Halifax Highland Games and Scottish Festival



	The Games - Saturday, July 12, 2008
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		The Games Heavyweight Events Scottish Heavyweights The Old Scotia Heavyweights Association is a group of about a dozen athletes who attend various highland gatherings throughout the Maritimes during the summer months, competing against each other in the Ancient Scottish Heavy events. The Heavy Events originated in Scotland during the reign of King Malcolm Canmore in the twelfth century. Many of the events were adapted from warfare practices, such as the caber toss coming from the practice of throwing logs across a moat or up against a wall when storming a castle. The caber toss is probably the best known of the events. It involves picking up a twenty foot log, balancing it against the shoulder while holding the tapered end in cupped hands, then tossing it so that it flies end over end. The scoring is rated on whether it goes end over end and how straight it lands, with twelve o'clock being a perfect throw. The other events include the stone put, a primitive form of the shot put, using a 25 pound beach stone; the 56 and 28 pound weights for distance, which involves throwing a lead ball with a handle on a short chain as far as possible. Then there is the 56 pound weight for height, which is a lead ball thrown up in the air over a horizontal bar for maximum height. And finally there are the 22 and 16 pound hammers, which are made up of a lead ball on the end of a flexible rattan shaft and are spun around the athlete's head and thrown for distance. The last event of the day is the Farmers Walk. An exhibition event, it consists of two stones weighing approximately 300 lbs. which the athlete grasps by a handle on the top of each, lifts them clear of the ground and walks with them as far as he is able. If you would like to find out more about Heavyweight Events at the Halifax Highland Games, please e-mail us at heavyweights@halifaxhighlandgames.com.