cabers
Highland Games timber
Cabers are the long, heavy wooden poles tossed end-over-end in Scottish Highland games.
The caber toss tests strength and technique—competitors must flip the tapered log so it lands pointing away from them.
A caber typically weighs over 100 pounds and stands taller than the person throwing it: He trained for months before attempting the caber toss.
Scottish strength competition festival
- tossLight, casual throw
- throwPropel by arm motion
- hammer throwHurling weighted ball on wire
- competitionStruggle for supremacy
athlete · field · strength · technique · balance · distance · judges · arena
Highland Games
Scottish strength competition festival
- tossLight, casual throw
- throwPropel by arm motion
- hammer throwHurling weighted ball on wire
competition · athlete · field · strength · technique · balance · distance · judges · arena · tournament
throw
Propel by arm motion
hurl · vertical · rotation · arc · momentum · grip · run-up · plant · turn · twelve o'clock
log
Sectioned tree trunk
pole · wood · bark · tree · fir · spruce · length · weight · heavy · forestry
kilt
Wrapped Highland garment
thistle · loch · heather · Gaelic · sporran · glen · Caledonia · ceilidh · brogue · bonnie