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Breakfast Bonus: Sport for kids · Toni, Jase & Sam - Breakfast Catchup

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  Speaker 1: The Coast Breakfast Bonus Podcast with Tony Jason, Sam you.
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  Speaker 2: Do, thanks so much for joining us on The Coast
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  Speaker 2: Breakfast Podcast. Today. We want to talk about sports, and
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  Speaker 2: specifically the sports that you get your kids or your
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  Speaker 2: grandkids involved in and you.
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  Speaker 3: Can't help but kind of push them in the directions
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  Speaker 3: that you've been in.
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  Speaker 2: But even if you don't want to do that, even
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  Speaker 2: if you're determined not to push them into that direction,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes they end up there anyway. And I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: give you an example of my world. So as a kid,
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  Speaker 2: I did play a lot of sport because our I
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  Speaker 2: don't know and Tartannucky everyone played everything you know, basketball, rugby, netball,
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  Speaker 2: we did surf, life saving athletics.
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  Speaker 3: That it's because you guys didn't have TV.
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  Speaker 2: That was it. That's what happens when you're in a
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  Speaker 2: rural community. Anyway, the two major sports I ended up
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  Speaker 2: sticking with and playing to quite a high level with
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  Speaker 2: both netball and cricket. But with cricket, any parent will
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  Speaker 2: know it can be quite punishing in terms of being
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  Speaker 2: the parent because there are big, long days they are
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  Speaker 2: at cricket sometimes. I mean I would go to cricket
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  Speaker 2: when I was at high school. I would play from
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  Speaker 2: nine till twelve for my school. Then I would go
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  Speaker 2: to club cricket and I would play from one till
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  Speaker 2: about six pm. That is a very long day, it is.
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  Speaker 3: But here's the thing. Jeff Street lover of cricket, Now,
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  Speaker 3: I was the same. I played representative cricket, very passionate
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  Speaker 3: about the sport. My dad, God bless him, he hated
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  Speaker 3: cricket and he was there every weekend.
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  Speaker 2: But that's interesting that you then stuck with cricket when
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't your dad's sport. So you take me as
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  Speaker 2: as a cricketer. I went to university on a cricket scholarship.
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  Speaker 2: It's in my blood and all of my family loves it.
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  Speaker 2: But I thought, you know what, I'm not. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to make my kids play cricket one because it's
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  Speaker 2: punishing to stay in there as a spectator for so long.
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  Speaker 3: Especially with my batting skills. You know, Dad did turn up.
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  Speaker 3: Oh Wallace gets up for his big moment, third ball
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  Speaker 3: out back on the sideline. Dad's still there on the
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  Speaker 3: sideline watching the rest of the team.
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  Speaker 2: I've got to watch four hours without you even featuring.
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  Speaker 2: So I thought to myself, I'm not going to push
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  Speaker 2: her in that direction. And I felt the same about netball,
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  Speaker 2: was like, if they want to play hockey, absolutely, especially
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  Speaker 2: because I've got at least one vertically chilling child. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: what do you do? I held off with cricket, held off,
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  Speaker 2: and then my daughter said to me, oh, Mum, we've
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  Speaker 2: got this cricket day at school. Can I sign up?
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  Speaker 2: And I mean, yeah, she can do it. She probably
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  Speaker 2: won't enjoy it next minute. Naturally good at cricket, and
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  Speaker 2: we're in it for the long haul. So what I'm
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  Speaker 2: saying is, even if sometimes you have the best intentions
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  Speaker 2: of saying, oh, don't go down that path, your kids
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  Speaker 2: are going to be naturally interested and sometimes naturally talented
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  Speaker 2: at sports that are already in them in their nature.
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  Speaker 3: Look at my little boy. We've never been a rugby family,
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  Speaker 3: and he literally doesn't know which way to run. He
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  Speaker 3: doesn't know what a sideline is. He's not interested. But
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you what, because he's seen me play basketball
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  Speaker 3: on our outside hope, he is gravitating towards that sport.
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  Speaker 2: Now you might want to you might want to sort
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  Speaker 2: that out because running's involved in quite a few sports
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  Speaker 2: knowing which way to run, even basketball.
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  Speaker 3: And the funny thing is like this is we need
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  Speaker 3: to be smart about this. We need to look at
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  Speaker 3: our kids genetics and go, you have no hope at basketball,
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  Speaker 3: Like look at me. Someone should have discouraged me from
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  Speaker 3: an early age. I was coming at six foot sex
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  Speaker 3: foot with shoes on, which is probably.
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  Speaker 2: About do you know what that's That's another great point
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  Speaker 2: you bring up, why are they playing sport? And I
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  Speaker 2: don't think you have to start playing basketball and think
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be in the NBA. Sport gives you
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  Speaker 2: so much more than just a career pathway. It actually
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  Speaker 2: teaches you how to be part of a team, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, in real life as an adult you I
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  Speaker 2: feel like I know people that haven't played team sport.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't learn how to lose, how to share properly,
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  Speaker 2: how to bend because other people need space sometimes like
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  Speaker 2: it's it's so much more than just a career.
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  Speaker 3: One hundred percent agree. But I think also success in
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  Speaker 3: that sport will also make it enduring as well if
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  Speaker 3: you're good at this. So I think it is very
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  Speaker 3: important to type cast. So for me, what sports should
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  Speaker 3: I have played as a vertically challenged, quite stocky, you know,
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  Speaker 3: short necked, short legs, large torso where would you put me.
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  Speaker 2: In front row? You played rugby, No terrible at rugby,
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  Speaker 2: so you're a weakling. You were physical and basketball I
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  Speaker 2: think you you could have played rugby sad. You were fast,
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  Speaker 2: you had focused, You're prepared to work on your physical frame.
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  Speaker 2: I'm surprised you went the basketball way. It's a physically jealous.
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  Speaker 3: The more I think about it, I think I was better.
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  Speaker 3: I look at myself. I was David Boone, you know,
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  Speaker 3: short stocky. All I needed was a mustache and I
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  Speaker 3: could have been a great batsman.
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  Speaker 2: But you did play cricket and it did work out.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't good enough, means just sleep.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the Coast Breakfast Bonus podcast. Get
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