Stories of Indigenous Success in Australian Sport by Richard Light & John Robert Evans

Author:Richard Light & John Robert Evans
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

He led a very active life in which sport formed an important practice but which also included a range of physical activities. This active life of movement and social interaction was the context within which he engaged in rugby league and learned his skills and understandings of it:

We’d always be exercising, whether it was riding our bikes to the local creek or whatever, swinging on trees, jumping out of trees, doing bombs. We used our bodies. We didn’t sit down and sit in front of the TV.

This active way of life and love of sport continued upon entry into school where it was encouraged by being with so many children of the same age and the spaces and times available to play and learn. For Ryan this was a highlight of his memories of school and was an important practice at school:

As soon as we’d get to school we’d always play games. We’d always play football. We’d love to get into school early because we knew that we’d play football with all our mates. We were always running and always being active, which is quite different to today, but, yeah…that’s how we learnt.

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