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The PCR Sports Show - Friday 3rd April 2026 - with Sensei Gabija Kalinauskaite and her students from the HAITO Karate Club · The PCR Sports Show

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  Welcome to PCR, Good evening and I'm Dipam and welcome to the PCR
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  Sports Show, the start of your sporting weekend and your local
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  sporting fix. Very welcome on to the show,
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  especially if it's your first time, and hope you've had a
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  great start to the bank holiday weekend.
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  The sun has come out as well, which is absolutely fantastic
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  and we've got a fantastic show lined up for you this evening
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  with some brilliant guests from the Haito Karate Club in
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  Peterborough. They've not been on for a couple
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  of years so it'd be great to catch up with them.
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  We've got Gabby who runs the club and started it all up many
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  years ago and we'll be hearing from her in a moment and three
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  of our students are in today with her as well.
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  Timmy, Adam and Rebecca and they'll be telling us about
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  their experiences with the club and the sport, or the art of
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  karate should I say, and we'll be hearing from them all
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  throughout the next hour or so. But firstly, if I come to Gabby,
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  good evening Gabby, how are you? Hello, I'm good.
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  Thank you. How are you?
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  Very. Well, thank you.
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  Thanks for coming back. Thank you for having us.
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  Two years since you were last on, I think roughly.
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  I think so, yes. Time flies, isn't it?
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  It does. So it's good to have you back.
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  And I think when we last spoke, you would either just moved or
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  about to move into a new premise in Woodston.
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  Yes, that's correct. And been we've been there since
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  then for two years now. And how are you settled in now?
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  Oh definitely yes, Dodgers. Full, full equipment, full
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  mirrors, mats, equipment. It's amazing now.
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  Fantastic. Because I remember you when you
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  first, I think this is your third time on the show, but when
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  you first came on the show, you were split between two premises,
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  one in Hampton, one in Breton, and then yes, and now you've
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  combined into one Dojo now. Yes, yes.
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  Excellent. That's good stuff.
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  And just tell us a little bit about yourself personally, you
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  know how your what's your journey been like in in the
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  sport of karate and martial arts.
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  And you know what's what's brought you to this place in
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  Peterborough now? To have a Dojo of your own.
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  Well, my karate journey started long time ago, more than 22
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  years ago now with some breaks and studying and moving from
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  countries since then. I moved to Peterborough about
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  six years ago. Of course we survived COVID and
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  I was waiting for COVID to finish.
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  Once COVID finished, I decided that it's time to open.
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  Hi to karate and here we are 3 1/2 years later.
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  We are going to big tournaments and events and yeah we are
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  winning. Fantastic, getting better and
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  stronger. Brilliant.
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  And COVID couldn't come at a worse time for you at the time
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  really is because obviously so you've just come to the UK,
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  probably had ambitions to do something like this.
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  But yes, COVID put us in lockdown for nearly two years.
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  Yes, that's right. Yeah, but you're now here, which
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  is great, but your personal journey before coming to the UK
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  is quite glorious, isn't it, in terms of your achievements in in
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  the in the yard? Well, it it happens when you
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  grow surrounded by glorious people, you become one of them.
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  You know, my instructors all the time, you know, training our
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  club. And still to this day, to be
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  honest, I've been in the trainer just a month ago on my personal
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  business, and I still visit my instructor who was teaching me
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  for 10 years almost, and I visited him.
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  He's still training champions. So it's still very nice to meet
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  him. But yeah, so it's his job.
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  You know who makes champions out of students?
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  I was one of them. Very glad of that.
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  And yeah, he still keeps doing that.
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  Has he had a chance to come over here and and and see your Dojo?
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  No, he doesn't really come to the UK.
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  Then they travel with tournaments.
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  We travel more towards E like Japan.
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  Ohh, I see. OK, there's not many
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  tournaments. Yeah, you need to host an
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  international tournament in. Peterborough, yes, one day,
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  hopefully. But obviously your personal
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  achievements are are are very high in the in the arts as well,
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  isn't it during that time? Yes, a few of them.
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  Well, you can mention them, don't worry.
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  I know you're quite modest and down to earth, but you can
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  mention some. Of these, well, the highest one
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  is vice champion in European tournament.
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  That was the biggest one, but it was over a few international
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  tournaments, like top one of the top three places, champions in
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  international tournaments, multiple times national team
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  member, multiple times national champion and yeah, yeah.
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  Yeah, you got a pretty good trophy wreck.
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  Trophy cabin haven't. You, yeah, we do have it in the
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  Dodger. We do have.
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  It so fantastic, brilliant. So obviously you came to Peter
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  six years ago. Was it an immediate plan to set
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  up a Dojo, or did you kind of want to continue performing the
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  art yourself? First, well, I used to live in
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  London before I came to Peterborough, yeah.
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  So yes, I was instructor back in London, but I worked for another
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  club and because I started university and all of that, I
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  had took a little break. And during that break I moved to
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  Peterborough. And yes, I had the idea straight
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  away to start a martial arts club in Peterborough.
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  But like you mentioned already, COVID happened and it put
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  everything on hold for well and a half years, almost three
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  years, because clubs were very restricted of what we could do,
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  you know, by amount of people and everything.
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  So yeah, but once COVID gone, yeah.
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  You've done fantastic well to get in club to where it isn't
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  now. I say you're in a in a bigger
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  premises now and yes, hopefully that's your long term sort of
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  home now, isn't it? For all, yes, yeah, definitely.
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  We are not planning to move. Fantastic.
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  Hopefully. How many members do you have in
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  the club now, would you say? Around 40.
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  That's amazing. Yeah, it's all right.
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  It could be more. It's overtime, could be more.
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  Of course it's overtime. People coming and going for
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  different reasons, but yeah, the average is about 4045.
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  Fantastic. That's really good.
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  Because I remember when you first came here, you probably
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  had 10-15 maybe if that's. Something like that, yes.
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  So that's. Growing below 20, Yeah.
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  Of course. So amazing stuff.
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  Thank you. So your your current Dojo in
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  Woodston? Yes, just roughly for the people
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  who are listening, roughly whereabouts in Woodson.
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  If people know the Long Rd. Andal Rd. going by the river and
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  on Andal Road we have Tesco Express.
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  Just opposite the Tesco Express there is a little Wharf Rd. if
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  you go just to the end of the Wharf Rd. via train tracks and
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  we are like literally next to the train tracks.
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  Brilliant. So it's right in the heart of
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  Peter, isn't it? Yes, yes, you definitely can
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  walk from the bus station. You can walk from the train
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  station and it's quite a nice walk by the river and yeah,
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  driving, you know as well, pretty, pretty comfortable place
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  It's. Easily accessible by by many
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  ways. So which is really good.
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  So in terms of your role, obviously you're the founder of
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  the club. Presumably you're still coaching
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  and and mentoring and teaching students as well.
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  Absolutely, yes, of course, and travelling to tournaments on the
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  weekends so no days off for me. Not at all.
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  And you have other coaches and trainers there as well?
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  Or do you do all yourself? We have some instructors who
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  time to time visit us, so we run more like seminars or workshop
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  classes. But the main instructor I'm
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  alone. OK.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you have 40 people attending
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  the classes at the same time? Or do you split it throughout
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  the week? Different categories?
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  We split them. We split them most of the time
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  by the age and by their abilities.
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  So we have kids classes, juniors, which ones are mainly
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  teenagers and when we have older teenagers as we call them and
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  adults because some of the older teenagers we are taller than I
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  am, so we have to send them to the seniors class.
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  And and I guess that that plays a factor.
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  There's a physical size or somebody plays a factor.
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  In yes, of course, absolutely does yes.
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  Absolutely. And in terms of the age ranges
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  of the members, what sort of age ranges do you have?
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  So we have 5 to 9 years old the kids class.
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  But again it depends on the child's size.
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  If someone is 8 or 9 years old and they are a little bit taller
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  than the average one, we may send them to the juniors class
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  which one is 10 to 13. Again, the same with juniors, if
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  they are like 1312 yes and they are a bit taller, we have send
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  them you know, to the seniors class saying that come on, you
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  have to pick up the game, you're a taller 1 go do the harder
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  class. And most of the time we are glad
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  and yeah, we go, you know to the seniors classes as well.
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  Seniors classes are 14 plus and yeah, they we are training
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  together with adults. We are challenging our adults
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  with their speed and better stamina most of the time and
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  than us. But yeah, that's lovely.
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  Brilliant, that's good stuff. So any age range could in theory
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  join the club, can't they? Really pretty.
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  Much from five years old, anyone?
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  We have have, you know, we have very good examples who are
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  joining clubs in the 30s and competing in the tournaments
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  also in the 40s. You know, that's parents, you
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  know, sometimes it happens that their kids join the classes 1st
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  and parents sitting on a chair watching and they tell them why
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  not to come and try. Come on, you're already here,
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  you know, put the tracksuit on. Come on, let's go India.
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  We try and we join, you know, we join the club later on, which is
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  lovely. And presumably for the club, you
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  obviously you talk, we'll talk about the trophy wins in a
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  moment that you've had recently three of them in the studio
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  that's now with with the children.
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  So, but I guess the the there's opportunities at the club for
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  what somebody wants to just kind of do it as a hobby or keep Type
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  X. Yeah, type thing.
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  Or they want to compete as well. Now we have all opportunities we
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  can come just do it as a hobby. You know, we are training
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  together anyway, but it's kind of slightly different
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  expectation. If someone is doing just for a
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  hobby, we may ask him to do 1015 push ups.
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  If someone is preparing for tournament, it may be 30-40
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  fifty push ups. So it's, you know, still the
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  same class, you still do the same thing, but you're
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  challenging yourself the best you can do it.
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  It's not like you you can't join the club if you can't do 50 push
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  ups. So it doesn't work that way.
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  It's you know, you doing and especially in the beginning, the
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  best what you can do and later we just roll with it.
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  You know, we look how you're doing and if you're one day you
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  change your mind and you want to compete in tournaments, Amazing.
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  We look which tournaments we can, you know, we can go to.
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  So yeah. And depending on I guess the
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  intensity of sorry, depending on the what level that person wants
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  to achieve is the intensity of the training would depend on
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  that I. Guess yes, definitely yes, yeah,
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  yeah. I'm do not allow really much
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  slacking or being lazy in the classes if I can see potential.
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  But yeah, so of course I will motivate all my students, but of
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  course it's more pressure on both who are going to the
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  tournaments. Yeah, of course, which makes
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  sense. Fantastic, brilliant.
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  Thanks for the overview there, Gabby.
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  What we'll do is take a short break, then we'll be back in a
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  few minutes talking some more about Haita karate and we'll
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  perhaps speak to the the students and the kids who are in
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  the studio with us this evening as well.
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  you at all. Right back to this evenings
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  guests and show. We're in the accompaniment of
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  people from the Heito Karate Club.
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  We've been hearing from Gabby, who's the founder and the lead
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  in the club, telling us a bit about how it formed her
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  journeying karate and what they're up to now.
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  But we've got three students with us as well, Teamy, Adam and
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  Rebecca, who are part of the club and mentored by Gabby and
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  other people at the club. But we come to Adam first.
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  Adam, how are you? Oh.
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  Yeah, I'm OK. Good, good.
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  Thanks for coming in today by the way and take giving some up
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  some way for us. No brilliant.
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  Great pleasure to have you here. So I mean tell us a little bit
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  about your interest in karate. Adam, why did you get started?
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  With so like I was about like like 12 years old when I started
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  karate. And I started karate because I
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  was inspired by Kerber Kai and like, it just looked really like
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  fun and interesting like to do karate.
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  So like, I just want to try, you know?
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  And yeah. Brilliant accent.
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  And you're not much older than 12 now.
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  How old are you now? 1313.
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  OK, so you've been doing it just over a year, let's say.
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  Yeah, Two years. Two years.
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  Fantastic. And so you saw it on TV, do you
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  say? Yeah, I thought this sounds like
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  fun. And.
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  And so let me have a go at this. And so you've been there two
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  years and how has it been? How's your journey been since
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  you joined? It's been pretty good.
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  Like it's improved my like self-confidence, you know, like
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  before like I couldn't really do much like any football, but then
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  like I just quit because like it was getting boring a bit And
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  then I just like karate, you know, like like for like a
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  self-confidence boost. And it was fun first and then it
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  got like harder and harder, but then like tournaments came up,
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  showed up and then it became more enjoyable.
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  Like the people you like meet along, like friends, different
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  senses, you know, like it's really like enjoyable.
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  Like when you meet like new people, like they've never met
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  before, like from the different cities and stuff like that.
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  Like for example, like the people you met meet in like
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  tournaments. You see them all the time, like
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  in different tournaments. Yes, excellent.
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  And and like you say, it's got easier for you, but that's
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  probably hasn't got easier. But you've got better at it,
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  haven't you? You've learnt more skills,
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  you've got more fitter maybe and you've learnt techniques, you've
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  listened to what the likes of Gabby has been teaching you, so
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  it feels like it's getting easier, but in fact it's
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  probably because you're getting better, is that right?
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  Yeah, most likely right. Yeah.
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  Fantastic stuff. Brilliant.
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  Rebecca, if I come to you next your birthday tomorrow, you're
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  gonna be 13, is that right? Yeah.
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  Fantastic. Just tell us a little bit about
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  you. Why did you get involved in
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  karate? What?
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  So what? Interested you?
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  So I joined Like Karate to like make new friends and like try it
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  out and then over time I've started really liking it and
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  like boosting like my meant like strength and to prove people
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  wrong that like goals are strong also.
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  Yeah, absolutely. You got a, you're a lady here
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  who runs the club who's very strong and very determined and
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  committed to what she does. So karate is open to to male and
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  female, isn't it really? Yeah, which is brilliant.
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  So you've made new friends, different friends to what you
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  would have at school as well. Yes.
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  Because it makes it different, doesn't it?
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  In terms of normally people, kids have the school friends and
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  there may be people who live down the street.
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  But joining a club like karate club or any Sports Club, you
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  meet new people and, and perhaps those that are actually thinking
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  the same as you as well. Yeah.
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  Is that right? Yes.
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  Fantastic. And what have you enjoyed most
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  about being part of the club and and and karate itself?
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  I've joined like I've like, I enjoyed most of like, like my
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  like resilience, like I could like push more.
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  And you found out that you found you've improved yourself in that
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  way as well. Have you become more disciplined
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  in terms of your your approach to life?
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  And does that help you outside of karate as well in any way?
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  Yes, it does. Yeah.
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  And it helps you improve in other parts of your life as
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  well. Yeah.
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  Fantastic. Good stuff.
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  And we'll talk about the trophies in a in a little while,
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  which you're in front of everyone.
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  Timmy, if I'll come to you now, Timmy, you're the youngest
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  member of the of the group here today.
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  How old are you? I'm 1111.
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  So Timmy, when? How long have you been in the
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  club? Three years going.
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  Three years. So you're only 11.
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  You've been there three years already.
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  So you join when you're 8, is that right?
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  Yeah. Fantastic.
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  So what? What got you interested in
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  karate? Because I really wanted, because
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  I used to be like believed in my old school.
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  So and then I wanted to stop it. So I joined karate for self
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  defence. Really.
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  And have you had, are people aware of you now?
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  When? Because you go karate.
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  Do they, do they behave differently towards you now?
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  Yeah. Excellent.
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  So it actually has worked, doesn't it?
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  Yeah, it does. Brilliant.
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  And how, what do they do now? How do they treat you now
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  compared to before it? Treat me with more like respect.
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  Yeah, and. Kindness, fantastic and
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  hopefully you'll never, you have to use it in self defence
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  properly, but at least you know, they know that it's there if you
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  ever need to use it. Yeah, yeah.
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  Good stuff, good stuff. So and in terms of the club
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  itself, what's what do you enjoy about being part of the club the
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  most when you're there and practising or performing?
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  What I enjoy most is the sparring.
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  Sparring practices and what what what happens when you do spying
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  practices? What?
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  What does that involve? Voice punches, Kicks.
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  And techniques. And is that is that with another
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  member of the club, then you're actually like kind of doing a
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  pretend fight. Yeah, yeah.
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  Excellent. And do you enjoy doing that?
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  Yeah, yeah. And do you have people, do you
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  have favorite people that you like to spar with at the club?
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  Yeah. Very.
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  Much. Who do you spar with normally?
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  Robert. Robert, Yeah.
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  And do you spar with people your own age or do you do you like to
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  spar with somebody bigger than you, older than you as well?
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  That's for mostly with people my.
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  Dear yeah. So you can keep a good practice.
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  Fantastic. Adam, if I come back to you, in
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  terms of your work that you do in school, school and homework
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  and the school activities, how do you balance that with going
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  to karate as well? I go to karate like on Monday,
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  Wednesday and Friday for 2 1/2 hours because we're the juniors
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  and seniors class. So like I do most of homework
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  before or after on Tuesdays. Thursdays would most likely
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  weekends, yeah. OK.
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  So you may you manage to balance it, OK.
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  Yeah, fantastic. That's good stuff.
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  And in terms of your activities at the club, do you, do you
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  Obviously you've got a trophy, so you perform in competitions
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  as well. Have you find?
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  Have you found competing competitions?
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  Well, it's like still like you get nervous a lot, but yeah, but
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  you get like, it gets more fun because like after you start
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  winning a lot, because like at first it was hard to like win,
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  you know, like you have like higher people, like higher belts
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  and more experienced people, you know?
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  But like once you start like training more and stuff, you
• 17:57
  just get started winning, you know?
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  But not all the time 'cause it's still like more experienced
• 18:01
  people. Of course, yeah.
• 18:02
  It's all part of getting better, isn't it?
• 18:04
  All the time and improving. So you've got a trophy there.
• 18:06
  So what was that trophy for? It was for start placing A
• 18:11
  sparring tournament. Amazing.
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  And how long when was that? How long ago was that?
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  20th of March so. OK.
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  Recently, just a couple weeks ago.
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  Excellent. And what belt are you at now?
• 18:19
  A bluebell of yellow stripe. Brilliant And and how how long
• 18:23
  is he taking you to get to that belt?
• 18:24
  Two years and like around 2 years, yeah.
• 18:27
  Fantastic, really, really good, brilliant Rebecca and you've got
• 18:30
  a trophy as well, so congratulations to you as well.
• 18:33
  What was your trophy for? It was for 2nd place sparring
• 18:36
  tournament. Excellent, brilliant.
• 18:38
  So similarly to similar to what Adam has has has won his for.
• 18:41
  So how long ago did you win that?
• 18:44
  I've won it like 28th of March. OK, so we're again recently,
• 18:49
  yes. Brilliant.
• 18:50
  So it's only about a week ago, isn't it?
• 18:51
  Something like that, Yeah, very soon, very recent.
• 18:54
  So. And what colour belt do you
• 18:56
  fight with at the moment? I am with yellow belt with green
• 19:00
  stripe and it took me like around most like highs in three
• 19:05
  years, OK. Wonderful.
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  Brilliant. So you're progressing really
• 19:08
  well. Yeah.
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  Fantastic, excellent. And Timmy, you as well.
• 19:12
  You've got a trophy there as well.
• 19:14
  What was your trophy for? For third place in a
• 19:17
  Sparrington. So again, fantastic, really good
• 19:20
  stuff. And did you win that recently?
• 19:21
  Yeah. Yeah, brilliant.
• 19:24
  And what's your What's the colour of your belt?
• 19:26
  Blue. Belt.
• 19:27
  Blue belt. Excellent.
• 19:28
  And you've obviously been at the club three years, you said,
• 19:30
  didn't you? Yeah.
• 19:31
  Brilliant. And Adam, back to you.
• 19:35
  So what would you, what advice would you give to somebody who's
• 19:39
  if there's if there's children out there listening now that are
• 19:41
  thinking about karate and unsure about it, what advice would you
• 19:44
  give them? I'd say like if you're
• 19:46
  interested like just go for it because it's really fun like and
• 19:49
  if you get bored you can just like quit and like do something
• 19:52
  else. But like if you're getting back
• 19:54
  bullied at school or you want to learn some self defence, just
• 19:57
  like boost your like mental health and have fun then.
• 20:00
  Yeah, I'd say go for it, you know?
• 20:01
  Yeah, absolutely. Because it's not just that you,
• 20:03
  I think you've said an important point there.
• 20:05
  It's not just about physical health, it's about mental health
• 20:08
  as well as it makes your your mind feel different as well.
• 20:10
  Yeah, like, it's very, like, peaceful, you know, like you've
• 20:13
  made some new people and like. Yeah.
• 20:16
  Good, good stuff. And Rebecca, you mentioned
• 20:18
  earlier about it being for, not just for boys, for girls as
• 20:22
  well. What advice would you give to
• 20:24
  any girls that are listening about potentially joining a
• 20:26
  martial arts club? Like don't listen to people
• 20:29
  like, don't like, don't like, listen to people who are like,
• 20:32
  calling your names, like prove them wrong.
• 20:36
  Yeah, and would you encourage any girl who wants to join a
• 20:38
  club to do it and give it a go? Yeah, of course.
• 20:41
  Like go for your dreams. Yeah, fantastic, good, wise
• 20:44
  words. They're all brilliant.
• 20:46
  And Timmy? Yeah, you're the youngest, 11
• 20:48
  years old. You join when you're 8.
• 20:51
  What advice would you give to even younger people about
• 20:54
  getting started in in karate? I'll give them advice like.
• 21:00
  What would you say they need to do?
• 21:02
  Well, what should they do? If they're thinking about it and
• 21:04
  they're unsure, what could they do to to maybe help them make
• 21:07
  their mind up? Like ask their parents if they
• 21:10
  should like. Yeah, ask their parents to maybe
• 21:13
  find a club and let them try it out.
• 21:15
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 21:15
  Good stuff. Good, good advice to me.
• 21:17
  Thank you. Gabby.
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  If I could just come back to you there.
• 21:22
  You must be very proud of these. These I am their their.
• 21:24
  Answers surprised me in the the best way possible.
• 21:27
  And it wasn't coached in any. No, it wasn't.
• 21:29
  This is completely yeah, which is amazing, but you must be
• 21:32
  proud of what they're achieving. Obviously the trophies there,
• 21:35
  they're moving up, moving up the belt levels and everything.
• 21:37
  Absolutely yes. And and you know, it's
• 21:39
  relatively still at a young age as well.
• 21:41
  They're very young age, Yes, we are just starting their karate
• 21:43
  journey. You know what?
• 21:45
  We can only imagine what there will be in 10 years time.
• 21:47
  Yes, when we fight in adults categories, that's where the
• 21:51
  true fun begins. Absolutely, but it's given them
• 21:53
  a flavour ready of of, you know, success and achievement.
• 21:56
  Winning trophies, absolutely. Achieving belts, progressing
• 21:59
  belts, yes, you know that. It's got that kind of winning
• 22:02
  attitude and mentality, isn't it?
• 22:03
  Really, Yes. It's not only winning attitude
• 22:05
  as well. It's learning how to deal with
• 22:08
  the losing as well. When we go to tournaments, we
• 22:11
  all the time say, yes, you have winners, but you do not have
• 22:13
  losers. You're just going there to
• 22:15
  learn. What did you do wrong?
• 22:17
  You maybe didn't do enough punches or kicks.
• 22:20
  What do you have to improve? Do you have to be be a bit
• 22:22
  stronger or do you have to be a faster?
• 22:24
  So we are learning from those mistakes again and it's
• 22:27
  incredible as well how kids will learn how to deal with that loss
• 22:32
  on that day. Yes, I all the time say cry it
• 22:35
  out. It's normal.
• 22:36
  You have emotions. Cry it out on Monday.
• 22:38
  Back to the Dodger, carry on. Improve your kicks, Improve your
• 22:41
  punches. And as it is like as a cliche in
• 22:44
  life, isn't it? Is that when you win, you win
• 22:46
  and it it is relatively easy. But when you lose, you learn,
• 22:49
  don't you? Yes, yeah.
• 22:50
  And actually losing is way much harder, you know, than winning.
• 22:53
  You know, winning is, of course, you know, you leave a tournament
• 22:55
  happy with the trophies. When you lose, you have to deal
• 22:59
  with that, you know, live with that and remember it.
• 23:01
  Why did you lose? And you know what you have what
• 23:04
  you have to do better. Yeah.
• 23:05
  Yeah, absolutely brilliant, right?
• 23:07
  Let's just take another break there.
• 23:08
  We're back speaking to Gabby, Timmy, Adam and Rebecca in a
• 23:12
  short while. Stay tuned.
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• 23:36
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  happen. So on that note, back to this
• 24:08
  evening's guests, we have in the company of Gabby, Timmy, Adam
• 24:12
  and Rebecca from the Haito Karate Club.
• 24:14
  We've just been hearing from the students, Timmy, Adam and
• 24:17
  Rebecca about their life with the club, what it's meant to
• 24:20
  them and what it's done for them, both outside of the sport
• 24:24
  of the art of karate as well as within it.
• 24:28
  Gabby, if I come back to you, great stories from the kids
• 24:32
  there. I think so.
• 24:33
  About. Their achievements and three of
• 24:35
  the trophies they bought or they bought throw trophies in this
• 24:38
  evening and I was not great for the radio because people can't
• 24:41
  see them. But we've taken photographs and
• 24:42
  and the kids have done really well by winning those trophies.
• 24:46
  I mean what, where have those trophies come from?
• 24:48
  What's the competition structure that the club enters and how do
• 24:51
  they, how do people win these trophies?
• 24:52
  So these trophies, which ones we have today, they came from the
• 24:55
  national tournament, which one we had on there a week ago.
• 24:59
  We entered with 11 members of our club and we brought home 5
• 25:03
  trophies, one second place and four third places.
• 25:08
  Before we start entering big tournaments, national or
• 25:10
  international ones, we organize smaller tournaments like Inter
• 25:15
  club tournaments in our club, in our premises.
• 25:18
  And we invite, well, all sorts of, you know, all sorts of the
• 25:21
  clubs, which ones can fight by our rules and we call them
• 25:25
  novice tournaments. So they have kind of a
• 25:28
  introduction to the fighting. So it's not so scary when you
• 25:31
  step on arena, you know in arena and 500 people are watching you,
• 25:35
  you know when you fight. So it's a little bit more cozy
• 25:39
  and a little bit more relaxed tournament.
• 25:41
  We still follow the same rules. It's still all the same, but
• 25:44
  it's just smaller premises, you know, a little bit fewer people
• 25:47
  as well watching us. And well, we're still screaming
• 25:50
  pretty loud in support, but but it's still at home.
• 25:54
  So we give a we feel a little bit more comfortable and
• 25:57
  students who are ready and when, you know, we prove or we did
• 26:01
  well in our tournament or we just wish to go to the bigger
• 26:04
  tournaments. Yeah, we are entering national
• 26:06
  tournaments which when we had last week and we have
• 26:09
  international tournaments as well.
• 26:11
  So one of them will be at the end of May and another one in
• 26:14
  October again. Wow, that's incredible.
• 26:16
  Yeah. So, So what I'm hearing there
• 26:18
  from you is that you you kind of have the local tournaments just
• 26:21
  to try and kind of set the scene of what a tournament is like.
• 26:23
  Get the guys that used to what it will feel like to be in
• 26:25
  tournaments before you start expanding nationally and yes, a
• 26:28
  sort of bigger tournament. So absolutely.
• 26:30
  And you mentioned there 500 people watching in a in a
• 26:32
  national tournament. Yes about it can be couple 100
• 26:35
  more as well in a big in a big arenas, yes and where.
• 26:37
  Did the tournaments take place all over the country?
• 26:40
  Yes. So one of them, for example, at
• 26:43
  the end of May, it will be in Crystal Palace in, in London as
• 26:46
  well. So that's a big arena.
• 26:47
  This is why, you know, a lot of people watching another one in
• 26:51
  which one will be in October or we had as well in October as
• 26:55
  well. We had top, you know, free
• 26:57
  trophies from that tournament. Amazing.
• 26:59
  It's in Crawley, so next to London.
• 27:02
  The last one we had it was in Reading.
• 27:04
  So yes, it's kind of around London.
• 27:07
  Yes, we. Have to travel a.
• 27:08
  Little bit we have to travel a little bit, but we have not
• 27:11
  travelled like abroad yet, but we are looking forward to that.
• 27:14
  Probably we have to enter quite you know quite a few more, more
• 27:17
  local tournaments or like national tournaments before we
• 27:20
  go abroad. But yeah, that definitely is on
• 27:22
  our list as well, you know, in the future looking, definitely
• 27:25
  looking going, you know, abroad and.
• 27:26
  Where to The International normally take?
• 27:28
  Is it one? Are they all over the world or
• 27:29
  just specific kind of place where it's renowned?
• 27:33
  The international ones, that one in Crystal Palace, in London or
• 27:36
  in Crawley, they are international ones.
• 27:38
  Yes, they are international. People have to travel abroad to.
• 27:40
  Go no, no, not necessary. They are happening where we have
• 27:43
  over, you know, 300 competitors in those tournaments.
• 27:46
  And we're coming from abroad. We're coming, you know, to
• 27:49
  London. That's probably the best place
• 27:51
  for them to come. And yeah, we travel down there
• 27:53
  and, you know, we compete together with people, you know,
• 27:55
  from France, Belgium, United States, Canada, Brazil, all, all
• 28:01
  of that. You know they're coming all over
• 28:02
  the place. Incredible.
• 28:04
  And how do you as a club or, or how do you decide whether when
• 28:08
  and where to enter and what tournaments to enter?
• 28:10
  How do you kind of make that decision?
• 28:11
  Or is there a a governing body who invites you because your
• 28:14
  club has reached a state certain level?
• 28:16
  So some of the tournaments they are by invitation only.
• 28:19
  So yes, you have to be invited, you have to kind of prove that
• 28:23
  you're worth it to go. It does happen.
• 28:26
  But a lot of tournaments, they are kind of open tournaments and
• 28:30
  you just can go there and test yourself, you know.
• 28:33
  So if we're saying that, look, they have a date and me as a
• 28:37
  sense, yes, usually I look at the dates, which tournaments
• 28:40
  would be suitable for us, where we could potentially travel.
• 28:43
  It's not still too far or anything like this for us.
• 28:46
  And yeah, I give, I send the emails and text messages to my
• 28:49
  students, the parents as well saying, look, we have this
• 28:51
  tournament, you have two weeks to think about if you would like
• 28:54
  to enter. And here we go.
• 28:55
  We're going. Amazing.
• 28:56
  That's right. And obviously you as a sensei,
• 28:59
  you know the sort of level from your experience obviously of
• 29:01
  taking part in the art as well. Yes, you can normally know what
• 29:04
  level it takes to qualify and and to do well in tournament.
• 29:06
  So you can in the open tournaments, you know when to
• 29:09
  enter and what students to enter and that sort.
• 29:10
  Of thing, yes, yes. So it's not like all the time
• 29:13
  everyone enters, of course, you know, some students we choose
• 29:16
  not to enter and me as a sensei as well as sometimes I sadly
• 29:19
  have to say no. You know, even if I would like
• 29:21
  more people going and competing from the club, it's not all the
• 29:25
  time the case. It's you have to sometimes tell
• 29:27
  them now you have to get a higher belt or you have to
• 29:30
  improve your kicks a little bit more, your combinations or one
• 29:33
  or another thing. So it's not all the time.
• 29:34
  For their own safety as well. Isn't it absolutely because it's
• 29:36
  a full contact, meaning that you punch and you kick as hard as
• 29:39
  you can? Yes.
• 29:40
  It's not like A tag games, you know, you're barely tapping the
• 29:43
  face or a head. No, you kick as hard as you can,
• 29:46
  you know. So it's of course, sometimes it
• 29:48
  happens bad for injuries happen. It's accidents.
• 29:52
  It's not it's quite early when we have serious injuries in the
• 29:55
  tournaments because kids are still wearing full protections
• 29:58
  and everything. So yes, we are protected.
• 30:01
  But me as a sense, it's my responsibility, you know, not to
• 30:04
  just send them to the tournament just to for fun of.
• 30:06
  Course, yeah, you just, you know.
• 30:08
  To hit my numbers or something? Yeah, it's not about that.
• 30:10
  It's sending those who have possibility to win or those who
• 30:15
  have to learn as well, not necessarily win over time.
• 30:17
  Yeah, and as you've seen, you've achieved 5 trophies from 11
• 30:20
  entries. Yes, recently.
• 30:21
  So which is good. Yes, I think it's pretty good
• 30:23
  for a small club like ours. After that tournament, we all
• 30:27
  the time do the like a table out of the clubs who takes by the
• 30:31
  clubs, who takes which place. And we took the 15th place out
• 30:36
  of more than 40 clubs competed in that tournament.
• 30:39
  So our club is 1, two, 3 1/2 years old and we're taking
• 30:43
  places with people, you know, with other clubs who exist for
• 30:46
  30-40 years. Amazing.
• 30:47
  So it's, you know, in comparison, I think it's, it's
• 30:50
  all right. Marvellous stuff, marvellous
• 30:52
  stuff. Excellent.
• 30:53
  So away from competition you're running a a special feature of
• 30:56
  the club where you're doing free self defence classes for women,
• 31:00
  is that correct? Yes, that's right.
• 31:01
  That's more about that, because obviously that's quite
• 31:03
  important, isn't? It, it is important, it's one of
• 31:05
  the most important things we do. And yes, we run free women self
• 31:09
  defence classes on Tuesdays during the school term time at
• 31:14
  our club. Both classes are completely free
• 31:17
  to join. You don't need, you know, and
• 31:19
  it's not like a course, you know, we can see a lot of
• 31:21
  courses selling online like 4 weeks course or 6 or 8 weeks
• 31:24
  course and they are promising you to teach everything you can
• 31:27
  learn in 4-6 or eight weeks. I don't believe in that.
• 31:32
  It doesn't happen that way. And I believe that you know,
• 31:35
  good habits, you know, strong habits, we have to be practiced
• 31:38
  over and over again. So we have women who joined us
• 31:41
  in September. Even if you miss few classes,
• 31:45
  you know, you've been sick or you've been away on holiday, it
• 31:47
  doesn't matter. You can hop in back on, you
• 31:49
  know, to the classes and kind of continue the journey.
• 31:51
  So it's it doesn't matter if you missed yes, you're still
• 31:54
  learning the same, well, the same things what every all the
• 31:57
  group learned before. Yes.
• 31:58
  And we are running, we are running both classes on Tuesday
• 32:01
  evenings from 8:00 to 9:00 during the school term time.
• 32:05
  Fantastic. And that's great, great feet,
• 32:06
  great thing to do, isn't it? Because I think it's important
• 32:09
  that people can protect themselves.
• 32:11
  Oh, especially I'm a woman, so that's why I run those classes.
• 32:14
  I truly believe that we definitely need more of those
• 32:18
  classes. Yeah.
• 32:20
  And definitely, you know, for accessibility.
• 32:22
  This is why we chose to do them free of charge, but not to limit
• 32:26
  people. If you, you can join us only if
• 32:28
  you can pay. No, it's not like that.
• 32:30
  We are running, you know, and free activities and for kids,
• 32:33
  for all of our students. And this one, this one, yes, it
• 32:35
  is for women. But I felt that woman, me being
• 32:38
  myself, woman, I know from experience that a lot of times
• 32:42
  you're in difficult situations if you start work quite early or
• 32:46
  finish quite late. And yeah, it's not a pleasure
• 32:49
  all the time around without no, you know, with no, no, nothing.
• 32:53
  And is that open to as in under 18 girls though?
• 32:57
  Or just. No, it's only 18 plus adult only
• 32:59
  because we are learning quite serious things.
• 33:02
  It's not like you, you expected to know them.
• 33:04
  No, you can join absolutely. If you have no clue how to make
• 33:07
  a fist, you know, with your hand.
• 33:09
  We teach everything with that. But both classes we talk, you
• 33:13
  know, pretty serious. We are talking about knife
• 33:15
  defence against different weapons or very serious like
• 33:18
  assault situations as well, so This is why those classes are
• 33:21
  only 18. Plus of course, yes, which makes
• 33:23
  sense. And how long you've been running
• 33:25
  them? What was the idea behind
• 33:26
  introducing those? So my idea was just, well, I'm a
• 33:29
  woman, that's why that that was main idea.
• 33:33
  And I know that it was a lack of classes for only for women,
• 33:37
  especially because there are some, a lot of, you know, self
• 33:40
  defence clubs open for everyone. But I listen to my students,
• 33:45
  moms, for example, or other women who attend my club and
• 33:48
  they said, yeah, we would like to do but or it's their beliefs
• 33:52
  or if you have been assaulted or something like this.
• 33:54
  We do not want to train with men.
• 33:57
  Sadly, it's it happens more often when we think, and that
• 34:00
  was my main idea that we are doing those classes for women.
• 34:04
  And it's women only me is a woman.
• 34:07
  And females had, you know, more tend to join the classes when
• 34:10
  which ones classes are joined by, you know which ones are run
• 34:13
  by a woman as well. Because I'm not the most fit
• 34:17
  person in the world. I'm not the tallest, the
• 34:19
  strongest or anything like this. And I believe it helps for women
• 34:22
  to see that when person like one of them is teaching
• 34:27
  self-defense, it I must teach what actually works.
• 34:30
  Yeah, of course, because I'm not, like I said, not the
• 34:32
  fastest, strongest, the best one ever.
• 34:35
  Yes. But I'm one of them.
• 34:37
  And this is what I teach and it must work.
• 34:40
  That was my main idea. That's, you know, to spread that
• 34:42
  awareness and, you know, just to teach basic things.
• 34:45
  Amazing. That's a great thing to do for
• 34:47
  the community, Which? Thank you.
• 34:48
  Thank you, Kevin. So and just time is running out,
• 34:50
  but finally anyone who's interested in joining the club,
• 34:53
  whether it's for the free self defence or generally joining the
• 34:56
  club to actually learn the the art of karate, how do they get
• 34:59
  in touch with you? First thing is probably our
• 35:02
  website whichishightalkkarate.com or
• 35:07
  also on Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, YouTube.
• 35:11
  Did I did I name them all? It's high talk karate.
• 35:15
  Yes, it's pretty much, you know, the same name for all of you
• 35:17
  know, for all of our social media channels.
• 35:19
  Yeah. Send this text message or go on
• 35:21
  the website, choose the date which one suits you the best and
• 35:24
  book your free week trial. Fantastic and Haito spell HAITO
• 35:29
  for those that you want to to know so brilliant.
• 35:32
  Thank you Gabby and last word to to the kids.
• 35:36
  Just finally, Rebecca, if somebody's out there listening
• 35:40
  thinking about karate, what would you say to them?
• 35:42
  I'll. Say like, go for your dreams and
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  like, be brave and like, yeah. Go for it.
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  Don't. Don't just give it a go.
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  And like Gabby said, there was a free trial to join the club and
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  see to get an idea of what it feels like.
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  Yeah. Amazing.
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  Adam what? What would you say I'd.
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  Say like if you're having like trouble with like mental health,
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  like problems like bullying people just like see what's
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  good, like see what's up with karate.
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  And then like, if you like, just carry on, you know?
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  Yeah, and it gives. It gives gives you a deterrent,
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  doesn't it gives other gives. It's a direct deterrent against
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  other people who might not be treating you too well.
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  Yeah. Fantastic.
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  Thank you, Adam. Timmy, finally from you.
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  What advice? You started young.
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  At 8 years old, you started karate.
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  What? What would you say to people who
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  are thinking about joining the club or a club?
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  Go. For it, don't be scared, don't
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  let other people talk you down, and don't let other people call
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  your names and stuff. Fantastic, superb advice.
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  Thank you, kids. Thank you, Timmy.
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  Thank you, Adam. Thank you, Rebecca, and thank
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  you, Gabby. Thank you.
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  As well for having. Wishing you a continued success
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  and obviously we'll get you back on the show again in future and
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  it's great to have you on again. Thank you.
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  Brilliant, right? We'll just go to our final break
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  and in a moment we'll be back with this week's Sporting News
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  Headlines with Nigel. Stay tuned, it's PCR FM.
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  You're listening to PCR sports. Welcome back to the PCR Sports
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  Show with myself, Dipam and Nigel.
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  This week we've just been speaking with Gabby from the
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  Height of Karate Club, who's set that up and leads the club in
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  the city of Peter in Woodston. And we've heard from some of our
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  students, Timmy, Adam and Rebecca about their life in and
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  out of the club, which has been absolutely fantastic.
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  But right now, let's catch up on what's been happening elsewhere.
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  And Nigel has the headlines for us this week.
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  Nigel, how are you? Yeah, all good.
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  Thank you, All good. So here are your headlines on
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  PCR Sports this evening. Posh's first game, first game
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  today since the 11 draw at Wimbledon, which was just sort
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  of two weeks ago. This afternoon they visited
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  Luton Town in League One and fell to a 21 defeat despite
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  Jimmy J Morgan's goal giving Posh some late hope.
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  The Posh are back in action on Monday when Cardiff City visit
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  the Western Home Stadium for a three PM kick off.
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  In other news, Posh's fixture at Stockport has been changed to a
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  12/30 kick off as it's been selected by Sky Sports for live
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  TV coverage. And the club are delighted to
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  have signed winger Cairo Lisby on a new long term deal that
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  runs through to 2030. The 22 year old completed the
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  formalities after outstanding first campaign at EFL level with
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  twenty goal contributions in all competitions including eleven
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  Sky Bat League One goals over the city at Peterborough Sports.
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  And this afternoon Peterborough Sports drew 22 at home to King's
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  Lynn after twice leading the match.
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  The Sports goals going from Luca Miller and Marcel Oakley and
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  both sides were reduced to 10 men in stoppage time with
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  Elliott Whitehouse, Turbines player, giving his marching
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  orders. Just four games to go now for
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  the City's second side and Sports still hold a slim chance
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  of maintaining their status in the National League N with their
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  next match at Oxford City on Monday.
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  In cricket, AK 11's dream of winning the national ECB Indoor
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  competition for 2026 is all over after the city based team lost
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  in the National semi final. AK qualified for the National
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  ECB competition after winning the Hunt Indoor League and after
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  winning their regional final. Uppingham School to book
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  themselves a place at the home of cricket.
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  In their way was Waterlooville from Hampshire.
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  AK11 won the toss and decided to bat first but was soon in early
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  trouble and were reduced to 16 for three due to mount to some
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  outstanding seam and swing bowlers.
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  From the first first 3 Waterlooville players.
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  Things suddenly got worse for the city based team as only
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  Xishan U Hak Mcdoom with 18 and captain Sudhir Jaffear with 10
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  made double figures as they were dismissed for 42 in 9.1 overs
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  chasing 43. The final to win the final to
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  get into the finals. Excuse me?
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  Waterlooville got home without any alarms to win by 6 wickets.
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  Boxing and Chrissy Smith has broken an Eastern Counties
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  boxing record. The fighter from the local
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  Wolves Den Club won an Eastern Counties Challenge belt, just
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  his third competitive bout, the fastest title win on record.
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  Smith stopped the more experienced Jesse Gatehouse in
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  the second round in Billericay after surviving a flurry in of
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  punches in the opening stages. The local lad didn't panic and
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  gradually wore his opponent down with some devastating body shots
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  accompanied by attacks to the head.
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  Smith won't be one of the four Wolves Den boxers to contest the
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  national finals of a fine achievement as no other club has
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  won more than one fighter involved.
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  And finally, snooker. Luke Simmons beat Gary
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  Skipworth, 21, to win the inaugural Snooker Open final at
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  Peterborough's Broadway club and claimed the £450 first prize and
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  the trophy last Sunday. Simmons whitewashed Darren
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  Bumpkin Steve Martin with a break of 84, the highest event
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  in the event, and Christian Willits before scraping past
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  senior's eventual Invitational champion Stephen Waldron in a
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  decider on the final black to reach the title match.
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  Having lost the title the opening game in pre tournament
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  favorite Matt Gasby, Skipworth held his nerve in three one
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  frame matches defeating Neil Downman, local hope Steve Singh
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  and former professional Colin Mitchell on route to 1/6 Legends
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  Tour final. Next up is the Team Cup in April
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  which sees 16 players randomly paired together with the winning
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  side collecting the 550 LB top prize.
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  Those the slightly brief headlines this evening.
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  Thank you Nigel, lots going on as always.
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  You've just come in fresh from the Peter Plus Sports game at
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  Pimps Park as a football match sounded quite exciting.
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  Probably not the most ideal result that sports would have
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  wanted, but quite an entertaining game by the sound
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  of it. It was a typical Derby.
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  It was a typical. Derby.
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  It was ruined really as a spectacle by the wind, but the
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  game just was you couldn't take your eyes off it for one second.
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  Oh, the both teams just gave so much.
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  And unfortunately, sports, it seems like sports are hit by an
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  absolute worldly goal just recently in every game at Pyms
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  Park. But this guy scored the
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  equalizer in in added time today.
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  He won't hit another one like that for the rest of his career
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  probably. And it just crept in the corner
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  and great finish. But yeah, get in for sports and
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  looking like the right end might be on the wall now.
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  And. We're just looking at a table
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  now. Sports are eight points from
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  safety, I suppose, 9 effectively because of because of the goal
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  difference with what sports are on 42 matches, so they've got
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  four more to play. It's got to be maximum points,
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  doesn't it really? And that still doesn't
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  guarantee. Well, we, we said it was before
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  today, we said we needed five from 5.
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  I think we definitely need 4 from 4.
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  Now there's a few draws today, which actually means the safety
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  net now is probably 49 points where before they thought it
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  might have been 50, even as high as 52.
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  So yeah, four wins and you never know.
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  But it is very much last chance saloon now.
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  Oxford on Monday is a 4G pitch so it'll be a much quicker game
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  and let's just hope the players can recover after a bruising
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  battle today. Peter Crook got an injury at the
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  end. He's his eye was bleeding quite
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  heavily and sports didn't. Have.
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  Didn't have a reserve goalie on the on the bench.
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  Sam Ed was picking up an injury in training, so that's going to
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  be interesting. We're talking to Kashi after the
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  game and he said there's a possibility they might have to
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  bring in a new keeper for Monday for. 40 hours or so.
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  Never a dull moment at sports, believe me.
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  Wow. And I look in Oxford, they're
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  actually on decent form at the moment as well.
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  Out of six matches, they've won 3, drawn 2 and lost one.
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  Yeah, it just seems, you know, you look back over the past
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  maybe six weeks, two months, I think all those teams that have
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  been down there with sports have pulled some brilliant results
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  out of the back. Oxford being one of them, Kings
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  Lynn, who they played today being one of them.
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  And you know, Alfreton, again, they've pulled out some
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  brilliant results. And it just seems that sports
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  are the only team not to have done that.
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  And they've that's why they're still down there.
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  So I don't, I don't think, I don't think it has many excuses.
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  If they do end up going down, I think they'll probably deserve
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  it. But if if they played like they
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  did today for the whole of the season, then we'd be mid table.
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  Yeah, absolutely. And that I think that the damage
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  lately was done, that that defeated Leamington wasn't.
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  It wasn't great. That was a real kick in the
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  teeth and and we didn't play well there at all, really.
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  But yeah, I mean, Leamington Rock bottom, before we played
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  them last week, they were actually down and we've only
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  taken one point off them all year doing nil nil at home and
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  then we lost 42 away. So, you know, it's little things
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  like that that make the difference and it looks like
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  sports are going to come up just short, but it'll be a brilliant
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  end of the season if they do manage to pull it I'd.
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  Say never, say never. While it's mathematically
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  possible, let's let's just cling on to that hope.
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  Well, the dreamer in me is saying that they're going to do
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  it and it's not till they're mathematically down that that
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  I'll think any different. But everybody's on to Monday now
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  at Oxford. There's a good crowd down at
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  Pyms Park today, hoping that some of those will come and
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  support us at Oxford on Monday and let's see where we end up.
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  We might be having a big party yet.
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  Fingers crossed, brilliant. Thanks Nigel.
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  You'll be off the obviously off to Oxford on Monday with the
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  with the side no doubt and reporting on that through our
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  socials. Yeah, yeah, I'll be there.
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  So we've got a couple of lots. So four games, three of those
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  are away, just one left at home now.
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  So three more Rd. trips and a very long season.
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  Absolutely brilliant. Good stuff.
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  Thank you Nigel, right, it's come to the end of the show and
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  thank you for joining us this evening.
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  As we spoke to Highto Karate, Gabby, Timmy, Adam and Rebecca
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  gave us a great update on what's happening at the club and what
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  it feels like to to partake in the art of karate.
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  And then Nigel just wrapped us up there with the headlines.
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  So thank you for joining us. Enjoy this wonderful long bank
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  holiday weekend. Have a great week.
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  We'll be back. Same time, same place next week
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  with your PCR sports show on PCRFM.
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  Take care, bye for now.