Aussie Rules Football (GM5 & 100-300)

These were shot yesterday, using my GM5 and the 100-300 lens.  I also used my RDS (red dot sight) to help track the action.   I was worried about the electronic shutter effects above 1/500s but don't think it caused me much trouble at this event.  Thanks for looking!

Very nice great shots !!

Great shots. Did you mean GM1 because that's what the Exitf says. Or does it say that when you use the GM5?

Tom Caldwell wrote:

Skeeterbytes wrote:

Fun, and well done! I understand there are rules, but the couple of times I've run across it on the tube I couldn't begin to guess what they might be. Calvinball for grownups.

Cheers,

Rick

Basically Irish Football played with a rugby ball on a cricket oval ground where both teams start out on both sides of the centre line and there is no crossbar so you can kick the ball anywhere between two posts and you also get a consolation point for a miss through the next outer posts. The only football that I know where it is legal to obstruct an opponent from approaching another team member who is carrying the ball - but maybe American Rules? You can carry the ball for so many steps but then have to bounce it and to pass it you have to hit it off one hand with the fist of the other. Or kick it high (mostly) so another team member (hopefully) can make a spectacular catch in which case they get a free kick.

There are four quarters not two halves.

Scores, like basketball, are in lottery numbers.

Comprendez?

Sounds like Calvinball

R V C wrote:

Tom Caldwell wrote:

Skeeterbytes wrote:

Fun, and well done! I understand there are rules, but the couple of times I've run across it on the tube I couldn't begin to guess what they might be. Calvinball for grownups.

Cheers,

Rick

Basically Irish Football played with a rugby ball on a cricket oval ground where both teams start out on both sides of the centre line and there is no crossbar so you can kick the ball anywhere between two posts and you also get a consolation point for a miss through the next outer posts. The only football that I know where it is legal to obstruct an opponent from approaching another team member who is carrying the ball - but maybe American Rules? You can carry the ball for so many steps but then have to bounce it and to pass it you have to hit it off one hand with the fist of the other. Or kick it high (mostly) so another team member (hopefully) can make a spectacular catch in which case they get a free kick.

There are four quarters not two halves.

Scores, like basketball, are in lottery numbers.

Comprendez?

Sounds like Calvinball

Also known as "Aerial Ping Pong" in the rugby states

Paul Amyes wrote:

R V C wrote:

Tom Caldwell wrote:

Skeeterbytes wrote:

Fun, and well done! I understand there are rules, but the couple of times I've run across it on the tube I couldn't begin to guess what they might be. Calvinball for grownups.

Cheers,

Rick

Basically Irish Football played with a rugby ball on a cricket oval ground where both teams start out on both sides of the centre line and there is no crossbar so you can kick the ball anywhere between two posts and you also get a consolation point for a miss through the next outer posts. The only football that I know where it is legal to obstruct an opponent from approaching another team member who is carrying the ball - but maybe American Rules? You can carry the ball for so many steps but then have to bounce it and to pass it you have to hit it off one hand with the fist of the other. Or kick it high (mostly) so another team member (hopefully) can make a spectacular catch in which case they get a free kick.

There are four quarters not two halves.

Scores, like basketball, are in lottery numbers.

Comprendez?

Sounds like Calvinball /

Also known as "Aerial Ping Pong" in the rugby states

It grew out of rugby but improved on it enormously.

it is the only football (or any game really) where you have the players spread throughout the field contesting against another individual -- although that hs become less marked in recent times with the flooding that can see almost all members of both teams concentrated at one end of the ground.

The ground is bit -- 150 meters or more long -- and oval.

It is the only true football in that the only way to make the maximum score is for a member of the attacking side to kick the ball -- you must kick the ball (hit it with a foot or leg below the knee) -- cleanly between the goal posts, whether it goes through in the air or bounces. Touching the posts or a miss either side, but which passes between the "behind" post and the goal post is a behind, one point, a sixth of a goal. If the opposition kicks it through the goals (or the behinds) the scoring team receives one point. If either attackers or defenders touch the ball through, then the score gained is one point.

Australian football developed in Melbourne with early matches being played where the MCG (the Melbourne Cricket Ground -- the home of Australian football!) and Richmond Football Ground are located.

It was the first football anywhere in the world with fully formalized and codified rules.

Damon Runyon, the great American sports fan and writer, thought Australian football was the most democratic of games (being based on the notion of individual players pitted against each other throughout the field rather than two Feudal armies going to war from a base of their own territory), the most spectacular, of course (a quick look here at some goal kicking -- the white arc is 50 meters out from goal so you see people kicking 60 and 70 meter goals), and regarded American football as slow, cumbersome, and unnecessarily complicated in comparison.

The power base of Australian football is across southern Australia -- Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, with the Northern Territory added in an some penetration, mostly recent, into New South Wales and Queensland.

You got a bit of jello in the background players in the first and last pix, but the action is great.

Tom Caldwell wrote:

Hen3ry wrote:

Paul Amyes wrote:

R V C wrote:

Tom Caldwell wrote:

Skeeterbytes wrote:

Fun, and well done! I understand there are rules, but the couple of times I've run across it on the tube I couldn't begin to guess what they might be. Calvinball for grownups.

Cheers,

Rick

Basically Irish Football played with a rugby ball on a cricket oval ground where both teams start out on both sides of the centre line and there is no crossbar so you can kick the ball anywhere between two posts and you also get a consolation point for a miss through the next outer posts. The only football that I know where it is legal to obstruct an opponent from approaching another team member who is carrying the ball - but maybe American Rules? You can carry the ball for so many steps but then have to bounce it and to pass it you have to hit it off one hand with the fist of the other. Or kick it high (mostly) so another team member (hopefully) can make a spectacular catch in which case they get a free kick.

There are four quarters not two halves.

Scores, like basketball, are in lottery numbers.

Comprendez?

Sounds like Calvinball /

Also known as "Aerial Ping Pong" in the rugby states

It grew out of rugby but improved on it enormously.

it is the only football (or any game really) where you have the players spread throughout the field contesting against another individual -- although that hs become less marked in recent times with the flooding that can see almost all members of both teams concentrated at one end of the ground.

The ground is bit -- 150 meters or more long -- and oval.

It is the only true football in that the only way to make the maximum score is for a member of the attacking side to kick the ball -- you must kick the ball (hit it with a foot or leg below the knee) -- cleanly between the goal posts, whether it goes through in the air or bounces. Touching the posts or a miss either side, but which passes between the "behind" post and the goal post is a behind, one point, a sixth of a goal. If the opposition kicks it through the goals (or the behinds) the scoring team receives one point. If either attackers or defenders touch the ball through, then the score gained is one point.

Australian football developed in Melbourne with early matches being played where the MCG (the Melbourne Cricket Ground -- the home of Australian football!) and Richmond Football Ground are located.

It was the first football anywhere in the world with fully formalized and codified rules.

Damon Runyon, the great American sports fan and writer, thought Australian football was the most democratic of games (being based on the notion of individual players pitted against each other throughout the field rather than two Feudal armies going to war from a base of their own territory), the most spectacular, of course (a quick look here at some goal kicking -- the white arc is 50 meters out from goal so you see people kicking 60 and 70 meter goals), and regarded American football as slow, cumbersome, and unnecessarily complicated in comparison.

The power base of Australian football is across southern Australia -- Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, with the Northern Territory added in an some penetration, mostly recent, into New South Wales and Queensland.

Well, Irish Football is like Aussie Rules with a round ball (probably copied the sport but could not figure out how the squash the ball into the right shape ) ... you must have grown up with "Victorian Rules"? Of course the only real football is called Soccer in Australia.

Australian Rules is more catch and kick ball ...

I will be a soccer fan the day someone explains to me the sense of standing under a wet ball weighing about 2kg which has been kicked high into the air and letting it land on your head!

What other football allows someone to catch a ball 2 metres from the posts and then simply kick it over the moon to score over the hapless defenders?

It works because even Collingwood's notorious supporters will return the ball. Soccer players would like to do it but they know their rascally fans would steal the ball so they have to have a net to catch the ball before it gets away.

Hey, and the referees are called umpires - just like cricket ....

And Aussie Rules' premier footy ground is the MCG -- maybe they made a concession on the "umpires" thing to gain favor with the cricket hierarchy for access to the ground.

Or perhaps there is the real explanation is that the gentlemanly Australian football players did not want to use the same nomenclature for their umpires as is used in boxing and wrestling -- two sports notorious for their vile connections and practices!

There that should get a bite ....

Back at you! LOL!

bs1946 wrote:

Great shots. Did you mean GM1 because that's what the Exitf says. Or does it say that when you use the GM5?

I have to change the EXIF to GM1 so DXO Optics Pro can read the raw files.

Tom Caldwell wrote:

You are certainly going to do two things:

1) Show the usefulness of Dot Sights for any moving subject

2) Demonstrate that the GM5 (and GM1 by default) can handle large lenses very competently

Surely those that see the GM1/5 as:

a toy camera;

"good for the wife";

pocketable;

"as backup";

or "unbalnced" with anything more than a popsicle lens on board;

must realise that these are proper full-on cameras that are somewhat size compromised in features and grip but nevertheless very capable, as capable as any M4/3 camera as an instrument.

I regard my GX7 as my GM1 backup camera ...

Thanks Tom!

The RDS still continues to prove its worth to me for this type of photography.  The Pany GM series is also a serious camera that can be easily overlooked based on its small size.  It does handle well with the 100-300.  Not ideal, but for the odd time I need that lens, it works fine.

appreciate it!