Latest / 360 with Katie Woolf / Katie Woolf spoke with Tim Ellison from Triathlon NT

Transcript

Katie Woolf spoke with Tim Ellison from Triathlon NT · 360 with Katie Woolf

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: We're here at Mix one O four point nine get
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: into feb Fish each and every year and it's all
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: about us all getting active. But it's all well and
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: good for the adults to get out there and get active,
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: but I think it is just as important to have
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: our kids out there and active. Now, a man who
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: does a phenomenal program for youngsters joins me on the
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: line right now. His name's Tim Ellison from Triathlon NT
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: and here's the pathway. He's from Pathway Management Services. Good
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: morning to you, Tim. Hopefully i've got that line up.
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: Good morning, Tim.
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you've got it right, So thank you very much,
• 0:34
  Speaker 2: Katie if you're having me on, so good to talk
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: to you again.
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: Well, Tim, you guys do a phenomenal program for kids.
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: I've taken my kids along and there's so many different
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: ways to get them active. There is.
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: So I've got a fantastic board that I work with
• 0:51
  Speaker 2: at draft On and two. Basically over the years has
• 0:55
  Speaker 2: taken about six seven years to get to where we're
• 0:57
  Speaker 2: at at the moment to have a community program. And
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: the community program consists of a running skills programer bike
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: skills program, and a swimming skills program. And like I said,
• 1:09
  Speaker 2: it's free. You've come along and brought your kids along
• 1:13
  Speaker 2: to the running skills stuff. Generally speaking or not generally speaking,
• 1:18
  Speaker 2: the stuff that we do is age appropriate, so the
• 1:21
  Speaker 2: kids have a great time. And like I said, you
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: just turn up, don't you.
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: You do, And that's what I love about it. I actually,
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: you know, I'd never really heard a huge amount about it.
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: And I happened to be at basketball one day with
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: a friend and she said, oh, come along to this
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: triathlon program that happens on Wednesdays. And we came along,
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: and I thought, this is unbelievable and you get to
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: do it for free. Talk us through. Firstly, we'll talk
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: about this, you know, this part of the program to
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: begin with. Talk us through the days that it happens,
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: and who can come along.
• 1:54
  Speaker 2: Okay, So we have a swimming skills program on Monday,
• 1:57
  Speaker 2: and there's two sessions with that that. We have a
• 2:00
  Speaker 2: junior program, which is essentially five year old to somewhere
• 2:03
  Speaker 2: around about nine nine tens. Probably tens is starting to
• 2:08
  Speaker 2: move into our senior program, but some kids out are
• 2:12
  Speaker 2: seven and eight. If they're confident that they can swim
• 2:14
  Speaker 2: with our senior program. Now, I just make the distinction
• 2:18
  Speaker 2: that our swim skills program is a swimming skills program.
• 2:21
  Speaker 2: It's not learned to swim and it's not swimming club.
• 2:23
  Speaker 2: So if I can, if I can help kids get
• 2:27
  Speaker 2: into swimming clubs, then happy to do that. But it's
• 2:30
  Speaker 2: sort of the bridge. You know, some kids just don't
• 2:32
  Speaker 2: want to do the swimming club thing, and a lot
• 2:36
  Speaker 2: of kids sort of get a bit tired of the
• 2:40
  Speaker 2: learn to swim skills. And that's like not saying anything different.
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: Member, it's between yeah, absolutely.
• 2:50
  Speaker 2: We're trying to sit in that middle space. So that's
• 2:53
  Speaker 2: on Monday. The running skills program is on Wednesday, and
• 2:58
  Speaker 2: again we have the youngsters at the moment in the
• 3:00
  Speaker 2: in the wet season indoors at Marara Indoor Stadium. And
• 3:05
  Speaker 2: the running skills as you as you know for young
• 3:08
  Speaker 2: young kids consist of also ball skills, just basic ball skills,
• 3:14
  Speaker 2: situational movement awareness stuff and and some running skills and
• 3:18
  Speaker 2: it underpins where the kids playing basketball, hockey, netball, anything.
• 3:24
  Speaker 2: So the skills programs that we do is not a
• 3:28
  Speaker 2: triathlon skills program. It's a running skills program that's quite
• 3:31
  Speaker 2: generic and and that's so it is really really well
• 3:38
  Speaker 2: thought out and there's some good evidence behind what we present,
• 3:41
  Speaker 2: so it's not it's not a Mickey Mouse program. There's
• 3:45
  Speaker 2: some good what you call it, technical stuff behind it,
• 3:50
  Speaker 2: and but but it's framed in a way that's appropriate
• 3:53
  Speaker 2: for the age group. So kids are in the younger
• 3:57
  Speaker 2: age groups and that, but we have an older category
• 4:00
  Speaker 2: A well.
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: It is wonderful and at all I guess you know.
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: There is also then the Triathlons, the actual family Triathlon
• 4:10
  Speaker 1: series which is going to be kicking off as well.
• 4:12
  Speaker 1: Now I believe this begins. Is it this weekend?
• 4:15
  Speaker 2: Tim, Yes, that's right on Saturday. We've got the first
• 4:18
  Speaker 2: is that series. So what we've tried to do at
• 4:21
  Speaker 2: Triathlon is have a free community program to expose people
• 4:25
  Speaker 2: to just swimming, cycling and running, and then we have
• 4:29
  Speaker 2: a bridging program with this Family Triathlon series to go
• 4:32
  Speaker 2: like if you want to stick all these things together,
• 4:35
  Speaker 2: We'll make the distances really short, so if you're playing
• 4:38
  Speaker 2: hockey or cricket or netball or whether you don't have
• 4:41
  Speaker 2: to train for it, most of the kids can run
• 4:44
  Speaker 2: one hundred and two hundred meters or whatever it is,
• 4:47
  Speaker 2: but we make the distances really short. Pretty good fun
• 4:51
  Speaker 2: events like the ones for this weekend is we call
• 4:54
  Speaker 2: it a Junior Moter event or the Run Ride Run
• 4:56
  Speaker 2: Junior Mater event. So for the first time in a
• 4:59
  Speaker 2: couple of years, we've got a fair bit of water
• 5:00
  Speaker 2: down at the Beldrope, so this should be really good fun.
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: Like I said, I think it's it's awesome. They're awesome programs,
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: but it's also for me. I think it's so important
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: to keep our kids active. You know, we as adults
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: obviously think about the health benefits of getting out there
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: getting active, but for our children it's incredibly important and
• 5:20
  Speaker 1: it just teaches them those great life skills from an
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: early age, you know, about looking after themselves.
• 5:28
  Speaker 2: Well that's one HUNDREDTHENT correct your introduction saying, you know,
• 5:31
  Speaker 2: you have their bit stuff. And the concentration is around adults,
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: but the same percentages of inactivity in the community exist
• 5:39
  Speaker 2: across all age categories and the kids especially. It's very
• 5:44
  Speaker 2: important to be active. It underpends not only your physical
• 5:47
  Speaker 2: health but your mental health. So and the three activities
• 5:51
  Speaker 2: of the most or the three activities that people engage
• 5:55
  Speaker 2: in the most from a recreational point of view are swimming, walking, running,
• 6:01
  Speaker 2: and cycling. So they just happen to have a sport
• 6:05
  Speaker 2: with those three predisciplined in it, so why don't we
• 6:08
  Speaker 2: actually do something for the community.
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: So absolutely lot's happening, Tim. I know that you guys
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: have got a Facebook page. What can they search for?
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: What can people search for if they're keen to find
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: out a bit more and maybe come along.
• 6:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the best page is the move page, which is
• 6:24
  Speaker 2: spelled mob and then the three which is your E backwards.
• 6:28
  Speaker 2: It's the marketing guys for you. So yeah, the Move
• 6:32
  Speaker 2: Facebook page. So go Move Darwin since we're on a
• 6:36
  Speaker 2: Darwin radio because there is move in Alice Springs.
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: So awesome. Well, Tim Ellison from Triathlon NT I really
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: appreciate you having a chat with us this morning and
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: no doubt see you again in the near future.
• 6:49
  Speaker 2: Looking forward to it. Katie, thanks very much for having
• 6:51
  Speaker 2: me on