It looks like they’re actually tier 1 (they seem to be standing on a white platform), but what, if any, weight is each layer above them? I can see narrow platforms, but are they all taking most of the weight?
I’m not sure whether this was meant as an athletic or purely aesthetic display – since they’re billed as ‘acrobats’, I assumed skill was involved, so what would be the best and worst case scenario those 8-10 in the narrowest tier would be supporting?
e: was there any kind of structural support in this? I’m not finding much about it.
Here’s a Snopes article about this event at the 1980s Olympics in Moscow.
Yep these are insane, and really dangerous.
They are not so dangerous, in more than 200 years there are only 5 deaths documented as of 2016 1 (I can’t find a more recent source), and as of 2023 there were 79 potentially severe lesions for 5337 castells 2.
Oh wow that’s indeed way less than I would’ve thought. They sure look pretty hectic.
people really just say shit with confidence like it’s a fact and don’t even google it first