Still Pulling After All These Years
Talking Balls No Comments »All this to get them away from the children, household cleaning duties and the snores of the husband after a big feed of dinner or maybe just to enjoy the delights of the game.
These ladies encompass all shapes, sizes and skill levels of camogie players. Enthusiasm and craic have been the main attributes on show. Some were obviously deft young things in their heyday, and can still lift and shape to strike with the best of them. Others show a natural gra for grabbing balls out of the air.
One or two others apparently have decided that the camogie field on a Sunday is a grand place to take out the frustrations of the week, pulling hard, early and often on unsuspecting ankles, shins, hands and the odd knee. The only downside is that it isn’t the long-suffering husband that’s on the receiving end of these late blows. Beginners and experienced players alike have taken to it like ducks to water (and not ducks full of lead as one opinionated oul boy remarked, leaning over the wire pulling on his pipe).
Of those that played before, a number have easily slipped back into old habits. Some are graceful, skilful and still able to take their score. Others make up for a skills deficiency with a steely determination to win the ball at all costs, and will clearly do anything and pull on anything to achieve the desired result. Some were clearly dirty bitches when they played years ago, and on the evidence it’s fair to say old habits die hard.
The day’s proceedings were great craic going by the girlish squeals of delight from this group of ladies. The event was not without its fair share of injuries, There were reports of one broken scaphoid, a couple of badly bruised knuckles, a buttock haematoma that required some massaging, a pulled hamstring and some severely strained bra straps. Also, a word of caution from our experts. They suggest that anyone thinking of taking up the Camogie slightly later in life should do a few of them Kegel PFE exercises before they sign up – just to be on the safe side like and to make sure they are up to all that swingin’ and runnin about.
As we always say, Playing is Only Part of It.





