Chelsea Hedges is the winner of the 2010 Drug Aware Pro in Margaret River and competing there again this year. Last year’s event could easily be called a wicked come-back, as she had just returned to professional surfing after a three year break to have her daughter Mieka. Read more >>

Perth’s 18 year old young gun Felicity Palmateer got one of the Wild Cards to compete in the Drug Aware Pro 2010 and made it through to the semi finals before getting defeated by Chelsea Hedges. Felicity already has a pretty impressive surfing career and is last year’s WA’s junior state champion and has won the ASP Quiksilver Jetty Surf Pro Junior earlier in 2010. Read more >>

Becoming a pro surfer is the dream of many young surfers. For the majority of them it will unfortunately stay a dream, but given the talent, time and ambition, it is easier to get started than you might think. Read more >>

Kenyan Captain Jimmy Kamande won the toss and elected to bat first, boy did he not know what was yet to occur. Hamish Bennett took advantage of the variable bounce and exposed the Kenyan’s batting; the seam bowler ripped the Kenyan front apart and reduced them to an embarrassing score of 69 all out in just 23.5 overs. Bennet got 4 wickets in as little as 5 overs just giving away 16 runs. He was well supported by T.G Southee who got himself 3 wickets in just 6 overs and a very low economy rate of 2.16 giving away 13 runs. Read more >>

The most anticipated cricket tournament this year is just a matter of days away. Mind you, like football, the ICC Cricket World Cup is drawn every 4 years so you can imagine the cricket fans’ excitement and intensity. 19th Feb is when it all begins and the Indian Sub- Continent is already rocking the earth’s crust. The tournament hosts are India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, home advantage is certainly going to be a key factor here. Read more >>

A second place finish at the 2011 Asian Cup is a huge moment in Australian soccer. It says much about the work that has been done since the A-League replaced the National Soccer League in 2004. However it's evident there is much more work to be done. Click here

Just when she thought her time was up on the pitch, Jayde Taylor decided to give it one last shot and try and make it into the Hockeyroos national squad, just in time for the New Dehli Commonwealth Games. The Australian team have a remarkable Commonwealth Games record, having only ever lost one match and claiming two of the three gold medals on offer since 1998.

The Hockeyroos have seen good results of late, finishing fifth at the World Cup in Argentina earlier this year. Strong performances from Jayde saw her retain her spot in the 16-player squad and she was given the opportunity to impress sooner rather than later.

The 25-year-old, who made her Test debut in Europe in June, has surprised even herself with her sudden rise to the top after less than a dozen international games. Read more >>

At only 24 years of age, local Perth boy Michael De-Vaney has done fairly well for himself. He believes himself to be a “fairly humble, somewhat foul-mouthed God believing insurance salesman.” Suffering from an identity crisis? Perhaps – or it could coCurrently preparing for his comeback to his current home promotion, the Southern Hemisphere Wrestling Alliance (SHWA), De-Vaney’s career is a story in itself. He’s been training long and hard for hours each day in an effort to lose weight.me down to the talent which is emerging from the man making a name for himself as a wrestler. And now? Read more >>

I admit it. I’m not that coordinated.

Well, that’d be your take if you had the pleasure of witnessing my first ever pole-dancing class. I may be proficient at many things in life, but developing ease at strutting and swirling around a pole is not something I was born with.

I’d heard talk of the classes provided by SheMoves across locations in Joondalup, Perth and Darwin – and hadn’t heard anything bad about them. So I signed up for the beginner’s course at the Joondalup studios and went along to check it out. Read more >>