1977: HUGO IRWIN and his DEADLY BOOMERANGS | Nationwide | Niche Sports | BBC Archive
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- Опубліковано 18 гру 2023
- "These can kill... a year ago, one got me on the ankle and nearly broke blood vessels."
Nationwide speaks to boomerang enthusiast and self-proclaimed world record holder Hugo Irwin, who explains the perils of the sport whilst giving a demonstration in a field near his home in Totnes.
"Now, you watch out boys! Look out, look out, look out!"
Clip taken from Nationwide, originally broadcast on BBC One, Tuesday 27 September, 1977.
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The best thing about this is the constant fear the man has for his chosen hobby
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hilarious
I wonder if he has a dog called Wilson.
Hugo Irwin and his Deadly Boomerangs is a great name for a band.
4am in a leaky old big top at The Green Gathering....
I'd definitely go see that band
Didn't they appear twice in john peels festive fifty?
His boomerang accident may have inspired the name Stitched-back Foot Airman
But they only appeared once and never came back
I remember seeing this broadcast originally back in 1977, it's all coming back to me now.
Hugo...is that you?😮
Hahaha.. very good😂
Wait a short while,and it may come back to you 10 more times. Mind your ankles though.
Very good
Hear about the boomerang that didn't work? It was sent back to the boomerang factory in Geelong , Australia with a note saying " Fix me please & return to sender via air mail"
There is a huge problem with boomerangs, when you get fed up with them you can't throw them away.
Very good
I had one as a kid. I never did manage to get the [insert expletive of choice] thing to come back 🙄🤣
Not in Charlie Drake’s case.
I’ve been trying the through mine away for years but keep coming back sometimes after 2 days 👻👻👻
😂
Eccentricity is woven deeply into British culture, and I wish we would celebrate it more. We all know a local harmless weirdo with strange habits like this guy, and if you don't, it's probably you.
so if there is no super Superman in my neighbourhood... that means I can stop a trains!
And yet we conquered the world with the biggest empire in history . 💪👍🏴
@@tangowood Give it a try and find out.
Takes one to...
We’ve been re placed that’s highly eccentric.
I grew up in Ireland with my nxt door neighbour in the 80's an ex Brithsh army officer he kept an emaculate garden and mowed his lawn bare chested no matter weather untill his late 80's...i always felt this was the kind of man that explained Britains great success over the centuries...plus he was a gentleman...God bless you Mr Brady..
Putin rides his horses bare chested, Brady wields his mower bereft of shirt. I know who the powerful man is. Two-Thumbs-up Brady!
@@matthewtrow5698
😁 Peter Brady WW 2 and Malaya...also Cold war Warrior....and hard nut gardener 🫡
The great British eccentric, so under valued, the British eccentric must be celebrated more 🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧
By using stuff the convicts found from the local Natives - you may wanna add another Flag to that list You Pommy Git ♥️🇦🇺👌
@@CJArnold-hq3ey pipe down convict 😄
Something tells me he was a ww2 pilot before getting into boomerangs....
“And he strained his arm slightly during the record attempt” 😂😂😂.
Whatever happened to men like him? Posh, eccentric but immaculately turned out and with a twinkle in their eye.
I'd bet good money he served in the RAF in the war.
I was waiting for the DING DONG!
Those type are few and far between these days,they almost died out as technology and social media began to numb people down to the zombies you see at bus stops today
@@StuartOliver83 the kind of men in moustaches that designed and built concorde , these days i wonder how some of them tie their own shoelaces
@@waynus2021 agreed
Wow, this is just like watching a Monty Python sketch. But we are supposed to take it seriously. I couldn't stop laughing at it. Hilarious.
That was the genius of Monty Python...
Just imagine the other guy making Hugo have a melt down by beating his record again by designing a superturbo graphite boomerang that went around in circles continually until you caught it😂
I had the same thought. A Monty Python sketch with Eric Idle as Hugo Irwin.
Especially how something as easy as throwing eleven boomerangs is some kind of difficult record.
Tally ho! Toodle pip. Watch out!
These are the people that made (past) England great!
Yes
yep and now they just go t the doctors for medication for thier mental health problems because of the concept of behaviourism and its ability to create middle class jobs .
No you are mistaken, its the transgender crowd and the immigrants that have made this country once great and strong .
Its the hard working British man and women who have destroyed this country, no wonder all the immigrants are complaining its a dump.
Real life can be like a Monty Python sketch 😂
just a happy old man with his hobby, better times, bless him
Look out! Look out!
Rip Hugo who later died from 11 strikes to the back of the head
LMFAO
When the BBC was worth watching . 👍🏴
When British people did more than just whinge about boat people and how much they hate transgenders.
Now you couldnt give it away for free.
He doesn’t even catch them he’s too scared 😂
I grew up in Littlehampton - was 17 in 1977. I must say i don't remember anyone claiming to have thrown 11 boomerangs. Mind you, in those days we had to rely on the Littlehampton Gazette for local news.
If it was anything like The Argus, they should be running the story in about 2036.
marvelous, and even mentions Littlehampton.
I remember a story about a Shuriken master who in his lunch break used to practice with his boomerang in the Japanese Imperial families park, apparently he used to throw it over the grass which you weren’t allowed to walk on. The guards use to go nuts but they couldn’t do anything about it because the boomerang never touched the grass.😂🤣
Is the story fiction?
@@eemoogee160 No, his name was Ikku-Ken Shirakami, if I remember correctly I think the story was repeated several times in interviews and was in his book called “My Study of the way of Shuriken”.
@@shingitai5882 Arigato~!
Kids probably use drones now
what a fascinating story, you should do a video.
Utterly bonkers, utterly great!
Proper Brit gentlemen. Jolly good Ol chap! Carry on!
Amazing that he was only 28 in this clip.
When men were men and sheep were scared.
Congratulations Mate, and may you have Many Happy Returns.
8 cameramen bravely gave their lives to film this segment. 🫡🇬🇧
Boomerangs haven't been fashionable for years .....
But they're sure to make a come back
I bought a boomerang and I used to have such fun playing with it. Not sure whether I lost it or I threw it and it got into the woods. But at the same time I figured out how to throw a frisbee and have it come back to me. Brings back some good memories. Thanks for the post!
I can throw a frisbee and make it come back. Someone once asked me if I'd had a lonely childhood.
How many dogs did this man go through I wonder? 🤣👍
Very nearly responsible for the first boomerang related death in the UK.
My uncle sent me a large boomerang from Australia, I live rurally had Border Collies and the green was opposite my home. Keeping my dog fit and active the boomerang was great, also in time if you read the wind right and the angle of "pitch" on a throw you can throw these "far" and relatively accurately. So dog retrieved the boomerang I quickly spun and threw it hard toward a little used track. Only for my neighbour to walk from behind a tree and right into it's flight path.
Those seconds felt like hours, he was elderly and the wind was up I knew he wouldn't hear me. I was 40 yards away, I began to run toward him as it swooped then flew up just missing him as he relit his pipe. My heart in my mouth I stopped, then he walked on nearly getting hit by it coming back. Seriously, was a close run thing, he doesn't know to this day. It was reckless of me, but you can't account for chance, it really would have "made his ears ring" 😮. They are dangerous......Phew
Ha, close one. That was divine intervention. Perhaps a little warning "hey, steady now"
Great story! Thanks for sharing
I received one as a 10yr old from Australia.. A 'Bill Onus' one.. Took it out.. Followed the instructions.. Off it went in a big curve.. Came back.. And hit my Grandmother! 😆🤣
Good name for a band that!
Boomerangs are the first drones. With return to home feature. No batteries needed. But watch out! Watch out!
Look out look out! You're all right. You're OK.
What a proper chap; hope the boomerang record came back to him.
Look out boys 😂👍😎
I threw mine so hard six months before this was filmed and am still waiting for it to come back. I hold the record.
The deadly boomerang nearly broke a blood vessel on his ankle!
Fantastic personality
I prefer Frisbees, but always wondered why they looked so much bigger when they are closer.. Then it hit me
THAT hurt.
"Watch out... look out.... look out..... oh, your cameraman has just been decapitated.... well, I did warn you."
I got one as a present when I was a kid in the late 70's. After going to my local park I can confirm they are not for the feint hearted. I did get it to come back but it was traveling at about 50mph by then 😅.
I had a mate who came to UK from Aus in early 70's. He had a boomerang and you're not wrong, it nearly decapitated us many times
Mate the indigenous Australians I know laugh their pants of watching people use these things. They are a fake joke bud, indigenous peoples don’t use them🤣🤣🤣
And to think, he’s only been doing it two years!
I went to the boomerang store the other day.
They have a great return policy.
I heard he wanted to give it up, but kept coming back to it.
The many happy returns line was pretty good.
What a wonderful unassuming way to spend your day.
Excellent!
By Jove cream tea and scones anyone 😂😂😂
Crazy how 1977 is only 20 years before the late 90s but this footage looks so old
God I remember this from the first time around
What do you call a Boomerang that doesn't come back? A stick.
Mr Pedantic writes...No it's a kylie actually!
In 1977 my uncle taught me how to make dutch arrows , i was nine or ten and could throw them the length of a football pitch where they would stick into the ground a good 4-6 inches .
Things were just more fun and less cotton wool in those days and if you got hit by something it was because you werent paying attention .
Australian…When a young guy we had a game. We stood in a small circle facing outward, we all threw boomerangs outwards simultaneously. Last one to run was the winner.
If this legend were around today he would outcast by local inhabitants. Embrace difference and eccentricity.
Hear hear! Don't comply, don't be afraid to stand out 😄
Time stops still when a boomerang is in flight. They proved it on Australian TV in the 60s.
Loved Nationwide , there always used to be a whacky or spooky story at the end , I remember one about a stone head being dug up in a garden and a werewolf appearing later that evening ! True ! Hmm wonder if it’s on here :)
Does anybody know where I could find and watch longer versions of these videos. I absolutely love ALL BBC Archive videos no matter the topic.
I’d to find somewhere where I can watch long ones and just listen to the people and see how life was back then.
I can only speak about this clip. What's shown is probably all there is. It's taken from an episode of Nationwide, which has a wikipedia page explaining more about the show. On UA-cam there is a channel called "Peter Grisdale Kaeru Boomerangs". It has a video about the same person, Hugo Irwin. It's called "My boomerang won't come back Boomerang Hugo Irwin attempts world record in Totnes U.K. in 1977".
www.youtube.com/@BBCArchive
There's a 7.40 version here as well, titled My Boomerang Wont Come Back, Boomerang Hugo Irwin.
iPlayer has a 'From the archive' section. I'm not sure if it has any episodes from Nationwide (which is the programme that this is from), but it does have some very interesting documentaries. Some highlights are an Omnibus on the architect Eric Lyons, a 40 Minutes on the Outcasts biker gang from Yarmouth (serious guys actually, not that you'd tell from the docco. Big court case a few years ago involving weapons and explosives), and a thing on the digging of the Victoria underground line in the 1960s.
The boomerang is the World’s first guided missile. It changes its trajectory to break swan necks.
Ahhh the good old days….
I didn’t know they were making such a comeback
Killer Stuff
That last clip of him alone in the field avoiding the missiles 😂
There’s something that binds men and sticks.
Can’t say why , it just does !!
When they outlaw fun all the fun shall be had by outlaws....
That’s why kids who leave home and then come back are called “boomerang babies”
That looks like a Mr Cholmondly Warner and Mr Grayson sketch from Harry Enfield and chums 😊
It’s Steve Irwin’s long lost great uncle “I say crikey!”
I had one as a gift from Australia as a kid , threw it once never saw it again 😂
I got one when I was a kid…. Played with it late at night and didn’t see it come straight back at me….right in the face. You learn valuable lessons as a kid🤦♂️
To quote Queen Elizabeth 1st after hearing a brief description given of 'throwing a boomerang away from you then it comes back' by one of her servants, she famously said "well thats no use to me is it!!
When I throw something away I DON'T WANT IT TO COME BACK!!!
Are you sure about this? Or are you just quoting a scene from Blackadder II ?
@@1969gawa 🤣
What a different time it was....
I tied a oujia board to mine threw it then thought this is going come back and haunt me
"Many happy returns"....🙂 Oh i like it!
He's throwing it around the wrong way lol
before the internet i had long hair and i got a book from the library on how to make a boomerang , then i made one and it was working . then i made a bigger one from wood and used it as a mold for fibreglass boomerangs . they work too , only thing is they very heavy and strong and proper dangerous . moral of the story , im bald now and i still suck at playing guitar
Boomerangs thrown 11. Boomerangs caught 0.
Love those folkloristic individuals such as Fred Dibnah. No lack of inspiration for "The Avengers" series where both protagonists and villains are eccentric.
I was trying to remember why I threw my boomerang....... and then it hit me.
When I throw something away I don’t want it to come back.
I was born in 1974 and my dad bought me a boomerang when I was 3...🤔
I can' help but listening to this thinking it's monty python
He should call his boomerang “Annabelle “ as in the horror doll 🤣 🪃
His reason for starting was ridiculous 😭😭 lol
The word boomerang comes from the aboriginal word ‘boo’, which means to return. Because when you throw an ordinary merengue....
I got a new boomerang for my birthday, I nearly went nuts trying to throw the old one away.
It’s not just any stick, because when you throw it away… it comes _back._
I love eccentric old men like this. Just the sort of chap you'd buy a pint.
Got to watch those ankles. Got him on one. Almost burst a blood vessel.
These are ankle boomerangs, designed to take out walkers wearing short socks.
Irwin is a bit of a plonker by the looks of it.
I do remember there was a boomerang craze when I was a nipper right about this time - funny that.
I wonder if it'll come back again?
This is such a great Monty Python sketch!
I always wondered how a boomerang worked, and then it hit me
You’re alright.👍🏻
You’re okay. 👌
My brother and I took a Xmas gift 1:59 boomerang over the park. Nearly lost fingers trying to catch it returning. Always thought that’s what you were supposed to do.
Ha😂🎉ha those guy fabulous
I thought it would go without saying to "look out" after a man flings ten boomerangs into the air
See what you can accomplish when you stop staring at your screens.
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
As everyone should know, the boomerang is a hunting weapon of Australian origin, the whole point was to stun or kill the prey, but if missed, it would come back for a second throw! If thrown properly they could kill a person, especially if they hit the throat, or head! but that's what they were invented for! A lethal weapon indeed!
I wonder who invented the boomerang
'William will you throw that stick away'
I'm trying mommy
Donk 😭
We call my mother-in-law boomerang
His logic of how 10 is a higher number than 11 because they weigh more is hilarious
“These can kill……. watch the breeze”.
Green and pleasant land