TUG OF WAR

The Annual Bedhampton Summer Show organisers are looking for tug of war teams to compete at Bidbury Mead on Saturday 5"'July between 2pm and 4.30pm.

Could you raise a team of seven, and don't worry about professionals, we are looking for teams from our Borough colleges, pubs, and clubs such as athletic, football, rowing, cricket, hockey, or any groups that can be forming a team. There are no established T of W teams in the area, but 15 years ago there were 91 teams that competed in Hampshire and Wiltshire, now principally because of good old 'health and safety' that has reduced to just two, and they won't be competing.

Running involves just lungs and legs, but tug of war involves the whole 550 muscles each body has, and it's something very different, an opportunity to try that completely different sport. Each team will be guaranteed several pulls', competing for medals

Tug of war certainly goes back over 2000 years in China, Egypt and Greece, and frequently part of ancient ceremonies, but nobody knows where it started. In China they believed the sun and moon had a continual, but obviously very fair, tug of war, deciding day from night, and would, the people that is, have 500 people on each end of a 167m rope, whilst the Greeks used it for training for battle

It featured in the Olympics, but only between 1900 and 1920, so please consider playing your small part in keeping it alive it always used to be part of our Summer Show.

If you are Interested then please contact the below when further details and training/practising tips can be imparted and your team can be registered, a closing date for registrations is 30 April

Contact Pete on 023 9248 2521

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