{"id":53429,"date":"2020-03-12T15:13:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T15:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=53429"},"modified":"2020-09-25T10:51:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T09:51:35","slug":"while-i-can-i-should-because-a-time-will-come-when-i-cant-meet-the-torfaen-swifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/sport-health\/while-i-can-i-should-because-a-time-will-come-when-i-cant-meet-the-torfaen-swifts","title":{"rendered":"Moving swiftly on: How one man&#8217;s legacy continues on the pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>The Welsh national team offer a bone crunching form of rugby that makes it the preserve of young, gifted players. But Wales&#8217; newest walking rugby team in Torfaen is aspiring to open the sport to everyone, all in the name of their former beloved player.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/coverpohoto-650.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/coverpohoto-650.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/coverpohoto-650-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/coverpohoto-650-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/coverpohoto-650.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/coverpohoto-650.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/coverpohoto-650-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/coverpohoto-650-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>&#8220;It was something he&#8217;d never done before&#8221; &#8211; The former Torfaen Dragons with the late Henry Swift pose in Millennium Stadium at a walking rugby festival last April.  Pictured: Kerry Phillips (far right), Gareth Baldwin (second from right), Henry Swift (right bottom), Jane Dorian (second from right bottom). CC: Jane Dorian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Within the first five minutes of catching the pass, though he was smiling, the late 78-year-old Henry Swift lost all of his colour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thought we\u2019d killed him,\u201d recalls Kerry Phillips, one of Swift\u2019s first teammates on the then-Torfaen Dragons.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips now plays for the Torfaen Swifts, Wales\u2019 newest walking rugby club launching in April. Focused on spreading the sport\u2019s mental and physical benefits epitomised by their late teammate, the re-name is part of Swift&#8217;s enduring, albeit unexpected, legacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/janeAWESOMMEUSE.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/janeAWESOMMEUSE.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/janeAWESOMMEUSE-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/janeAWESOMMEUSE-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/janeAWESOMMEUSE.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/janeAWESOMMEUSE.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/janeAWESOMMEUSE-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/janeAWESOMMEUSE-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>The team practicing on the pitch at Cwmbran Stadium Saturday morning. CC: Jane Dorian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was at that Saturday morning practice over a year ago that Phillips led Swift to the sidelines. He offered him some water, sat with him for a moment, and as the colour returned, he watched Swift eventually return to the pitch and play three or four five-minute bursts over the remaining hour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBursts might be overblowing it,\u201d says Phillips with a smile. But any more physical exertion seemed improbable. Swift had a temperamental heart, declining mental health and hardly the stamina or build of a Six Nations athlete. As the team\u2019s first game approached, Swift made it clear he wouldn\u2019t be attending.<\/p>\n<p>Swift never explained why, though it became clear a calendar conflict was far from the reason.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was that he didn\u2019t have the confidence yet to come out with us,&#8221; Phillips says.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/teamphotowJPR.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/teamphotowJPR.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/teamphotowJPR-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/teamphotowJPR-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/teamphotowJPR.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/teamphotowJPR.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/teamphotowJPR-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/teamphotowJPR-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>The then- Torfaen Dragons met Wales&#8217; Golden Era superstar J.P.R. Williams (centre) at April&#8217;s festival. CC: Jane Dorian. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet six Saturdays later, Swift still walked the pitch, maintaining his colour (and smile) well into the full hour. When the first game arrived, Swift played. Then, as if that weren&#8217;t enough, Swift trumped that by playing again in the Millennium Stadium weeks later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was something he\u2019d never imagined he\u2019d be able to do,\u201d says 59-year-old Gareth Baldwin, another former teammate. \u201cTo play, let alone step on the hallowed turf and meet his heroes. For Henry, it was [the] pinnacle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/janehenryandmaybeJRP.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/janehenryandmaybeJRP.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/janehenryandmaybeJRP-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/janehenryandmaybeJRP-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/janehenryandmaybeJRP.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/janehenryandmaybeJRP.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/janehenryandmaybeJRP-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/janehenryandmaybeJRP-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Swift (right) was even interviewed personally by Phil Steele, opening up about his battle with depression and anxiety and how walking rugby offered him a second chance. CC: Jane Dorian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Swift represents one of many men and women in Wales to find physical and mental refuge in the emerging craze of walking sports.<\/p>\n<p>In the last 18 months, rugby\u2019s gentler walking cousin <a href=\"https:\/\/community.wru.wales\/2019\/12\/19\/walking-rugby-changing-lives\/\">has particularly mushroomed in Wales<\/a>, blossoming from a meagre two clubs into nearly 20. Each week, over 300 players in Wales varying in size, age and gender lace up their boots and play a sport infamous for its physicality without fear of being bulldozed by someone triple their size.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, would you play on a field if I could run straight through you?\u201d laughs Phillips, whose 6-foot-3-inch stocky frame towers over most of his teammates.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/festivals.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/festivals.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/festivals-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/festivals-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/festivals.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/festivals.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/festivals-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/festivals-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Walking sports have skyrocketed in popularity, from football, rugby, cricket and netball. More than 40,000 people play rugby in the UK. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Walking rugby inevitably raises some dubious eyebrows. Played on a quarter of a typical pitch, running is forbidden, as are rucks, high tackles, traditional scrums and (really) any physical contact of any kind.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think sometimes with \u2018walking\u2019, people think it\u2019s a little stroll, look at the daffodils, but it\u2019s not,\u201d says Dr. Jane Dorrian, the team&#8217;s leading and only lady.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/Janeplayingtouching.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/Janeplayingtouching.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/Janeplayingtouching-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/Janeplayingtouching-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/Janeplayingtouching.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/Janeplayingtouching.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/Janeplayingtouching-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/Janeplayingtouching-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Saturday morning practices focus simply on basics: catching, passing and moving. CC: credit. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet walking is precisely what makes a sport generally tagged as only for those handsomely touting calf muscles bearing on Dwayne the Rock Johnson available to everyone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s for everyone,&#8221; says Baldwin. &#8220;Wherever you are in the scheme of things, whatever size you are, whether you do marathons \u2013\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2014or you do Snickers,\u201d says Phillips, patting his belly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s every walk of life. As long as you can walk, you can play,\u201d says Baldwin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p>His wordplay isn\u2019t so much tongue-in-cheek as it is succinct summary, specifically for the Swifts. Some clubs form for former international players, others for seniors needing to reach daily step counts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The Swift\u2019s roster stubbornly boasts a bit of it all, reading more like an indiscriminate drama casting:<\/p>\n<p>Cancer and heart attack survivors mingle with players with knee injuries and blood diseases. University superstars with amateurs who&#8217;ve only seen the game from sofa cushions.<\/p>\n\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes we look like a mummy convention,&#8221; Phillips says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Especially when we&#8217;re all taped up with big knee bandages,&#8221; Baldwin says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Six-foot men, a five-foot woman, 20-year-olds, 60-year-olds &#8212; all a happily mottled mix.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:post-content --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:image {\"id\":53575} --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-53575\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/moreplaying2.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/moreplaying2.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/moreplaying2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/moreplaying2-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" class=\"wp-image-53575\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/moreplaying2.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/moreplaying2.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/moreplaying2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/moreplaying2-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/noscript>\n<figcaption>It\u2019s this lure of inclusivity that imbued the Torfaen Swifts to rebrand. Henry Swift simply embodied it. CC: Jane Dorian.<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:tadv\/classic-paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People have definitely asked what we are,&#8221; Dorian admits. &#8220;I&#8217;m like, obviously,&#8221; she flashes an equally genial and fierce grin, &#8220;we&#8217;re playing rugby.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:tadv\/classic-paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:image {\"id\":53550} --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-53550\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/teamwithtrophy.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/teamwithtrophy.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/teamwithtrophy-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/teamwithtrophy-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" class=\"wp-image-53550\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/teamwithtrophy.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/teamwithtrophy.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/teamwithtrophy-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/teamwithtrophy-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/noscript>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figcaption>The team poses with Wales&#8217; Six Nations trophy. Henry Swift (left), Gareth Baldwin (fourth from left), Kerry Phillips (second from right) and Jane Dorrian (right). CC: Jane Dorian<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:tadv\/classic-paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Despite what it&#8217;s name suggests, the sport is a far cry from some laissez-faire substitute for the older and out of breath, and the physical elements aren&#8217;t lost in gentle traipsing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve made the mistake, I&#8217;ve dropped my shoulder to go into a touch and the guy\u2019s going, \u2018I\u2019m 76 years old, my friend. I\u2019ve got a pacemaker,\u2019\u201d says Phillips.<\/p>\n<p>But the chances of players getting visibly angry are rare. There\u2019s easy banter, the occasional friendly backside smack. Then the emphasis always returns, at every stage, to inclusive non-competitiveness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a non-contact sport at heart. It\u2019s all about enjoyment,&#8221; says Baldwin. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:tadv\/classic-paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:image {\"id\":53578} --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-53578\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/janeselfie.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/janeselfie.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/janeselfie-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/janeselfie-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" class=\"wp-image-53578\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/janeselfie.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/janeselfie.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/janeselfie-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/janeselfie-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/noscript>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figcaption>A post-practice team selfie. The Swifts will officially be their own independent club at the end of April. For them, the team is all about fun. CC: Jane Dorian.<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:tadv\/classic-paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Walking rugby provides those who thought they never could before or ever could again the chance to do just that. It\u2019s what Phillips can only describe as a return to the &#8216;instinctive rugby <em>grrr<\/em>\u2019, that childhood thrill of catching your first pass or throwing a ball where it was meant to go and knowing you meant it to go there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s that thrill, \u2018I did <em>that\u2019<\/em>,\u201d he says, only this time the thrills comes with a polite, swift tap rather than a potential pummel. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:tadv\/classic-paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:tadv\/classic-paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Since Swift&#8217;s passing in February, the Swifts have adamantly worked to spread that &#8216;<em>grrr&#8217; <\/em>confidence to as many as possible, regardless of background, ability, age or gender.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think everyone has a story about how they arrived here, but no two stories are the same,\u201d says Dorian. \u201cWe\u2019ve all got to that end point.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:tadv\/classic-paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:image {\"id\":53579} --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-53579\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/grrrugbyinstinct.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/grrrugbyinstinct.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/grrrugbyinstinct-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/grrrugbyinstinct-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" class=\"wp-image-53579\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/grrrugbyinstinct.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/grrrugbyinstinct.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/grrrugbyinstinct-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/grrrugbyinstinct-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/noscript>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figcaption>The &#8216;grr rugby instinct&#8217; is never lost on the pitch. CC: Jane Dorian<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:tadv\/classic-paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Yet the team\u00a0doesn\u2019t feel so much like an endpoint as it does a second lease of life.<\/p>\n<p>For Dorian, glory days on the pitch turned to cooking hotdogs for her son\u2019s team two years ago. Baldwin&#8217;s rugby love-affair ended 15 years ago as his daughter and long-time passing pal went to university. Phillips went from a 20-plus-year competitive career to shutting himself off after job-related health issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was getting scared to go out, getting anxiety to leave the house,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s that social element that I thought I\u2019d replaced but obviously hadn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:tadv\/classic-paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:tadv\/classic-paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:tadv\/classic-paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:tadv\/classic-paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Its why Dorian and Baldwin are teaming with local GPs and initiatives like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.torfaen.gov.uk\/en\/News\/2020\/February\/26-Torfaen-Better-Man.aspx\">Better Man<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.torfaen.gov.uk\/en\/LeisureParksEvents\/SportsDevelopment\/ifyougoIgo\/If-you-go-I-go.aspx\">If You Go i Go<\/a> to make the Swifts not only a sports club, but a go-to social prescription. The sport keeps its players physically healthy, the team keeps players vitally and happily returning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:tadv\/classic-paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:tadv\/classic-paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re sat there in the one room with all the thoughts going around in your mind, that\u2019s all that happens to you,\u201d Baldwin says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you get out, it doesn\u2019t matter where you are, but that you get out,&#8221; he says. &#8220;You\u2019re with a group of people you can interact with, rather than getting deeper and deeper into negative thinking.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the time you do, you\u2019ve dropped the ball and it\u2019s all gone wrong,\u201d Dorian says.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:tadv\/classic-paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:image {\"id\":53936} --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-53936\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/thetamplayingreallygreatpicture-potentioall-cover-Copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/thetamplayingreallygreatpicture-potentioall-cover-Copy.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/thetamplayingreallygreatpicture-potentioall-cover-Copy-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/thetamplayingreallygreatpicture-potentioall-cover-Copy-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" class=\"wp-image-53936\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/thetamplayingreallygreatpicture-potentioall-cover-Copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/thetamplayingreallygreatpicture-potentioall-cover-Copy.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/thetamplayingreallygreatpicture-potentioall-cover-Copy-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/thetamplayingreallygreatpicture-potentioall-cover-Copy-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/noscript>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figcaption>Saturday mornings at Cwmbran are about being part of a team, chatting about yesterday, learning to pass, catch and (unofficially) find the thinnest line between fast walking and running.\u00a0CC: Jane Dorian.<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:tadv\/classic-paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>If you do drop the ball, it&#8217;s a matter of picking it up. The sport is all about chances: a second chance at the pitch, a third chance at a try, a once in a lifetime chance to play in a national stadium cheered on by none other than your heroes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s why hashtags like #PassingItNotPastIt and #WalkOn have become Twitter mantras, why tournaments are instead gleefully dubbed \u2018festivals.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>W<span style=\"font-size: inherit\">inning or step counters come second.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s that idea, while I can I should,\u201d says Baldwin. \u201cBecause a time will come when I can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:tadv\/classic-paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:tadv\/classic-paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Swift&#8217;s time came some weeks after the game in the Millennium Stadium, after he and his teammates vied for the pegs of their favourite rugby heroes and passed beneath the official player\u2019s entrance like official players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe watched him get physically healthier through this team,\u201d says Phillips.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was our mascot,\u201d adds Baldwin.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:tadv\/classic-paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:image {\"id\":53581} --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-53581\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/walkingoutontofield-Copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/walkingoutontofield-Copy.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/walkingoutontofield-Copy-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/walkingoutontofield-Copy-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" class=\"wp-image-53581\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/walkingoutontofield-Copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/walkingoutontofield-Copy.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/walkingoutontofield-Copy-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/walkingoutontofield-Copy-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/noscript>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figcaption>Jane Dorian: &#8220;The proudest day my dad has ever had of all the things I&#8217;ve ever done, all the qualifications, having my son, all of it &#8212; no. It\u2019s &#8216;my Jane&#8217; played at the Principality Stadium with JPR.&#8221; CC: Jane Dorian.<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p><!-- \/wp:image --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:tadv\/classic-paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>So as the team looked to launch a new, independent club this year, the decision to re-brand \u2018The Swifts\u2019 wasn\u2019t just unanimous \u2013 it was obvious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s given such a positive start to the new era,\u201d says Dorian. \u201cEveryone can get behind the name, what it means, how it encapsulates who we are and where we want to go, whether they knew him or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Swifts aren\u2019t fast, they\u2019re swift walkers. They play the game in a swift manner. 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