How many people have their best ideas when out for a walk? Well, Aristotle, Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed and Steve Jobs would all be in that category. Why does walking affect how you think? And - football is all about running to get possession of the ball. And yet, the soccer player who's regarded as the best of his generation prefers to walk. It's been said that Lionel Messi walks better than most players run. Why?

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Perfect motion. Why run when you can walk?

We all do it without thinking about it. We breathe in, we breathe out. How much does the way you breathe, though, affect you physiologically and psychologically? How can breathing techniques improve performance in sport and exercise, as well as reduce stress and pain in daily life?

Breathing for sport, exercise and life in general

What makes surfing a distinctive sport unlike any other? And, how one tennis club has kept its juniors active and engaged through numerous lockdowns.

Philosophy of surfing; junior sport thru lockdown

Meet the world's first carbon neutral football club. Plus, a run through AFL footy banners.

Green sport, and footy banners

How do you reconcile growing up with expectations that you're going to be a star footballer, but you don't quite make it? It's not the stuff of the usual football memoirs, but almost making it to the top of professional football is actually a much more interesting story.

Brandon Jack. Does walking keep you fit?

What needs to change and what needs to stay the same about the way the Olympic Games operate?

Future of the Olympic Games

Jessica Fox won the gold medal at Tokyo in the women's canoe slalom. Her father Richard is a former canoe world champion. The two have a bond forged over years of early mornings on rivers and race courses. Dennis Cometti is a much-loved veteran sports broadcaster, best known for his AFL coverage on TV and radio. His son Mark became a professional wrestler in the U.S, before returning to Perth and joining his father in the radio commentary box. 

A Sporty Father's Day

Why do people rave about the physical and mental health benefits of cold water swimming? Also, do fitness trackers make you more active?

Cold water swimming. Fitness trackers

While the Olympic Games were a 19th century invention, the Paralympics didn't get going until well into the 20th century. The stories of three pioneering Australian Paralympians who competed in those early days of international disability sport.

Early days of the Paralympics

He’s just turned 40. He's been a top tennis player for 20 years and it seems hard to imagine the game without him. Why is Roger Federer so good, so enduring and so popular?

Federer the master; MND and strenuous exercise

'Older, wiser, slower, stronger' is Dean Karnazes' motto these days. The veteran U.S endurance athlete and New York Times bestselling author has run vast distances everywhere from Death Valley to Antarctica. He says he runs not to live longer, but to live more fully.

Runner Dean Karnazes; plus in sport who is female?

If you've been watching the gymnastics at the Olympic Games, you'll be an armchair expert by now on the various events and apparatus. Imagine then if one those pieces of equipment was not properly set up - like, say, at the wrong height? It wouldn't happen, would it? One of the Olympic cycling races is the keirin. It's a version of a Japanese cycling sport that's popular but not altogether respectable

Olympic gymnastics stuff-up; Japanese keirin

At the 1964 Tokyo Games, the Olympic flame was lit by a young runner, born in Hiroshima on the day the atomic bomb was dropped there in 1945. What symbolism and stories has this Tokyo Olympic opening ceremony evoked?

Tokyo Olympics then and now

Can you change how you think about pain, and therefore your experience of it? In this series, four very different people are each trying to take control of what they can in their lives. So far it's been exercise, diet and sleep. Now, it's pain

Take Control, part 4 - Pain

There's an awful lot that can keep you awake at night. In this series, four very different people are each trying to take control of what they can in their lives. So far it's been exercise, and diet. Now they discuss their difficulties with sleep - and what sends them into the arms of Morpheus.

Take Control, part three - Sleep

Sporty is your guide to the powerful place of sport and fitness in Australia’s cultural life. Recognising it’s much more than a game, Sporty charts and analyses big-time spectator sports, celebrates the amateur athlete and encourages anyone struggling to get active. You don’t have to get sport, to get Sporty!

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