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    The document summarizes the caber toss, a traditional Scottish sport. Players must balance and throw a large log or trunk vertically while holding only one end. The goal is to flip the trunk end over end so that it rotates 180 degrees from its starting position, landing with the far end farthest from the thrower, demonstrating strength and skill. The caber toss originated hundreds of years ago as a test of strength at Highland games and has been part of Scottish culture and competitions since the 11th century.

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    The document summarizes the caber toss, a traditional Scottish sport. Players must balance and throw a large log or trunk vertically while holding only one end. The goal is to flip the trunk end over end so that it rotates 180 degrees from its starting position, landing with the far end farthest from the thrower, demonstrating strength and skill. The caber toss originated hundreds of years ago as a test of strength at Highland games and has been part of Scottish culture and competitions since the 11th century.

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    Juego Britanico

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    CarlosBiponce
    The document summarizes the caber toss, a traditional Scottish sport. Players must balance and throw a large log or trunk vertically while holding only one end. The goal is to flip the trunk end over end so that it rotates 180 degrees from its starting position, landing with the far end farthest from the thrower, demonstrating strength and skill. The caber toss originated hundreds of years ago as a test of strength at Highland games and has been part of Scottish culture and competitions since the 11th century.

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    CARLOS PONCE DE LA TORRE

    Name of the game/task: Caber toss


    Materials/equipment: kilt and one
    Space: open air
    trunk
    Number of players: unlimited
    Duration: one minute per person
    Task description: The game was born in Scotland a few hundreds years ago and is an habitual sport
    meeting with the name of Highland games.
    The first written record that exists mentioning these type of meetings takes place in the eleventh century.
    The Scotch King Malcom III, with the intention of found the strongest Scotch man, creates a meeting in
    Braemar.
    It is said that this peculiar event was developed on the bassis of the needed ability of tending trunks on
    the frequent Highlands' ravines.

    Norms/rules: It consists in a trunk with a height of more than 7 metres (normally 6) and a weight of
    80 kilos. The participants, with an straight position, have to hold the trunk vertically, with the hands on
    the tighest side of the trunk.
    Once the trunk is in balance, the participants have to throw the trunk, not for get the largest distance, but
    to turn over it on the longest lenght shaft and the part that was in contact with the hands becomes the
    most distant in relation to the thrower. The trunk has to spin 180 degrees.

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