It might properly turn into referred to as a Brayshaw Christmas.
Or doing a Brayshaw.
While AFL followers are pouring a bit of further Paul Kelly impressed gravy on to their roast lunches on Sunday, the Brayshaw brothers – Fremantle’s Andrew, Melbourne’s Angus, WAFL star Hamish and oldest brother and armed forces lieutenant Will – can be belting out 100 x 100m seashore sprints.
It’s a sibling custom that started in 2013 beneath the management of Angus, has gone on worldwide tour – Vietnam in 2017 – and this 12 months can be held within the quaint south-west Victorian coastal city of Port Fairy.
“It started a couple of years ago. Angus and Hamish just went down and set up 100m of cones,” Andrew advised Perth Now.
The concept behind it … was that your opponents are simply consuming a giant Christmas lunch and chilling out whilst you can go on the market and get a bit of bit fitter.
“The idea behind it … was that your opponents are just eating a big Christmas lunch and chilling out while you can go out there and get a little bit more fit.
“You’ve got 35 seconds to get there – so if you run it in 20 seconds, you’ve got 15 seconds off. Every 35 seconds you turn around and go again.”
Hamish mentioned it was impressed by his dad Mark, a former North Melbourne and twin Claremont premiership participant.
“Dad always used to say the best players do their work while other people are sleeping or doing other things,” Hamish advised the Demons web site.
“And we thought there wouldn’t be a single other bloke out there that’s putting in the work on Christmas Day. So that became our tradition, that every year we’d get down and run a hundred 100s on Christmas morning before lunch.”
Last 12 months’s run happened at City Beach. The temperature swelled to 43C and the numbers to 21, with teammates Caleb Serong, Lloyd Meek, Jordan Clark, Will Brodie and Matthew Johnson becoming a member of in.
They is perhaps in Victoria, however they could properly have impressed teammates, so Dockers followers ought to preserve their eyes out at City Beach on Christmas morning.
