Sports

The Future of Doping in Sport

Monday, February 25, 2013 // 1 Comment

blood doping, inexpensive and still commonly used For the longest time, I thought that it was a losing battle. The dopers would always outfox the anti-dopers. It was simply a [more...]

Lance

Monday, January 28, 2013 // 7 Comments

It’s not about the bike, it’s not even about the drugs I have written a bit on doping in sport in the past, but in light of the recent interview with Lance [more...]

Getting Into… Archery

Monday, August 13, 2012 // 0 Comments

It’s been a while since I last posted, and in that while I’ve travelled a bit. One of the places I passed through in my travels was London, and I was fortunate [more...]

Basic Training Principles

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 // 2 Comments

A pillow fight is good stress relief Sport is a funny thing. It is almost universally recognized that if you want to be good at a sport, then you have to train for it. [more...]

Yeowie’s Technique Lab

Friday, November 25, 2011 // 1 Comment

I once read somewhere that if you took a race-ready rally car, and its street-legal equivalent (say a regular Subaru WRX), swapped the tyres, then drove both of them on a [more...]

Return to Enschede

Friday, October 14, 2011 // 1 Comment

Recently I have undertaken a new “job” as one of the coaches for the Danish junior ice speed skating team. Those outside of the world of speed skating will [more...]

An Inliner’s Guide to Getting Into Ice Part 1: Gear

Sunday, August 28, 2011 // 7 Comments

There are many reasons why an inline speed skater would want to have a go at ice skating. Whatever your reason, in this article I hope to provide some useful tips into making the transition into what may at first seem like a very alien new environment. [more...]

A Word on Supplements

Monday, April 4, 2011 // 6 Comments

Anyone who has ever been involved at a fairly serious level in the world of sport will have come across nutritional supplements of some kind. These can range from having electrolytes in your drinks to constructing entire meals out of powders and vitamin tablets. [more...]

Cricket

Saturday, March 5, 2011 // 3 Comments

Cricket is a very old bat-and-ball game that originated in England. It is popular in England, and is considered by some to be the national sport. When the British Empire was at its peak, it spread the game throughout the colonies [more...]

Core Conditioning

Saturday, January 22, 2011 // 0 Comments

How does one go about training our core muscles? Most people immediately think about doing lots of situps, or crunches. If you want to have good-looking abs, then by all means do lots of situps, but this is only a small part of the story. [more...]

Bad Advice Part 1: Fitness

Monday, September 13, 2010 // 1 Comment

In catching up with old friends in Melbourne, I have noticed a curious trend. Ordinarily, when one catches up with old friends after being overseas for an extended period, one is asked mostly about [more...]

Drugs in Sport

Thursday, July 22, 2010 // 2 Comments

Take your pick It’s been a while since I’ve penned a controversial post. Experience (and my web stats) have shown me that the most popular posts on this website [more...]

World Cup Rant

Tuesday, July 6, 2010 // 6 Comments

The Infamous Hand of God I’m just going to warn everyone now, this is going to be one of my least-coherent rants to date. It is sometimes said that I have a “soft [more...]

The Australians Are Coming

Thursday, March 11, 2010 // 0 Comments

Team photo from the world cup in Salt Lake City. L-R: Harry Oosterhuis, Rogina De Jong, Daniel Grieg, Sophie Muir, Joshua Lose, Desly Hill, Marie Walth Perkins, Daniel Yeow [more...]
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