Last weekend I was invited to the Swedish Elks Australian RulesTraining camp held at Konstgräs Huskvarna. Thanks go to Philip (Manager) and Ryan (National Coach).
After crunching my way through frost frozen grass although it was 3 in the afternoon I got my first glimpe of a sight I had not seen for awhile. A mixture of Aussie club football jerseys. One from the Tigers, several from the Bombers and one thankfully the Blues. One or two of the guys had on Elks jerseys also.
Ryan was putting the boys through different drills and ball skill exercises. The thing the struck me firstly was the shouting was in English with a springling of Swedish. The sound of Ryan screaming vänster (left), vänster (left) was great. Secondly the enthusiasm that everyone had for this very different sport for Sweden.
Finally the cold got the better of me and the layers of clothing were not preventing freezing of the extremities of my body, so I headed for the warmth of the car. But not before looking over my shoulder to see these guys marking and kicking the "pill" around just like you would see at any Victorian footy field.
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