{"id":5678,"date":"2026-01-08T10:28:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T10:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/christchurchsport\/?p=5678"},"modified":"2026-01-08T10:28:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T10:28:59","slug":"homi-tries-rugby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/christchurchsport\/homi-tries-rugby\/","title":{"rendered":"Homi tries Rugby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well&#8230; you are absolutely, 100% correct . But the name of the blog is &#8220;Homi Tries&#8221;, not &#8220;Homi Sees a Sport and Walks Away.&#8221; So of course, against all of my better judgment, I HAD to give it a shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>First Thoughts: Fear \u2192 Confidence<\/strong><br>All my worries disappeared the moment I stepped into the session at the Sports Centre. I wasn&#8217;t the smallest. I wasn&#8217;t the slowest. And although there was running involved, it did not stop me. Sure, it got rough at times (I&#8217;m not exactly the definition of athletic), but I was an absolute demon on the field&#8230; Well, compared to my attempts at other sports anyway!<br><br>By the end of the session, I had 1 goal, 2 assists, and one or two magnificent saves. Not bad for someone who doesn&#8217;t look like they belong anywhere near a rugby pitch!<br><br><strong>Important Note: No Contact<\/strong><br>Before anyone gets impressed and starts calling me a warrior, let me make one thing very clear we did NOT play real, full-contact rugby. That&#8217;s the only reason I&#8217;m still alive and able to write this blog. It was a non-contact version, which in my book is a massive win because I walked away completely unscathed!<br><br><strong>Team Vibes: Friendly and Encouraging<\/strong><br>The team and genuinely every single member was incredibly friendly. They helped me elevate my game&#8230; not by much, because you can&#8217;t fix a lack of talent. But still, my massive contribution will forever be remembered in the history books (written by me). The club has both women&#8217;s and men&#8217;s teams,\u00a0so feel free to join anytime you want!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230; you are absolutely, 100% correct . But the name of the blog is &#8220;Homi Tries&#8221;, not &#8220;Homi Sees a Sport and Walks Away.&#8221; So of course, against all of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":435026,"featured_media":5682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christ-church-sport"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authorName":"Abbie Cairns","featuredImage":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/christchurchsport\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/526\/2026\/01\/IMG_8370.jpg","postExcerpt":"Well&#8230; you are absolutely, 100% correct . But the name of the blog is &#8220;Homi Tries&#8221;, not &#8220;Homi Sees a Sport and Walks Away.&#8221; So of course, against all of [&hellip;]","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/christchurchsport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/christchurchsport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/christchurchsport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/christchurchsport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/435026"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/christchurchsport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/christchurchsport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5686,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/christchurchsport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5678\/revisions\/5686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/christchurchsport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/christchurchsport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/christchurchsport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/christchurchsport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}