Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 3, No. 26 - July 1, 2021
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Los Angeles Giltinis Make Their
Presence Known on the Field
First-Year South Bay-Based Pro Rugby
Team Takes the League by Storm
By Duane Plank
I was fortunate to receive a tip from a
gentleman I had profiled recently in the
Herald, who brought to my attention that
a new professional sports team, launching
their inaugural season, was headquartered
in and practiced in our fine city. Who knew?
Well, here is your introduction to the Los
Angeles Giltinis (anyone knows what a Giltini
is?), first-year members of the growing Major
League Rugby enterprise, who are taking the
league by storm, sitting, at the time of this
submission, at the top of the league “table,”
and likely heading to the upcoming playoffs.
Which for Americans means that they are in
first place in the standings.
Full disclosure: I am a total rugby novice,
trying to learn as much as possible about
this great sport. So, if I bollocks up some
of the nomenclature, positions, or terms,
please accept, in advance, my apologies. The
Giltini’s players who I interviewed said, “no
worry, mate!”
Longtime Herald readers may remember
the wildly popular Frankly Plank column that
debuted more than a decade ago, and dabbled
in sports “hot-takes,” and occasionally veered
into other subjects. But I will admit, I never
wrote about the great sport of rugby, which
has been around the planet for, it seems,
nearly 200 years. I believe I have a couple of
somewhat distant relatives who matriculated
to college and played rugby at No Cal rich-guy
and girl universities, but I never paid much
attention to their exploits as they did not mine.
As a rugby novice, I think that the only
time I participated in an activity akin to rugby
was back in the seventh grade while attending
American Martyrs School in neighboring
Manhattan Beach. After eating lunch, we
would head out to the field and play a game
we dubbed “Kill the Man with the Ball.” OK,
we did not set out to kill each other, but the
chap who ended up with the ball, usually a
football, was pummeled from all directions as
the combatants tried to separate the ball carrier
from the ball. Being a smart guy, it did not take
me that long to discern that it was better to
be one of the pummelers than the pummeled.
Enough digression. When I attended a Giltinis
practice recently that took place on the
artificial turf at Campus El Segundo, I was
curious to discern what I would see? And
what I saw was a whirlwind of activity from
top-flight athletes, running to-and-fro from
different practice stations, plying their trade
as they prepared for their upcoming match at
the Los Angeles Coliseum. That match against
the hapless Houston SaberCats would end up
in basically a walkover win, 52-5.
The following Sunday, the Giltinis took their
show on the road to San Diego and prevailed
in a much tighter contest against the home
team, winning 19-13.
Here are some of the rugby rules that I have
discerned: Players can run and kick the ball
but can only pass it backward. There are three
ways to score:
• A team gets five points for scoring a “try,”
where the ball is grounded over the opponent’s
in-goal area, like the goal-line in the NFL.
See Pro Rugby, page 4
Bryan Grijalva Heals the Spirit
By Kiersten Vannest
“We have three bodies,” says Bryan
Grijalva, a healer located in El Segundo.
The bodies he describes are the physical,
the emotional, and the spiritual. Bryan, in
particular, works to heal and strengthen
the spiritual body.
“Think of an apple. When you see
an apple, the skin is the physical body.
You can see bruises, abrasions, broken
arms, bleeding,” he says. The physical
body is most often attributed to western
medicine, able to be treated in hospitals
by medical doctors. “When we look a
little bit deeper into the apple, the meat
of it, that’s the emotional body.” This
body is best served by psychologists,
psychiatrists, and therapists. Emotional
trauma may be healed through these
methods or fortified. “But then, there’s
the issue of the spiritual body, which
would be like the seeds of the apple…
that’s where I specialize,” says Grijalva.
Your spiritual body, as he describes it,
can have blockages that can manifest
in mental or physical health issues. His
job is to find those blockages and help
facilitate healing from the innermost body.
How can these three bodies coexist, or
can they? Grijalva says absolutely. “It’s
never ‘in lieu of,’ it’s always ‘in conjunction
with,” he says, positing that spiritual
healing is just the third piece of effective
healing. According to him, the connection
between the three (physical health, mental
health, and spiritual health) is important
and can produce some amazing changes.
See Bryan Grijalva, page 5
DTH in Action versus San Diego Legion. Photo by Brian Jackson. To read more about the Giltinis and DTH, see story below.