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Monoethnic Social Club said:
We should hit the golf course one day LFC, sounds like you're at my level :P

For me, played footbal/futsal and 5 a side until mid 30s when I did both knees in the space of 6 months. Played volleyball at state comp level as a teen and also athletics.

Now its golf with the boys whenever we can get a chance (its getting rarer to find the time these days sadly) and social tennis once a month or so.

I enjoy watching basketball (especially Euroleague - the NBA has started shitting me to be honest) and oddly NFL which, after many years of not knowing what the hell was going on, paid a bit of attention to becuase of a work mates passion and now enjoy the game a bit...
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I cannot watch basketball for the life of me - but Jesus Christ I wanna go to a big EuroLeague game
 
JS96 RTS (return to sender) < this is toooo long to type each mate :) RTS or rts from here from here on when I speak with you.

Interesting guys - JS having travelled to the US more than 30+ times I have attended near on every major sport.
NFL, yep purely run by the sponsers for ad breaks, takes tooooo long stuff that.
Tooo many breaks front attack to defense, they are a bunch of pussys sorry compared to NRL/ARU.
At least those games flow for 40mins back and forth.
Typical commercial USA sport, woeful.
Ice Hockey is the smash to watch "live" fast as very interesting.
Your right NRL is all polynesian nowadays, as has ARU followed that path in the hope of matching the All Blacks.
I used to enjoy NRL back in the ol days, pre Super League, rules changing, pathetic no contest scrums, its become to "clinical" the biff is what made it.
Sure its faster now but not the same.
ARU gone awol, Super League ruined that as well.
It will never recover I reckon.
So originally a "coastie" - I can relate and recall all you felt about the vibe back then, it was still is to me, football meat pies kangaroos and holden cars type of place, hence NRL massive influence and being the tuff guy.
At least thats changed, NRL is MIA and CCM is slowly filling the void.
RTS, interesting upbringing and summary re gayfl, so so glad we weren't ingrained with it in Sydney in my day, wouldn't have even known much of it back then.
Good to see you saw the light pisano !
 
Monoethnic Social Club said:
We should hit the golf course one day LFC, sounds like you're at my level :P

For me, played footbal/futsal and 5 a side until mid 30s when I did both knees in the space of 6 months. Played volleyball at state comp level as a teen and also athletics.

Now its golf with the boys whenever we can get a chance (its getting rarer to find the time these days sadly) and social tennis once a month or so.

I enjoy watching basketball (especially Euroleague - the NBA has started shitting me to be honest) and oddly NFL which, after many years of not knowing what the hell was going on, paid a bit of attention to becuase of a work mates passion and now enjoy the game a bit...
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christ we're going to need a few days, watch APIA smack SMH @ Lakeside or SU58 doing the same as well, followed by a game of golf following day, can you take being on the losing side twice hahahaha
Both knees ?! that sucks you've obviously recovered to at least hit that little white pill and go, shit fuck that was a crap shot haha.

Never been into BB, I do admire the athleticism though - watching olympics etc but I can't stand the yanky commercialism of it all.
There I go again, not much I like about merican sport LOL......its just so show pony type of look about it all.
 
Monoethnic Social Club said:
Ive been to a couple in Greece at OAKA.... its wild. flares and smoking in indoor basketball arenas with 20 odd thousand fans .... just wild.
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I've seen videos of the Gate 13 Pana guys going to basketball games singing that "horto magicko" song.

I've always football clubs in Australia could explore alternate revenue streams by getting into other sports like they do in Europe.
 
LFC said:
RTS, I've been a water lover all my life, lived on the coast etcetc, swimming long distances is massive effort - hard frigging work, kudos 1k a day !
I'll stick to paddling surfboards - a 3hr surf is excercise enough.
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Missed this earlier post, rude of me not to reply.

So the funny thing is, I've hated water almost my whole life. How I got to swimming is pretty epic. The TLDR of it is that I used to only play football when I was younger. Then when I moved from Adelaide to Canberra, I took up bike riding with a brief pause after getting tonked by a car. I got into running on medical advice - usual thing just to feel better, do more exercise. I was having a rough stretch and I hated my job and life there, so the way the running went was that I felt good after a run, so I'd go for a longer run and so on and so on until I was literally running marathons. Anyone who does long distance running can vouch for this. It's a mental game you play. My head was ticking like this km after km: "1,000m. In gear, feel good. Breathing is keeping up. Lactic good, 39 more of these. my boss is a fat maltese cunt. 2,000m. Still in gear. breathing is keeping up. lactic good. 38 more. fuckin maltese cunt." until I hit 40ks

Then life happened and for reasons everything changed up for me and I felt I needed a break from it all so I thought fuck it and moved to the other side of the world with absolutely no plan (10 years later can say it: best thing I ever did). I decided not to play football because I didn't want to chase my old life anywhere else. And I didn't do running because the air was utter shit. I could feel the diesel in my throat just going for a walk. For a brief period I played touch rugby, purely because I wanted to root a girl. Then I developed basically a pack a day habit (contradiction with the air comment but fuck me a pack of marlbros was cleaner than prague air) and hit the drink pretty hard and on some random chance encounter with a swimming pool I decided to jump in it and I felt good and the air was clean and then it became my new thing.

Always had an addictive personality. If I don't have a sport filling it, I ended up smashing drink and darts instead. 1 year in the clear of darts on Oct 29!
 
return_to_sender said:
Missed this earlier post, rude of me not to reply.

So the funny thing is, I've hated water almost my whole life. How I got to swimming is pretty epic. The TLDR of it is that I used to only play football when I was younger. Then when I moved from Adelaide to Canberra, I took up bike riding with a brief pause after getting tonked by a car. I got into running on medical advice - usual thing just to feel better, do more exercise. I was having a rough stretch and I hated my job and life there, so the way the running went was that I felt good after a run, so I'd go for a longer run and so on and so on until I was literally running marathons. Anyone who does long distance running can vouch for this. It's a mental game you play. My head was ticking like this km after km: "1,000m. In gear, feel good. Breathing is keeping up. Lactic good, 39 more of these. my boss is a fat maltese cunt. 2,000m. Still in gear. breathing is keeping up. lactic good. 38 more. fuckin maltese cunt." until I hit 40ks

Then life happened and for reasons everything changed up for me and I felt I needed a break from it all so I thought fuck it and moved to the other side of the world with absolutely no plan (10 years later can say it: best thing I ever did). I decided not to play football because I didn't want to chase my old life anywhere else. And I didn't do running because the air was utter shit. I could feel the diesel in my throat just going for a walk. For a brief period I played touch rugby, purely because I wanted to root a girl. Then I developed basically a pack a day habit (contradiction with the air comment but fuck me a pack of marlbros was cleaner than prague air) and hit the drink pretty hard and on some random chance encounter with a swimming pool I decided to jump in it and I felt good and the air was clean and then it became my new thing.

Always had an addictive personality. If I don't have a sport filling it, I ended up smashing drink and darts instead. 1 year in the clear of darts on Oct 29!
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Champion, well done on kicking the darts and "getting healthy" Im still laughing my arse off at you playing rugby just cos you wanted to root a girl...... farkin'ell we are all just the same at the end of the day. lol
 
erogenouszone said:
I've seen videos of the Gate 13 Pana guys going to basketball games singing that "horto magicko" song.

I've always football clubs in Australia could explore alternate revenue streams by getting into other sports like they do in Europe.
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Because its indoors the noise is triple the volume... its a real intimidating atmosphere..... greouse fun though :P
 
return_to_sender said:
Missed this earlier post, rude of me not to reply.

So the funny thing is, I've hated water almost my whole life. How I got to swimming is pretty epic. The TLDR of it is that I used to only play football when I was younger. Then when I moved from Adelaide to Canberra, I took up bike riding with a brief pause after getting tonked by a car. I got into running on medical advice - usual thing just to feel better, do more exercise. I was having a rough stretch and I hated my job and life there, so the way the running went was that I felt good after a run, so I'd go for a longer run and so on and so on until I was literally running marathons. Anyone who does long distance running can vouch for this. It's a mental game you play. My head was ticking like this km after km: "1,000m. In gear, feel good. Breathing is keeping up. Lactic good, 39 more of these. my boss is a fat maltese cunt. 2,000m. Still in gear. breathing is keeping up. lactic good. 38 more. fuckin maltese cunt." until I hit 40ks

Then life happened and for reasons everything changed up for me and I felt I needed a break from it all so I thought fuck it and moved to the other side of the world with absolutely no plan (10 years later can say it: best thing I ever did). I decided not to play football because I didn't want to chase my old life anywhere else. And I didn't do running because the air was utter shit. I could feel the diesel in my throat just going for a walk. For a brief period I played touch rugby, purely because I wanted to root a girl. Then I developed basically a pack a day habit (contradiction with the air comment but fuck me a pack of marlbros was cleaner than prague air) and hit the drink pretty hard and on some random chance encounter with a swimming pool I decided to jump in it and I felt good and the air was clean and then it became my new thing.

Always had an addictive personality. If I don't have a sport filling it, I ended up smashing drink and darts instead. 1 year in the clear of darts on Oct 29!
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no need to apologise mate, not easy keeping up with posts etc, well for this ol bloke it is.
I appreciate and enjoy reading your honest approach about anything, its enlightenning to see for as MSC said above if we saw each other over a beer/game we'd all be pretty similar.
Christ never thought Prague air is that bad !
haha maltese c - keep going I'm on track, too true its all mental.
Rugby to get a root, hope you did and not in vain !
Mate stick to no darts - congrats 1yr coming up tomorrow !
I hit them for around 40yrs or abouts, stopped 2yrs back.
 
I was meant to have a muay thai fight in February....so not sure how my trip to South America over December/January is going to help with preparations :(
 
eating and drinking makes you stronger haha
 
Good thread, LFC.

Spectator sports. Besides football - cricket tragic too.

Love a lot of Olympic sports as well - track and field ( sprinting, pole vault, decathlon, throwing events), weightlifting, windsurfing, swimming, diving, skateboarding, surfing). Hockey, basketball, netball, 7 a side union, Wallabies ( union) and Kangaroos (league).

Use to to love tennis in the serve and volley era. Prefer doubles now, where there are more volleys.

Participant sports - my body isn't up to playing football, surfing, tennis, windsurfing, sprinting, any more.

I'm worried the roads are too dangerous for cycling, so don't do it anymore, apart from in a gym.

Can still do martial arts Kickboxing training (shadow sparring, heavy bag work) and circuit weight training. With aid from Ex Physios and Physios, have sorted my back out a bit to be able to do martial arts training again. Swim in the sea in late spring, summer, autumn.
 
LFC said:
Surfed Hawaii and Bali, epic times, sensational sport and great for fitness - upper body strength I found was great for my footballing incl big lungs !
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Which Hawaiian breaks?

How big?

Ever surfed Nazare?
 
Ah sorry haven't checked in here for a little while.
Hawaii surfed Sunset Pipeline the 2 main ones obviously if you know of them.
Diamond Head, Waikiki purely because the wife wanted to be with the mass's.
The good spots 6'-8' scared the crap out of me but got the hang of it.
Nazare is near my wife's home being Portugese, nah mate thats madness big balls stuff, epic to see, on the bucket list to visit when its working, would be fascinating viewing.
Did Bali alot, Ulu/Padang/Chunggu/Lembogan but the coup de grace is/was Grajagan ! < this was 10' some days and utterly epic !
Too old for this ballsy stuff nowadays, fear factor took over haha
Still have a paddle during the summer up the coast on a mini mal.
 
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