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Whats the ball like?
I used to play in goals for Lochaber ( a [i]number [/i]of years ago). Never took a full-on strike to the head but a shinty ball travelling full pelt and striking just above the knee is a very painful thing.
That's got to have hurt.
Whats the ball like?
Tennis-ball size but made (traditionally) of a tightly wound cork core with a leather cover. Small, fast, hard.
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Ouch. I'm getting sympathy stars!
Do shinty players call it a sliotar as well?
Ouchy ouch. That keeper also has false front teeth from an OTB into a cattle grid as a child - even ouchier. Think he may have knocked the front wheel of his BMX out of true at the same time....
I hear it crushed the whole right lobe of his brain. Course, he couldn't have been too smart in the first place to do a fool thing like that 
Do shinty players call it a sliotar as well?
Never heard of that - it gets called camanachd - eg teams like Oban Camanachd, and the game is run by the Camanachd Association. The [s]weapons[/s] sticks are called camans
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I meant the ball LycraLout 🙂
(Irish) Gaelic for Hurling is a similar word: Camánaíocht (kamawnee-ukt) and the hurleys are Camán also. The ball (which looks like identical to the shinty ball) is called a Sliotar (slitter...ish).
EDIT: it may also be Iomáinaíocht...can't quite remember.
I used to play in goals for Lochaber
Would you have known Alistair Cameron - would be 32 or 33 now?
I'll show this to my 4yr old - he starts shinty soon!
Ouch, I got to drink whisky out of the camanachd cup one time when up in fort william the other year after a run up the WHW finished with a piss up in fort william! It'd have been rude not to accept sure! Closest I've ever been to Shinty mind, very much a chookturs game!
Nails!!!
I have damaged eyesight (almost blinded in left eye) and three titanium plates in my face. And that was in the civilised version of shinty - hockey.
Mentallist game.
Would you have known Alistair Cameron - would be 32 or 33 now?
I'm 10 ears older... 😥
The name is familiar though - nicknamed "Asty" by any chance?
^ Can't remember now. Got to be 20 odd years since I saw him.
He had a couple of brothers and sisters - Mari, Derri and somebody else.
I lived in Corpach from 1980-1990, Dad worked at Alcan, brother and sister both went to Lochaber High. Brother is 40 now so probably a couple of years younger than you.
Harvey Williams would have been your age though and his brother Jason.
Ah!
Mairi Cameron was in the same year as me - not sure if it's the same one though.
I do remember a Jason William[i]son[/i]...
Williamson sounds right.
The small world of the internet.
John Aitchison was my brother, but I am sure Mairi was a couple of years older than her.
If you Facebook, there is a Lochaber High page and a Banavie Primary school page.
If you Facebook, there is a Lochaber High page and a Banavie Primary school page.
Kilmonivaig Primary School for me and I've spent most of my adult life trying to distance myself from my LHS days 😉
^ Can't blame you - there were photos kicking about somewhere of the school around the late 80-mid 90s where it was falling into disrepair.
Stories of water running down class room walls when it rained (when didn't it rain).
I believe it's a bit better now....