Two years ago, Sam Osborn-Rassaby wanted to play a team sport for the first time since high school.

But he wasn’t keen enough on any sport to want to play it for a whole season.

Players in some sports he had watched took the game far too seriously for his liking.

A friend suggested Osborn-Rassaby try multisport, in which your team plays a different sport each week.

While unusual, it has proved the perfect pastime for him. If hockey or netball are too boring or too hard, don’t worry – next week you might play handball or volleyball.

Osborn-Rassaby, 35, a youth worker and artist, now captains a team, the Mystic Flames, that plays weekly at Carlton Baths sports centre.

At a basketball game The Age watched earlier this month, a referee looked on benignly from afar, instead of hovering

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