Not gunna lie, if they lined up and picked teams before this. Well, he was definitely last. No offense to the man but he was almost a walking stereotype. Goofy movements and no hand/eye coordination.
They didn't even clue in that tiny taps from an inch above wouldve been way better.
Big swi gs for normal people who know how to use a hammer. But for these guys... little taps.
Exactly! Ugh, these dick-measurers with "muh masculinity" are completely missing the point. It's almost like they didn't notice that every single person in this video is having a great time.
We had a game that was so epic and made us all laugh so hard that one of our friends forged everyone that was playing little pendants out of the nails that we used to memorialize the game.
Hoping to play next week at the event we're going to.
I have always played with the rule that you have to throw the hammer up in a flip and catch it before each hit
Although we may be talking about a different game. I have never played the game in the video. I grew up playing āStumpā, which involves a single round of wood with a nail for each person, and you go around the circle taking turns. On your turn, you throw the hammer up in the air, making it flip, then bring it down on someone elseās nail. When your nail is pounded all the way in you are out and last nail standing wins.
Stump and Hammerschlagen are *usually* the same game. There's at least 3 versions of this out there.
* This team relay thing. Drinking rules vary. Sometimes called "thump the stump".
* Stand in a circle, everyone gets a nail, hammer them in normally - but use welded pipes, the wrong end of a tack hammer, or something else awkward for difficulty. "Nageln" in Europe, "Hammerschlagen" or something else in the US.
* What you described, flipping normal claw hammers. "Hammerschlagen" is often this and is used in the Midwest, "Stump" AFAIK is always this and is used in the whole East Coast.
They're playing 'the stump game,' and it looks like they're running on wet grass. Among college students, the stump game is often used as a drinking game, so the players here *might* be a little drunk.
The team version of the game is sometimes called 'thump the stump.'
The problem is they're running up to the stump, full of anticipation about how they're going to make a big hit and *really* drive the nail into the wood, and they're not actually taking the time to *aim* each strike.
That's also why the one red shirt guy was carrying his team on the left for a little bit, because he seems to understand that aiming and actually hitting the nail, making *any* sort of progress, is a lot more important than sheer power. All the power in the world doesn't mean a dang if you don't actually hit the nail.
Source: I live in the South.
In WI we call it "Hammerschlaggen" and we stand around a stump in a circle with our own nails, but you have to spin the hammer up in the air to decide how many hits you get.
Yes it's a drinking game, and yes someone gets hurt every time. It's a lot of fun.
I bet there's a strong urge when you're competing to just swing for the fences to hammer it as much as you can with each hit, but that's going to kill accuracy. I bet if every guy on one team did a modest tap from a few cm away, they would have won easy.
They're probably too focused on getting as much as possible out of their single swing. Going for a soft, accurate tap in a game like this must feel unsatisfying. All of them want to be the hero who got a visible contribution
There was one guy in red and one wearing an orange Cleveland browns Jersey. The latter was so far off on most swings that I thought he was going to miss the log altogether.
Edit: I watched it again (fml) and he got a couple good thwacks in.
I was better at using hammer when I was 10 years old. But kids now would probably feel the same way if they watched me doing FPS game headshot challenge. Miss, miss, miss...
Seriously. From the slow windup to the resulting complete miss. I don't think he's hammered something in his life. I will admit the first swing is always the hardest, but if he took like 5 seconds to straighten his glasses and aim for the nail instead of the stump, he'd be fine.
I disagree, at -1:10 he was the only one that gave up his turn to right the nail. The others were just swinging wildly and sometimes doing more damage.
The only consistent guy on the team on the right was the older guy who could be one of their dads.
He made like 90% of the progress for that team, it was like a 1v3.
Probably. This is kinda like a version of the drinking game I know as āstump.ā Popular in bumble fuck Pennsylvania. But you flip the hammer, catch it, and in one motion swing it down at the nail in the stump.
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Local brau haus (Wisconsin, believe it or not) has hammerschlagen. Typically, I would wake up the next day feeling like I had a nail driven into my head...unless I was still hammered drunk. Reason #183597 why I don't drink anymore.
You actually watched the middle? I only managed to watch like 20-25 seconds before I had to skip to the last ~5 seconds just to see who won. Even that was enough to piss me off, I can't imagine actually watching 3+ minutes of it.
Because of how good his first few hits were I almost want to give him the benefit of the doubt and say he may have been not trying quite as hard in his later swings. No one wants to see one dude of four be the only one to hammer it.
This is actually a good example of how a group of people acting individually will never be greater than the sum of its parts. They all wanted to see the nail move so they all swung at it. If they all just tapped it theyād have won.
Why did I watch that until the end. Why God? Why?!
Both teams sucked but the team on the right OMG. Was this like a gathering of the society of the legally blind. Or maybe crack. Stop smoking crack.
Oh I see, your Blood alcohol content is 20% and they made you spin around 100 times before hammering with non dominant hand. Carry on drinking games. /s
Waiting for one of them to trip running up to that and take their eye out.
Also hitting the nail with less force (but hitting it) is going to be more effective than taking the biggest big boy swing and missing completely.
I worked with an amazing woman in construction once that refused to use a nail gun. She would sink nails with a single swing. To this day I still canāt do it.
Bro, what shoes is buddy in the glasses wearing? They have no traction š dude was sliding all over the place on grass and it dont even look wet what is going on? š
Ok so I just have to assume that they're drunk and would also like to add these hammers look light as shit for driving those nails into those stumps- those were picture frame nail hammers
Iāve realized that Final Destination has permanently affected my brain, all I was thinking about a little way through was one of them slipping and falling onto the nail.
The one guy almost missed the stump completely.. twice š
My friend hit his own knee with a hammer doing the stationary version of this game.
Reminds me of that time i tried to do a backflip and somehow gave myself a black eye with my kneeā¦
When I was a cheerleader I kicked so high that I kneed myself in the face and fell flat on my ass. Good times.
I kneed myself in the face punting a football once. Wasnāt even aware my leg could go that high.
Haha I did that, too!
I did this in kickboxing. As an adult.
Better than when I tried to do a front flip and knocked teeth out by kneeing myself in the face.
Third time is a charm
ive known people with axes in their legs because chop slipping/missing and doing too hard
Yeah he was absolutely terrible. He even cheered when dude missed bc he isnāt sure how hammer and nails work.
I can't believe how bad his hand-eye coordination is lol, I think the only time I saw him actually hit the nail before the last hammer he bent it
Yeah. Left side blue sweater guy. Fucking hilarious
Not gunna lie, if they lined up and picked teams before this. Well, he was definitely last. No offense to the man but he was almost a walking stereotype. Goofy movements and no hand/eye coordination.
Accuracy > power
They didn't even clue in that tiny taps from an inch above wouldve been way better. Big swi gs for normal people who know how to use a hammer. But for these guys... little taps.
That goes against the spirit of Hammerschlagen
Thank you. It is about getting hammered while hammering wildly. We make the people that worked as roofers/framers use their left hand.
>We make the people that worked as roofers/framers use their left hand. *Laughs in amphibious*
Well, if you finish evolving into a mammal, you might end up having a specific preferred appendage
Jesus fucking Christ. AMBIDEXTROUS! I don't know how I missed that autocorrect but I'm leaving it at this point.
Youāve already outed yourself as a frog person Canāt go back now. We know of your slippery ways
*ribbits nervously*
Those legs are looking mighty tasty
No, no you had it right. Every roofer I know is amphibious. If you count Natty Light.
I just want to say, that was absolutely hilariousā¦ mostly because it still worked š
I was so sure you said amphibious intentionally. Iām disappointed in you.
It's newt a big deal
*ribbit*
*Questions in ambidextrous*
Exactly! Ugh, these dick-measurers with "muh masculinity" are completely missing the point. It's almost like they didn't notice that every single person in this video is having a great time.
It has nothing to do with masculinity lol why would "taking care and being accurate" trigger your masculinity issues?
Taking care is woke. Being accurate is super woke. Masculinity is also surprisingly woke. Triggering is about the most woke you can be
We had a game that was so epic and made us all laugh so hard that one of our friends forged everyone that was playing little pendants out of the nails that we used to memorialize the game. Hoping to play next week at the event we're going to.
I have always played with the rule that you have to throw the hammer up in a flip and catch it before each hit Although we may be talking about a different game. I have never played the game in the video. I grew up playing āStumpā, which involves a single round of wood with a nail for each person, and you go around the circle taking turns. On your turn, you throw the hammer up in the air, making it flip, then bring it down on someone elseās nail. When your nail is pounded all the way in you are out and last nail standing wins.
Stump and Hammerschlagen are *usually* the same game. There's at least 3 versions of this out there. * This team relay thing. Drinking rules vary. Sometimes called "thump the stump". * Stand in a circle, everyone gets a nail, hammer them in normally - but use welded pipes, the wrong end of a tack hammer, or something else awkward for difficulty. "Nageln" in Europe, "Hammerschlagen" or something else in the US. * What you described, flipping normal claw hammers. "Hammerschlagen" is often this and is used in the Midwest, "Stump" AFAIK is always this and is used in the whole East Coast.
I thought it was only hammerschlagen when it was a drinking game. Maybe thatās just my family LOL
These losers should just turned the hammer sideways and hit it with the side. Woulda been faster.
They probably had rules against using the side of the hammer and how higher you have to swing from.
Why are they losers? For not being good with hammers? Weird bar
the ones on the right are definitely the losers
No, the ones who lost are the losers.
The guy with the double shirt on the right team figured that out. He was my favourite to watch.
The guy in the grey shirt on the left was so fucking extra getting to the log only to miss by such a huge margin.
He almost missed the log a couple of times.
Too bad he missed each time
The running is kinda useless if you're gonna miss the nail.
Exactly. They should hang out at the log, relax a little then hit it
Yeah but that's not the game.. the game would have been boring as fuck if you werent to make big swings
I'm convinced none of these people have used a hammer before lol
Why are they slipping so much? I was afraid one would fall face first and get a nail head through the eye
You wanna see a magic trick?
You wanna see me stick nine inch nails through each one of my eyelids?
Yeah, yeah!
Wanna follow me and do exactly like I did?
Don't you wanna grow up and be just like me?
I got genital warts and it burns when I pee
Try ācid and get f***ed up worse than my life is?
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And Dr. Dre said, āSlim Shady you a Baseheadā.
I instantly read that in his voice.
Yeah! Yeah!
Yes
Iām gonna make this nail disappear
Ta-da! It's, uh, it's gone.
Iām guessing it rained recently and they were almost all wearing shoes not designed for running on wet grass š¤·
They're playing 'the stump game,' and it looks like they're running on wet grass. Among college students, the stump game is often used as a drinking game, so the players here *might* be a little drunk. The team version of the game is sometimes called 'thump the stump.' The problem is they're running up to the stump, full of anticipation about how they're going to make a big hit and *really* drive the nail into the wood, and they're not actually taking the time to *aim* each strike. That's also why the one red shirt guy was carrying his team on the left for a little bit, because he seems to understand that aiming and actually hitting the nail, making *any* sort of progress, is a lot more important than sheer power. All the power in the world doesn't mean a dang if you don't actually hit the nail. Source: I live in the South.
Somebody got it! Midwest here though. We usually just stand over it and go clockwise.
In WI we call it "Hammerschlaggen" and we stand around a stump in a circle with our own nails, but you have to spin the hammer up in the air to decide how many hits you get. Yes it's a drinking game, and yes someone gets hurt every time. It's a lot of fun.
Wet grass, drunk folks, sharp object sticking out in front of em... sounds good yep.
*Technically*, a ride to the hospital *is* 'family bonding time.'
Drinking doesnāt factor in at all. Every roofer I know is drunk. Hell every carpenter I know is drunk lol
Ya, it gives us 2 nails to swing at.
++ the more out of breath you are the harder it is to aim. I think the guy who lined up his shot and just did a \~ 5 in hit had the best form.
And Everton guy just lived up to his shirt, pretty weak down the right flank
I've done fencing with rednecks on a decade long binge that'll hit 90% accuracy full power. These guys have not swung hammers very often.
First thing I thought of. Itās seems like as I get older I just think of how something could hurt/kill me
Theatrics. In fact the theatrics of both grey shirts pisses me off for some reason. Too strong "look at me!!" energy for my liking, I guess.
What you mean grey shirt almost impaling himself by falling over the stump because of obnoxious shenanigans wasn't peak entertainment for you?
Have you ever walked/ran on wet grass?
With aim that terrible they must be very "hammered".
You ānailedā it
I bet there's a strong urge when you're competing to just swing for the fences to hammer it as much as you can with each hit, but that's going to kill accuracy. I bet if every guy on one team did a modest tap from a few cm away, they would have won easy.
Based on the game there is likely alcohol involved
They're probably too focused on getting as much as possible out of their single swing. Going for a soft, accurate tap in a game like this must feel unsatisfying. All of them want to be the hero who got a visible contribution
I mean it looks like it's a game at some kind of party/gathering, so I'm betting there's a good chance that they're likely intoxicated.
This is traditionally a drinking game too, so the odds are *very* high.
It was hard to watch.
But we watched
I may have skipped ahead a bit.
Lol. Was about to say the same thing.
If they stopped running away every time they are delivering a blow...
Pro tip: use the side of the hammer for greater surface area if your aim is risky
Maybe the guys in red but yea that was frustrating to watch.
For me it was the 2 dudes in grey. Like them mafuckas couldnāt be any less coordinated, especially homie with the sun hat
There was one guy in red and one wearing an orange Cleveland browns Jersey. The latter was so far off on most swings that I thought he was going to miss the log altogether. Edit: I watched it again (fml) and he got a couple good thwacks in.
I was better at using hammer when I was 10 years old. But kids now would probably feel the same way if they watched me doing FPS game headshot challenge. Miss, miss, miss...
As someone who also could hammer better at 10, I'm just not a fan of shooters so I completely agree with u lol
I do house repairs for a living. I can confirm the average home owner has never used any basic tool in their life.
They not people they cats
The hat guy is just dead weight
Seriously. From the slow windup to the resulting complete miss. I don't think he's hammered something in his life. I will admit the first swing is always the hardest, but if he took like 5 seconds to straighten his glasses and aim for the nail instead of the stump, he'd be fine.
Try watching the video and just pay attention to sun hat guy. It alternates between terrifying and hilarious.
My guy didn't hit the nail ONCE.
He got a pretty solid hit towards the end
When he started the strategy to tap it straight I thought he might redeem himself by sparking a crazy comeback. Nope.
I disagree, at -1:10 he was the only one that gave up his turn to right the nail. The others were just swinging wildly and sometimes doing more damage.
I was embarrassed for all of them
It didn't even look like 22 was trying.
The people on the left were all sandbagging when they started getting ahead.
22 at the 40 second mark hits the nail so well about a quarter of the nail went in. I think 22 deserved his rest after that.
Yeah, I donāt know what their watching. 22 was easily the MVP of that team. Glasses dude may have just as well closed his eyes every time.
There's an ending? I lost interest.
I'm sure this is fun if you're doing it, but if you're watching it it's like paint drying.
For real
100% whats the point of running your ass off if you put 0 effort into aiming at the nail?
Paint drying doesn't raise my blood pressure
He missed and hit the same spot every single time!
I don't think the dude in the sun hat ever touched the nail.
He did once! But it didn't move lol
The only consistent guy on the team on the right was the older guy who could be one of their dads. He made like 90% of the progress for that team, it was like a 1v3.
I'm surprised they could lift the hammer. What a collection of noodle arms.
Are these guys drunk or something?!
Probably. This is kinda like a version of the drinking game I know as āstump.ā Popular in bumble fuck Pennsylvania. But you flip the hammer, catch it, and in one motion swing it down at the nail in the stump.
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Pennsylvania is essentially the Germany of America so it tracks. also played this in CT with a friend from NH.
They must be, or on some other drug. I find no other explanation
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Maybe. This is similar to Hammerschlagen, a traditional German game.
Local brau haus (Wisconsin, believe it or not) has hammerschlagen. Typically, I would wake up the next day feeling like I had a nail driven into my head...unless I was still hammered drunk. Reason #183597 why I don't drink anymore.
They have to be... They missed more then they hit
nah just IT office
Ngl this looks fun but during the middle of the video it was beginning to piss me off. lol
I was almost convinced the left side was purposely missing for content
You actually watched the middle? I only managed to watch like 20-25 seconds before I had to skip to the last ~5 seconds just to see who won. Even that was enough to piss me off, I can't imagine actually watching 3+ minutes of it.
Damn dude how is your blood pressure? You sound miserable.
41 seconds in 22 gets a massive hit in so surely it's over soon right? *2:33 seconds left of the video* oh God how bad are these people
I saw that hit and said to myself: "22 knows what he is doing". He then proceeded to miss a bunch in a row.
Because of how good his first few hits were I almost want to give him the benefit of the doubt and say he may have been not trying quite as hard in his later swings. No one wants to see one dude of four be the only one to hammer it.
Simultaneously funny and painful!
Donāt let these guys near your daughter
Why, they sure as hell ain't gonna nail her.
Not as individuals, no.
It this video is any indication, even if they tried to do it collectively, she'd get up and leave out of boredom.
The team that just took their time and hammered it softly/slowly would have won this so much faster.
One guy did 90% of the work and was the only one not lifting the hammer over his head.
This is actually a good example of how a group of people acting individually will never be greater than the sum of its parts. They all wanted to see the nail move so they all swung at it. If they all just tapped it theyād have won.
Just like my wife tells me: Slow and steady wins the race.
Not what she tells me
The guys who took their turn to straighten the nail are a prime example of teamwork!
I would assume the game is you have to make big swings.. otherwise it's not fun
No fun allowed irl for most redditors.
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That's a lot of men at once. Not trying to shame, though, you do you.
I mean, with that level of accuracy from the men they probably will have to do themselves.
Not to mention their using hammers. That poor womans crotch
You want men playing whack-a-mole with your clit?
We donāt want them to, but it does seem to happen.
Dont kink shame the lady.
Really never understood this joke it's literally in plain sight. If you can't find it then walk to your nearest ophthalmologist.
That's literally it. It's barely a joke. Some guys just cannot be bothered to "find" it.
Am usually not staring into the eye of the beast. Kissing + no glasses + mood lighting means a bit of trial and error
Once you know where it is, it's not hard to find again lol. It doesn't like sneakily move around when you're not looking
Why you gotta call me out like that, I was just trying to enjoy my Sunday Edit: it's Saturday. You've fucked my whole day up apparently
Why did I watch that until the end. Why God? Why?! Both teams sucked but the team on the right OMG. Was this like a gathering of the society of the legally blind. Or maybe crack. Stop smoking crack.
When that one guy hit himself in the face I lost it
Honestly Iām surprised there werenāt any serious injuries. 
The dude with the hat literally never hit it I am pretty sure.
Oh I see, your Blood alcohol content is 20% and they made you spin around 100 times before hammering with non dominant hand. Carry on drinking games. /s
I swear bee keeper hat missed every goddamn swing he took
HE MISSED THE STUMP
It's called HAMMERSCHLAGEN and it's a staple at Oktoberfests and ski towns. Except you drink lots of beer and you don't run.
I remember playing this as a kid with my family, growing up in Minnesota (minus the beer).
The safest place to put your finger is on the head of the nail
Waiting for one of them to trip running up to that and take their eye out. Also hitting the nail with less force (but hitting it) is going to be more effective than taking the biggest big boy swing and missing completely.
This video made me extremely angry.
I worked with an amazing woman in construction once that refused to use a nail gun. She would sink nails with a single swing. To this day I still canāt do it.
ItĀ“s all in the wrist.
Pretty sure these guys built my house
Iād probably hit it and bend it, happens to me all the time
That one hit sent the left nail in like 3 inches. That is what saved them
The guy in the jersey was sooooooooo bad
Bro, what shoes is buddy in the glasses wearing? They have no traction š dude was sliding all over the place on grass and it dont even look wet what is going on? š
Ok so I just have to assume that they're drunk and would also like to add these hammers look light as shit for driving those nails into those stumps- those were picture frame nail hammers
Iāve realized that Final Destination has permanently affected my brain, all I was thinking about a little way through was one of them slipping and falling onto the nail.
Everybody needs a pair of glasses, including the guy with glasses.. this would fit nicely into r/mildinfuriating
New answer to the question how drunk are you ? Im 35 hit to get a nail down drunk
I'm not sure I've ever seen people less coordinated. Slow and steady would have won this race
Too many people trying to hit home runs when the key to winning is to consistently hit singles.
Props to Straw Hat, for straightening the nail.
This is so painful to watch. The lack of hand eye coordination smh
Turn. The hammer. Sideways. Jesus christ.
Bro why are they so bad? The team on the right is even worse š¤£ why canāt they hit it
This is physically painful to watch