For pro-athletes, the off-season is a welcome respite from the physical rigours associated with playing elite-level sport, and the training required to keep up with the physical demands.
It’s a precious few weeks of time off where you’re free to do just about whatever you want – holiday, see friends, visit family, relax, and generally enjoy some time away from the strenuous fitness routines.
Wallabies star and all-around magnificent human being, David Pocock, would be absolutely forgiven if he decided to use his precious time-off – following on from the Wallabies’ bone-crunching World Cup campaign in England – to put his feet up with some sort of fruity cocktail on a beach somewhere tropical.
But David Pocock being the high-water mark of human beings that he is, has instead chosen to use his time away from the game to travel to his native Zimbabwe and aid local scouts in the protection of endangered rhinos from the clutches of poachers.
That, right there, is an actual sentence describing the actions of a very real human being.
God… god damn it.
Pocock was born, and grew up in Zimbabwe, before his family fled the deeply unstable nation to South Africa, before immigrating to Australia in 2002.
Pocock’s off-season trip has seen him take in South Africa, Botswana, and into Zimbabwe, where he joined with a group known as the Malilangwe Scouts – a conservation group charged with protecting the nation’s population of wild and endangered animals.
The group put Pocock through their rigorous training and fitness regime for new recruits, before spending the following days tracking and observing rhinos in their natural habitat.
Seriously. Dude’s an actual, living, breathing dreamboat.
Photo: David Pocock/Instagram.
Source: SMH.
