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  For our first recording of 2022, we sat down with Alice Walker- new head coach of Team England (formerly Team UK). In a compelling and honest discussion, Alice tells the story of her quidditch career as a player and coach. Starting with her rapid rise through the ranks and success in her early years at Oxford University Quidditch Club before then discussing her playing experience with Team UK, stepping into leadership at Oxford, joining Werewolves of London and the drive that has seen her take up the mantle as national team head coach.  Click here to listen to the episode on Spotify (coming soon) Click here to listen to the episode on Anchor Photo Credit- Mark Walker A great note to start the year on. Thank you to everyone for their engagement with the podcast thus far, plenty more episodes to come in 2022! #LiveTheGame

 Bromance, Hoops and Enjoying Yourself- Luke Twist & Jan Mikolajczak Our 2nd episode of the series is another double bill as we are joined by good friends Luke Twist and Jan Mikolajczak. The pair tell us about their early days starting out at Oxford playing for the Radcliffe Chimeras, reaching the top of the UK and European game with club and country, having fun on the Mighty and Amazing Quercs, moving to Werewolves of London and having further success in the British capital, making hoops and running Bluehawk Quidditch Supplies as well as telling us what they're currently up to with Jan having moved back to Poland and Luke stepping up his engagement with UK quidditch once more after taking a bit of a step back from the sport in recent years. Click here to listen to the episode on Anchor Click here to listen to the episode on Spotify Episode timestamps 2:12- Jurassic Cup reflections with Luke, moving to Poland with Jan 11:53- Beginning to play quidditch at the University of Oxf...

Setting goals, Living your wizarding dreams and Going Down Under- Andrew Hull In this episode, we talk with long time Team UK and Velociraptors QC keeper Andrew Hull. Andrew tells us about how he got into quidditch through his love of Harry Potter, his early days at Bangor and with Team UK, joining Oxford from Bangor and the big transformation he made as a player during that season, the first year of playing with Raptors, his time playing down in Australia, the 2018 World Cup, a bizarre celebrity experience at a Harry Potter festival in Denmark and his desire to continue playing quidditch at the highest level. Click here to listen to the episode on Spotify Click here to listen to the  episode on Anchor Photo Credit- Howard Orridge Timestamps will be added at a later date. Thanks to our listeners for their mailbag questions as always, love to see the engagement with the show! #LiveTheGame 

Self-Awareness, Basketball and L eading from the front- Aaron Veale In more of a personal episode for our host, we speak with Fraser's long time teammate Aaron Veale. Starting off as a plucky 5ft 7 kid rocking up to his first quidditch session at Southampton in a Portsmouth shirt, Aaron talks through his career progression including his early success winning BQC 2015 with the Anchors all the way through to his captaincy year in which he redefined himself as a short yet very capable shooting keeper that pushed the UK game in new directions. We also talk through his initial breakthrough with Team UK at European Games 2015, his self-doubt in terms of finding his role within a team, how his background in Basketball has transferred to quidditch as well as his experience playing with Werewolves of London.  Photo Credit- Ajantha Abey Quidditch Photography Thanks as always to our listeners and to those submitting questions for the mailbag. Check out our Facebook page to see who's comin...

  Personality, Triumph and Villainy- Jay Holmes Another in-depth interview in this 9th episode of the podcast. We talk to Jay Holmes, now former Head Coach of Team UK and former Captain of Velociraptors QC. We take a real honest and reflective look into Jay's rise through the ranks of the UK game, starting off with his time playing for Bangor, his transformation following the 2016 World Cup when he first joined Raptors, his successful leadership within the club and ultimately culminating in him taking charge of the national team as Head Coach. As a major figure within UK quidditch, we also discuss Jay's battles with mental health, coping with criticism and animosity as well as his captaining and coaching methods. Click here to listen to the episode on Spotify As always, thanks to our listeners for following the pod and for sending in your mailbag questions. Make sure you give the Total Quidditch. facebook page a 'like' so you can keep up to date with future episodes. Ph...

 Pass & Move, Resilience and a Packet of Crisps- Seb Waters In our seventh episode, we have an in-depth chat with Team UK keeper and assistant coach Seb Waters. We cover all kinds of topics, from Seb's visits over to Turkey and what he's learnt from their game, how he and his Warwick QC teammates carved out a play style based on football that saw them rise to the top of the UK game, his vivid memories of multiple tournaments with Team UK, London QC, Warwick QC, his QPL experience, all the way to how he has coped with tough losses and turned them into something productive.  Click here to listen to the episode on Spotify As always, thanks to our listeners for following the pod and for sending in your mailbag questions. Make sure you give the Total Quidditch. facebook page a 'like' so you can keep up to date with future episodes. Note- We are aware a player may have been misgendered during the episode. As a clarification, this was very much an accident. As many know, t...

  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 

Tactics, Dodgeball and Fame- Lucy Quidditch Here it is, the first episode of the Total Quidditch. Podcast!  We spoke with Velociraptors QC and Team UK star beater Lucy Quidditch. We covered all kinds of topics from her early days at Nottingham, to her tactical and critical analysis of herself and the sport, her new passion for Dodgeball and her experiences of playing quidditch at the highest level. Click the link here to listen to the episode. Photo Credit- StaceynDavid Thripp Big thanks to everyone who sent in their mailbag questions, we look forward to receiving more in the episodes to come. 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 world, It's with great pleasure that we can announce that Total Quidditch. is starting a brand new and exciting project. TQ has mostly existed as a written based platform but now we're taking to the airwaves.  Introducing... the Total Quidditch. Podcast!  Photo Credit- Claire Purslow Quidditch Photography The goal With this new podcast, we're aiming to provide you with a different type of quidditch content. At TQ, we love to analyse the sport and break it down in a way that everyone can understand, enjoy and improve from and this vision has had a major influence on what we've produced so far. However, while analysis is both interesting and valuable, it's also important to consider the people who play quidditch and make it the sport that it is. In the episodes to come, we are going to be talking with various players and people from across the quidditch community. Talking with individuals from a variety countries and backgrounds and providing them with a platfor...

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...