1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: As I think anybody who listens to this show knows, 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:06,720 Speaker 1: I absolutely love hearing about young people doing great stuff. 3 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:10,080 Speaker 1: And I tell you what my next guest, she is 4 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 1: off to represent Australia overseas in judo. Now she and 5 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:18,160 Speaker 1: her coach joined me in the studio right now. Firstly, 6 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:22,480 Speaker 1: our fifteen year old athlete, Ebonie Bellu, good morning to you, 7 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:25,919 Speaker 1: good morning, lovely to see you and lovely to meet you. 8 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 1: Thanks for coming in this morning. And of course her coach, 9 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:33,159 Speaker 1: Queenie Queenie Warhurst, good morning to morning, good morning. It 10 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:36,599 Speaker 1: is lovely to have you both in the studio now. Ebanie, firstly, 11 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:38,600 Speaker 1: how long have you been doing judo? 12 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 2: Around about three years? 13 00:00:41,479 --> 00:00:46,240 Speaker 1: Yep, yeah, only three years. So what made you start? 14 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:47,159 Speaker 3: Well? 15 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:50,479 Speaker 2: I was originally doing jiu jitsu first, and then someone 16 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 2: pointed me out in the back at training and said 17 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:56,800 Speaker 2: I should start doing judo because they liked my stand up. 18 00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:00,640 Speaker 1: So I want to point out that I love seeing 19 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:04,600 Speaker 1: girls able to fight. Is that what you call it? 20 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 3: Combat sport? 21 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 1: It's an incredible sport though, like it takes so much 22 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:13,040 Speaker 1: athleticism and you've actually got to be so fit, You've 23 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 1: got to be strong and you've got to you know, 24 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 1: you've got to have your wits about you. Yeah, what 25 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 1: do you love about it? 26 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 2: I just love throwing people. 27 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 1: That I love that. And you know, like what made 28 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 1: you sort of start with your contact sports. 29 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 2: I don't know, Probably defending myself was a big part 30 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 2: of it. Yeah, and just you know, getting fitter yep. 31 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's incredible and I think being able 32 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: to look after yourself and the independence that gives you 33 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:50,560 Speaker 1: as well is a really great thing. So tell me 34 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 1: a little bit more about how you got selected to 35 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 1: represent Australia. 36 00:01:56,200 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 2: I've been to many competitions around Australia and at Nationals, 37 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:02,720 Speaker 2: Queen you just came up to me and she's like, 38 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 2: haven't you even selected to be a part of your 39 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:08,600 Speaker 2: Australian tim and go fight to Hong Kong? So don't 40 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 2: worry about this Nationals And I was like, all right, 41 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:12,239 Speaker 2: just relax for you. 42 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:15,639 Speaker 1: And how like you must have been really proud when 43 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 1: you found that out. 44 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's only three years, you know. 45 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, what's like, what's the aim for you? Are you 46 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:25,400 Speaker 1: thinking to yourself? Do you know what Commonwealth Games? Olympics? 47 00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:27,079 Speaker 1: Who knows where we could end up? 48 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:30,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, I reckon. My goal is to go to 49 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:34,079 Speaker 2: the Pixel thirty two. 50 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know, like I say, really, I love 51 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 1: seeing young people do wonderful stuff and I just think 52 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 1: it's so incredible to you know, to have an aim 53 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:44,920 Speaker 1: like that, to have something that you're trying to achieve, 54 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 1: and in a sport like judo, it is amazing. Queenie, 55 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 1: what's it like for you coaching such an incredible young athlete. 56 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 3: We'll have a whole suite of incredible athlete. But no, 57 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:02,320 Speaker 3: super proud of Ebony. She's really hard. As Ebanie said, 58 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 3: We've traveled a lot. Judo has a national points table 59 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 3: and to get onto the national points table you have 60 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:11,119 Speaker 3: to travel a lot and fight at what we call 61 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:15,120 Speaker 3: our national events series. So this year already Ebony has 62 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 3: competed in Canberra, Brisbane, Melbourne, New South Wales, done a 63 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 3: three day camp at the AIS which back to Canberra, 64 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 3: and we just have to keep traveling to get onto 65 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 3: the points table. So Ebone has meddled and hit the 66 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:32,040 Speaker 3: podium at every tournament, which has put her on not 67 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:33,640 Speaker 3: at the top of the points table, but in the 68 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 3: top three and that enabled selection. 69 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 1: You little legend. That is so cool. So Ebony and. 70 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 3: I travel a lot together. We share a room a 71 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 3: lot together. Yeah, I'm basically her guardian. 72 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 1: Apart from her mother. 73 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 3: But it's all about the National Points Table and that's 74 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 3: what we have to do to get on it. And 75 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 3: she got on it and now she's going Hong Kong and. 76 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 1: You know, so put it pretty bluntly. It's bloody hard 77 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 1: to do that traveling out of the Northern Territory and 78 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 1: it can be really expensive. Lot. What's that like as well? 79 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:07,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, me is on a payment plan. That's mom, that's sorry. 80 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 3: But Ebony does have for this Hong Kong trip. She 81 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:13,640 Speaker 3: has a go fundme page, can and help try and 82 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:16,680 Speaker 3: help out. Judo is a self funded sport until you 83 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 3: get to the Commonwealth Games and kind of Olympic level, 84 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:23,160 Speaker 3: then the government funding kicks in. So we're doing what 85 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:26,839 Speaker 3: we can. We have barbie barbecues, we have car washers, 86 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:32,360 Speaker 3: we have those sorts of things. Yes tonight. Yeah, we're 87 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:34,480 Speaker 3: also hoping to get a sponsor. So if anybody out 88 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:37,159 Speaker 3: there would like to sponsor a young Northern Territory up 89 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:40,279 Speaker 3: and coming athlete, give us a call at the studio. 90 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely give us a call. Light nine four one 91 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 1: one oh four nine because I like, I think it'd 92 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:47,039 Speaker 1: be an incredible thing to do, and I know that 93 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 1: there is always lots of businesses that listen to this 94 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 1: show and they do want to you know, they do 95 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 1: want to support great young people like yourself. So hopefully 96 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 1: someone does give us a call, because it can be 97 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 1: really expensive and we all want to live in the 98 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 1: Northern Territory. We love the Northern Territory, but it can 99 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 1: be really tough if you're good at sport having to 100 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 1: travel away, particularly in a sport like judo where it 101 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 1: is all about getting those rankings. By the sounds of us, Yeah, totally. 102 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:12,719 Speaker 2: Yeah. 103 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:16,480 Speaker 3: We're lucky that Ebony is also a NTAs Northern Territory 104 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:20,480 Speaker 3: Sports Academy reciprocate, so there is some grant money there 105 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:22,359 Speaker 3: for us, which is great and great for the Antique 106 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 3: government to make that available to athletes, but anyone that 107 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 3: can top up would be great. 108 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:29,480 Speaker 1: Now, what's it like for you Ebony in terms of 109 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:32,160 Speaker 1: juggling school and everything as well while you're training at 110 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:33,960 Speaker 1: such a hard level. 111 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 2: Oh, it's difficult. But my teachers get that I go 112 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 2: away and I'm an athlete and that so they're a 113 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 2: bit easier on the assignments and homework, but yeah, it's 114 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 2: pretty hard. 115 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 1: But you know the life experience you get as well 116 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:50,839 Speaker 1: from that sport, and you know the way that you 117 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 1: learn to win and lose and all the wonderful things 118 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 1: that you learn when you travel away for your sport. 119 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 1: I think is an incredible life experience and you should be. 120 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 1: I'm so happy and proud of your achievements. I just 121 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:05,600 Speaker 1: think it's awesome and I love that your favorite thing 122 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 1: to do is to throw people, yeah for a lesson, 123 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 1: and then you'll give you a lesson smash me. I 124 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:21,600 Speaker 1: got no chance. Now what date do you leave and 125 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:25,880 Speaker 1: how many days are you going to be competing? Form? 126 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:27,720 Speaker 3: We live on the twelfth of July. 127 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, live on twelfth of July and fight on the 128 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:33,720 Speaker 2: fifteenth in Hong Kong, yep and. 129 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 3: A three day training camp at the Hong Kong International 130 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:40,880 Speaker 3: Training Center. Yeah, and then over to Macau for a 131 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:43,920 Speaker 3: two day competition, then back to Hong Kong for two 132 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:45,680 Speaker 3: day training and then we. 133 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:50,320 Speaker 1: Fly them incredible. Well, we on behalf of the whole 134 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:52,880 Speaker 1: of the Northern Territory. I hope that you have an 135 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:57,640 Speaker 1: absolutely cracking competition and that you do really well and 136 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:00,720 Speaker 1: I can't wait to hear how it all goes. Thank you, 137 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:03,160 Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us in the studio this monk. 138 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:04,920 Speaker 3: Thanks so much for having us on Katie. We really 139 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 3: appreciate it. 140 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 1: No worries at all. Thank you, Ebony and Queeny. Lovely 141 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 1: to have you in the studio.