@JK said in Dad advice sharing thread.:

@Paekakboyz said in Dad advice sharing thread.:

@JK has jnr given any indication of what he'd prefer?

Yeah he initially was keen to repeat U10 as bowling wont be as fast but he would also then need to deal with the shite bowling he encountered last year that sometime doesnt even land on the pitch!

Anyway, since I've posted it looks like the 3 other lads in his team from last year are all keen to play under 11 (well thats what the parents say) so looks like we are going for that. Club said would apply for a dispensation from Auckland Cricket for them to play U11s BUT the kids would need to be available for Under 10 reps if selected

Update....got that dispensation so the lad is playing up a grade in under 11s. 3rd game of the season and he picked up a hattick today and all of them were bowled. Slowest bowler in the team but pretty much always a Yorker or just short of and if you miss then he hits. Proud dad!!!

Edit - vid of hattrick ball

You can see how little he is vs some of the others

@MajorRage said in Going Vegetarian / Vegan ..:

Look, it's all the rage, we have a thread about a meatless BK burger, we have a thread about eating meat in Austin, and a dedicated thread to BBQ'ing ... so lets get one going.

Firstly, asking for a friend.

Secondly - so has anybody done it?

Yeah had a friend that went full vegan a couple of years back. He died pretty soon after though.....

.....to me anyway

Farken cracked it on the weekend with the pre match pep talk. Always try give the lad a bit of a rev up on the way to the game and try and inspire him to put in a good performance.

Usually its very much "do this", 'don't do that' sorta stuff and basically telling him to make sure he gets involved and not swan about in the backs. This week I was crapping on (pretty much all I do) to him about leaving everything out on the field in terms of his effort. I said "if you were to sit back and watch a replay of the game, how would you want to feel about how you played? What would you want to see?" Immediately he said that he would want to feel proud of his efforts and not be seen to be slacking off. I said "That's a good idea Phin, make yourself proud of your performance"

Well what a game, 4 tries and could have been 5 (just touched the sideline apparently). 14 tackles, multiple good runs, clean passing and catching, lots of support. It really was something to behold. He knew it to. When he came off at the end of the game he gave me one of those smiling nods (kinda led by the chin and eye brows at the same time), you know the one. He was chuffed and quite frankly so was I. Only cost me $4.80 too in performance payments.

How GOOOOOOD was that???

Best Father's Day for ages!!

Teaching my 8 year old son how to kick goals yesterday and I smacked a couple over from out near half way (albeit pretty much straight in front) and he asked why I didn't kick for the all blacks. Could only offer up that I can't tackle for Shit. Also slow, unfit and couldn't throw a skip pass to save myself

JKjnrs first hardball cricket season is done and dusted. Fair to say...he is hooked.

Batting and bowling really improved over the season. Fielding too actually, really sharp when it comes to throwing down the wickets, just needs to work on those first time clean pickups.

Ended up as leading bowler for his team is terms of number of wickets, strike rate, average and economy. Batting not as good as just doesnt hit the boundaries the other kids do but gets bat on ball a lot and keeps runs ticking over. Only got out 5 times in the 15 games he played so thats pleasing.

Made his reps team too for takapuna and won the north harbour competion as well as a quadrangular tournament where they smashed each of University, Cornwall and Howick-Pak who are much bigger and strong clubs. First time takapuna has done this at that age level so pretty big acheivement for the boys.

Now on to the rugby season!

A couple of mates and I Decided while drunk at New Years to surprise the boys with a trip to Wellington to watch blues v canes, and we hoped the blues would have had a better season but ah well the lads still loved the surprise when we broke it to them at 11am Saturday after they’d finished their game. That was about the highlight.....

2pm flight got delayed 230 then 3pm then cancelled as the part they had used to repair the plane was the wrong part. AirNZ told us we were rebooked to the 7pm flight but hell that wasnt gonna work. The combo of dad rage and sad 7 and 8 year old boys seemed to get the desired impact and we were rebooked to the 5pm flight so looked like we still had a chance. 11 of us in to koru and a good session was had. Extended session too as 5pm got rescheduled to 545 then 620 then 630 we boarded and finally took off at 7farken25!!! Landed before half time and shuttled to the ground and into the lounge for the last 30mins so at least the kids got to visit the caketin and witness the canes tear us a new one.

They also got to experience classic wet and windy Wellington weather on Sunday, a (lost?) whale in Wellington harbour and te papa. Oh and and another extended koru session thanks for more delays coming home Sunday night.

Couldn’t really tell you much about the rugby. Best I read the posts above to find out what happened in the 50mins we missed.

Surprised no thread on this, actually no i'm not.

But anyway, been working out there as a scorer for the last 4 days and walking around with the groups. Apart from yesterdays hoohaa (out of their hands as LPGA said wanted it to be 72 holes and extended to today rather than called short to 54) it has been a very well run tournament. We got some pretty good names here and most delivered in terms of quality of play. Must say that these girls can really hit the ball and are dam accurate.

I worked with different groups each day but highlights were definitely Gaby Lopez and Ryan O'toole on Friday, Brooke Henderson on saturday and then a great group yesterday of Ryan again, Alena Sharp from Canada and Cheyenne Woods (tigers niece) yesterday. All very chatty throughout the round and its clear these girls have a great time out of tour, much like the guys appear to.

Saw a bit of Lydia out and about and the crowds just love her. Must be massive pressure on here as everywhere she goes people are shouting out "Go lydia" etc and asking to pics and autographs. She's played ok but actually was coughing and sniffing a lot. Could be sick, could be hayfever, dunno.

The course is pretty good for only being a year or so old. Fairly flat and wide fairways but the rough is ROUGH and often unplayable. Not overly long at all but was set up for the ladies. Not too many tees could have gone back much further. Greens look good. Slick (for NZ) and not many flat ones. I will be playing out there in a few weeks and fairly confident I can burn it up

Play called off yesterday after numerous weather suspensions. We started at 8am and got 15 holes done. It was farken rough out there with sideways rain at times, hail and some ferocious winds which actually blew to bits the sponsorship signs on a couple of the holes. We were on the 15th green when the signs on the 16th tee pretty much exploded and blew in to a lake about 50m away. Pretty scary stuff.

Brooke should win it from here. 4 shot lead with 12 to play. She has super focus and do what is required today.

The lads got an extra skills session today. Saturdays game will probably be full of offloads and high tackles haha

got an email from the lad yesterday saying school was boring as had a reliever teach for the day. Had a pretty quiet day work wise too so a quick email to the school office and next thing ya know the boy and I are out mountain biking at woodhill for the arvo. Always good to get that 1 on 1 quality time

@voodoo said in Dad advice sharing thread.:

@Virgil my kids don't believe me when I tell them that some lollies used to be 5 for 1c...

Had similar disbelief with mine. Was telling them how when they phased out the 1c and 2c coins that my local diary started offering some lollies at 20 for 5cents!

@MN5 said in Covid-19 and keeping fit:

@JK said in Covid-19 and keeping fit:

My free strava ran out again. Seriously contemplating the purchase for premium (or whatever its called) but had two strava issues of late where one ride just disappeared and one stopped recording after about 5km and I only picked it up during a break half way through.

What other options are there?

pen and paper ? that's how I keep track of how I'm going with workouts.

I'm probably not the best person to listen to though, my sons just about died of shock when I managed to sync my phone with the new car stereo all on my own. .

I don use anything for workouts.... Just use strava to track rides and segments on the trails

@voodoo said in Covid-19 and keeping fit:

@JK said in Covid-19 and keeping fit:

My free strava ran out again. Seriously contemplating the purchase for premium (or whatever its called) but had two strava issues of late where one ride just disappeared and one stopped recording after about 5km and I only picked it up during a break half way through.

What other options are there?

Do you use a garmin? If so you can just use Garmin Connect and skip the Strava step (they sync automatically if you link them)

Nah i don't. I just chuck the iphone in the camelbak as use it for listening to music while I ride. Strava gets turned on at the same time

My free strava ran out again. Seriously contemplating the purchase for premium (or whatever its called) but had two strava issues of late where one ride just disappeared and one stopped recording after about 5km and I only picked it up during a break half way through.

What other options are there?

Resurrection....

Winter sports update - well the lad decided he didnt enjoy rugby last year and to give it a miss. Was going to play soccer with a few of his mates but coach said had too many players and no room for him. Could have played in another team but hes not huge on the game and just wanted a team sport with mates so we opted out.

Two weeks back the team was short so he filled in and scored 5 goals in a 7 nil win. Turns out they want him to join permanently now for the rest of the season! 11am games so not too bad. Plus it will mean that he probably no longer need to go and watch little miss 7's 9am netball games. Shes also doing hockey too on a monday night. Pretty funny to watch at that age.

@Hooroo said in Rough tips and other bets...:

@Smudge said in Rough tips and other bets...:

Very unlucky, Hooroo. Got caught wide early and just kept grinding to the line incredibly bravely. She'll keep.

Was a great second. Maybe her best ever run yet. Chris suggests she will improve again.

We still celebrated.

Super impressive run. What were the last 600 times like @Hooroo ?

@mariner4life said in Rough tips and other bets...:

Last night I discovered NRL same game multis. A 3 leg multi payed $28 and got up!

My AFL same gamer had 8 legs and paid $17. And i only got 7 of them. Fucking Robbie Gray.

On Sportsbet? I play these every game, best I’ve hit is $280 to 1

@mariner4life said in Rough tips and other bets...:

@JK said in Rough tips and other bets...:

Just seen that from Get On, both BZ and hutch have tipped Polly Grey. Unfortunately Richo also has her on top and has a saver on sir pippen

Oh no, the Richo tip of death

Yeah but fortunately not in his system 2,3, 4

@voodoo said in Rough tips and other bets...:

@JK she's a $4.40 fav on SB, Sir Pippen is a $15 saver!

Yeah..... won’t be my saver tho