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WATCH: Americans try hurling and, spoiler alert, they’re no Henry Shefflins

Published 12:36 5 Aug 2015 BST

Updated 13:56 5 Aug 2015 BST

Darragh Murphy
WATCH: Americans try hurling and, spoiler alert, they’re no Henry Shefflins

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We know what you need to cure your midweek blues... A bunch of excitable American YouTubers trying their incapable hands at hurling.

Irishman abroad David Wogan, who runs YouTube channel Play Hurling, wrangled together a group of fellow YouTubers at this year's VidCon and asked them to complete a series of pretty basic skill challenges and found that the knack for hurling could very well be genetic. Maybe they're just Gaelic footballers at heart because all five were pretty miserable at hitting the sliotar both from hand and from the ground while the roll lift was a calamitous catastrophe or a catastrophic calamity, whichever you prefer. "I felt like I was playing Quidditch," is what one competitor thought of her first experience of the fastest game on grass while another came to the conclusion that hurling "was like Irish baseball." We personally can't wait for the first Sunday in September when we get to see the Irish baseball final in Croker. https://youtu.be/qpchJ11UmkU H/t to PlayHurling

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WATCH: Americans try hurling and, spoiler alert, they're no Henry Shefflins