Greg Mossop (a year or two ago) Lifelong surfer and former Manly (Sydney Northern Beaches) resident, Greg Mossop, is possibly the only surfer in the world who has dropped-in on two world champions on the one wave! He feely admits that many surfers can boast that they have dropped in on more than one world champion in their surfing lives, but it is the fact that he managed … [Read more...]
Swimmer smashes recent times…
After a week of recording pitifully slow freestyle times over 1500 m, swimmer and sports philosopher, Socrates, knew he had to change something. "I was swimming like a bloody soccer player, all week," lamented the ancient Greek athlete and thinker, "...so I had to come up with a solution!" Miraculously, Socrates shaved five minutes off his recent times while swimming at … [Read more...]
Small town Rugby League star gives birth to brilliant strategy!
The star of this story from late last year is a one-eyed Rabbitoh fan. Given that the bunnies have just pushed Manly aside and are surging towards a possible NRL grand-final show down I thought in might be a good idea to give this killer strategy another bit of promotion. Maybe the bunnies (or one of the other teams still standing in the competition) could find a way to use … [Read more...]
Golf – The best origin story?
For many years I thought that the funniest sporting origin story I had ever heard was the “Fractured Fairy Tales” version of the origin of golf. According to Edward Everett Horton, the Fractured Fairy Tales narrator, golf was invented by a very clever King who came up with the idea of belting a little ball into a hole. The sport he created was so difficult that he, initially, … [Read more...]
The ancient art of cheating at golf
For about the last eight years I have been a regular hacker on the golf course at Mullumbimby. In that time, my game has not improved one iota. And to be brutally honest, I would have to say the same of the blokes with whom I play. Big Fella, a left-hander (“there’s me and Phil Mickelson,” he’ll boast, before hooking his drive into the brown-snake infested rough), generally … [Read more...]