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Speaker 1: Now have you heard of kite boarding. I've heard of it,

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Speaker 1: but I'll be honest, I don't really know how you

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Speaker 1: junior writer for a national brand and in January he's

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Speaker 1: going to be heading across to Perth on a coaching

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Speaker 1: National Championships. He's the first to actually do that, which

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Speaker 1: I think is just awesome. And this awesome young man

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Speaker 1: joins me in the studio right now. His name is

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Speaker 1: Finn Goat. Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Finn, Good morning Katie mate.

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Speaker 1: Lovely to have you in the studio now. Firstly, for

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Speaker 1: people like me who don't know exactly how you're kite

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Speaker 1: bought or how your kite surf, what exactly is it?

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Speaker 3: Well, so, kite surfing is the way you have either

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Speaker 3: like a wakeboard, surfboard, hydrofoil and you have a big

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Speaker 3: inflatable kite that flies in and you basically just free

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Speaker 3: to do whatever in the ocean and do whatever, stend

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Speaker 3: it and have fun with others.

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Speaker 1: How old were you when you started.

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Speaker 3: So I was about seven when I got my first

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Speaker 3: proper kite, and then from there I got up on

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Speaker 3: the board at about eight, getting like sordid feeling how

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Speaker 3: what the water feels like, and then since then just

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Speaker 3: never looked back and have fun.

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Speaker 1: I reckon, this is awesome. Now, how did you get

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Speaker 3: So every day after school I used to go past

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Speaker 3: the beach and just watch your everyone kiding, and then

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Speaker 3: one day Dad came home and said, oh, I'm going

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Speaker 3: to start doing it.

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Speaker 2: And then I was sitting at the.

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Speaker 3: Beach for about two years or just watching him, watching everyone,

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Speaker 3: and then from there I just always loved it and

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Speaker 3: asked if I could have a try, and he said, yeah, is.

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Speaker 1: It scary in any way?

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's not really.

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Speaker 3: If it's like super windy, it is, but we that

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Speaker 3: we always go out when there's other people there, so

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Speaker 3: we know that we're safe and if anything goes wrong,

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Speaker 1: And where do you usually go?

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Speaker 2: Like, where do you usually do it?

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Speaker 3: So the home spot is mainly Rapid Creek, but not

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Speaker 3: actually in the creek, just outside because that's where it's

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Speaker 3: really sketchy. But we go basically anywhere in Darwin that's

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Speaker 3: controlled with crocs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say that's sort of the concern,

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Speaker 1: isn't it sometimes when you're in the water in the territory.

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Speaker 1: But you guys are obviously you keep a close eye

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we because we know that there hasn't been an

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Speaker 3: attack or in more over one hundred years in Darling

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Speaker 3: Harbor and there's people going out like weekly regularly, like

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Speaker 3: it's going out taking crocs in and out and double

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Speaker 3: checking that you're going to be safe in the water.

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Speaker 1: Ye Now tell me you've been picked up by a

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Speaker 1: national brand. What was it like for you when that happened.

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Speaker 3: So when I got the phone call, Dad called me

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Speaker 3: into his room and said, oh, let's we're going to

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Speaker 3: gonna take you on as a junior rider. So that's

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Speaker 3: like mentoring and whenever I need I can give him

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Speaker 3: and with like I can't believe it's happening.

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Speaker 1: What do you makes at school? Thing? Like I know

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Speaker 1: a few of your mutual friends, what do they think, Oh.

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Speaker 3: They think it's crazy, Like if I might come back

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Speaker 3: from school and then they'd be like, oh, it's pretty windy.

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Speaker 2: Were you out?

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Speaker 3: And I'm like, yeah, I was, fully I was out

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Speaker 3: yesterday fully lit like sending it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it.

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Speaker 1: I absolutely love it. Now, you're gonna be heading into

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Speaker 3: So at the camp, there's gonna be a main coach

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Speaker 3: which has coached a few pro riders, and heaps by

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Speaker 3: basically getting mentoring and some experience in good wind and consistent,

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Speaker 2: My age now.

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Speaker 1: Is your like is your age and your wait and

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Speaker 1: the fact that you're not big yet, like you're not

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Speaker 1: you sort of go up higher? Oh?

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Speaker 3: It's if it's two wind yards, go on a smaller kite.

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Speaker 3: But if I'm wanting to go really high, I'll go

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Speaker 2: Bigger kite and just go higher.

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Speaker 3: And so it can impact me slightly and stronger winds,

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Speaker 3: so it restricts me to more wind or less wind.

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Speaker 3: Yeah right, but I'm but I have a lot more

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Speaker 1: Yes, I reckon. This is just so cool. Now, tell

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Speaker 1: are the first person from Northern Territory going to these,

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Speaker 1: like you're twelve years old. Yeah, and you're the first

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm super excited just getting experience and knowing what

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Speaker 3: knocked out first round. I just want to kite with

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, It's all about that experience. How I first go,

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Speaker 1: You just want to go and absolutely enjoy it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it'll be so cool. Now, what'ts your goal long term?

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Speaker 1: If you've got goals long.

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Speaker 3: Term, the goal would definitely be trying to tour around

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Speaker 3: to now and competing against them.

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Speaker 2: That would be a dream.

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Speaker 3: But also even just whatever, just being kite on and

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Speaker 3: just kite around. Don't have to be competitions.

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Speaker 1: Just kite just enjoy it.

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Speaker 2: Hey, yeah any watersports really Yeah, just.

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Speaker 1: Go along for the ride and see you see how

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Speaker 1: it all goes. Are you wanting other kids in the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it would be amazing if we get more junior

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Speaker 1: What's your favorite part of it? Is it like the thrill?

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Speaker 1: Is it that it's a bit risky? What's your favorite part? Oh?

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Speaker 3: It was the favorite parts probably just that I'm so free.

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Speaker 3: But also just going really high and looking down and

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Speaker 1: How high do you get?

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Speaker 2: Well, the highest I've ever been with nine and a

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Speaker 3: Wow, so that was in about thirty five knots so

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Speaker 3: super windy, but it's it always dependent on different people,

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Speaker 3: like different talent, different style of jumping.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, Finn, I've got one very important question for you, mate.

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Speaker 1: Are you better than your dad?

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Speaker 2: I would hae say so, but I'm quite much better.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it dads in the studio as well, So that

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Speaker 1: was what I thought I've got to ask you. I'm

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Speaker 1: super impressed with your efforts. I love seeing young people

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Speaker 1: do great stuff and I know that it's a bit

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Speaker 1: daunting coming in here doing an interview as well, but

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Speaker 1: I love hearing from young territory instead are doing wonderful stuff.

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Speaker 1: So mate, keep doing what you're doing. Let us know

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Speaker 1: how it all goes early next year. I hope you

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Speaker 1: absolutely smash it and do phenomenally well, but just enjoy

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Speaker 1: the experience. Yeah, thank you, thanks so much for joining

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Speaker 1: me on the show this morning. Lovely to see you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, rank your