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Speaker 1: We're here at Mix one O four point nine get

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Speaker 1: into feb Fish each and every year and it's all

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Speaker 1: about us all getting active. But it's all well and

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Speaker 1: good for the adults to get out there and get active,

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Speaker 1: but I think it is just as important to have

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Speaker 1: our kids out there and active. Now, a man who

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Speaker 1: does a phenomenal program for youngsters joins me on the

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Speaker 1: line right now. His name's Tim Ellison from Triathlon NT

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Speaker 1: and here's the pathway. He's from Pathway Management Services. Good

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Speaker 1: morning to you, Tim. Hopefully i've got that line up.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Tim.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you've got it right, So thank you very much,

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Speaker 2: Katie if you're having me on, so good to talk

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Speaker 2: to you again.

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Speaker 1: Well, Tim, you guys do a phenomenal program for kids.

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Speaker 1: I've taken my kids along and there's so many different

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Speaker 1: ways to get them active. There is.

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Speaker 2: So I've got a fantastic board that I work with

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Speaker 2: at draft On and two. Basically over the years has

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Speaker 2: taken about six seven years to get to where we're

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Speaker 2: at at the moment to have a community program. And

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Speaker 2: the community program consists of a running skills programer bike

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Speaker 2: skills program, and a swimming skills program. And like I said,

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Speaker 2: it's free. You've come along and brought your kids along

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Speaker 2: to the running skills stuff. Generally speaking or not generally speaking,

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Speaker 2: the stuff that we do is age appropriate, so the

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Speaker 2: kids have a great time. And like I said, you

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Speaker 2: just turn up, don't you.

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Speaker 1: You do, And that's what I love about it. I actually,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'd never really heard a huge amount about it.

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Speaker 1: And I happened to be at basketball one day with

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Speaker 1: a friend and she said, oh, come along to this

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Speaker 1: triathlon program that happens on Wednesdays. And we came along,

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Speaker 1: and I thought, this is unbelievable and you get to

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Speaker 1: do it for free. Talk us through. Firstly, we'll talk

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Speaker 1: about this, you know, this part of the program to

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Speaker 1: begin with. Talk us through the days that it happens,

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Speaker 1: and who can come along.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So we have a swimming skills program on Monday,

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Speaker 2: and there's two sessions with that that. We have a

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Speaker 2: junior program, which is essentially five year old to somewhere

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Speaker 2: around about nine nine tens. Probably tens is starting to

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Speaker 2: move into our senior program, but some kids out are

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Speaker 2: seven and eight. If they're confident that they can swim

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Speaker 2: with our senior program. Now, I just make the distinction

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Speaker 2: that our swim skills program is a swimming skills program.

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Speaker 2: It's not learned to swim and it's not swimming club.

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Speaker 2: So if I can, if I can help kids get

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Speaker 2: into swimming clubs, then happy to do that. But it's

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Speaker 2: sort of the bridge. You know, some kids just don't

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Speaker 2: want to do the swimming club thing, and a lot

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Speaker 2: of kids sort of get a bit tired of the

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Speaker 2: learn to swim skills. And that's like not saying anything different.

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Speaker 1: Member, it's between yeah, absolutely.

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Speaker 2: We're trying to sit in that middle space. So that's

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Speaker 2: on Monday. The running skills program is on Wednesday, and

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Speaker 2: again we have the youngsters at the moment in the

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Speaker 2: in the wet season indoors at Marara Indoor Stadium. And

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Speaker 2: the running skills as you as you know for young

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Speaker 2: young kids consist of also ball skills, just basic ball skills,

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Speaker 2: situational movement awareness stuff and and some running skills and

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Speaker 2: it underpins where the kids playing basketball, hockey, netball, anything.

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Speaker 2: So the skills programs that we do is not a

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Speaker 2: triathlon skills program. It's a running skills program that's quite

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Speaker 2: generic and and that's so it is really really well

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Speaker 2: thought out and there's some good evidence behind what we present,

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Speaker 2: so it's not it's not a Mickey Mouse program. There's

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Speaker 2: some good what you call it, technical stuff behind it,

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Speaker 2: and but but it's framed in a way that's appropriate

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Speaker 2: for the age group. So kids are in the younger

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Speaker 2: age groups and that, but we have an older category

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Speaker 2: A well.

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Speaker 1: It is wonderful and at all I guess you know.

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Speaker 1: There is also then the Triathlons, the actual family Triathlon

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Speaker 1: series which is going to be kicking off as well.

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Speaker 1: Now I believe this begins. Is it this weekend?

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Speaker 2: Tim, Yes, that's right on Saturday. We've got the first

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Speaker 2: is that series. So what we've tried to do at

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Speaker 2: Triathlon is have a free community program to expose people

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Speaker 2: to just swimming, cycling and running, and then we have

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Speaker 2: like if you want to stick all these things together,

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Speaker 2: We'll make the distances really short, so if you're playing

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Speaker 2: hockey or cricket or netball or whether you don't have

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Speaker 2: to train for it, most of the kids can run

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Speaker 2: but we make the distances really short. Pretty good fun

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Speaker 2: events like the ones for this weekend is we call

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Speaker 2: it a Junior Moter event or the Run Ride Run

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Speaker 2: Junior Mater event. So for the first time in a

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Speaker 2: couple of years, we've got a fair bit of water

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Speaker 2: down at the Beldrope, so this should be really good fun.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, I think it's it's awesome. They're awesome programs,

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Speaker 1: but it's also for me. I think it's so important

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Speaker 1: to keep our kids active. You know, we as adults

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Speaker 1: getting active, but for our children it's incredibly important and

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Speaker 1: it just teaches them those great life skills from an

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Speaker 1: early age, you know, about looking after themselves.

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Speaker 2: Well that's one HUNDREDTHENT correct your introduction saying, you know,

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Speaker 2: you have their bit stuff. And the concentration is around adults,

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Speaker 2: but the same percentages of inactivity in the community exist

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Speaker 2: across all age categories and the kids especially. It's very

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Speaker 2: important to be active. It underpends not only your physical

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Speaker 2: health but your mental health. So and the three activities

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Speaker 2: of the most or the three activities that people engage

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Speaker 2: in the most from a recreational point of view are swimming, walking, running,

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Speaker 2: and cycling. So they just happen to have a sport

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Speaker 2: with those three predisciplined in it, so why don't we

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Speaker 2: actually do something for the community.

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Speaker 1: So absolutely lot's happening, Tim. I know that you guys

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Speaker 1: have got a Facebook page. What can they search for?

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Speaker 1: What can people search for if they're keen to find

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Speaker 1: out a bit more and maybe come along.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the best page is the move page, which is

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Speaker 2: spelled mob and then the three which is your E backwards.

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Speaker 2: It's the marketing guys for you. So yeah, the Move

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Speaker 2: Facebook page. So go Move Darwin since we're on a

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Speaker 2: Darwin radio because there is move in Alice Springs.

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Speaker 1: So awesome. Well, Tim Ellison from Triathlon NT I really

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Speaker 1: appreciate you having a chat with us this morning and

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Speaker 1: no doubt see you again in the near future.

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Speaker 2: Looking forward to it. Katie, thanks very much for having

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Speaker 2: me on