The annual Fair Dinkum Men's retreat at Wyangala dam is taking place from March 22 to 24, 2024.
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This year, the speaker will be former Australian Rugby Wallabies and NRL physician Dr John Best.
John will be talking from a Christian perspective about the interplay between our physical, mental, and spiritual well-being.
John enjoys a number of areas in sports and exercise medicine.
He has considerable experience working with elite athletes including almost 15 years involvement with the Australian Rugby Union, incorporating a decade serving as the Australian team (Wallabies) team physician, which included the victorious 1999 Rugby World Cup.
His other roles with Australian Rugby included medical director, sports science consultant (High-Performance Unit), tournament medical officer for Rugby World Cup 2003 and Australian representative on International Rugby Board's medical advisory and anti-doping committees addressing player safety and well-being.
John and his family completed a working sabbatical in London which involved working with professional sports clubs.
This included the English Premier League Football, professional rugby union and Super-League teams.
It also included medical care of the victorious Southern Hemisphere rugby team.
John has served on Football Australasia's high-performance committee and is currently on the National Rugby League's (NRL) medical advisory panel. He was tournament medical officer for the 2020 NRL 'Nines' and acts as a medical consultant for the Australian Professional Golfers' Association (PGA).
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