  • @pod9538
    @pod9538 2 роки тому +5

    LANDMINE??

    • @davedogge2280
      @davedogge2280 2 роки тому

      that's why I made the WW2 comment about him above but someone said that he was too old to storm Normandy beach.

    • @unnamedchannel1237
      @unnamedchannel1237 2 роки тому

      He’s talking about chicken turds left on the drive way. Carful not to stand on them when they get out of the car

    • @davewalker7126
      @davewalker7126 2 роки тому +1

      They used to have old land mines on the beach promenades in the 70's with slots cut in them to put money for the RNLI - I assume he meant one of them

  • @janreznak881
    @janreznak881 2 роки тому +3

    I wonder what this guy would have thought of the collective west in 2022. He'd probably say "at least we're not speaking German", amirite.

  • @d.k.1394
    @d.k.1394 2 роки тому

    He died 10 yrs later when he caught his woggle top on a kn ife

  • @leehighland5435
    @leehighland5435 6 місяців тому

    I tried it once, but I caught my gord wangler and had to take a year off work.

  • @Rog5446
    @Rog5446 2 роки тому

    71 years old, going on 99, I think his birth certificate should be examined.

  • @jeffo83
    @jeffo83 2 роки тому

    wow bet he lived to a ripe age

  • @112chapters3
    @112chapters3 2 роки тому

    His bf is the geezer that rides the tiny bike.

  • @13strange67
    @13strange67 2 роки тому

    Frank Spencer's Dad

  • @liborsionko
    @liborsionko 2 роки тому

    "... there's no limit to this'
    1973? ....maybe?

  • @QIKUGAMES-QIKU
    @QIKUGAMES-QIKU 2 роки тому +1

    If you are still a Scout at 79 there is a problem... Venturers wouldn't take him ?

  • @rooneye
    @rooneye 2 роки тому +1

    1971 why's is black and white?

    • @Jehannum2000
      @Jehannum2000 2 роки тому +2

      I think a few TV programmes were still B&W in 1971.

  • @112chapters3
    @112chapters3 2 роки тому +1

    “Come up to London” bombaclaat. Erryman know that da train go up da mainline to London.
    More so back in the times of this production. Shocked tbh.
    Legit.
    Even know proper council stock people I have encountered know that you go up to London.

    • @mac7040
      @mac7040 2 роки тому +3

      Even Google could not translate such bad English.

    • @darrendm8037
      @darrendm8037 2 роки тому +1

      @@mac7040 I understood it quite easily. Though I disagree with the sentiment. You "go down to that there posh London".

  • @fidelcatsro6948
    @fidelcatsro6948 2 роки тому

    Founding Father of Parkour Revolt???
    Viva Parkourlution!!
    He should be 122 years old today?

  • @simonduncan8327
    @simonduncan8327 2 роки тому +2

    Who said the British are odd ?

    • @majorlaff8682
      @majorlaff8682 2 роки тому +1

      Bill Oddie.

    • @simonduncan8327
      @simonduncan8327 2 роки тому +1

      @@majorlaff8682 that’s odd

    • @majorlaff8682
      @majorlaff8682 2 роки тому +1

      @@simonduncan8327 Oddly enough, Bill Oddie, of The Goodies, was quite odd himself..

  • @markmanc-zw3td
    @markmanc-zw3td Рік тому

    After a couple of mistakes you'd no longer be a mail, sorry male 🙂

  • @derf9465
    @derf9465 2 роки тому

    🤣 😂 🤣 can imagine the comedy sketches of the past making fun of this. Not today, way to soft and cry baby.

  • @jourwalis-8875
    @jourwalis-8875 2 роки тому

    There are no "Pillar-boxes" abroad!

  • @chadgun4135
    @chadgun4135 2 роки тому +2

    He was convicted in 1973 for jumping a 14 year old boy

  • @robsmith6281
    @robsmith6281 2 роки тому

    Lucky not to go a pisser and straight into traffic.

    • @kildogery
      @kildogery 2 роки тому +2

      Not luck. Skill.