Why should anyone want to learn to body surf? I mean really body surf. I mean its not a real sport like surfing is it? Isn't body surfing just playing around in the surf because you can't ride a board? True body surfing masters go into fits over such heresy! Such ignorance! Of course body surfing is a real sport. And it's a real form of surfing. The experts might even say its … [Read more...]
Match the famous with their sporting secrets – sports-quizz answers revealed!
Who said that they would give up their career to be awarded just one cap playing rugby for their country? Richard Harris, of course. While many might think that “Dumbledore” would have been more interested in Quiddich, it seems that the Irish master of both stage and screen’s first love was for rugby and he would have given his last dollar to have played for the shamrock … [Read more...]
Learning to Surf: A woman’s guide to surfing with confidence – by Jaymie Faber
Michelle Connellan (Dip. Sports Management - Surf) and Socrates review Jaymie Faber's "how to surf" book specifically pitched at the needs of women. We also offer a tiny excerpt from the book to whet your appetite. Michelle Connellan The guide is a power to women looking at joining the surf scene. Whilst a lesson or two is still necessary alongside this book, it does cover … [Read more...]
Yoga for sport… and spirit!
This great sporting nation, Australia, once had a pub on every corner. These days there’s a Yoga Shala around every corner and it’s serving up a new spirit. Yoga explores every aspect of living. Mental gymnastics. Physical gymnastics. Spiritual mountaintops and great oceans of understanding. You can achieve total tone and fitness, reach a point of calm and exhilaration, tie … [Read more...]
New career at 80? How about modelling!
One Chinese guy has just started a new career at 80. Australian politicians and economists tell us that we all need to rethink our attitudes to work and career. The consensus is that we will all have to work much later in life and that, over time, we will have to be willing to change careers as the economy around us changes. The days of sixty-year-old retirement are over! … [Read more...]