Belinda Wilson spent her early sporting years kicking footballs and knocking around in Byron Bay’s pristine surfing spots. After a junior representative career with Football Far North Coast she was lured to Europe to extend her knowledge and skill as both coach and player. After a number of years teaching elite junior players in Norway she returned to Australia and her home … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2016
Tackling sheep? Surely someone would have more sense!
Late last week the ABC 7.30 program jumped all over a story about rugby teams from one of Sydney’s prominent private schools “tackling sheep” as part of a training drill at a pre-season training camp held on a country property in NSW. School rugby officials had videoed the training session and posted it on Facebook. Officials from both the RSPCA and the NSW Farmers Federation … [Read more...]
What is a snake?
Yeah… yeah… yeah! I know. A snake is a critter that bites people and makes ‘em sick or dead! A snake is a critter that condemned us all to “original sin” courtesy of its conning Adam and Eve into taking a nibble of an apple back in the Garden of Eden. A snake transported the despondent Cleopatra to the afterlife when the said Egyptian ruler held the animal to her breast. A … [Read more...]
Not Everyone is Worth Listening to 2.
Before giving a run-down of some of the stories we have for you in this issue of Sportsocratic I want to mention a couple of things I have been thinking about… things that very rarely get mentioned in the pages of sports magazines and web sites. Perhaps these are things that might be worth exploring in upcoming issues. Last week I heard a bloke on ABC Radio National talk … [Read more...]
A very strange summer (1966–1967) – when surfers became sporting gods but social pariahs!
In a strange quirk of history while one of Sydney Northern Beach's greatest ever surfers was winning the world title in the USA, public authorities back in Australia were banning his wonderful sport! On a windy Sunday morning a few dozen surfers were enjoying some fun, little waves at the protected southern end of Palm Beach. Around mid-morning the patrol captain of the … [Read more...]