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The nude version of the Kiwi All Blacks rugby team, the Nude Blacks, have had a lot of coverage on the internet for their naked rugby playing, and this is a good video of their Haka. The Haka is a traditional Maori intimidation ritual designed to scare opponents off.

As much as I love the idea of sports being played nude, I do question the logic in playing winter sports, in cold locations like New Zealand, in the nude. I know there’s lots of running around, but damn, it’s got to be uncomfortable.

Every now and then you come across something that makes you go “huh?” Boxing is one of those hyper masculine sports where butch men beating the crap out of each other is celebrated. Not a sport that stereotypically you would think you’d find gay men. No doubt there are lots of gay men who do boxing, it’s just not heard of and I’m sure most of them would want the fact kept quiet.

So when I see images like the ones above I’m always intrigued. I know men can get carried away with their sport at times. One of the few times I’ve seen my father get choked up and emotional was when an Australian won the Australian Motor Cycle Grand Prix many years ago. As a result sporting heroes are worshipped, but do straight men ever see the irony in getting all excited and enthusiastic watching boxers weighing in when they strip right down to nothing to make sure they make weight? It’s an odd scenario to have a room full of men fully dressed all staring at a naked man on a set of scales.

It seems the Kiwis don’t have a monopoly on playing nude rugby! The Italians have been at it for a few years too. You want proof? Watch this video. I love that it’s just like any regular game of rugby, just nude. There’s no hesitation about tackling and no self consciousness in front of the crowd. In fact they even run into the crowd at the end and just socialise with everyone, nude.

Let’s have more of it I say!

A recent article sent to me by several of my friends (can’t imagine why) argues the likelihood that we’ll ever see our sporting competitions regularly undertaken nude. One young man is rowing across the Indian Ocean and doing it nude, there are routinely nude rugby matches in New Zealand these days and I’d hazard a guess that it is far from unheard of to see drunken sporting teams having a rowdy nude match.

The term gymnos that gymnasium and gymnastics are derived from literally means to exercise nude and we all know that in the Ancient (original and the best?) version of the Olympics were competed nude. As I’ve discussed on here before there are some sports that to be done nude would be probably a bad idea, but lots of them would be great. Surely tv audiences would be up?

When a professional sportsman retires, it’s usually to go into business, commentating or coaching but Ben Cohen has announced his retirement to start the worlds first anti-bullying organisation. Ben is currently visiting four cities in the U.S. as part of his Acceptance tour promoting acceptance, tolerance and a stance against bullying for what ever reason.

“To be honest, I would never have imagined my career was going to  move in this direction after my professional rugby career, but here we are – it’s happening. It is incredibly exciting and we have so many plans in the pipeline to be able to make a difference. In my view, rugby is a very inclusive sport. Everyone can get involved in one way or another, so I will be using it as a vehicle to drive my message of acceptance out to people from  all walks of life, everywhere. There is a lot of work to be done. Attitudes need to change. Young people should not be bullied into taking their own lives. That is what is happening and it needs to stop.”

For centuries the Turkish Oil Wrestlers have battled it out in annual events to claim honour in the sport. In recent years “the gays” have realised the perve factor of the sport. The traditionalists and purists hate hearing that it’s a gay sport and it’s not. It’s a long, drawn out battle between pairings of burly men, and the boys that aspire to be like them for dominance and strength, but you can’t deny the gay appeal of the sport. Fetching leather pants, gorgeous masculine men oiled up all over each other. Hell, they even admittedly stick their hand down each other’s pants and grab whatever they can to get a better hold to dominate their opponent.

I don’t think that there’s any doubting these competitions were the inspiration for fetish nude oil wrestling videos where the winner gets to fuck the loser.

From a practicality perspective or a danger perspective, some sports are much more nude friendly than others. Rugby at first glance would seem a bit hazardous, but those guys always seem to be stripping off. Maybe it’s more of a camaraderie thing that overcomes any normal limitations.

Rowing is a sport that seems to encourage nudity although having done rowing, your junk could get caught between your legs which could be a bit risky. I know when I was rowing surf boats, at the time the nude surfing competition was being held annually in Bondi, my crew and I were going to row nude into the middle of the competition one year. Due to a complete lack of surf where we’d been competing we figured the competiton would abandoned so accordingly abandoned plans to row into it. Sadly for us, they did have the competition and we missed our chance.

One of Australia’s Olympic gold medal winning rowing crews was rumored to have been quite partial to rowing nude back to their home club nude if they were competing on the same stretch of water. Bring back the ancient style of Olympics I say.

It’s a really good thing when people get organised and do their best to bring people together. Thomas is the man behind gaysurfers.net and being a sydney based guy, he’s organising a bit of a get together for all the Sydney guys registered on gaysurfers.net. SO, take yourselves to the site if you are a gay surfer in or near Sydney who can attend the gathering on Saturday 15th January.

We will be meeting on the beach at Bondi but will be heading off for a drink nearby to mix and chat. The venue is yet to be decided but I will post the information as soon as it’s available!

There are some sports that are cliched nudist sports. Volleyball seems to be popular with the nudies but I think that might have as much to do with the jiggling entertainment value for the spectators. Water based sports (you’ll note I avoided saying watersports) are a natural fit of course. Bike riding is easy and fairly practical for nudists, but finding areas big enough could be an issue. Ice hockey and basketball I would have thought a little dangerous with sticks, elbows and other bits and pieces flying around and rock climbing? Well I guess over a river you can just drop back into the water and there’s no uncomfortable harness.

What sports have you done nude?

It’s always sad when anyone dies, even more so when that person dies too young. Some celebrities you would hardly be surprised to hear they died. What are the odds that most news sources have an obituary special prepared for Lindsay Lohan ready to go?

I was quite surprised and saddened to hear that Andy Irons, champion surfer, had been found dead today. There are varying reports out there. The first I heard was that he’d succumbed to dengue fever and another report tonight said strong prescription drugs were found in his hotel room where he died.

He was successful, supposedly healthy and expecting his first child with his wife Lindy. He may not have been finding a cure for cancer but he was an idol to thousands of kids learning to surf and a champion to those dreaming of an endless summer.

I stumbled across this fantasy football team at Swoonworthy. Now I now NOTHING about American Football other than the guys wear an enormous amount of padding, they are enormous guys and you seem to need two teams for each team. They can’t run both ways and tackle?

Given my lack of knowledge about the game, it should come as no surprise that I know nothing about the players either. I’ve heard of Tom Brady and Reggie Bush but that’s more because they are/were sticking their anatomy in the anatomy of famous women, and because they are both hot.

These guys on this fantasy team are scorching. Forgive me if I buy front row tickets to the locker room instead of the actual game won’t you? All that padding does nothing to show off their bodies which, judging by these shots, are in FINE form.

Just because. I have been a bit slack with posting lately I know, so I thought I’d share some fit naked men with you.

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This article and interview with Gareth Thomas, now 8 months after publicly coming out, proves what an extraordinary man he is. So strong, down to earth, humble and apparently a genuinely nice guy. We love it.

It’s amazing to see the difference in levels of prudishness and censorship around the world. In the U.S. a contestants hint of bum crack on Survivor gets blurred out, but in New Zealand they post video on official news sites of the Annual Nude Rugby match complete with full frontal action!

Thanks to James for sending me the link. If anyone has the embeddable file, please let me know!

Capoeira is a form of exercise that I would love to have a go at one day. A brazilian form of martial arts and dance combined, it’s graceful, dynamic, cool and it looks like a bunch of fun. Some of the guys you see walking around who do it have amazing bodies so there are benefits to it clearly.

I found this video over at Active Naturists, and now capoeira makes even more sense to me. Although a badly timed move and you could be in a bit of pain.