Striking off your weak side, one wall at a time
Twenty minutes against a stone wall at dusk, and the small change that finally made my left side usable.
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Taping a grip that holds on a wet night
How much tape, which way round and why the first wrap matters more than the last.
Floodlit Tuesdays: training when it is dark at five
What a club session looks like in the wet, and the simple routine that keeps us moving.
Tea, brown bread and getting warm again
My kitchen after training: what I eat, how I dry the gear and when I let myself sit down.
Three hurleys in the boot: which one for which day
A heavy stick for the dry, a light one for the wet and the spare I never use.
The coast road walk that sorts out your legs
A forty-minute walk with the hurley on my shoulder the day after a match, and why I keep it slow.
Hitting off both sides on a heavy pitch
How the ball sits down on wet grass and how I change my stance to strike it clean.
Drying out: boots, socks and the radiator
The newspaper trick, the one rule for socks and how I stop my boots going stiff.
When to retire a cracked hurley
The crack you can ignore, the crack you cannot and how I get another season from a good stick.
Coming back after a hamstring layoff
Six weeks out, what the physio told me and how I built back up without a rush.
The Monday Letter
One letter every Monday: a drill from the week, what went wrong and what I learned in the wet.