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The ETA medical team members joined forces with our sponsors SPORTTAPE to support the elite athletes, teams and fun runners in the inaugural Urban Attack  held at the national cycling centre in Manchester, hosted in the impressive indoor BMX track. The indoor obstacle race was the first of its kind, combining both the physicality of OCR with the atmosphere of a fun run.The SPOR ...

England Men’s Open player James Heptonstall has upped his game again, this time by racing a boat!James, of viral video #RaceTheTube fame, has created another video from his 'Epic Challenges' YouTube channel and took on the Thames Clipper from the London Eye to Bankside Pier in his #RaceTheBoat challenge..James and co-founder Noel Carrol had just 8.30 minutes to beat the boat, c ...

The England Women 27s team hosted a fundraising evening on Saturday 6 December to raise money to support their trip to Australia for the Touch World Cup in 2015.GJ’s pub in Wandsworth, London opened their doors to the festive beach themed night which saw outfits from a bikini wearing reindeer and Santas with kiwi accents to impressive combos of boardies and Christmas jumpers.Fu ...

The England Touch Association Medical Team are looking to expand.  This expansion is to occur in order that we provide the medical cover for the National Touch Series events.  This will ensure consistently high standards of medical cover throughout the season in all competitive Touch competitions. . The Medical Team are in the process of recruiting Chartered HCPC Registered Phy ...

Plans are now fully underway for the 2015 season which we hope will see more clubs, more teams, more new players and a large increase in referees across the summer.NTS 2015NTS Clubs have undergone a nomination process for the hosting of tournaments in 2015. Below is the season overviewRound 1 - Nottingham - May 30Round 2 - Maidenhead, Thames Valley - June 13Round 3 - Manchester ...

Last weekend the Women’s 27's and Men’s 30's had the privilege of experiencing life as an army recruit at the Winchester Army Recruit Training Centre. We fell in, got our briefing and dressed off towards the high ropes course to start. The aim was to get four members to balance upright on a 20m high pole whilst being held on ropes by bilayers below. It sounds easy but 20m is a ...

After a hugely successful and competitive #TouchNationals and Open Trials, the England Touch High Performance Team along with the elite coaches announced players who were part of the initial training squads for the upcoming 2015 Touch World Cup in Australia.Since then, the squads have had numerous training sessions and have been put through their paces at the All England Camp a ...

Mixed 18s – Squads Brief 1 v1.119 November 2014 This document has been prepared in order to provide briefing information for the England Mixed 18s (X18s) squad for the 2015 international season.This note covers: Introductions and Final Squad Selections; Key Dates for Your Diary; Costs; Commitment; Next Steps.Introductions and Final Squad SelectionsDear Players and Parents, ...

The High Performance team along with the National Coaches are busy double and triple checking their final England teams that will contest the 2015 Touch World Cup in Coffs Harbour, Australia.The final England teams to contest the 2015 Touch World Cup will be announced Friday 21st November.Good luck! ...

The organising committee of the All Schools Touch Championships (ASTC) is pleased to announce details of the inaugural schools Touch tournament to be held in Wales on Friday 10 July 2015..The ASTC is one of Europe's 1st junior Touch tournaments and has been tipped to be a great success. Open to every secondary school in England – the tournament is the first of its kind and has ...