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  • LIFE

    From sports star to coach

    Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 17/05/2022

    » The significance of the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games for Thai athletes varies from person to person. For Thai-American Trecia Roberts, a former national 100m hurdles star-turned-coach, it launched her dream to have Thai athletics represented at the Olympics -- a tribute to the nation her mother is from.

  • SPORTS

    NZ coach rejects criticism of lopsided romp over Tonga

    Sports, AFP, Published on 05/07/2021

    » Auckland: New Zealand coach Ian Foster has rejected any suggestion of an unwarranted mismatch after the All Blacks put a century of points on a hapless Tonga, saying Saturday's Test was not about the scoreline.

  • LIFE

    Not entirely transfixing

    Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 07/06/2019

    » For its second production, Qrious Theatre transplants the 2005 American film Transamerica to Thailand. TranS I-Am is an awkward US-to-Thailand and screen-to-stage adaptation, but it's sweet and offbeat enough to charm.

  • SPORTS

    Blood, sweat, smiles, tears and cheers in 2019

    Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 28/12/2019

    » It's that time of the year when Nobby drags himself out of his armchair to acknowledge assorted sporting heroes and villains that have graced our sports pages in 2019.

  • SPORTS

    From swing flaws to success: Fixing hitting from the top

    Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 24/04/2024

    » The question a golf coach must consistently deal with is how to persuade their student to stop hitting from the top without becoming too technical or offering more advice than can be absorbed just in one session. I'm aware of five ways of conveying this feeling, one of which is to ask the student to try and hit the ball on the toe of the club for a while. Another is to place two balls on the ground about two inches apart and have the student hit the inside ball without touching the other.

  • SPORTS

    Let your left heel come up for real free flowing swing

    Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 21/02/2024

    » A retired golfer has the time to practise the short game. Short shots don't require strength or flexibility. Certainly, the older golfer can't hit the ball as far as the younger player but once you reach the fringe of the green young and old become no worse than equals. Nothing sharpens your focus and improves your touch if you just use one ball in practice for getting up and down.

  • SPORTS

    Let the left heel come up for easier body turn, freer swing

    Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 07/02/2024

    » Golfers who ride in golf carts are always driving here and there from one ball to the other, taking up a lot of time. If the rule is in effect that the cart is not allowed to leave the path, golfers are inclined to dawdle over club selection and make unnecessary trips back and forth from the ball to the bag. Walking keeps senior golfers' legs strong, and strong legs make for a more powerful swing.

  • THAILAND

    'Tuk Tuk on Tour' wins first prize

    News, Published on 15/01/2024

    » Using clay, cement and ice to sculpt "snow art", a Thai team from Saowabha Vocational College in Bangkok won the first prize in the 16th International Collegiate Snow Sculpture Contest hosted in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China.

  • LIFE

    One more Wild Boars story left to be told

    Life, Published on 07/09/2022

    » After The Cave (2019), The Caved Life (2020) and Thirteen Lives, which has recently been released on Amazon Prime, we have one more story left about the 12 young Wild Boar football team members and their coach who were trapped in the Tham Luang Cave in Chiang Rai for 18 days in 2018.

  • LIFE

    Flying high or fiery doom?

    Life, Published on 01/01/2024

    » Your horoscope for the Year of the Dragon.

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