South African sevens is healthy and promises to become another world champion sport for South Africa.

That is the opinion of well known sport promoter Willem Strauss.

While the Springbok sevens squad celebrated their victory in the Dubai and the country is gripped in sevens fever in the run up to the George tournament there is another sevens team that has silently stepped onto the international sevens scene.
 
The Overseas International Champions for Dubai were a young squad made up mostly of schoolboys that gave the senior players a lesson in sevens.

The @lantic Invitation team produced exceptional performances in all 6 their matches in the process beating very strong senior international teams.

In the final on the Dubai main pitch the team entertained 30 000 spectators to clinical text book sevens rugby beating Wooden Spoon Blues by 29 -10.
The Wooden Spoon Blues is probably the biggest international representatives in sevens rugby worldwide with 4 of their teams playing in various finals in Dubai.

The @lantic boy’s achievement can be put into perspective with their trouncing of teams like the Royal Air force by 42-5 and Moscow University in an extremely tough encounter by 15-5 in the semi finals.

Paul True’s biggest headache to date was to get players into his squad system, training them and then losing them to the 15 man code at provincial level.
 
With the exposure schoolboys now get through the @lantic school’s series Paul has a much bigger base to select from and the boys come into the squad with plenty of sevens experience under their belts.

Last year 2 of the @lantic boys were drafted into the Springbok sevens squad and nobody will be surprised if the same thing happens this year after the outstanding performance in Dubai.