Calendars - Part 75

SHU Rugby 2017

My very first post in this series on nude calendars was about Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) in England.  SHU puts out a nude rugby calendar every year.  Today we look at the 2017 calendar.  Like most British nude calendars, money from calendar sales goes to charity, in this case the National Ankylosing Spondylitis Society (NASS).

The calendar features SHU rugby team players.  It show rear views, like this locker room scene for the April page ...

and this shower scene for November ...

and this rear view of players on the field for March.  This was not taken during a real game; rather, action was filmed at night when the players could be nude on the field.

Frontal views are concealed in the calendar, either with strategically placed props, like the February page ...

or the players cover themselves, like this kitchen scene for June ...

or this locker room scene for May.

But in addition to the calendar, the SHU rugby team puts out a "Making of the Calendar" video that documents what goes on as players pose in the locker room and the shower and on the field for calendar photos.  In the video, there is no attempt to preserve modesty.

Above is a short excerpt from the video documenting the shooting of the May page above, as the players manage to cover themselves for the photo.

Our second scene from the "Making Of" video requires an explanation of rugby rules.  When the ball goes out of bounds, a player from the team that did not send the ball out of bounds throws the ball back onto the field.  Naturally he throws it to his teammates, who get to hoist a player up in the air to catch the ball so the other team can't intercept it.  This play is called a lineout.  This photo of a lineout shows another team, not SHU.

And here's a section from the "Making Of" video, showing the naked SHU players practicing a lineout.  This never made it into the calendar.  But you can tell at the end that they had some fun along the way.