Wales head coach Warren Gatland title checked Lake and Exeter lock Dafydd Jenkins as two younger gamers who had embraced the challenges of worldwide rugby.
Lakes insists he loves the bodily battle.
“That is why I fell in love with the sport,” mentioned Lake.
“I used to be by no means excellent at contact rugby or sevens! That wasn’t my forte.
“That bodily and one-on-one battle along with your reverse quantity is what I stay up for.
“The South Africa pack are identified for dominance and they’ll at all times come at you and I am relishing the chance to go toe-to-toe with them.
“They’re double world champions, you get into Check match rugby to play one of the best.”
Not many individuals are giving this inexperienced and experimental Wales aspect an opportunity towards South Africa, particularly given the contrasting latest type of the 2 sides.
Wales have misplaced their final six internationals and completed backside of the Six Nations for the primary time in 20 years.
“That is on us to alter,” mentioned Lake.
“It isn’t for me to talk on earlier outcomes. That is parked and up to now.
“It is what we do going ahead, how we alter folks’s notion of us and what we wish to seem like as a bunch.
“It is about putting in profitable habits and mindsets and believing in ourselves, so we are able to present we are able to do it and put these outcomes collectively.”
