By: Bev

Bev — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:08:53 +0000

just showed my kids how to do a chestnut fight and the y loved it!

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 04:07:26 +0000

Kitchener, Ontario – Chestnut fights reached almost fanatical proportions back in the late 70s. I never left home without a nail for drilling the holes and a shoelace. When the chestnut was dried out as hard as a rock we referred to it as a horse chestnut. Whenever a chestnut was defeated in battle you rub the victors chestnut with a piece of the losers and the winner effectively became 1 additional year old. I remember some guys bragging how their chestnuts were 50+ years old. A brand new chestnut that was not dried was sometimes referred to as a rubber dingy. They usually didn’t last long in battle. I do remember one occasion when my horse chestnut was destroyed in one shot by a massive rubber dingy but that was rare. We also had something called “chestnut scrambles”. Some dudes would bring fresh chestnuts to school and at recess yell out “chestnut scramble”. They would then toss the chestnut into the crowd and the kids literally killed each other to grab it. I remember many kids crying due to injury after a scramble. That was a long time ago. I doubt kids continued the tradition. Chestnut fights would not appeal to our current generation nothingness.

By: Albert Dell'Apa

Albert Dell'Apa — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:50:38 +0000

I shared the same passion for chestnut fights growing up in rural Ontario, Canada, so much so that the title of my recently released novel is “How to a Chestnut Fight”.

In case you’re interested, it is available at amazon.ca as well as http://www.chapters.indigo.ca

All the best,

Albert Dell’Apa

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