PSC Bowling presents end of season awards

Three Sisters wins PSC Bowling team championship

Forty-nine bowlers and guests had a great time at the second PSC Bowling League of 2000 party, held at the Mai Kai Lounge, Tropicana Hotel on March 6. With wine flowing like water, plus many other free drinks, and girls dressed to kill, it turned out to be a great night for all.

The Three Sisters team (L to R) Ow, Jah, team sponsor Herbie, La, and Peter, proudly display their beautiful PSC Bowling Championship Trophies.

Trophies were awarded by Ken Crow, Jan Olav Aamlid, Jim Montgomery and bowling chairperson La Montgomery. Trophies went to all eight sponsors: Three Sisters Bar, TQ 1 Bob, Snowman, VFW Post 9876, House of the Golden Coin, Cafe Kronborg and Cafe Ole.

Cafe Kronborg kegglers finished in third place (L to R) Lek, Egon, Kran and Ken Crow.

The first place team trophies went to the Three Sisters team made up of La, Peter, Ow and Jah.

Lewiinski’s Nok, Hartmut, Somrak and Morn finished in second place, whilst team Cafe Kronborg, Kran, Ken Crow, Egon and Lek finished third.

A gallant second place effort from Team Lewiinski’s Hartmut, Somrak and Morn.

Technical trophies for high game and series, both scratch and with handicap, for ladies and men, were captured by Mio, Nual, Kran, La, Jah, Ken Crow, Jon and Peter.

Pleasure Dome awarded Mickey Mouse Championship trophy

Back in form as nw season begins

The awards party for the Mickey Mouse Darts League was held Friday, 2nd March at Mick’s Place. The winning team trophy went to the Pleasure Dome...yet again. The trophy for High Out went to Tim from the Rising Sun, having checked out with a 140. Most Under 10s went to the Rising Sun, and the coveted “Wooden Spoon” was awarded to the newest team in the league, Smuggler’s Rest.

Mickey Mouse Darts League champions from the Pleasure Dome.

Friday’s party featured a lucky draw pairs competition. 14 pairs squared off, each trying to avoid three losses. Fittingly enough, the winning pair were Alex from the Pleasure Dome and “Skinny” Ian from Yorkie Bar. The Dome and Yorkie finished first and second in the league, respectively.

Meanwhile, the new league got underway on the 9th of March. Cheers had a good start winning both the game and beer leg against Yorkie. Palmer’s also started the season well at Smugglers continuing their good run from last season. Champions Pleasure Dome also began well at Mick’s Place taking all honours. Devonshire had a good win against Rising Sun taking the game and beer.

Another big one caught fishing out of Pattaya

Another world class fish was landed while fishing out of Pattaya in February. Captain Dank, fishing near Koh Lin on Wednesday the 28th hooked into a 140-pound Black Marlin. A lot of Marlin are spotted in the area each year but few big ones are hooked. Most of the big fish in the 80 to 100 pound class are Sailfish. King Mackerel and Black Barracuda come in up to 40 to 45 pounds with the Queen Fish and Pompano ranging up to 20 to 25 pounds. With all these sports fish in area waters, Pattaya is becoming a world class fishing destination.

140-pound Black Marlin

The Pattaya Sports Club organizes a fishing tournament each month open to all who enjoy the sport of deep sea fishing. For more information contact Carl Engel PSC fishing chairman at phone 038-410228, fax 038-426121, or e-mail [email protected]

Go by one of the PSC fishing venues at the Local Fish & Trips, J & M Bar, the Bull Ring Bar, and Pacific Brass & Copper, all on Soi Yodsak, Rosie O’ Gradys on Soi 7, the Wonderful Bar on Soi Yamoto, the Fishing Tackle Shop on South Road, or Cafe Kronborg on Soi Diana Inn and talk some fishing.

PH3 Run 887

Tuesday morning. Just finishing my second cup of tea, but somehow I have the niggling feeling that something is wrong. I woke up in my own bed. No cuts or bruises on my arms or legs. The motorbike is in one piece downstairs. Pretty good considering I was on the Hash run yesterday. So what is the problem? Another cup of tea, then some more brain cells kick-start. “S@#t! I am Hash scribe.” For years I have seen guys taking notes of the proceedings when they have been the designated scribe and decried their lack of dependence on their memories. Now I wished I had mimicked their aptitude.

Sign up at the Scandi Bar, then a pleasant bus ride out the Siam Country Club Road. Ninety something hashers were then told to form a circle by our GM Boy George, or should he now be called Tyrant Man George. What a monster we have created. He then informed us that circles would be different from now on. Hash hymn would be performed earlier as usually, everyone buggered off at this stage with copious amounts of booze in their bags. Hash security was to be beefed up. If no one liked it, they could stop coming or vote Commidante “You Will Have Fun” Herr George, out as GM next year. Anyway I liked it GM.

Finally, it was business as usual. Teeny Weeny in for his crack’s new shoes. Spunk Bubble and about five of the devil family to tell us about the run. Seemingly there were still two out there who were still eating. After last week’s marathon, the run was pleasantly shorter, with many hashers just walking the run. Although a few hardcore runners like Glasshopper, Tampax and Big Nosed B breezed round in under half an hour. With Jeep’s Misses supplying bacon sandwiches and hot dogs, and plenty of the amber nectar going down my thrapple, I was really enjoying myself. But all good things must come to an end. “I am not really loosing my voice” Boy George, called the circle to order.

Twiggy, ably aided by Dr. Pinky, gave away some grand lottery prizes. Hares escaped hash s@#t, even paper abuse was excused. Although the GM passed on his hash s@#t award to Chicken F. This was something to do about Dirt paraphernalia being used previously. “All Yanks in the circle.” “All Europeans in the circle.” “All Aussies in the circle.” What the @#$! was Boy George up to now? “Hats off pots on the floor.” Of course it was Hash hymn time. After that was over, it was the usual format. Returners, leavers, visitors etc., all dealt with.

Time for some religion. Sir Airhead, the Good R.A’s circle. Big Nosed B iced for advertising a different hash by email selectively. Karamba for nearly killing Flying Frog on some parachute jump in Borneo. Poodle Juice, because that is what he is.

More religion from Festering Streaker, the Ugly R.A, who brandished a picture of C. face eating what might be a hot dog. “What came first? The picture or C. face’s hash name?” The GM awarded anniversary down downs to F Nose who has hared 10 runs. Skiing Finn, who has completed 50 runs. Singapore Sucker received his 100th run mug. To all well done.

Charlie “The Executioner” Manson informed us he would not behead Tampax if he could photo stage it. I know a great deal more went on in the circle, but unfortunately by then I was unable to remember it. A meandering walk to the buses, then it was back to TQ2 for some Rock n’ Roll. Good go-go dancing, bar snacks. Thanks Spunk Bubble and the Devil family for another good hash.

On On, General Kidney Wiper

The Square Ring

PSC to sponsor dart teams

The Pattaya Sports Club will be sponsoring a team of members to compete in each of the following events:

April 6-8: Thailand International Open - A World Dart Federation event, with a maximum of 500 entries (inc. 56 countries). A venue is still to be announce, but it will be in Pattaya! The format will be 1) Teams of 4; 2) Doubles; 3) Men’s singles; 4) Ladies singles; and 5) Lucky draw.

May 5-6: Pattaya Open is a Thai Dart Association event, with a maximum of 300 entries available to members of a Thai association, such as the PSC. The events are identical to the Thai International above.

Pattaya Sports Club Monday Dart League
Week 9 of the Summer Season

	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points
Cafe Kronborg Pleasure Dome Mick’s Place Ding Dong Bar Londoner Thistle Kennel Dogs	7 7 5 5 4 4 1	2 1 1 0 1 0 1	0 1 3 4 4 5 7	16 15 11 10 9 8 3

Fitness Tips : Slow motion training (Part 2)

by David Garred
Club Manager Dusit Resort Sports Club

G’day Readers,

Last week I talked about an article in Newsweek that hit upon a topic that one of my lecturers had a deep passion for in college. While at the time it was relatively new to the health & fitness field it absolutely screamed of logical thinking. At the time all weight lifting was based upon lifting as much weight as fast as you could as many times and on as many different machines as possible. This lead to many over use (chronic) as well as sprain type injuries, ligament and tendon injuries were not uncommon as well (acute). Some of these injuries happened to elite athletes, ‘recreational’ trainers were, by far and away, getting the predominant amount of them. The whole idea was to curb the international inactivity trend and help take better care of us. Studies were conducted using various protocols to try to reverse this apparently growing trend of injured lifters. Slow training was experimented with and gave the best results. Injuries were basically eliminated and training results were vastly improved across the board, regardless of gender, age or prior training experience. Read on.

When Rona Ostrow took up slow motion training 14 months ago, she had battled breast cancer for nearly five years. The treatments had damaged her thyroid and sent her abruptly into menopause, leaving her weak, overweight and discouraged about restoring her body. The 52-year-old librarian couldn’t face the gym scene, so she signed on with Adam Zickerman, founder of a New York-based studio called In Form Fitness, for a brief weekly dose of slow lifting. She has since lost four inches from her chest, waist and hips and regained some faith in her body. On a recent icy morning, she slipped and fell on the sidewalk. “I just jumped backup like a hockey player,” she marvels.

Ostrow might have benefited from any strength-training program. But proponents insist the slow technique is safer and more effective than traditional method. Preliminary studies suggest they have a case. In 1993 and again in 1999, Wayne Westcott, fitness-research director at the South Shore YMCA in Quincy, Massachusetts, assigned untrained, middle-aged volunteers to one of two regimens. Both groups performed the same round of exercises. But while one group did 10-rep sets, spending seven seconds on each repetition of the exercise, the other group did five-rep sets, extending each rep for 14 seconds. Both groups put in the same amount of time, but over periods of eight to 10 weeks, the slow lifters gained 50 percent more strength than the controls.

Slow lifting isn’t just for the infirm or the soft of stomach. A number of professional sports teams have adopted the drill, and body-builders are discovering that they too can gain by slowing down. The question is whether this is all the exercise a person needs to stay healthy?

Ken Hutchins, the Florida-based trainer who founded the Super Slow movement (and patented the name), claims adamantly that it is. In screeds with titles like “Why NOT Aerobics?” and “Aerobics Is Dead,” he dismisses anything beyond purely recreational running, jumping or dancing as joint killing lunacy. “By performing [aerobic] activities on your off days,” he says, “you compromise the progress you could be making.” Few experts go that far. Any form of exercise is harmful in excess, but aerobic activity has known cardiovascular benefits. It may turn out 20 minutes of slow torture is the ultimate prescription for fitness. But, until all the evidence is in, moderation is surely the best policy. Push those weights until your limbs quiver. Then strap on your helmet and ride home on your bike.

I’ve just started to put the members at Dusit through this programme and I am very excited about the results that I hope to get in about 6-8 weeks time. That’s the best part of this job, seeing those smiling faces after they have seen the shape change in their own body.

Carpe’ Diem

Royal Garden tennis finals this weekend

The finals of the Wilson / Coca Cola / Royal Garden Spa & Fitness Club Tennis Tournament are this weekend, March 17 and 18 at the Royal Garden Pattaya.

The weekend will begin with the Kids’ Tournament on March 17. 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Boys and Girls 14 / 16 under (strict starting time). 4 - 6 p.m. Kids’ Tennis Carnival (under 10 years old with an adult).

Then at 3 p.m. on Saturday, March 17 is the Mixed Doubles Finals, followed at 5 p.m. by the Veterans’ Singles Finals and at 7 p.m. the Ladies Singles Finals.

Sunday, March 18 begins at 10 a.m. with the Men’s Doubles Finals and the Ladies Doubles Finals. At 3:30 p.m. is Wilson Play Testing & Promo, followed at 3:30 p.m. by the Fast Serve Competition and the Beat the PBI Pro to 3 points competition. At 4:30 p.m. is the Men’s Singles Finals (lucky draw for all spectators).

The cocktail party for the trophy, awards and lucky draw presentation (with snacks, feel free to bring a guest) begins at 6 p.m.

For further information, contact the Royal Garden Spa & Fitness Club.

Robert Deane turned on the screws

PSC Three Sisters Golf

The Three Sisters Golfers met at Siam Country Club on Monday the 5th to vie for bragging rights for the day. The turnout was good and fun was had by all. The usual group arrived ready for action at approximately 0830.

Robert Deane, who was a group winner in the last PSC Monthly tournament, turned on the screws and nailed down first place with 38 points. As a halfway shy person, Deane didn’t get as excited as others have been. Robert has joined the Pattaya scene fairly recently, as compared to a lot of the old timers, and he is getting his feet wet and will be an asset to the community. He’s beginning to know the group better and I’m sure that he’ll begin to be heard from more often (good shooting Robert).

Running a close second was Brian O’Gorman with 36 points. He took second place from Vic Cross on count back. Brian shot 21 points on the back nine to secure second place. Vic has been in there almost every week kicking and scratching trying to win once again. But Vic could not keep up with Brian’s twisted swing. Brian (The Pretzel) kept his swing intact and kept his putts on line to secure second place.

Bob Moberg and Billy Fain could be heard again arguing around the course. By the tone of their voices, I think Bob won. As it stands, Bob is going back to work so I don’t know who will be arguing with Billy next week.

On the 17th hole Mike McKay hit his first drive out of bounds then drove his second drive into the bunker left of the green. His partners were awed by the shot, which covered over 300 yards. To top it all, Mike had his clubs stolen and was using borrowed clubs (keep the driver, Mike).

Siam will again be the venue for the next gathering - See you all there.

Cool Kerry Slams Siam

IPGC Pattaya Golf Society at the Bunker

On Tuesday, 6th March, thirty Bunker Boys travelled to Siam Country Club for a Stableford competition. It was the first time the Bunker had played there in almost a year and they were met with extra slow greens and hardpan or sandy surfaces amongst the trees. Quite different from the last time and quite a challenge to all.

The cut was at 21 and division two saw the return to form of seafarer Jon Wood who sailed into third place with 33 points, just behind the Sandman, Gordon McKnight on 34 points, ably caddied by his lady, Anong. The winner was Jersey’s Peter MacKay who carded 35 points.

Division one saw George Meigh and Bruce “The Quiet One” Lawrence tie with 38 points, only to trail behind cool Icelander, Kerry Jonsson who recorded a splendid 41 points. Kerry resumes his studies in Japan very soon, yet he managed to play teacher for this round. Later at the Bunker he put his long hitting down to his usual hardy breakfast of soup, sandwiches and ice-cream - not necessarily in that order!

Nearest-the-pin awards went to the Belgian Beau Remy, the Danish Dynamo Michael Dige, pensive Bill Jones and the ever accurate Norman Brooks.

Remy Rules at Green Valley

On Friday, 9th March, the twenty-five Bunker Boys and Girls went to Rayong Green Valley for a medal/Stableford competition.

In division two in-form Jon Wood returned thirty-three points, fireman Danny Greer’s first round since returning from England set alarm bells ringing with thirty-six points and the group was headed by Beth Lill with thirty-seven points.

Division one saw Mr. Loy, with net 72, trailing Ken Lill with net 74 and Bert “Remy” Guy coming out on top of the group with net 73. This was a perfect warm-up for his second round matchplay pairing against Michael Dige.

The day was also notable because the Guru, Mick Jones, had qualified to play in the top flight after his recent handicap adjustments. Those in division two breathed a heavy sigh of relief when this was known, but as it turned out the Mighty One lost his way on the testing Green Valley course. It seems nobody is perfect after all!

Nearest-the-pin awards went to Len Jones, Mr. Loy, Ken Lill and the Guru.

Record turnout for Shenanigans pairs scramble

Forty members of the Shenanigans Very Friendly Golf Society and a further thirty visitors signed up for the March pairs scramble at home course Eastern Star. By tee-off time at 10 a.m., two had fallen by the wayside, still leaving a record turnout for this Tuesday outing.

The popular pairs scramble format always produces some good scores, and this occasion was no exception with Barry Winton and Steve Wilkins returning a gross 73 and net 64.4 off their handicap allowance of 8.6.

Runners-up on the podium were newcomers George Gerard and Tom Frystock with a net 66.8, with the Rysers, Toy and Stefan, in third place with a net 67.6.

Fourth and fifth places respectively went to Holiday Makers Travel visitors from Australia, Bryan Moore & Graham Holmes (68.2); and Stephen Mann and Anton Rowbottom (69.0).

The team returning the worst score of the day will remain anonymous but were compensated for gross failure with Free Irish Coffees at Shenanigans.

Near pins were claimed by Aree Arp (nearly a hole-in-one on the par 3 fourth); Prasan Boonsiri; Syd Le Bron and Barry Winton. The two straightest drives were rifled by Tony Robbins and Syd Le Bron; long drives were boomed by Usa Chaiyusit for the ladies, and big Barry Winton for the men. Doug Campbell had a modest first putt on hole nine, and Pasi Venalainen showed us how it should be done with a marathon putt on eighteen.

It was nice to see the HMT visiting group from Australia, here to play the second Thai International Australia Cup on the 8th and 9th of March at Eastern Star. They too helped to make it another ‘very friendly’ Shenanigans day out.

Next outing is on Tuesday March 20th for a pairs better ball.

Excellent conditions produce poor scores

PSC Golf from Cafe Kronborg

Monday March 5 - Green Valley (stroke play)

A beautiful day and a golf course in superb condition produced some of the worst scores in years when only 2 players out of 33 played to (or better than) their handicap!

Rob Brown took the A flight with a net 67, Mike Dige finished 2nd with net 72, Robin Keating 3rd with net 73 and Svend Berthelson 4th with a net 74.

B flight was won by John Cahill with a net 79, P.A. Sahlberg came 2nd with net 82, Soren Lindquist 3rd at net 83 and Sirkka Puikkonen 4th with a net 88!

Near pins: #4 Sture Brisholm, #7 Timo Antionen, #11 & #15 G. Munther

Long putts: 9 & 18 Juhani Miettinen

Thursday March 8 - Great Lake (Stableford)

Improving Great Lake was the venue for a Stableford shoot out in 2 flights (A 0-15 and B 16 and up).

Bruce Lawrence took the A flight with 41 points, Mike Dige came 2nd with 35 points and Yasuo Suzuki finished 3rd after a count back with Per Aschan, both with 35 points.

Stefan Hoge took the B flight with 37 points, Herb Schwietermann came 2nd with 35 points and Sirkka Puikkonen finished 3rd with 29 points.

Near pins: #7 Mike Dige and #16 Bruce Lawrence

Rotary on target to make children happy

‘Make Children Happy’ by supporting the Rotary Club of Jomtien Pattaya Charity Target Golf Tournament on Saturday March 24 at the Diana Group Driving Range. This is a fun event and a good test for the short game, all for a good cause, and on a lazy Saturday afternoon too.

All the proceeds will go to the Rotary Club’s chosen charity, ‘Make Children Happy’ (with a Beautiful Smile and Perfect Vision). The money will be used to test the eyes and check the teeth of 100 underprivileged children and, as required, give them glasses and dental treatment.

It will be a very well spent Saturday afternoon for a very worthwhile charity.

Entry forms are available at all the venues, or you can sign-up directly with Richard Livingston, resident European PGA professional, at the Diana Group Driving Range. Or see the entry form, with full details, in this issue.

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