Author: Tank Lanning
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Rugby’s Brotherhood of the Bounce is for Real & for Life
Like all team sports, rugby helps you appreciate that life is not always fair. Your personal success is often reliant on someone else doing what they are supposed to do.
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How Rugby is Tackling Change and Changing Tackles
There is a big difference between adapting and tinkering, with the latter often about treating the symptoms rather than the actual issue at hand.
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An 8-Point Plan to Fix the Mess South African Rugby is In
I wonder if we as a country might have embraced the professional rugby era better had we not won the 1995 Rugby World Cup? Weird, I know, but bear with me.
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Basil Bey, the Rugby Legend Who Changed My Life
Tank Lanning writes South Africa has lost a rugby legend, a great mate has lost a father, and he has lost one of the first guys outside his family to really believe in him.
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What Barney and the Baa Baas Can Teach us About Business
In its current guise, the Baa Baa game offers the Boks a timely and valuable opportunity to experiment with the pressure cooker valve that comes with operating at the highest level. It’s an opportunity they should grab with both hands.
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How the Big Indaba Can Save SA Rugby From Itself
Were I in the room, I would not be wasting time trying to change the things that cannot be changed by the people attending.
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How the Caring Hands of Rugby are Changing Lives
When injury on the field puts an untimely end to a rugby player’s playing days, a caring organisation is on hand to offer support and rehabilitation.
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Hi, My name is Tank, and I’m a Rugbyholic
At age 24, my rugby career was over as two discs in my neck (C4 and C5) finally herniated to squeeze in on my spinal cord and reduce my right arm to a piece of raw calamari.