Tag: Skating

Aardwolfs in Queenstown

I joined the Aardwolfs Ice Hockey Club for their Southern Migration tour. Here are some photos of me from the trip.

Remarkables

Here’s a panoramic photo I took of the Remarkables from the Queenstown ice rink. And here’s a photo I took of Ted skimming a stone across Lake Wakatipu.

Lake Tekapo ice rink

The brand new ice rink at Lake Tekapo is simply stunning! Gone with the old and in the new. For more information about the new facility visit http://www.alpinesprings.co.nz/.

Lake Tekapo

Here’s some photos I took of Lake Tekapo while on the Aardwolfs Southern Migration.  

Fairlie ice rink

We visited the Fairlie ice rink during the Aardwolfs Southern Migration. Not a lot to see really, just a mud bog! The Aardwolfs babes provided some amusement by strutting their stuff for the camera.

Anna and penguin

Anna with me in the penguin outfit.

Penguin

I was dressed in a Yellow Eyed Penguin suit as the mascot for the World Friendship Ice Hockey Games. There were teams from USA, Canada, Australia, Korea and New Zealand. The suit was ridiculously hot inside and skating became more of a sliding waddle 😛 The kids seemed to enjoy it though and none of […]

Video clips from the Manorburn dam

I did a bunch of videos of our trip to the Manorburn dam recently. They aren’t very long and I don’t have any of myself unfortunately 🙁

More Manorburn dam photos

Some more photos from the Manorburn dam

Action photography on the Manorburn Dam

There was lots of pond hockey on the Manorburn dam. But of course, I and anyone else with a camera was playing in it! So I don’t have any photos of me playing 🙁 But here’s some action photos of the others.

Team photos on the Manorburn Dam

There was a whole fleet of Dunedinites on the Manorburn dam. Here’s some pics of a few of us.

Trip to the Manorburn Dam

After some wickedly cold temperatures in Alexandra, I took Sarah, Jane and Kara through to Alexandra to go skating on the Manorburn dam. This was the first time I’d skated on it since I was about 12! Stu McLennan has kindly lent me the former Matt Mobile while he’s away in Australia which we used […]

Beasts in Queenstown

The Dunedin Beasts team which I’m playing for in the Southern Ice Hockey League made a trip to Queenstown to play against a Queenstown team. We lost, but had heaps of fun en route 🙂

Dunedin Beasts

Photos of my ice hockey team the Dunedin Beasts.

Dunedin Bears

Well, we didn’t exactly set the league alight, but we had lots of fun and fought our way galiantly to last place in the Autumn 2007 Dunedin Ice Hockey League B-grade. Here are some photos taken by Joe Sales of my team the Bears. Thanks to Joe for letting me post them here. I’m the […]

Beasts in the Easton Cup

I played for the Dunedin Beasts in the Easton Cup. I also dragged our superstar ring-in Jenel Bode to play with us 🙂 Unfortunately she got injured and only played one and a bit games 🙁 We got totally thumped in every game. Was lots of fun though and I can’t wait for the rest […]

Jenel Bode comes to Dunedin!

Woot! Got a lift back to Dunedin from Christchurch with my old hockey coach Jenel Bode who I’m hoping will take a job with the Dunedin Ice Hockey Association as a professional hockey coach/skating instructor. We stopped off at the Moeraki boulders on the way. Yvette and I took her up onto the chemistry department […]

Hockey in Alexandra

I went to Alexandra for a round of the Southern League ice hockey championship and took some photos of the Maniototo vs Queenstown Stars game.

Calgary Phantoms

I’m back playing inline hockey again! I’ve joined the Calgary Phantoms 🙂

Intramural Finals

Here’s some videos from the finals of the University of Calgary Intramural B-grade and A-grade non-contact hockey leagues. First up are the Stubble Jumpers (the winners). I often played at lunch time with a bunch of these guys and they were pretty pumped to win the B-grade. [MEDIA=27] The next video is of the A-grade. […]

Team Group Velocity

Somehow I managed to end up on the University of Calgary physics hockey team! They were short on players so I signed up and dragged along Janay with me. We had the stunningly geeky name of “Team Group Velocity”. The team was a hotch potch of various levels. We competed in the University of Calgary […]

Outdoor hockey in Tuscany

I played in a social outdoor ice hockey tournament in Tuscany, Calgary with some guys I met at the Olympic Oval a while back. The event was great, ice wasn’t the best as a chinook (easterly wind) was blowing through, but it was a heap of fun and I hope to compete in an event […]

Olympic Oval

The Olympic Oval at the University of Calgary is the best ice rink I’ve ever seen! Two full international sized hockey rinks within the confines of a full long track speed skating rink! I played hockey there at lunch times a lot and I had power skating and hockey lessons there as well. Plus I […]

Skating in the Rockies

For Christmas, my friend Mike Boyle took me ice skating in the Rocky Mountains 🙂 The weather was great, well as great as minus 20 degrees can be, and there was HEAPS of ice. Unfortunately there was a tad too much snow to make skating viable. [MEDIA=23]

Beautiful neighbourhood skating pond

A beautiful skating pond near my home in Calgary.

Christmas turkey

Well what do you do when you’re stuck in a strange foreign land on Christmas day? You have a Christmas orphans dinner that’s what! Gregor and I bought a turkey, got a bunch of other foreigners (Gregor’s from Oz) and then we deep fried the little bugger – the turkey, not the foreigners! The locals […]

Skating at Olympic Plaza

Ice skating at the Olympic Plaza in Calgary, Canada.

Front yard rink

Well what else do you do when it’s -15 degrees outside and you have an itch to play hockey? The idea of the rink came about one day when my roommate (flatmate) Gregor and I were sitting round talking about how his old roommate had built a rink in their backyard. So I was like […]

Calgary Hitmen

Mike Boyle took me to see a Western Hockey League (WHL) game featuring the Calgary Hitmen at the Saddledome in Calgary. The game was very exciting, lots of big hits, lots of skill and a WAY higher level of hockey than I’d seen before. Unfortunately the NHL lockout was on at the time so I […]

Silver medal

The Otago University Falcons inline hockey team won a silver medal in the 2003 New Zealand University Games held in Palmerston North. We were beaten in the finals by Massey University. Clockwise from top left: Ryan Hellyer (me), Simon Lovatt, Kyle Matthews, Daniel Jang, Andrew Sykes, Kerry Perkins, Mark Eatherly (goalie), John Thomsen and David […]

Videos of Dunedin Vixens in Nelson, New Zealand

The Dunedin Vixens (aka Dunedin Aces women) in action in Nelson, New Zealand. [MEDIA=16] [MEDIA=17] [MEDIA=18] And the result … um, yeah, they got caned. Seems to be a recurring theme for the Dunedin Aces 😛

Videos of Dunedin Aces in Nelson, New Zealand

Here’s some videos of the Dunedin Aces senior team playing in Nelson (South Island of New Zealand) in 2003. We got totally thrashed, but it was a good trip. I’m number 27 in white with black pants with bright blue stripes. And last of all … here’s a video interview with the team by Daniel […]

Dunedin Aces

The Dunedin Aces are an inline hockey club which was started initially by Daniel Jang and within weeks myself, Kerry Perkins and a bunch of others were recruited to help run the club. We eventually got our own uniforms and headed off to the South Island Regional Inline Hockey Championship where we were promptly gobbled […]

Dunedin Vixens

The Dunedin Vixens (aka Dunedin Aces women) were an awesome team. Unfortunately an extra Y chromosome ruled me out of joining 🙁 Although I did play in goal for them once as an honorary woman. The photo below is from their 2002 journey to the South Island Regional Inline Hockey Championships. Clockwise from top left: […]

George St school

This was where I learned to play hockey! A random question by someone at the staff club one night about making a chemistry inline hockey team prompted me to go buy a stick, a pair of inline hockey skates and the rest is history! A life long (so far) obsession with hockey was born and […]

Videos of George St school

Check out the video footage from the mighty home of both the Dunedin Aces and Otago University Falcons inline hockey teams. Note the high quality gravel smooth flesh tearing surface 😛 [MEDIA=6] An interview with John Thomsen who is world famous (within Dunedin Aces members) for scoring us a goal against the mighty Nelson Whalers. […]

Manorburn dam

This is Dad and I on the Manorburn dam in 1990.