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They wrote a song about Cottage Rake when he won three Gold Cups just after the war, and another about Arkle 15 years later. So what, you wonder, rhymes with Limestone Lad?
The horse that Ireland’s racegoers love with a passion won for the 34th time in 62 outings at Navan yesterday and if his run could extend another three months to the Stayers’ Hurdle at Cheltenham in March, then most of the thousands of visiting punters would probably settle for that and 19 losers.
The Arcadian tale of the horse trained on a farm who just keeps winning has been told many times over the last three seasons without ever seeming stale. Bred and owned by James Bowe and prepared by his son Michael, Limestone Lad is as honest as he is uncomplicated, a thorough stayer who likes to run the finish out his opponents.
Yesterday’s victory was achieved in the manner of most of the other 33 as Limestone Lad led from the tapes and had Liss A Paoraigh, his main rival, beaten with two flights still to jump. Nor may win No35 be long delayed, since Limestone Lad is a probable runner in the Woodies Hurdle at Leopardstown’s Christmas meeting.
Limestone Lad is now four-from-four this season and 28 times a winner over timber. And all this from a horse who was beaten in his first three outings in maiden hurdles and won just two of his eight starts in bumpers.
The obvious hole in his form, though, is a victory in Cheltenham’s Stayers’ Hurdle. Limestone Lad has run in the race just once – in 2000 – when the fast ground was against him and he could finish only second to Bacchanal. Injury kept him away last season, while foot-and-mouth did the same in 2001.
The result is that Limestone Lad has never won in Britain. To take the Stayers’ Hurdle, he will probably need to beat a horse who has never done anything but. Baracouda, unbeaten in eight starts in this country, is now the only horse ahead of Limestone Lad in Coral’s Festival betting at 2-1.
Limestone Lad is a 5-1 chance, with Bannow Bay, who finished third under top weight in a handicap hurdle at Leopardstown yesterday, on 6-1. You need to move out to the horses on 12-1 bar to find the first British-based contenders for the race, Brother Joe and Tees Components.
“I left him a little short today and I’m relieved that he has won again,” Michael Bowe said after yesterday’s race. “He was quick and clean in his jumping down the back straight and he seems to love this place.”
Bannow Bay, too, was short of peak fitness for his first outing. “We will have a look at Limestone Lad again in a couple of weeks at Leopardstown in the Woodys Hurdle,” Christy Roche, his trainer, said. “Bannow Bay was as ready as I could have him for this race and it should leave him right for the next day.”
The abiding image of the weekend in Britain was the extraordinary leap at the last fence that sealed victory for Fondmort in the Tripleprint Gold Cup at Cheltenham.
Mick Fitzgerald had enough to spare ahead of Foly Pleasant as he and Fondmort approached the fence that a careful fiddle would have proved sufficient. Yet he saw a stride and asked for a proper jump and Fondmort responded in spectacular fashion.
Saturday’s success came nine days after Fondmort’s first run of the season when he finished third behind Poliantas at Wincanton. “I came back and said I should have gone earlier,” Fitzgerald said. “I took a pull and when I asked him to go again for a second time he didn’t want to know.
“I ran this race through in my head about 100 times and I knew how it was going to go. I couldn’t see much pace in the race so I had to be positive when the time came to quicken up.”
The Cathcart Chase, for second-season novices, is now a possible Festival engagement for Fondmort, while Rooster Booster, who won the Bula Hurdle, is as short as 4-1 for the Champion Hurdle.
“He is undoubtedly the best hurdler I have ever trained and the exciting thing is that he is still going the right way,” Philip Hobbs, his trainer, said.
It has been an agonizing time for the Test debutants. In what other sport do they have to wait for two days after receiving that coveted first cap to make any sort of contribution?
Lendl Simmons and Amjad Khan were unable to influence events for what must have seemed to them an eternity. On the first two days Simmons fielded energetically, proud as punch in his bright maroon cap. Almost out of pity Chris Gayle let him have a bowl on Saturday in an attempt to make him feel part of the game. But Simmons was picked to bat.
Likewise Amjad Khan was impotent for almost two days. He sat on the balcony, still pondering what it meant to be a Test cricketer. Then late in Saturday’s final session he was tossed the ball. He was patently nervous. The only consolation about his first delivery – a no-ball which nearly caused him to trip over – was that it did not go for six. He looked out of place from the moment he summoned his bright blue corset and scuttled in with his shirt hanging outside England’s garish whites. After four wretched overs Amjad must have had a restless night.On Sunday morning there was respite at last. The no-balls were less frequent; he stayed on his feet, he put his corset on long before he began his spell and there was the gem that finally enabled England to see the back of Ramnaresh Sarwan – it was a straight ball, which surprised the little Guyanese for pace.
At last Amjad felt as if he belonged even if he showed his naivety when he thought he had Shivnarine Chanderpaul caught behind. He celebrated rather than appealed and the umpire, Daryl Harper, was not amused. Amjad could expect his first Test match fee to be reduced.
Lendl Simmons had a testing start, too. It took him 24 balls to notch his first run, though unlike Amjad he managed to retain an appearance of composure throughout that agonising period. Finally there was a glide to third man against Amjad and he was on his way. Simmons looked the part, as willowy in style and physique as Uncle Phil was muscular. Simmons will surely play more Tests than Amjad and may one day enhance Trinidad’s flimsy batting legacy to West Indies. In the past 50 years they have produced Brian Lara and who else?
Monty Panesar was not making his debut – though Shane Warne believes he plays as if he is making his debut every time he starts a Test – but he was relaunching his Test career. Some changes were evident. He now propels a vicious arm ball at about 65 mph, much to Matt Prior’s dismay. It often whizzed down the leg-side for four byes. But his stock delivery was noticeably slower yesterday. He teased all the batsmen except Chris Gayle and was the more dangerous of the two spinners.
There were other less welcome changes. Alongside his new arm ball it looks as if he has introduced sledging into his armory. He had a go at Daren Powell and Simmons in this innings. This is not a good idea. A spinner has to sledge with subtlety in the knowledge that he does not possess the ultimate deterrent – the bouncer – and this is not within Panesar’s compass. It makes him look stupid.
The old naivety in his appealing was still there and he suffers as a result. Umpires, especially Russell Tiffin, are human. They need respect. Twice, in the manner of Amjad, Panesar celebrated rather than appealed. As a result he, too, could leave Port of Spain with a lighter pocket. Panesar needs to cultivate the umpire at his end. At the moment he simply irritates him so he can expect no favors.
Many physical experts agree that soccer demands more strength of all sports. A large playing field, no rest time and a game which goes on for a long time are few such reasons. During the match, while possessing the ball, players at times cover 10 miles consisting of 24% walking, 36% jogging, 20% coursing, 11% sprinting, 7% moving backwards and 2% moving. The intense levels of the game is so high, average player’s heart rate is maximum of 90%.
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Aerobic Capacity
During a match, players can cover more ground if their aerobic capacity is higher. In addition, improved endurance enhances the sprints which can be completed during the game. The significant feature of soccer fitness training to improve aerobic capacity is that it can be done anywhere and anytime.
Weight Training
Soccer players undergoing weight training plays major role in conditioning programs. In older version, it was three sets of ten reps whereas in new fitness training, it includes balanced explosive power and muscular endurance.
Though some might benefit by improving lean mass, focusing on converting on the strength into specific power is vital. This training also helps correct muscle imbalances. A well formed plan can address the problem of overly strong quadriceps related to hamstrings as the soccer players are prone to this issue.
Soccer Fitness Training includes Diet, Nutrition and Metal Attitude
One can be a lean machine like soccer legend Pele and could be in danger due to high percentage of body fat levels. Rather than consuming junk food and soda pep, if a professional soccer player eats natural food and drinks purified water, they get an edge over other teammates and competitors.
Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods need to be thought of as perfect examples of mental toughness and discipline. Predicting first where the soccer ball would go gives a big edge on the competitors. Giving 100% effort and a positive attitude is another tip of all great athletes of our time. One can only walk his head high if this advice is followed, irrespective of how bleak the situation looks or how brutal the game was, no matter whether if the game is won or lost. This needs to be kept in mind during soccer fitness training.
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It would be all too easy to mock the Super League on the eve of its 10th season. A competition that kicked off with Paris St-Germain versus Sheffield Eagles in front of almost 18,000 intrigued spectators at the Charlety Stadium on March 29, 1996 – encouraging rugby league evangelists to talk of expansion into Wales, the midlands, and even to Barcelona and Milan – will tonight feature matches in Hull, St Helens and Wigan.
Then tomorrow it is the big one, Leigh against Huddersfield at Hilton Park, a fixture and a location that carries all the exotic glamour of Peter Kay’s Phoenix Nights.
But without the 3;87m that British rugby league received from Sky for agreeing to switch to a summer season in the crazy spring of 1995 – when players queued up for huge “loyalty” payments and an effigy of Maurice Lindsay was burned on the streets of Featherstone for daring to suggest that they merge with Wakefield and Castleford – it is questionable whether matches between Leigh and Huddersfield, at least at professional level, would even exist.
“There was nobody more critical of various people in rugby league, like Maurice, than me,” admits David Hinchliffe, the Labour MP for Wakefield who spoke passionately against the original Super League proposals in a House of Commons debate. “But on reflection, if they hadn’t taken the Murdoch money, then rugby league would have been wiped out.
“I’m not sure even Maurice could have been aware of what was about to happen when rugby union went openly professional at last. But without the Super League money, league would have lost so many more players, and we wouldn’t have the game we have now – which, in my opinion, is better than ever.”
“I had been aware for a while that rugby union was about to turn professional,” recalled Lindsay, who after years of vilification as the Rugby Football League’s chief executive returned to Wigan as chairman in 1999.
“I had a number of meetings with Vernon Pugh [the late chairman of union's International Rugby Board] at the East India Club, of all places – I’m surprised they let me through the doors.
“He and Clive Rowlands, the secretary, were openly talking about professionalism, and the possible merger between league and union. And if we hadn’t effected the Super League, there’s absolutely no doubt that the likes of Jason Robinson would have multiplied by hundreds.”
Now British rugby league’s elite club competition is undeniably stronger than it was in the winter of 1994-95, when Wigan were completing their sixth consecutive league and cup double, and Leeds were the only other full-time professional club.
The average attendance in that Stones Bitter Championship season was 5,543; in 2004, the average Super League gate was 8,833. “We wanted a full-time league of 12 clubs, whereas before we had 16, most of whom were part-time, so we could condense the talent and put on a real showcase,” added Lindsay.
“We wanted a league of excellence, and I think we’re well on the way to that with four or five clubs challenging regularly, others such as Warrington and Wakefield making great improvements to add strength in depth to the competition – and I don’t think it’s finished yet.”
It is misleading to talk of summer rugby, when the season starts in February and ends in mid-October with the grand final at Old Trafford – the culmination of a play-off series to determine the champions that has been the most successful of Super League’s innovations, along with the trailblazing introduction of video referees.
But after initial fears that harder pitches might lead to more injuries, the players are relieved to have escaped the darkest days of winter, not surprisingly as for them Super League has also meant full-time professionalism.
“I’d much rather play in the summer,” says Terry O’Connor, the former Great Britain prop who joined Widnes from Wigan this winter and at 32 is one of a diminishing number who still remember the pre-Super League days.
“I went to watch Widnes Under-21s the other day – freezing, mate. How the speccies used to love it in the winter, I don’t know. All that steam coming off players in the scrum. It’s rubbish.
“Now the ground’s better, the game’s faster, there’s less dropped balls and scrums, all the clubs seem to have gone more professional, and there’s more young talent around. I don’t really see how anyone can knock it.”
Not many do, although there have inevitably been victims of the Super League era. The most unfortunate were Keighley Cougars, who had just won promotion to the Stones Bitter Championship under the coaching of Phil Larder when the drawbridge was pulled up in 1996.
“It was heartbreaking, because we’d invested so much in creating a dream for the town of Keighley, and then we had it dashed,” reflects Mike Smith, who was one of the driving forces behind “Cougarmania”.
“I think Super League is the most fantastic concept. They’ve switched the season to make it more conducive to attracting families, and putting on the sort of razzmatazz that helps do that. and they’ve all invested in community schemes, just like we did at Keighley. I still watch the game a lot, and enjoy it. It’s just tarnished a bit because of what happened.”
“Of course, we had to go through lots of pain,” Lindsay admits, with major embarrassments including the demise of Paris after two seasons and Gateshead Thunder after one, as well as the damage done to the game’s standing both nationally and in its northern strongholds by the initial controversy over the proposed mergers, which were quickly written off as a bad idea.
International rugby league, too, is still struggling to recover from Britain’s willingness to sign up with Rupert Murdoch in his bid to seize television rights for the Australian game from Kerry Packer – with the summer season ensuring that Lions tours are now the high-profile preserve of the other code.
That is a huge loss but, as Lindsay says, there is plenty in the profit column to compensate, even if it is in Leigh and Leeds, rather than London and Lyon, where rugby league has benefited most from the first decade of the Super League.
Roll of honour
1996 St Helens
1997 Bradford Bulls
1998 Wigan
1999 St Helens
2000 St Helens
2001 Bradford Bulls
2002 St Helens
2003 Bradford Bulls
2004 Leeds Rhinos
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One of the most intriguing fitness plans that I’ve come across is Tacfit Commando by Scott Sonnon. I say it’s intriguing because its goals are unlike those of most fitness plans and it also works in an entirely different way.
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Gavin Henson’s hopes of playing in this season’s Six Nations tournament are over, after his knee injury was diagnosed as being more serious than first feared.
The 25-year-old centre has not started a Test for Wales since the autumn series opener against Australia four months ago, and a second scan on his knee last night revealed a strained posterior cruciate ligament, meaning a lay-off of between three and four weeks.
The 20 times-capped Ospreys star has not been part of Wales coach Gareth Jenkins’ plans during the current Six Nations campaign, despite his team losing successive games against Ireland, Scotland and France.
“He has a ligament injury at the back of his knee,” said Ospreys director of rugby Kevin Hopkins. “It doesn’t need surgery, but he must rest.” Henson now faces a race to be fit for the Ospreys’ EDF Energy Cup semi-final clash against Cardiff Blues at the Millennium Stadium on March 24.
Barely a week after the abrupt removal of the head coach, Andy Robinson, the blood-letting at Twickenham continues. The Rugby Football Union has announced the sacking of its head of fitness, Dave Reddin, with immediate effect, to add further fuel to the debate over player welfare.
Reddin, 37, was among Sir Clive Woodward’s chief lieutenants in the build-up to the 2003 World Cup triumph and was described by Woodward as “above any other fitness expert in world sport”. After eight years working with various England teams, however, he has been relieved of his duties only seven months after being told his job was safe following a full-scale review of the England set-up.
It is no secret that England’s fitness levels are worse than they once were but Reddin can hardly shoulder the blame for the increasing pounding the players receive at club level before they even walk through the Twickenham gym door.
The vacancy has been filled internally by another RFU fitness coach, Calvin Morris, and Reddin could not hide his dismay last night. “Although the RFU have explained the rationale for their decision to make my role redundant I am disappointed to be leaving,” he said, echoing Robinson’s call for changes to the current system under which English rugby operates. “I feel proud to have been associated with the most successful period in English rugby history and my hope in leaving is that positive changes are made to recreate that.”
It is becoming clear, though, that the RFU’s elite rugby director, Rob Andrew, is prepared to be utterly ruthless in his desire to shake up the top end of the English game. There have been an alarming number of injuries to key squad members, not least to Jonny Wilkinson during Andrew’s time as director of rugby at Newcastle, and Reddin did not always have a harmonious relationship with club fitness coaches with whom, latterly, he was supposed to be liaising more closely over player welfare.
Nor have England had a good record of keeping their selected players in one piece long enough during the week to take the field at Twickenham. The props Andrew Sheridan and Matt Stevens have both picked up problematic neck or shoulder injuries in training rather than during games. Even when England moved their Test week base from Bagshot to Bisham Abbey, amid claims their old practice pitch at Pennyhill Park was too hard and had been a factor in the lengthy injury list, they lost the full-back Iain Balshaw before the first South Africa Test with a calf strain.
Whether at Robinson’s instigation or not, the England squad also spent what most onlookers felt should have been valuable training-field time at Loughborough University in October pumping iron in the gym. Somewhere along the line the balance between cultivating skills and building yet more muscle has been lost.
Reddin could also have done without the former England captain Lawrence Dallaglio criticising England’s fitness before the season started. Even Andrew, though, acknowledges Reddin will have no problem getting another job. “Dave Reddin made a huge impact during his eight years with the RFU in developing a world-class fitness programme to support the senior side. His work ensured that England arrived at the 2003 Rugby World Cup in peak condition and he was a major reason behind the team’s success at that tournament. I’m sure that he will continue to make a major contribution to elite sport in this country.”
If nothing else, Reddin’s departure will also fuel the debate about the strain being placed on England’s best players. Last year he admitted: “The players have got to be the most important consideration and sometimes that gets lost. They are the ones being squeezed. What I’d hate to see is rugby end up in a football-type situation where the coach gets the players two days before an international with levels of expectation still sky-high. I don’t see how that can possibly work for anybody.”
Yesterday’s news also means that the break-up of the World Cup-winning management team is almost complete. Apart from the medicos and physiotherapists, the only survivor with a direct input is the video analyst Tony Biscombe who, given the current turnover rate, has every reason to start looking over his shoulder.
Ever saw people jumping from one terrace to the other or pass different types of obstacles skillfully? Well, you must have seen traceurs who are the practitioners of parkour training. For the uninitiated, parkour training is an art that is concerned with human movement. Parkour, a physical discipline is believed to have existed since the origin of mankind. This discipline has French origin and in this sport participants pass through various obstacles using skills like jumping, climbing or more specific skills.
Parkour Moves for Beginners: Training
An uninterrupted, efficient and smooth motion forms the heart of parkour movements. Traceurs have to display amazing sense of physical and mental agility and strength and only then, one qualifies to be trained in this skill. For many people especially the non-practitioners of these movements, parkour appears to be a form of extreme sports that is a combination of various martial arts styles. Dynamism, jumps, body control, speed and flexibility form the main components of parkour training. Parkour moves for beginners are basic lessons of parkour training that impart necessary techniques to its participants for doing parkour movements.
Precision Jumps/Landing and Rolling
As a traceur, this is the most important step one has to learn. Precision jumps are aimed to jump frequently from elevated heights and aim at the right place. One of the most basic parkour moves for beginners, precision jumps help to take away shock after a drop or a jump.
After you are at the height from where you are going to jump (for beginners, the height should be such that he can practice the task easily), focus on the spot where you have to land.
Jump upwards and forward, meanwhile ensure you bend your knees. Don’t jump straight forward. To maintain balance, keep both your hands up. So the trick is, jump upwards by throwing your body forward with knees bend while jumping (to absorb the impact of jumping).
As you are about to land, point your toes to the ground and extend the legs to touch the ground. Ensure that your knees are still bend. Once your feet has touched the ground, keep bending your knees however, not more than 90 degrees. This position will help you to further roll down and decrease the impact of the jump.
Further, rotate your body weight forward by doing a diagonal roll. This rolling down may somewhat appear like a somersault, however, it is not at all exactly the same. You can roll down by putting the left shoulder to lower right back. This will give you a complete control and after rolling, you can get up without any hurt or impact.
Though this seems a lengthy explanation, in practice, all the jumping process lasts for not more than few seconds.
Beginner Vaulting
One of the easier parkour moves for beginners is that of speed vault. It teaches you coordination, balance, strength, creativity and body control. In this method the traceurs launch themselves over a wall without reducing or decreasing speed. Traceurs approach a wall with speed, keep their one hand on the wall to gain support and jump sideways to cross the wall. While jumping, one hand on the wall is not put with great impact, it is just put to gain support and then throw the body sideways.
For more information on various moves of parkour, read:
Parkour Training for Beginners
How to do a Wheelie
How to do a Cartwheel
Parkour moves for beginners must be practiced under safety guidance and traceurs must ensure that their health and fitness is not challenged in this sport. While excellent physique and endurance power are gifts of parkour training, overdoing them can result in injuries.
