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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks That Be.

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Speaker 2: Keevin Mill is here with us this morning. Morning at

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Speaker 2: Kevin and Jack.

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Speaker 3: You'll recall last week we talked about Mongonui and yeah, yea,

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Speaker 3: our family had just been up there and and I

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Speaker 3: described it as, you know, a paradise really and and

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Speaker 3: paradise has now been a sail And.

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Speaker 2: I mean I think, look, would it be I don't

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Speaker 2: throw the term iconic around too freely, but would it

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Speaker 2: be the most iconic New Zealand campground?

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Speaker 3: Would I would think I would? Yeah, well, it would

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Speaker 3: certainly be in that top bunch. Yeah, extraordinary place. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: you'll wonder about its future. But oh well, I just

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Speaker 3: hope that the search is works as well as possible

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Speaker 3: and that the wonderful city town of mulmong and Ui

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Speaker 3: doesn't lose its enormous appeal. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: No, well seen. Now, Kevin, you want to celebrate New

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Speaker 2: Zealand's only locally created sport this morning?

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Speaker 3: Yes? How cool is it that the World manou Champs

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Speaker 3: are about to take place in twelve qualifying events in

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Speaker 3: nine cities around the mortar. If you make a big

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Speaker 3: enough splash in your home city. You'll be off to

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Speaker 3: win thousands of bucks in the Grand Final in Auckland

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Speaker 3: mid March. And why I think it's so cool is

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Speaker 3: that this is a celebration of a quintessential Kiwi activity that,

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Speaker 3: when you think about it, has taken place here for

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Speaker 3: over a century, probably longer. It's probably the only sport

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Speaker 3: we've not imported from overseas. Before you ask Jack, no,

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Speaker 3: I am not manu practitioner myself. In fact, I didn't

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Speaker 3: realize Manu Tongua was such a big deal. Who we

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Speaker 3: spent time in the Bay of Plenty though it turns

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Speaker 3: out there's a big following here in Wellington. There will

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Speaker 3: be a fair few listeners my age who don't know

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Speaker 3: what a man who is. Ironically, many will have done

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Speaker 3: a type of manu when they were young, except we

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Speaker 3: used to call it a bomb jumping from the platform

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Speaker 3: into the water and making the biggest flash possible. But

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Speaker 3: your classic manu requires your land in the water, bum first,

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Speaker 3: with your body a clear V shape, sending a jet

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Speaker 3: of water up into the sky and creating a loud

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Speaker 3: pop sound under the water. There are freestyle variations such

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Speaker 3: as Te Tapara, the staple Te carfinner, the coffin t Coolia,

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Speaker 3: the gorilla to pourdor report, the cannonball. But the ultimate

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Speaker 3: Keywi event, to my way of thinking, is the ball Manu.

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Speaker 3: We have to execute a classic man whu while holding

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Speaker 3: on to a number four rugby ball. The idea is

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Speaker 3: to create a loop with the rugby ball. Jack. I

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Speaker 3: so want Manu to succeed. I see this year, for

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Speaker 3: the first time, one of the qualifying events is on

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Speaker 3: the Gold Coast in Australia. We can't stop there. I

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Speaker 3: want to see man who end up in the diving

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Speaker 3: pool at the Olympics.

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Speaker 2: Why not? Why not? I mean, given what have been

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Speaker 2: ending to the Olympics lately, it probably won't be too

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Speaker 2: long for the mon who get in there. But I'm

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Speaker 2: with you. I love this claim that it's New Zealand

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Speaker 2: only only sport. No, I think we should throw it

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Speaker 2: from the lights see if anyone can can challenge us.

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Speaker 2: I was thinking about it this morning. I thought, oh,

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Speaker 2: I wonder about touch rugby and I looked up the

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Speaker 2: history of touch rugby and no, that was invented in

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Speaker 2: South sid Yeah, because it would be there's nothing that

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Speaker 2: springs to mind. I'm sure there is something somewhere, you know.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I think I'm with you. So have you

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Speaker 2: ever attempted a man who no, no, no, fear enough.

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Speaker 3: I only heard about a man who and my age

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Speaker 3: is already against doing one.

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Speaker 2: Come on, Kevin, don't give us that line.

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Speaker 3: No, I sat down because because they've got these great

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Speaker 3: platforms now all over the country, were huge seating and

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Speaker 3: hundreds can turn up for these comps and they just

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Speaker 3: sat down and watch. Yeah, that's good enough for me. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: You might say that age is a barrier. I can

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Speaker 2: say that physiology is a barrier. I think there's a

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Speaker 2: certain body type that lends itself to better mone who's

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Speaker 2: and it's not the body type. I've got a sort

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Speaker 2: of praying man to start a type frame that isn't

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Speaker 2: terribly well suited to him. I'm not someone who folds

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Speaker 2: into a B shape with much elegance, you know. Anyway, Hey,

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Speaker 2: thank you so much for that, Kevin. We will see

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Speaker 2: if anyone can challenge Kevin's claim that maybe one whose

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Speaker 2: are the only or pre eminent New Zealand invented sports.

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Speaker 2: So if you've got any ideas, by all means to

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Speaker 2: let us know our sport over was the next he

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Speaker 2: might have something to challenge Kevin's claim This Morning.

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