strapping some studs!

on friday all the athletic trainers took a bus to go watch a strapping session for the sydney bears. for all of you that aren't familiar with the terminology, strapping is another term for taping that is used here for australia. and can i please just say, RUGBY BOYS ARE SO GOREGOUS! jk, but kind of not really ... anyway, it was really interesting to see the differences from here and the states. in the states we use cotton tape. we start of by spraying an adhesive spray on all the athletes followed by prewrap and then the tape. here in australia, they solely use mcconnell tape. which in the states is an expensive brand that is only used periodically. it's also really sticky so it was interesting that the physios applied nothing but the tape onto bare skin. they also have a taping form called a figure 6 and the boot which were interesting to see. i don't think i would ever place mcconnell tape directly on skin, but it would be interesting to see how our rugby/football boys back home would like it (or not). afterwards, we were able to catch a part of the bear's game. they play rugby league which has different rules to rugby union. i think i'm definitely a rugby union girl at heart <3