My first rugby practice was last night. It was raining, cold, and muddy. And I loved it. I am a little sore today but I love that too. I have not had any luck finding any Krav Maga Worldwide certified schools here so I decided to try this. It was great. Playing in the mud and rain reminded me of when I was kid and we would play mudball in the parks in Mesa.
In Phoenix they always used irrigation to water the local parks. They would fill up the parks with a couple of feet of water once a week to try and keep the grass looking at least a crisp brown. After a few hours to a day the water would soak up until about six inches or a foot remained. This is when the games would start. After school we would grab a football and some friends and have it. Scores and rules didn't really matter. It was all about getting dirty. As you can imagine two feet of water on dry cracked dirt created a perfect deep mud layer. You could tackle and be tackled without worry of injury, it was like sinking in to a really soft mattress.A mattress with mosquitoes. There were a lot of mosquitoes.
It was also a lot of fun to ride your bike down the hill as fast as possible and just eat it hard. Good times. Also, skim boarding. Look it up on YouTube kiddos.
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