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Speaker 1: Well, if you listen to this show regularly, you'll definitely

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Speaker 1: know that I love hearing about young people doing incredible stuff. Now,

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Speaker 1: my next guest is seventeen years old. She has bought

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Speaker 1: home gold for the Northern Territory after competing in a

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Speaker 1: championship event in Bangkok in March. But her list of

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Speaker 1: achievements is long and she is preparing at the moment

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Speaker 1: to make her professional debut at an upcoming contest in Darwin. Now,

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Speaker 1: I am very pleased to say that joining me in

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Speaker 1: the studio is Skyler Chatterton. Good morning to you, Skyler,

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Speaker 1: Good morning, and of course your coach, the wonderful Corey

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Speaker 1: Implements from Manho Academy, Mootai, Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: Wonderful to have you both in the studio now, Skyler, firstly,

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Speaker 1: tell me about this trip to Thailand and how it

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it went good, flew down. There had two bouts

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Speaker 3: while I was there, for UK first which I won

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Speaker 3: that convincingly, and then for the girl from what's it

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Speaker 3: called Kyrgyzstean and then won that convincingly as well to

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Speaker 3: get the gold medal.

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Speaker 1: How awesome, Skyler. How long have you been doing muay Thai.

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Speaker 3: For I've been training for ten years now.

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Speaker 1: Ten years. It's what made you get into the sport.

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Speaker 3: My order brother, Connor started training with Corey and then

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Speaker 3: kind of just followed him.

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Speaker 1: And does your brother still still do the sport?

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Speaker 3: Uh? Sort of? Sort of? Yah?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I reckon.

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Speaker 3: It's awesome.

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Speaker 1: Like I love seeing young people do great stuff in sport,

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Speaker 1: but I love seeing young women do sports that maybe

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Speaker 1: you're a little bit outside the box as well, that

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Speaker 1: people might not expect you to do. I just think

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Speaker 1: it's incredible. But the fact is, in a sport like mutai,

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Speaker 1: it is it's hard training, right, It's a lot of training,

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Speaker 1: but you must be fit as a fiddle.

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Speaker 3: I like to think.

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Speaker 4: So, Yeah, Corey, talk us through, I mean talk us

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Speaker 4: through sort of how Skylar reached the point where she's

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Speaker 4: then competing in Thailand against people from all over the world.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Katie, no problems that look. Muy Thai are now

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Speaker 1: It's going to be ed in.

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Speaker 2: The Olympics probably about twenty and thirty two in the

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Speaker 2: Bristoll Olympics, which would be awesome. And as a individual sport,

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Speaker 2: it's a long road and you have an amateur and

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Speaker 2: professional career. Skylar's achievements over the last four years, outside

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Speaker 2: of ten years of training, have been on the international scale.

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Speaker 2: So we've now fought four times internationally Bangkok, Turkey, Qualum

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Speaker 2: from Malaysia. And if you think about it as maybe

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Speaker 2: this way to capsulate it, her Entry fight, excuse me,

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Speaker 2: her Entry fight for this year's competition wf WIS she

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Speaker 2: won the.

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Speaker 1: World Championships gold.

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Speaker 2: Her first fight was the current World Kickboxing Champion from

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Speaker 2: the UK. Wow, that's the difference. Yet, you're not just

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Speaker 2: going into a competition where you're trying to work and

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Speaker 1: She'd still going up against the best of the best.

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Speaker 2: She was invited to part of the team qualified with

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Speaker 2: a record fighting everybody from Russia to Sri Lanka to

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Speaker 2: many other countries right over the last four years, as

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Speaker 2: well as fighting in Australia by the way, and achieving

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Speaker 2: the WMC World Multi Council Australian Youth Champion and of

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Speaker 2: course a number of other accolades.

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Speaker 1: Skylar, I mean, that's incredible, Like, it's absolutely incredible what

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Speaker 1: you've done. Are you still at school?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm in my last year of school, so how.

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Speaker 1: Do you juggle like year twelve and your studies and

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Speaker 3: Skylar always been like that, so it's just the usual

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Speaker 1: And how many hours a week do you reckon you're

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Speaker 3: Oh well, chove five days a week, sometimes six days

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but it sounds like you don't might like it.

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Speaker 1: Sounds like you love.

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Speaker 3: It what I've been doing, It's what I love.

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Speaker 1: So the fact there that core ed siege, you know,

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Speaker 1: the Olympics in twenty thirty two, bit Moore tie is

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Speaker 1: that you like? Is that something that you'd like to

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Speaker 3: Definitely? I think that's the top goal, as well as

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's fantastic now this you're also though,

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Speaker 1: I guess your next challenge or the next thing that

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Speaker 1: going professional. Is that right?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 1: It must be like that must be a really special

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Definitely, I've had twenty fights now for my amateur career,

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Speaker 3: I've been fighting for ten years, so just to take

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Speaker 1: How cool. So no doubt there's going to be plenty

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Speaker 3: It was well in Darlin, Like.

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Speaker 1: I would imagine your whole family, your friends, everybody would

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Speaker 1: feel so incredibly.

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Speaker 3: Proud her whole cheer.

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Speaker 1: Oh, they'll be going off. I reckon Cory, like, it

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Speaker 1: must be incredible for you to coach a young woman

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Speaker 1: with you know, not only that enormous skill, but it

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Speaker 1: sounds like she's an incredibly hard trainer. You know, she's

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Speaker 1: juggling school, she's juggling everything and doing it all, taking

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Speaker 1: it all in her stride by the sound of it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, Katie and Skyla's following a legacy of female

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Speaker 2: she's had the opportunity to fight with one of the

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Speaker 2: train one of the recent ones, Beck Rooney. But in

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Speaker 2: saying that it's an individual sport, you've got to put

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Speaker 2: the hard work in. Not everyone's going to be a professional,

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Speaker 2: but Skylar's got definitely the mental approach, the commitment. She's

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Speaker 2: shootout hearing your chat, which is good, but it's a

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Speaker 2: great platform for youth, also mentioning that she did this

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Speaker 2: year achieved the INTI Junior Sports Person of the Year, right,

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Speaker 2: So it's not just about in the ring, it's how

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Speaker 2: fantastic and was shouting out for responsors. That's always good, right.

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Speaker 1: Oh for sure, go for it, you know, like this

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Speaker 1: I certainly do that with my kids. But it is

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Speaker 1: a real team effat and sponsors are a huge part

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Speaker 1: of that as well, particularly when you've had to travel overseas.

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Speaker 1: It's a huge cost to make sure that you're able

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, and it's a quick thing on that. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I've been training a high level athletes for a long

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Speaker 2: time and there's always something that stands out about some

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Speaker 2: and Skoy's got certain attributes that that meet that you know,

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Speaker 2: it's not for everybody. It's an unforgiving sport, combat sport.

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Speaker 2: You touch gloves and you're on your own in the

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Speaker 2: middle of that ring. But she's got the aptitude, the

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Speaker 2: that journey and put a stamp on female Muay Thai

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Speaker 1: When is that happening so that people can go along,

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Speaker 1: I reckon there's going to be people listening that want

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Speaker 2: Twenty fourth and May at the Clamos Center the Garrison

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Speaker 2: Fight Challenge and there's a big card. Trent Hanson's putting

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Speaker 2: that show together from Garrison's Gym and it's going to

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Speaker 2: be a great night. There's a lot of people, a

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Speaker 2: very exciting for the darn crowd.

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Speaker 1: Skylar, What goes through your head when when you step

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Speaker 1: eye and you you know, you go all right.

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Speaker 3: It's on just all my training and stuff. I'm not

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Speaker 3: really one to get scared for my fights, which sounds

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Speaker 3: pretty like, oh you know, but I've just been doing

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Speaker 3: it that long. It's just the normal. It's like if

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Speaker 3: it's just the normal for you.

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Speaker 1: Oh good on you, I reckon, it's awesome. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: for you. Big congratulations on all of your achievements so far.

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Speaker 1: But you're seventeen years old, I reckon, You've got a

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Speaker 1: very very bright future in front of you. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for joining me in the studio this morning.

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Speaker 1: It's great to meet you in person. Thank you, and

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Speaker 1: Corey lovely to catch up with you as well.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Katie, thank you very much for up with Junny.

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Speaker 3: Thank you