Streetpush is something dreamt up over the summer at York. York Council was holding an open day in the city centre for sports clubs, and some of the York Uni graduate students and assorted hangers-on (Jodie, Alan and Ben) booked a stall. As few people have heard of octopush, they came up with a way to demo it without a swimming pool - hence Streetpush! It's played just like octopush (masks, fins, snorkels, pushers, puck), but on whatever surface comes to hand. I gather the original plan was to use a plastic sheet and buckets of water, but the buckets weren't necessary due to the rain. Players crawl, wriggle or roll to get to the puck - no walking!

The club were doing Streetpush demos again at York University's Freshers' Fair at the start of the 2007 academic year, so I tagged along to take some photos. (And had to turn down the offer to play - a wise move, after seeing the resultant bruises on Jodie's legs!)

In time honoured fashion, there's a set on Flickr, and the full lot in the (new!) octopush section on my own albums (together with assorted other octopush-related photos).

Finally, after all those promises, I've got some of the photos from our Kenya safari in 2006 edited. Watch this space for links!