Reality Check: Travels in the Australian Ice Hockey League. Cet article n’est pas disponible.Reality Check: Travels in the Australian Ice Hockey League

Yes, there’s ice hockey in Australia.There’s a thriving national league featuring dedicated locals and adventurous internationals.They train and play like professionals, pushing their underground sport to the brink of emergence, but no-one gets paid. Former Age writer Will Brodie spent a year chronicling the quirky outposts of this unique hockey backwater, discovering a fragile but tenacious community reliant on co-operation as much as competition.If you like your sport intense but informal, exhilarating but irreverent, this book is for you.Come along for the read and let Reality Check remind you that sport should be fun and it can still be inspiring.

Will Brodie is a writer and image-maker from Melbourne, Australia. He co-wrote One Week At A Time: A Supporter’s Diary of AFL season 1995 with Matthew O’Connor and he is the author of the novel Suburban Tours (2009). He worked as a producer, editor and writer for theage.com.au between 2004 and 2014, reporting on the Australian Ice Hockey League between 2011 and 2014. His work can be found at willbrodie.com and fineartamerica.com/profiles/will-brodie.