Past Articles

A Boxing Education

By: Kevin Smith • 3 years ago • A Boxing Education Does an athlete learn to box or does a person that’s naturally proficient in a combat situation simply become an elite athlete, through a structured exercise programme, in a combat...

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Editors Letter – Culture Edition

By: Stewart Fleming • 4 years ago • In 1994 Carl Sagan pointed out, The Earth is the only home we are ever likely to know… On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human...

An International Career

By: Alan Gaffney • 4 years ago • I PLAYED JUNIOR LEAGUE RUGBY AS A YOUNG KID AND THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL. OUR COACH IN THE FINAL YEAR, JEFF BALL, REALLY INSPIRED AND INFLUENCED US. TEN OF US FROM THAT ORIGINAL SCHOOL...

Brad Vigon

By: Brad Vignon • 4 years ago • I grew up in Los Angeles and started playing on old-fashioned roller-skates with the neighbourhood kids at 5 years old. It was not a popular sport, very atypical for the area, like it...

Coaching Beyond Language

By: CONRAD SINGH • 4 years ago • As a South African-born, Australian-educated and raised young man, I have experienced a great deal of cultures in my time. Immediately after completing university, I packed my Pro Bag and left home to...

Footys4All

By: Footys4All • 4 years ago • African world leader, Nelson Mandela, spoke these words at the Laureus Sports Awards in the year 2000: “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the...

Cultural KO

By: Kevin Smith • 4 years ago • As a teenager growing up in Liverpool in the seventies, there were only two options, either football or boxing. My brothers and I were actually quite accomplished footballers, so that was our main...

Racing into the future

By: Paul Caslick • 4 years ago • The motorcycle racing journey started for me in 1975, but my passion for coaching began in 1979 when attending a motorcycle camp. I was 12 years old and my coach was Stephen Gall....

Peter de Roo

By: Peter de Roo • 4 years ago • I started playing as a young kid at 6 in Holland. I signed my first professional contract when I was 18/19 and I played the majority of my career with a club...

From Belarus to Brisbane

By: Sergei Chinkar • 4 years ago • As a Belarusian myself, I spent many years studying and coaching gymnastics in Belarus and for the Soviet Union (USSR). Many now-legendary names passed through our doors and into the history books, triumphing...