Everyone starts of in the pubs in a town called Brockworth... then walk to the hill... Cooper's Hill.

While walking you go past many farms - each puts out a huge drum of scrumpy - which all participants swig, before moving to the next farm/scrumpy outlet... So by the time you get to the hill... you can hardly see... and you're confident the brain's pain signals are no more... In groups of 6 to 10 - you basically jump off the side of this thing... chasing the biggest fookin cheese in the world! First to the bottom wins the cheese... and the attention of the fit St. John's Ambulance nurse If there are any!!!

If you fancy a history lesson - I can tell you it started many centuries ago - when lords would cage a young virgin... and throw the cage plus bird down the hill... the lords would run down... and yes.. first to the bottom won whatever nasty mess was left of the girl!!! Hmmm.... Yum!

I've lived thru 3 rolls... and a reverse too... but running up the thing is too much - better to jump after a little word in God's ear and stay as relaxed as possible as you bounce down... hahahaha... fun... right??? hahaha...

Two people were taken to hospital and 13 more treated by paramedics after injuring themselves at a cheese rolling contest.

Competitors in the ancient event came to grief as they chased an 8lb Double Gloucester down a hill with a daunting one-in-three gradient.

The bizarre sport goes back centuries and is believed to have originated as a fertility rite.

Despite the injury toll, organiser Richard Jeffries insisted the day had been "a great success".

He said: "There are always casualties and this is probably the most dangerous thing ordinary members of the public can take part in nowadays."

...But Monday's event took an unfortunate turn, leaving at least 18 people injured.

Runners are supposed to chase the cheeses to the bottom of the very steep hill, with the first one over the finish line allowed to keep the cheese as a prize.But many participants didn't make it to the foot of the hill on foot -- they tumbled to the bottom instead.

Some 4,000 spectators turned out to watch, but they didn't escape the mayhem, either. One man who tried to dodge a bouncing cheese lost his balance and tumbled 100 feet down the hillside. He was being hospitalized with a head injury.