The ancient Mayan sport making a comeback – BBC REEL

" los españoles nos veian..." No mamita usted no estaba ahi

i think this would be great i see possibilities

Reviving a spirit of human sacrifice too?

LOS AMO MUCHO❤❤❤❤❤ SIGAMOS!!! Y ABAJO LA CORONA ESPANOLA Y LA IGLESIA CATOLICA

I know they had this game even as far up as Arizona, there's ball pits there where they used to play.
It's cool to see it actually being played by people still somewhere.

i always wonder what would happen of civilizations that were ended by Spanish influence .

"Juego de Pelota" just means "ballgame" so isn't specific enough. Hence the actual player says "Mesoamerican ballgame" - it's not Spanish handball or some other ballgame, it's theirs. Ulama and Polulpok/PoktaPok are the actual Maya names for the hip variant seen here.

Meda mucho gusto q SE sientan orgullosos de ser Maya's puros y mantengan SUS tradiciones vivas donde puedo ir a verlos gugar

BEAUTIFUL!

Spanish invasor

"Making a comeback"...

LOL. Clickbait, downvote, and move on unless you're interested in a rare sport that is most definitely NOT making a comeback.

La Mujer tan hermosa! Que increible la Cultura de MEXICO! ESTO ES DE LO MAS HERMOSO! Me gustaria mucho saber quien es la joven? De donde son y donde viven y lengua. Que Dios los cuide siempre y que sus hijos sigan hablando su idioma y viviendo la cultura. Quieranse y cuidense mucho!

The masters of Time , the mayans

Ek Balam! Black Panther

Yeah don't know about it becoming the worlds most popular sport dude but I guess it's a cool game. Sheesh human ego's.

They do it for tourism.

this is so cool

Stellar

Heard about this game for decades and been wanting to see it played.

The Spanish at that time period seemed obsessed with demons and were intolerant of other cultures.

I'm jewish and part Inca

The legend says that everybody knew it would be more fun if they play with their foot, but everybody wanted to keep their head so no one said anything for thousand of years and pretend to enjoy buttball.

I would have liked to see the game played without cuts. The way the game is presented in the video, continuity is lost.

It's so cool to see them re-connecting with their roots! We should all do the same!

I hope they take this game to the Olympic Games... there needs to be more ancient traditional games from other nations or even from lost nations, and with this it will help spread awareness and or even the language and culture of these nations

❤

Preserve all cultures.

Great video!!

Ya'et'eh im 1 100% native american apache aztec of arizona love this game

There are haters below my comment these are definitely 1 💯% native american mayans of mexico they look it and in glad we are reviving our ancestors games languages we Still HERE AND THERE IS 0%BLACK 0%AFRICANS IN MAYANS TODAY THEY ARE THE MAJORITY IN SOUTHERN MEXICO STATES TODAY IGNORANT TROLLS HAVE NO RESPECT THE SPANISH ACTUALLY DONT EVEN EXIST THEY BREED OUT THEIR IDENTITY A LONG TIME AGO 😂 this is facts that most cant handle

I love seeing traditions being kept alive. preserve, show, and teach. This is what you are. This is who you are. Give thanks to our ancestors. Mya, what I personally think is one of the most fascinating, beautiful cultures.

I think the Spainards thought it was demonic because of the Pagan practices..

More of the last guy please. He was the most interesting of the bunch!

Finally a sport where you can be out of shape and still be cool

Lady in thumbnail got a killer stash.

I'd like everyone to take a Minute and appreciate how LONG S.America has been Soccer Fanatics.... I wonder why?

Lol, these are not descendants of The Maya; actors,smh

So where did they find the rule book? Let's face it they think they know the game rules while making them up as they go. So, that said it is not the game that was played because nobody knows the true rules.

Looks like the ancient version of Soccer which is the most popular sport on the planet. But I am American so I only watch American Football 😅. I know there is NBA too but unless NBA brings back the physical play of the 90s and earlier, I just don’t feel like watching 😒.

Wow, foursquare was so much different when I was a kid.

Less talking and makeup.

As long as no one is sacrificing the loosing team I am fine with this!

If their gods were strong they wouldn’t have been conquered 😂

su woo

That dude at the end's words hit hard. Nobody should be ashamed of who they are and where they come from.

Back with the Aztecs the captain of the losing team got sacrificed, still a cool sport though

Bro asked earth if he could go outside and play 💀

how cool! i would love to get a rule break down from someone…
cricket too, if you think you can americanize it enough for me to understand. i get the gist, but reading the rules helped me none.
watching a random match at 7-8 in the morning, on a saturday, not understanding what anyone is talking about, or what is going on, or sometimes, where anyone is even from; it is kind of surreal, but i’m always pretty entertained. 😅
seems like it would be a fun game to play.

I'm glad they left out the gruesome aspects of the game 😂
But boy am I so proud of them!