Grin and Wear It !
With the 2011 season behind, and the brutal winter ahead of us, like most of Swedish population, everything began going into hibernation mode. With our brutal and unforgiving winters which lasts more than half a year, we had to pack our bags and prepare for a long and treacherous winter full of gingerbread cookies and delightful winter treats sending us up into the next weight class and our more forgiving clothes: the sweatpants. After having our psyches pushed to the limit and having spent ungodly amount of hours in our therapeutic so called “light rooms,” the internet forums starting coming alive with news of the first outdoor tournament for the 2012 season had been announced. Grin signed up immediately. We knew that some teams had been keeping up a brutal training regime during the off season, so we, with our mere two team practice sessions 3 weeks before the tournament, felt that we the odds were heavily stacked against us. A few days before the big day, we were ...