Showing posts with label touch rugby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label touch rugby. Show all posts

Thursday, 22 August 2013

Men (and Ladies) in Pink

As some of you already know I joined a really awesome social touch rugby group when Chris and I moved here.
A short while ago this awesome group planned something that was awesomely awesome: Midnight Madness.
MM as it's become abbreviated was a tourney style rugby game where we picked teams of 6, picked a team color, and stuck with it all night as we went head to head with every team until one was named champion.
Our team color? Team Pink.
Our team uniform? Tutu's.


Everyone that came was such a great sport.
Though team pink was the only one that showed up in fancy dress... with a fancy eski... and fancy pink cups to drink refreshing beverages out of... hey, I'm not complaining!
We played, laughed, pranced, ran, chatted and drank until the winning line-up was called.
We took second place (the tutu's gained us an extra 3 points... sneaky).
I have met some truly wonderful, unique, amazing people through this.



Thank you everyone for a great night, and for being great friends!!!

Sunday, 28 April 2013

Touch

One of the best things I've done since coming to Singapore is start playing touch rugby. It's different to normal rugby same way as American football is different from touch football, therefore a lot more people can enjoy it.
It's amazing exercise running around for 2-3 hours in heat and humidity, starting and stopping, run forward, run back, down, up, jump, down, throw.
The biggest difference is you're not allowed to tackle the person with the ball, you simply touch them and they put the ball down. Another is instead of scrums to restart the play you just play the ball either by rolling it in between your legs, or if it's a penalty or successful try by touching it to your foot and going.
The views are incredible too! Most of the times we play on the river at the heart of the financial district. Other times we play on a man-made beach.
The best thing about playing though is the team; I only started a few weeks ago and they welcomed me (and any other new player) with open arms and taught me to play. Thanks team for being so great!
I'm already looking forward to the next game!






What new things have you learned to do recently?