Speaker 1: Jason, Lauren j Eminem just go on twenty past days
Speaker 1: right across Melbourne. It is Jace and Lauren Cleans here
Speaker 1: from the newsroom as well, and we thought it'd be
Speaker 1: good to get some athletes on before they head to
Speaker 1: Paris so we can put in duty free order.
Speaker 2: Our next guest is one of the toughest athletes around.
Speaker 2: He's got a pro boxing record of three zero and
Speaker 2: is an Olympic medalist. Off the air, Jace was saying
Speaker 2: he can take him. So everyone, welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Harry Garside and also Harry, here's the bell. We're looking
Speaker 2: for a knockout.
Speaker 3: Let's go bring it on. Jay, Good morning, Good morning guys.
Speaker 4: Where are we talking to you from? Are you in
Speaker 4: Paris yet for the Olympic?
Speaker 3: I leave for Europe on Monday, so I'm currently in
Speaker 3: Brisbane and I just got a pack of my bags yesterday,
Speaker 3: so it's getting really really close.
Speaker 2: Okay, so just one pack for an Olympic Games.
Speaker 3: Uh because boxing, obviously I packed like essentral for me.
Speaker 3: It is the stupidest things hydraul like obviously Australian chewing
Speaker 3: gum chewing gum suck. I don't know abou anyone else,
Speaker 3: but I can't stand it.
Speaker 1: Really lush.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I really need an extra extra, really get to being.
Speaker 5: Really the extra.
Speaker 1: What about I don't mind a bit of p k
Speaker 1: oh No, what's.
Speaker 5: What's you go to gum?
Speaker 4: Harry for grain? What is that?
Speaker 3: I don't even know what the favorite green pepper or the.
Speaker 5: Green guy controversial?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 5: Well, anyway back to the Olympics.
Speaker 2: We're gunning for gold.
Speaker 5: That's all you pack hyd.
Speaker 3: And pretty much to boxings a central of course.
Speaker 5: Have you got a pair of board shorts for European summer?
Speaker 3: A k post Paris at least almost speeder a speedover?
Speaker 3: You love the Tony Abbot speedo? Man, yeah, I do
Speaker 3: love that.
Speaker 1: I bet you look very different than Tony Abbott and Speeder.
Speaker 2: Twenty nine sleeps until the opening ceremony, Harry.
Speaker 1: That means you'll be shocked up at the athletes village, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, mate, I'm very excited to get in there
Speaker 3: and be around the other Aussies and it's pretty it's
Speaker 3: pretty exciting to be within a month now.
Speaker 1: Because I was going to say that is that hard
Speaker 1: boxing sort of a solo sport? Do you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? And then you're sort of going into like
Speaker 1: this sharehouse situation. Is it hard to keep focused in
Speaker 1: your mind right for the fight?
Speaker 3: It's interesting, I think. I think it's exciting. You have
Speaker 3: this like thrill of being around other athletes and other
Speaker 3: high performance, but of course it is absolutely distracting you
Speaker 3: sort of. There's a lot of energy and a lot
Speaker 3: of noise going on, but it's one of those things
Speaker 3: like you just try and embrace it and enjoy it.
Speaker 3: But yeah, you're also got to like make sure you
Speaker 3: take into account, like your performance is the most important thing,
Speaker 3: so making sure you're packing like you bug.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mask know you're sharing a room, right,
Speaker 1: You're not sharing surely?
Speaker 3: Now we share every usual or we did in Tokyo,
Speaker 3: and I'm pretty sure it's true to a room in Paris.
Speaker 4: Even on sweet or is it like a hostel situation
Speaker 4: where you have to wear thongs in the shower because
Speaker 4: so many people it's you.
Speaker 3: I think it's just assis in there, so it's not other.
Speaker 3: It's just not in other countries. But yeah, you'd be
Speaker 3: sharing with Alban most likely sharing with other boxes. So
Speaker 3: I know the boxes pretty well. It's not too bad.
Speaker 3: They're like family, But it's it's the living conditions in there,
Speaker 3: Like you think it might be amazing, but it's it's
Speaker 3: pretty stock standard sort of.
Speaker 5: Stuff, pretty basic.
Speaker 2: Hey, Harry, preparation, Just be careful because it's twenty five
Speaker 2: past eight and kids in carts and stuff. But have
Speaker 2: you done the bonk band thing again?
Speaker 3: I have, mate, It's the first couple of weeks were
Speaker 3: pretty challenging. I think. I'm like, I think it's like
Speaker 3: week four, week five. Now it's been been a while,
Speaker 3: so I'm sort of through it now, Like you're sort
Speaker 3: of exhausted from training that you don't really think at
Speaker 3: it too much. But I'm sure postal and bigs'll be
Speaker 3: a bit of a bit of fun going on.
Speaker 5: Are you single? You figure a partner? Are you single?
Speaker 3: I'm a single man, But I think it might be
Speaker 3: a pretty short performance after having a few.
Speaker 2: Is that to heighten like testosterone levels?
Speaker 5: Why there's actually a technical SI.
Speaker 3: There's all these stories. Apparently it's all made up. Apparently
Speaker 3: there's a bit of a myths so you can get
Speaker 3: studies on both sides that agree and then disagree. So
Speaker 3: I'm also doing it for just mind control. Like we
Speaker 3: all have desires, we all want to like I'm cutting
Speaker 3: out coffee in the moment. We all want to drink coffee.
Speaker 3: We all want to go relieve ourselves and have some
Speaker 3: fun by ourselves. But the more that I can, I
Speaker 3: guess withstand that sort of stuff and restrain myself, I
Speaker 3: think I just feel more powerful.
Speaker 1: That's weird because my wife's put me one.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to I was about to say, maybe
Speaker 4: I need to all training for the Olympics, the boxing.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I ain't going to Paris.
Speaker 4: Harry, at what point do you start getting nervous or
Speaker 4: do you not get nervous?
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know. I definitely get nervous right now.
Speaker 3: I'm nervous. There's like a whole cocktail of emotions that
Speaker 3: you feel within a day, within a week, And I
Speaker 3: think there's just like as athletes, you put a lot
Speaker 3: of pressure on ourself and I love that, Like I
Speaker 3: love the feeling of being in my body and feeling
Speaker 3: nervous and also feeling extremely confident. It's exciting. I think
Speaker 3: I have just consistently my whole life chased things that
Speaker 3: make me feel very alive, and I think chasing on
Speaker 3: the gold medal has definitely made me feel very alive
Speaker 3: in my life, and there's been many other things that
Speaker 3: have helped me with that too.
Speaker 1: Harry, surely be a chance for the flag bearer, wouldn't it.
Speaker 3: I don't think so. Jess Fox is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Kayaker now Harry Bronze in Tokyo which was twenty
Speaker 2: twenty or twenty twenty one because of COVID four years on,
Speaker 2: you've visualized yourself winning gold. Tell the guys about what
Speaker 2: you do with visualization and why you do it.
Speaker 3: So every morning I wake up, I meditate. I think
Speaker 3: it's like a really good way to start the day.
Speaker 3: You mean, it's the time of the day when my
Speaker 3: brain is the quietest, which is also quite nice. And
Speaker 3: then I spend ten minutes just visualizing myself and I
Speaker 3: try and visualize things that I can control. I think
Speaker 3: when people visualize, we often visualize things that are out
Speaker 3: of our control, Like you're visualizing sometimes the color of
Speaker 3: shorts your wearing, which is out of our control. But
Speaker 3: I can control what foot I use to step up
Speaker 3: on the podium. I can control the action of how
Speaker 3: I duck as someone puts the metal on my neck.
Speaker 3: I can control those motions, but I can't control a
Speaker 3: lot of things, like the color that I'm wearing. I
Speaker 3: can't control the hand that the referee lifts my hand with.
Speaker 3: I can't control that sort of stuff. So the things
Speaker 3: that I can control, I try and visualize. And it's
Speaker 3: really nice. There is some days that you can really
Speaker 3: see those visuals in your brain. I think when you
Speaker 3: feel really connected to it, you can really see it.
Speaker 3: So it is nice. And yeah, yeah throughout the day
Speaker 3: as well, I have about like ten alarms and go
Speaker 3: off and have to try and do like a little
Speaker 3: minute visualization of standing on top of the stadium. So
Speaker 3: that's amazing.
Speaker 1: So you can be in the line down at Combank
Speaker 1: and your alarm goes off and you're like you just
Speaker 1: sit there with your eyes closed and imagine the metal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you see me driving and my eyes are closed.
Speaker 1: The alarms just go off.
Speaker 2: Harry, Harry love this show and we can't wait the
Speaker 2: three of us and Melbourne because he's a boy from
Speaker 2: he's a boy from the East Belgrave Harry.
Speaker 5: First week or second week billing pixel for two.
Speaker 3: Weeks he goes to old Time. That's pretty is exciting.
Speaker 1: Hey, Harry, can you be a favor? Can you can
Speaker 1: you make sure our boy Clint comes home in one piece.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's going to Paris too, Harry.
Speaker 3: Of course, I just heard a couple of our good
Speaker 3: mates Clint are coming over to that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Harry, if Clint gets in trouble, can he call you?
Speaker 4: He sorted out than Clint try and do it himself.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll probably be right.
Speaker 5: Side. Good luck, we'll all be rooting for you.
Speaker 1: Have a safe flight and good luck for Paris.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you, guys, Go get him.
Speaker 5: He's a great guy, isn't he.
Speaker 1: I love how focus to years as well. That's a
Speaker 1: really good way thinking about it, things that you actually
Speaker 1: have control over.
Speaker 4: I love that he said his mind so still in
Speaker 4: the morning. I was thinking maybe I should do that
Speaker 4: ten minutes of MENO take my mind is not still
Speaker 4: in the morning. I'm in panic mode from the second
Speaker 4: that alarm goes off into a second I get in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll tell you what was really sad When he
Speaker 1: goes oh you know it's hard. I'm on week four.
Speaker 5: I'm like, that's a bad.
Speaker 1: In the park. It's just gone.
Speaker 5: You'll live a Harry about la Jason Lauren wake up
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