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 The Total Quidditch. Podcast Episode 39- BQC 2022 Review Amber Connerton, Anjit Aulakh and Emma 'Jandels' Humphrey join us to debrief following this year's British Quidditch Cup in Sheffield. Listen on Spotify Listen on Anchor Photo Credits- Paul Watts (QuidditchUK) #LiveTheGame

  Part 2 of our episode with 4 out of the 5 QuidditchUK Presidents. Guests Rob Barringer, Ben Morton, Mel Piper and Matt Bateman tell us more stories about their time running the British NGB for Quidditch as well as giving us an insight as to where Quidditch has been at organisationally for past few years, where's it at now with the impact of the global pandemic and where the sport is heading in the UK and across the world.  Listen on Spotify Listen on Anchor Photo Credits- QuidditchUK, LN Graphics & Photography, Matt Bateman, Aym Maidment, Ben Morton, Southampton Quidditch Club Thanks to everyone for listening to our new longest ever episode and to everyone who sent in questions for the mailbag. We hope you like this episode. #LiveTheGame

The One with the  QuidditchUK Presidents Part 1 In our first ever two part episode, we sat down to talk with 4 out of 5 of the QuidditchUK Presidents. Rob Barringer, Ben Morton, Mel Piper and Matt Bateman joined us for what ended up being a 3 hour conversation about their respective experiences leading Quidditch in the UK and shedding light on what it takes to run a National Governing Body for an emerging sport. Part 1 focuses more on the origins of quidditch in the UK, the establishment of QuidditchUK as an organisation and where it went on to from there. Part 2 is more centred on the challenges of the last couple of years as well as looking to the future of the sport.  Listen on Spotify Listen on Anchor We hope you enjoy this Part 1, make sure you watch out for Part 2 coming next week. Photo Credits- QuidditchUK, LN Graphics and Photography, Matt Bateman, Aym Maidment, Ben Morton, Southampton Quidditch Club  #LiveTheGame

Hi all, bringing you a bit of a different kind of article today. The idea for this one comes from an article that featured in the Knowledge section of Guardian Sport in  the Guardian  a few months ago. The concept of the article looks at a hypothetical scenario in football where, instead of the familiar league structure, the Premier League organisers instead decided that the title of national champions would be passed on like a Championship Belt is in Boxing. Whoever beats the current 'belt' holders in a single match becomes the champion until they lose and the team that beats them is now the new champion (e.g. Manchester United are the current champions but if they lose to Chelsea then Chelsea become the new champions). Considering the history of the Premier League and the nature of football in which upsets happen frequently, the article created some interesting hypothetical scenarios so naturally it seemed like a good idea to apply this concept to quidditch. While the histor...

  Leadership, Psychology and a Notepad- Ash Cooper For episode two, we spoke with Ash Cooper, the most decorated player in UK quidditch history and well renowned coach. Ash tells us about his early days with Oxford's Radcliffe Chimeras, his approach to captaining and coaching through fitness and psychology, his work on quidditch injury studies and how a notepad helped shape the landscape of UK quidditch as we know it today. Click here to listen to the episode Photo Credit- Howard Orridge Yet again, big thank you to everyone for sending in their mailbag questions. To keep up with news on future episodes, make sure you head to the Total Quidditch. facebook page and give it a 'Like'. This is also where you can suggest your mailbag questions in the comments on the announcement posts or by messaging the page. Hope you enjoyed this episode and are excited for more to come! #LiveTheGame 

Hello there! While the world is under Coronavirus lockdown and sadly no quidditch is currently being played, let's revisit one of the games from 2019's European Games in Bamberg, Germany. Honestly, European Games 2019 isn't a tournament I've really given much thought about since it happened. I was away at summer camp in the US at the time, almost entirely unplugged from the outside world so mentally I feel very disconnected from it but I guess now is as good a time as any to dive into some of the game footage available online. Special shout-outs to my friends Amund and James (UK coach for this tournament) for requesting this article, I hope they enjoy it just as much as the rest of you. Remember, if you would like me to do analysis on a specific game, please leave a message in the comment section here or on the facebook page (with a url link to the footage) and I will take it into consideration. Of the matches I've watched, this is one of the more entertaining o...