BONUS Natalie and Megan, Rugby Positions and Being Strong

This week’s episode of the QFP is bonus content from episodes 2 and 3, featuring guests Meghan Potter and Natalie Kretschmer. Hear a new guest next week! Find Meghan on instagram @potter.mp3 or @capefearwomensrugbyclub, Natalie on insta @big_ol_mango or wilmingtonmartialarts.com. Follow the podcast @queerfitnesspod. The Queer Fitness Podcast is an interview podcast all about queer experiences with sports, fitness and our bodies. 

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Welcome to the Queer Fitness podcast. I'm your host, Elise. And this week you're getting bonus content from previous guests Natalie Creature and Megan Potter. For more bonus content like this, support the show at patreon dot com slash queer Fitness Pod. Thing is a bonus episode of the Queer Fitness podcast with guest Meghan Potter. Do you want me to explain, Right? Being sure? Yeah. Talk more about regular. You're talking about a night that I realized many. I don't I don't know. I don't know too much about rugby. Okay, so what do you know? What? I looked up. Hey, that I got the, like, 15 side and the seven side. But I also don't know. Yeah, that's exactly where I was that Yeah, and a lot of people will say, you know, I could never like I do so, like, there are really solve people around our team that they're fine and they move really fast. But yes, essentially, the difference between people was compared to beautiful ball is in rugby. You can't throw forward. Okay. Is there a Ford? It's a penalty. And that's when they have to do that fun little thing called the scrum where everyone puts their heads together and you don't know what they're doing. But essentially in that situation, they're trying to fight for possession of the ball right? Which way over the line over the line. And so kind of the way it works is you're throwing the ball backwards and the other team is gonna be flat against you. So you're kind of in a diagonal, throwing backwards to people trying to gain ground. So 15 you're kind of doing. You might throw the ball backwards, and then that person might tryto like run forward through the defense line, try to break that line, try to gain some yardage, and then they might set up to throw back to another person. So you're basically like lightning bolts, zigzagging inch by inch closer to the tri zone, which is his own thing. So that's a strategy for 15. You're just trying to do that, and sometimes you'll throw it thio the back, so there are four words and backs forwards already. What you imagine the bigger people right getting in this from they're the ones that are tackling, typically a lot more, and then the backs of the smaller, faster players who are usually running strategy plays like they might throw in like fake it or throw one over someone like one player to another player down the line so they can kind of sprint forward and try to get around like a hole that the defense makes so essentially, just like football trying to score points. And then there's also kicking butt. Those details air Not as relevant, but yeah, so it's It's a good mix. And then, instead of, you know, in the almost like soccer, the ball goes out of bounds, right? You know how they throw someone and Socrates throwback in? Well, they're still throw back in for rugby. Except you have people lifting girls exciting. Yeah, that's called the line out. Yeah, those were fun. I lifted for a long time. And then one time, someone lifted me, and I felt like I was flying. So weird. Is that spun? I guess that's not spontaneous than your sort of assigned. Whether you're a lifter or a lefty, right, you will figure that out prior to applying because you're all out in the field. You have to make sure that someone is there to do that. right, Unless it's your down people. Yeah, usually people in the scrum when you're going in the so there's like a prop hooker and another prop, So that's like the front lines said. Those three people are going into the other team's three people head to head like around their shoulders, connected and on their own and sevens that is the scrum. Okay, and then in 15 it starts with them. But then there's also two people behind them, that air kind of supporting them against their leg thigh underneath and, um, there chin against their butt and those are the locks. And then next to the locks of the flanks, those the ones I I play that position is well, they usually there to support this room and also be able to peel off the tackle someone if they get through. And then the eight man is in the very back between the two lakhs cheek to cheek. That's my right. You also can. Sometimes if the ball comes through like your legs, that person you take, the ball can peel, often tackle. They can kind of look up to see what the other team is doing. And Tele communicates another team. That's the big. Another big part about rugby is communication, telling your player that I'm with you like I'm next to you. And that way they can hear it without having the look. And they can keep their eyes have been focused on Mitt deciding what to do with. So yeah, yeah, I guess, because if somebody is behind you But when you're passing, you really have to be talking instead of looking right. You don't want to just chuck it. But sometimes it's a lot easier to make that decision if you know where they are, right? Right. So, being situationally aware, you're listening to a bonus episode of the Queer Fitness podcast featuring guest Natalie Crutch for trying lots of things as a kid.

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Did you do other sports? See? So when I was, like four, you know, like I did like the little four year old soccer right? But that did not work, cause I would literally the running joke. My family is that I would do like I would only want to go to practice because we played like sharks and minnows and stuff. But I never wanted to play games, and there is literally a game where every one of my teammates was sick or something like that. And they needed me to go on the field and I was like, No, I don't wanna Yeah, and I didn't And I think we lost that game because I was like,

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four. I used to stand in the goal and pick flowers do.

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That's what I used to do in when I played softball, played softball for like, all of of elementary school, because apparently, like I learned that my mom played softball when she was younger and I was like, I

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want to be

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like my mom was pretty cool And but they put me in an hour field position, which is not what you do with the kid who has a PhD. Put him in the infield. That's what you should do. And so I ended up picking a lot of clovers and being bad. It's awful. I have asthma, so, you know, under sports a nice like air conditioning and a lack of pollen, because that makes as the worst. But yeah, like, you know, I wanted to do skateboarding, but like I didn't know anyone who knew how to skateboard, and my mom didn't know how to skateboard, so I never did that. Um, I just played a lot of video games and read until I was about 13. And then all of my actual athletic development started in martial arts, which was nice. It's an interesting thing. Toe, um, to develop all of all of any physical skill that I have started with with my abilities and martial arts. And we were every, you know, a lot of martial art school. You have, like an instructor class. If you worked there, usually there's like some kind of meeting or something where you kind of talk about the goals for for the upcoming month or week, or however frequently you do like an instructor meeting. We do ours at every belt test, so but a couple a couple months ago, my boss, who he's got, who owns a school with fourth degree black belt, cool dude, his name's Kevin. Um, he was talking about how like that when when we're teaching kids, it's really important to understand that, like oh like and the way he framed it is really important to understand that went before, like myself or Miles the stunt man or Tyler, the dude who could jump 10 feet in the air and roll over 12 people and do a backflip and just casually do another five. No problem. Or, like this one, got the deer who's like, really just all of the all the instructing staff who is relatively well skilled. He was just saying, like none of these guys, they're natural athletes. I'm definitely not natural that no, not at all. But it's important to understand when you're teaching a kid who is like, you know, six years old. Miles started when he was six, and he used one of the most like, talented martial artist I've ever met. And but before that, he was just a kid. You know, it's not. Miles is not a natural athlete, either. You should have seen it before he started lifting. He was like, scrawny. And But when? When we have kids who start really young, we have this, like, amazing opportunity to really influence the They're still moving forward, and you know, if if if you always consider the fact that like Miles started when you six but your started when he was six. Tyler started when he was like eight, right? I started when I was like 13. Like there's there's so much growth that can happen in that time You just have to, like, feed it. So that's always interesting to consider. I don't know. And, you know, I grew up. My mom was always, like, has always been very active, and my parents divorced when I was young so that she was like my primary care, you know, for when I was like five. She was always, like, very active. But she always did like yoga and like, lower impact stuff. She job because it was the early 2000 the nineties, and that's what you did. But she was like an athlete in high school and I think a little bit in college, like a club athlete. Um, but I think part of why it took me so long to get into, like, fitness and exercise was that, like yoga didn't really interest me. Yeah, like it does now and it's and it's still did a little bit in the idea of like like being balanced and stuff like that. But I think if she had taken me when I was like 13 to a gym and was like, This is how you lift weights. This is how you bench your body weight. Like I would've been like, Oh, let's get into that exercise. Let's get it because that's that's always, like, interested me. Like Like there's a couple of, like, some of the assistant instructors. I can literally squat their body weight, and I've done it with them before a super fun because we got a couple like they're tall, but they're really skiing confessional adolescents hand. So, like we got this one, kid Kevin, not my boss. They're both in Kevin. Different people. Um, my boss Kevin weighs like 2 20 Cannot bench him, cannot lift him. Um, but but younger Kevin, he's, like, 1 40 What time? I was like, Kevin, come over here and see if I could swat you. And so I literally like fireman carried him and just squat. Yes, I did it. So that's nice. Um, yeah. I've always, like, enjoy the idea of getting stronger. I like being the squad dad who can open jars, you know, because again, it goes back to that same idea of like like being prepared for things, you know, If I need Thio, steal this example from an episode of American Dad. If I need to carry a giant creative oranges up four flights of steps, I like being able to do that. Or, um, and also my grand parents live in town. The Korean won and his wife. She's like half Irish in Swiss ball, Sure, but they're 85 94 now, and they need a lot of help. So I like being able to lift things for them and be available to help. My mom also has. She has some, like neck issues, that kind of limit mobility and her shoulders and limit how much exercise that she could do now. So I like being able to do those things for her.