#shinty

[coimbraguy]

shinty

[heart-taking-root-in-your-body]

Jamie Fraser plays shinty: Me and the girls next day:

[bluesman56]

Its all in the angle by Tony Via Flickr: Strathglass Shinty Club, one of the oldest organised shinty clubs in the world.

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Murtagh behind the scenes in his kilt playing Shinty.

[lunacatriona]

Take a knock, take a bang Take a smack, take a clatter In years to come, none of it will matter To run like the wind And to leap the salmon A small price to pay to say you've held a caman

"The Caman Man" - Gary Innes One of these things you can only understand if you've ever played shinty, on any level. There's nothing that feels quite like it.

[scholarofgloom]

[hearthammerhockey]

ok so this is categorically not ice hockey, but !!

the camanachd association is releasing all the old shinty yearbooks as free PDFs, starting from the 70s.....

(alongside match reports) They're mostly a series of short essays/articles recounting particular teams/individual histories or bringing awareness to issues and potential solutions - it strikes me as the reddit/sportsblr discussions of their day.....? just look at the contents page of any of them and you'll definitely find at least one thing that rouses curiosity.....

if nothing else, behold the 70s graphic design...

[paisleyphotographs]

Shinty rolled out to primary pupils in Renfrewshire

Renfrewshire primary school pupils are getting a taster of Scotland’s national sport ahead of the Royal National Mòd coming to Paisley this week. The popular game shinty, most widely played in the Scottish Highlands, has been rolled out to four schools in Renfrewshire for pupils to try out the sport, which shares similarities with hockey and the Irish game, hurling. More than 100 pupils from…

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