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Speaker 1: Well, we got an email a little while back a

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Speaker 1: wonderful young Territorians heading off to the World Taekwondo Championships

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Speaker 1: in Melbourne. Now Darryl Temple from Temple's Taekwondo Academy had

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Speaker 1: message through to let us know about the achievements of

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Speaker 1: these fourteen year old twins, Tora Tory, I should say,

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Speaker 1: and Ella Phillips. Now joining me on the line is

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Speaker 1: their coach, Daryl.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you.

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Speaker 3: Daryl, Good morning, Katie. How are you.

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Speaker 2: I'm really good mate.

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Speaker 1: This sounds like an unbelievable experience. How did the girls

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Speaker 1: go last weekend?

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Speaker 3: Oh, they've done fantastic. They got bronze medals and a

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Speaker 3: huge achievement for they compete against girls that are older

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Speaker 3: them and more experienced than them. And because these girls

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Speaker 3: haven't been trained for ten months and they've just done

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Speaker 3: a phenomenal job. And yeah, it's mosent for the Territorian.

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Speaker 1: How cool I love that they are that they competed

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Speaker 1: at the World Taekwondo Championships, So they've only been training

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Speaker 1: for ten months in taekwondo and they picked up third place.

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Speaker 3: That's right, that's incredible.

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Speaker 2: That is a huge achievement. Tell me, I understand that

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Speaker 2: they also went up in their weight divisions.

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Speaker 3: We're up the weight divisions that are competing girls. There

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Speaker 3: were two divisions higher and seven belt levels higher as well.

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Speaker 3: And as I said, Tory compete against a seventeen year.

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Speaker 1: Old, Holy moly, that is unbelievable. Mate, tell me a

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Speaker 1: little bit about the you know, the level of training

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Speaker 1: compete at this at this level. And I know that

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Speaker 1: you are their coach Temple's Taekwondo academy, Like, what kind

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Speaker 3: The girls train, We trained two nights a week plus

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Speaker 3: on a Friday at the Coffee Club in Catherine, and

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Speaker 3: also the girls a lot of training at home as well,

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Speaker 3: and we've got routine going for him where they use

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Speaker 3: ankle weights, the dietary we've got going from as well,

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Speaker 3: and it's just continuous training at home with the mum

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Speaker 3: and the siblings as well. So they're just dedicated.

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Speaker 2: That is so cool. Do you have a lot of

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Speaker 2: kids in Katherine Keane to come and do taekwondo.

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Speaker 3: Oh we've only gone ten months. I've got about sixty

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Speaker 3: five hundred books at the moment. Well and look always

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Speaker 3: looking expanding.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it. I think it sounds fantastic. I understand.

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Speaker 2: Have you got the girls there with you?

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Speaker 3: I've done with me.

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Speaker 2: Who do you want to chuck on the phone first?

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Speaker 2: For a quick chat?

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Speaker 3: So I had to pointing to each other, So I

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Speaker 3: think we chuck Allen on first.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's hear from Ella. I get it. Thank you,

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Speaker 2: Hi Ella? How are you?

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Speaker 3: Hello?

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Speaker 4: I'm good? How are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm wonderful.

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Speaker 1: How have you recovered after going away for the for

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Speaker 1: the Taekwondo Championships?

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Speaker 4: Well, I've still been training, but yeah, a little nerve racking.

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Speaker 1: I just think it's phenomenal that you two have gone

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Speaker 1: and you've come away with bronze medals. Tell me about

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Speaker 1: your opponents?

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Speaker 2: Whoa were they a bit older?

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Speaker 1: She was?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, she was older, she was about level higher ship.

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Speaker 1: Well, and so you've and you've still managed to compete unbelievably. Well,

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Speaker 1: how many fights did you have?

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Speaker 4: I had one good fight?

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Speaker 2: And and what do you like about taekwondo.

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Speaker 4: I like the people that come with it, in the

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Speaker 4: friendships we've gained.

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Speaker 2: I think it's so cool that you guys are away

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Speaker 2: for your taekwond Do do you do you get to

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Speaker 4: Yeah? We every night we do sparring and how do

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Speaker 2: Does that help? Do you think the fact that you've

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Speaker 2: got you know that you've got your sister to be

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's really good having her by my side.

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Speaker 2: Do you want to chuck her on the line for

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Speaker 2: me as well to have a quick chat too?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Sure, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations on your efforts.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, is that you Tori?

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Speaker 4: Yes, that's sorry.

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Speaker 2: Oh how did you go? How was your competition?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? It was good. I tied my hearted.

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Speaker 1: Now I'll ask you the same question I asked your sister.

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Speaker 1: How like, what's the training like for taekwondo? And how

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Speaker 4: It's good. We've got to work towards it and push

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Speaker 4: ourselves hard and make goals like long term and short term.

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Speaker 4: Tell me what it's like the Olympics? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Awesome?

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Speaker 1: So you both keep you are keen to train hard

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Speaker 1: and try to get yourself to the Olympics in twenty two.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's so cool. That is so cool.

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Speaker 1: It is a lot of work, but it sounds like

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Speaker 1: you two are training incredibly hard right now anyway, And

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Speaker 1: I like, I think it's wonderful for people to have goals,

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Speaker 4: Tory? We train every day, but our club on Tuesday

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Speaker 2: Yeah, right.

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Speaker 1: And do you get much of an opportunity to sort

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Speaker 1: of to spa or to you know, to have bouts

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Speaker 4: We sometimes spa. If you're good enough, you can go

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Speaker 4: away in competitions around Australia. Yep. But we practice the club.

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Speaker 1: Cold on you, cout on you and twin sister. Now

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Speaker 1: what's next for you guys? What's your short term goal?

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Speaker 4: Our short term goal is in Darwin with the club

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Speaker 4: and humpty, do we're going to have another competition too?

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Speaker 1: How far off is that? I want to meet you guys,

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Speaker 1: if you're in Darwin, you're gonna have to come in

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Speaker 1: and see me. It's in August August, all right, well,

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Speaker 1: I'm very keen to catch up with you guys when

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Speaker 1: you're here in August. Tory, good luck. Good luck to

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Speaker 1: to chuck Darryl back on the.

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Speaker 2: Line for us? Thank you, thank you, congratulations. Oh Daryl.

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Speaker 2: What a phenomenal young pair they are.

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Speaker 1: I just think it's wonderful that the fourteen year old

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Speaker 1: incredibly well at the World Taekwondo Championships.

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Speaker 2: Mate, when you started Temples Taekwondo ten months ago, do

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Speaker 3: No, not this soon. But when I met Tory, now

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Speaker 3: I knew there was some special. Look. I've trained kids

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Speaker 3: for many, many years, and these girls just stood out.

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Speaker 3: So I knew there's something special about these girls, and

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Speaker 2: Now how wonderful. I just think it's awesome.

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Speaker 1: I love seeing young people do well in the territory

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Speaker 1: and I'm look, I really quite like sports like taekwondo.

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Speaker 1: I love going along and watching things like taekwondo boxing.

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Speaker 2: I enjoy it all.

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Speaker 1: I think it's really great as well to see two

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Speaker 1: So they've told me twenty thirty two the Olympics.

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Speaker 3: Yep, we've seen a gating plan for that. So that's

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Speaker 3: a goal for the twenty thirty two Prison Olympics.

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Speaker 1: Wonderful stuff will make keep mentoring the kids of Catherine.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like you're doing an incredible job. It sounds

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Speaker 1: like the girls are doing an incredible job. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for making me aware of their story. I

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Speaker 1: really appreci she had it.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for your tom Kat, you really appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Mike. Lovely to talk to you, and I want

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Speaker 2: to meet you all when you're in Darwin for the

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Speaker 2: for the competition in August.

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Speaker 3: It would look forward to it.

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Speaker 2: Good stuff, Good on you, Darryl