Beach Rugby in Bad Köstritz

In July, some of the rugby boys got together for the Beach Rugby tournament in Bad Köstritz, a small town close to Jena also home to the Bad Köstritzer brewery (sponsors of the tournament). Beach rugby is played on two adjoining beach volley ball courts and pits 5 players against 5 (of a team of 8 max) for two 5 minute halves. It's not an overly serious tournament as you will see from the pictures. Many of the teams had some kind of themed costumes or at least a routine at the end the game. There was a sailor team, a team with womens underwhere, a team with funny hats (those were all men's teams), a Rugby Barbie team, a team dressed like men but then had a little stripping routine (women's teams) and there was us.

We were Care Bears! We had fushia/pinkish wife beaters with each are own care bear symbol on it. Here is Good luck bear (Brent) and Sunshine bear (Andreas). The Erfurt team apparently has a tradition of out-gaying us which they were easily able to do this year buy dressing up as various gay stereotypes: Village People, long mustaches, very shorts cut-off jeans, etc.

There's me in the middle trying to clean out some much better players.

Rene might have sand in his eyes.

Two man ruck.
Smile Sunshine Bear.
"Running"(ambling) on sand is tiring. I was Cheer Bear.

Nice tackle.
Getting ready for our Care Bear Stare (TM). 4, 3, 2, 1...

This is also a pretty international tourney. There were teams from France, England, Czech Republic, the Netherland, and possible russia (they seem to have a funny routine at the end of every game that nobady got). And they all got to see Paul (who is on my Rugby team but wasn't playing that day) run a lap around the court in his sexy new bikini.


It actually belonged to a girl from our girl's rugby team who was a spectator that day. Amazingly enough it still fit her afterward.
The park where we played also had a pool with a slide which was great for getting the sand off after we were done playing. Much fun was had.
I had to go before the big party that night (there was also a party the night before) but later on Brent gave me the "prize" we won at the tounament (we didn't actually win any games). It's a little sandal
With a USB drive inside.
And it says "Beach Rugby Bad Köstritz".
Super cute.