I've had to cope with team members not speaking to me and making my sporting environment very unpleasant.

One had written it off as staid, funereal and woefully unwieldy in the modern sporting environment.

It can take a serious period of readjustment, compromise and perhaps the undertaking of ultimately unfulfilling opportunities that can never hope to replace the uniqueness of the elite sporting environment.

Because of this new emphasis, grappling skills have been adapted to safe sporting environments, where gouging, biting, and other unsporting techniques are banned.