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Speaker 1: The latest charter school's got to focus on high performance sports.

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Speaker 1: The New Zealand Performance Academy set away over in early

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Speaker 1: next year. It will offer elite rugby and football training

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Speaker 1: alongside your regular schooling. Bretto Riley's on the board of

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Speaker 1: this particular establishment and as back, well there's Brett morning

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Speaker 1: morning mate. This seems for those of us who were

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Speaker 1: into sport at school, this seems like a dream come true.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, it's certainly a great model and I think

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Speaker 2: it's going to offer a really really exciting education opportunities

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Speaker 2: and really exciting high performance sport opportunities for young women

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Speaker 2: and men. And I think that's something we've been working

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Speaker 2: on for quite a while and it's really nice to

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Speaker 2: see it come to fruition.

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Speaker 1: How does it work? Do you pick winners? I mean,

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Speaker 1: are the best of the best? Are you cherry picking?

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Speaker 1: In other words?

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Speaker 2: No, I mean our funding through the charter school program

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Speaker 2: really establishes us as a school that takes will come it.

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Speaker 2: So anybody who is interested in going to the New

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Speaker 2: Zealand Performance Academy al Terro can enroll and they can

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Speaker 2: participate in the school alongside people who are part of

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Speaker 2: the Willington Phoenix Academy. They can participate in sport activity themselves.

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Speaker 2: But they can also just have a and I don't

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Speaker 2: know what normal is anymore, but they can have a

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Speaker 2: secondary school education. And we're as focused on an academic

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Speaker 2: achievement as we are on sporting achievement, and hopefully we

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Speaker 2: can make both of those things happen. So even if

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Speaker 2: you don't have an aspiration to be a professional athlete,

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Speaker 2: if you're interested in sport and you're thinking in a

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Speaker 2: bit you enjoy going to school alongside people who do

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Speaker 2: have an aspiration to be a professional athlete, you can

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Speaker 2: do that.

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Speaker 1: Because we interview the people behind the online charter school

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Speaker 1: the other day and they said, look, the rules are

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Speaker 1: there is no cherry picking. And I understand that, but

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Speaker 1: in your case, is that a miss? I mean, surely,

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Speaker 1: if you've got a facility, you want to plug in

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Speaker 1: the best athletes so that they can excel to a

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Speaker 1: point where they will live to their fullest potential. I mean,

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Speaker 1: isn't that what the it's all about?

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Speaker 2: Look, I think it will naturally attract people who want

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Speaker 2: to be you know, who want a career in sport.

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Speaker 2: But you know, both as directly as participants, but potentially

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Speaker 2: also in related careers like physio and administration. And you're right.

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Speaker 2: We located at the New Zealand Campus of Innovation and

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Speaker 2: Sport and tread them the old CIT as it was

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Speaker 2: many years ago, and that is one of the best

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Speaker 2: high performance sports facilities in New Zealand, if not the

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Speaker 2: world actually. But the technology and the investment I've made

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Speaker 2: in the infrastructure is incredible. But you know, we expect

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Speaker 2: we'll get a lot of local young people, initially years

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Speaker 2: eleven to thirteen from the Hut Valley catchment. But we've

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Speaker 2: had the phone has been literally running hot since the

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Speaker 2: announcement yesterday, and so we're aiming for one hundred in

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Speaker 2: our first year on the role. And I don't think

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Speaker 2: based on yesterday's announcement and the sea but we're going

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Speaker 2: to have any problem for achieving that.

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Speaker 1: Well, I wish you the best. Well it it's probably

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Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of charter schools, but this one

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Speaker 1: seems to be the best of the best. Breda Riley,

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Speaker 1: who's the New Zealand Performance Academy board member David Seymour,

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Speaker 1: pushing thirty was pretty good, don't you think so? Sam

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Speaker 1: said in here going, No, I do eighty five. But

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Speaker 1: Sam's a bit like that, and he's on steroids. But David,

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Speaker 1: if you didn't see him on the news yesterdays, lying

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Speaker 1: down is pushing fifteen aside plus the weight to the bar.

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Speaker 1: He looked if you looked at it closely, he was

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Speaker 1: he was shaking. He wasn't too red in the face,

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Speaker 1: but he had a business. Shit. We were impressed. My wife,

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Speaker 1: who's very much into weights these days, was very impressed.

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Speaker 3: The people who say plus the way to the bar,

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Speaker 3: are they like the people who say and a half

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Speaker 3: when they give their high No.

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Speaker 1: The weight of a bar. You ever pushed a bar, Glenn,

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Speaker 1: I got a couple of bars at home there. I

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Speaker 1: reckon they're five cag's by themselves. I reckon he's pushing.

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Speaker 1: He was pushing thirty ten.

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Speaker 3: Depends on it depends on the bar. I'm saying percentage wise,

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Speaker 3: you know, it becomes less significant the more you go up,

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Speaker 3: doesn't it. Well as the maths, I'm just saying that

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Speaker 3: people who are six foot five never say I'm six

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Speaker 3: foot five and a half, whereas people like me, who

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Speaker 3: is five foot eight and a half, I dictly hang

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Speaker 3: on to that.

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Speaker 1: Half Okay, I got you at five foot three or four,

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Speaker 1: or maybe just stoop that weight.

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