Thoughts, ideas, opinions and postulations on sport and adventuring
Once in a blue moon the surf on Sydney’s northern beaches gets so big that it is virtually impossible to go surfing. Just about the last rideable spot on a huge day is the point break near Manly known as Fairy Bower. If the swell gets up and over eighteen or twenty feet, as a general rule, “The Bower” is the only place with deep enough water to hold up the waves and with a deep … [Read more...]
The most horrific wipe-outs with the most awful of consequences can happen at the most insignificant moments. How often have you tried a shore break re-entry in small surf where you probably should not have? Most of us have a regretful memory of a shore break close out that has left us sore and sorry. Tom Carroll, from Newport Beach, Australia (one of the … [Read more...]
“Freddy Jones” has two very different meanings in sports parlance. To most sports lovers Freddy Jones was simply the name of one of the Manly-Warringah professional Rugby League team’s toughest ever front row forwards. To members of one 1980s amateur rugby union Sydney sub-district football team “Freddy Jones” had a very different meaning. “Freddy Jones” was actually the name … [Read more...]
A switched-on official from the local soccer club was lamenting the amount of time one of his better young female players was spending playing basketball. Unfortunately for the soccer club, an up-coming soccer grand-final was scheduled to be played on the same day as a State Championship basketball grand final… and the young player could not be at two places at once. The … [Read more...]
A couple of years ago my son's basketball team were a bunch of beginners. If you have not seen what happens to a beginner basketball team when they enter a competition against other more experienced teams I can tell you that it is not pretty. These poor kids got smashed. Week in... week out... they got smashed. Oppositions showed no mercy. I didn't mind the kids getting … [Read more...]
