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Welcome to Off The Mat, the podcast about the people
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behind acrobatic gymnastics. Athletes, coaches, and families share their stories,
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the hard work, the passion, the challenges, and the joy
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of growing through sport. Because the most important moments don't
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always happen on the mat.
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Welcome to everybody to Off The Mat podcast. I'm very nice.
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I'm very happy to have here the English representatives of
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Harrius Acrobatics Gymnastics from Bristol, right? So welcome to Sarah,
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the coach, Reina, top, and Sofia, bass. Let's start with
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Sofia since you have the microphone in your hands. Sofia,
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how old are you? I'm 14. You're 14. Since when
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are you practicing acrobatics?
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I started when I think I was like seven, maybe.
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Seven.
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Yeah.
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And then I've just done it ever since.
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Wow. And how many times do you train per week?
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We train four times a week.
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Four times per week. How many hours? I'm actually not sure.
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We do two and a half on a Monday, two
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and a half on a Tuesday. I do two hours
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on a Thursday and I do two hours on a Saturday.
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So it's a full-time sport. Yes. How do you manage
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to do it with the school? Are you going well
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to school?
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Yeah, everything's fine because I've done it from so young.
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I'm kind of just used to it.
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You're used to it. You're used also to the pain
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and the muscles and the fatigue and the sweat.
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Yes.
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And shower every day. It's the life of an athlete. Yeah. So, Reina,
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you're very young. You look very young. How old are you?
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Ten.
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Ten. How long have you been practicing?
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I started when I was five.
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You started when you were five.
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Five years.
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Five years. And since when are you like a flying
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squirrel when, like, Sofia throws you in the air and
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always catches you back?
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Maybe, like, three, seven, eight.
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Yeah, you're seven.
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Yeah, I was seven.
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So three years that you were just an athletic couple,
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let's call it like this. And how does it feel
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when you're in the air, like flying? It's very good.
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It's very good. You feel well. Actually, are you afraid
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sometimes when you jump that high? Not really.
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No?
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Wow, you're pretty brave. How are you going to school?
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Is it going well? Yeah, because parents just usually watch out.
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If you don't go well to school, you're not going
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to go anymore to acrobatics, so you can't allow this, right?
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You must go well to school. I want to talk
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a bit with your coach, if it's possible. Sarah. I mean, three,
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four times per week, three, four hours per day. It's
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like you're a second mother.
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Yeah, we do.
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Is it good to coach youngsters like they are?
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It is.
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And for these guys, they're very driven. So they're easy
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to coach because they just work.
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They just work.
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So they know what they want and they're going to
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achieve it.
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Is it a hard sport, this one? It's tough.
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It's tough.
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As they grow and mature.
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Yeah.
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It is tough sometimes.
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How many years have you been coaching?
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Many. Let's say many. Many.
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Okay. You have been an athlete as well?
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I was a gymnast, yeah. I probably had like a
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seven-year break when I had children. Yes. So it's been
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many years.
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So you fell in love very young with this discipline
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as well.
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Yeah.
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I have a love-hate relationship with it sometimes.
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It happens. It happens sometimes if the relationships are not
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that good. Maybe they fell under circumstances, they say. And
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do you have some kind of suggestions you give to
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your athletes when they go home, like rest a lot,
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like eat well and what to eat sometimes, also what
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not to eat before competitions, for instance?
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Yeah, we do.
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We do recommend healthy eating. We don't always get it,
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but we recommend it. Yep.
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We try. But I have to say these two are
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pretty good.
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They're pretty good. They're really straightforward.
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Yeah.
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And when do you think, when do you see athletes?
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And when you say they're very good, they're very driven,
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how do you realize this? I mean, you can't be
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with them all the other hours of the day, but
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what makes you think that they are driven?
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They can be a very good team.
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Gymnast and be capable of doing things physically but they
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have to be mentally capable as well and you've got
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to put it all together to get it out and
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then you mix it as a partnership and hopefully if
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you get all that right you'll get a good partnership
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that will but they have to be driven.
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What do you mean with mentally driven also besides physical
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they have to be coachable they have to be coachable
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they have to want it And they have to be
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able to listen and take instruction and.
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Move forward with it rather than feel, oh, I'm being
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told off.
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Also, not to be afraid.
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Yeah.
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Ready to sweat. Yeah. Not afraid to sweat also.
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That's right. Also.
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Reina, you're looking at me with your eyes like a
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small deal like Bambi, you know, the cartoon from Disney.
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And I feel you have such an open smile that
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makes happy all the people. But sometimes I tell you,
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you're like the sun. When you get into a room,
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everybody's smiling. I know some people like you with this
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kind of smile. Do you think that this sport helped
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you grow up?
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Yeah, definitely. I feel like I've grown loads since I started.
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Can you make some examples? Yes, you do.
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When Raina started acrobatic gymnastics, she had a little fear
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of heights. And we'd be doing our little grade four
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moves and she'd be terrified. But now she has somersaults
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and all and she's fine with it.
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So this part has made you crazy. Of course, as
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a dog, I mean, it makes you brave, not crazy.
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And what's the exercise you like the most?
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Um....
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I don't think there is one. I love exercises. I
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love the feeling after. I feel very like a complex.
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Have you already competed today? Yes. Yes. How did it go?
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Really well.
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Really well. So you're passing to the finals on Sunday.
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Yes.
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There's still tomorrow too.
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We still have our dynamic routine tomorrow, but currently we
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are sat in first.
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Wow. Wow. So congratulations. And are you here to win
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or to participate?
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Obviously, when you go to a competition, not even internationally,
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you always go with hoping to your best routines. And
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we're kind of just hoping that our best routines maybe
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get us a medal. But if not, then whatever we've done, we'll.
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Be proud of.
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It must be a satisfaction. It really gives you satisfaction
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when you finish something and people praise you, right?
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Yeah.
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Do you feel this kind of sensation spread also to
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other aspects of your life, like studying or behaving well
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in the family, loving your parents, or is it just
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something that is related to this discipline?
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I feel like it's very related to everything. All the
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skills that you learn in gym help you in life
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a lot, like discipline and being kind and taking instructions.
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I think it helps a lot.
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Coach, I think you have two really good athletes and
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their answers are perfect. I don't know if you taught
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them to say this, but they feel very sincere to me.
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This is not the first international competition you've done. It
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is your first international competition.
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And at this level.
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Second year.
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But as a partnership, you were a top, weren't you,
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in your previous?
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You're almost newbies to international competitions, so it's going well
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and hopefully it will end very well for you. But
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when you travel abroad to attend some competitions, do you
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also take your time to understand and see how other
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nations approach to the discipline?
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It's always good to watch. You learn from watching, so.
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As coaches, we always watch what everybody else is doing,
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what other clubs, what other coaches, what other preparations they're
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all doing and learn from it.
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Take the bits out that you need. Take the bits
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out that will work.
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Is it now the time, this is the chance in
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which you think you learned something more? Is there something
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you already learned here? Yeah, I think you can.
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Always learn something. You can always watch and you can
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always learn something.
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That's wonderful. Are you leaving on Monday?
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Monday, yes.
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Monday, yes. So you will take your time on Sunday
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evening to eat something. Where are you bringing them? Where
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are you bringing them? Pizza?
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We had pizza last night.
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Pizza last night. Come on, pizza. It's so hard to digest.
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You should not do it before competitions. Okay. What's the taste?
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What taste did you pick with the pizza?
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You shared a margarita.
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We shared a margarita pizza with some chips.
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Margarita.
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Yes.
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Very classic. Yeah.
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We like plain things.
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Very good.
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You see that we do things different because we were
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born with this. With fish and chips, we're not that good.
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That's a speciality.
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They were very confused getting their pizza with the chips
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on top.
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We have it as a side. Oh, yes.
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Yeah.
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So, they were very confused with that.
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So, you ate Margherita pizza with chips on top?
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No.
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We were meant to, but it came out with chips
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on top. So, it was a bit weird.
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Yes, it's strange to me too. But I don't know.
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Tastes of, especially children, like that kind of pizza. And so,
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what are your plans? Are you going to visit also
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the city?
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I think we I don't know if we're going to
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visit the city but obviously when we walk from the
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hotel room to the restaurant back to the arena we
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do see some things lots of yeah lots of traffic
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lights what we've all realised.
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We try counting them every time we go up and down.
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You try to count the city lights yeah.
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Or how many traffic lights and we lost count it
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was too many.
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Yeah we got to like 80 something there's 80 in
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like a 20 minute drive.
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And it We run out.
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Yeah, there's many. There's many. We like cars in this city.
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Once it was the city in which we Italians produced
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more cars. So it was once upon a time. But
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now they stay. They set so many traffic lights because
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there are plenty of cars. But anyway, so tomorrow you're
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having your second exhibition and then maybe Sunday, but it's
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almost certain that it will compete. So thank you very
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much for your presence here and these minutes that we
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shared together. So thanks to Reina, thanks to Sofia, and thanks,
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of course, to Coach Sarah. Thank you very much, and bye-bye.
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Welcome to Off The Mat, the podcast about the people
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behind acrobatic gymnastics. Athletes, coaches, and families share their stories,
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the hard work, the passion, the challenges, and the joy
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of growing through sport. Because the most important moments don't
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always happen on the mat.
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Welcome to everybody to Off The Mat podcast. I'm very nice.
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I'm very happy to have here the English representatives of
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Harrius Acrobatics Gymnastics from Bristol, right? So welcome to Sarah,
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the coach, Reina, top, and Sofia, bass. Let's start with
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Sofia since you have the microphone in your hands. Sofia,
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how old are you? I'm 14. You're 14. Since when
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are you practicing acrobatics?
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I started when I think I was like seven, maybe.
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Seven.
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And then I've just done it ever since.
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Wow. And how many times do you train per week?
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We train four times a week.
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Four times per week. How many hours? I'm actually not sure.
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and a half on a Tuesday. I do two hours
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on a Thursday and I do two hours on a Saturday.
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So it's a full-time sport. Yes. How do you manage
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to do it with the school? Are you going well
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to school?
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Yeah, everything's fine because I've done it from so young.
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I'm kind of just used to it.
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You're used to it. You're used also to the pain
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and the muscles and the fatigue and the sweat.
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And shower every day. It's the life of an athlete. Yeah. So, Reina,
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you're very young. You look very young. How old are you?
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Ten.
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Ten. How long have you been practicing?
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I started when I was five.
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You started when you were five.
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Five years.
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Five years. And since when are you like a flying
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squirrel when, like, Sofia throws you in the air and
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always catches you back?
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Maybe, like, three, seven, eight.
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Yeah, you're seven.
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Yeah, I was seven.
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So three years that you were just an athletic couple,
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let's call it like this. And how does it feel
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when you're in the air, like flying? It's very good.
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It's very good. You feel well. Actually, are you afraid
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sometimes when you jump that high? Not really.
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Wow, you're pretty brave. How are you going to school?
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Is it going well? Yeah, because parents just usually watch out.
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If you don't go well to school, you're not going
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to go anymore to acrobatics, so you can't allow this, right?
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You must go well to school. I want to talk
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a bit with your coach, if it's possible. Sarah. I mean, three,
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four times per week, three, four hours per day. It's
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like you're a second mother.
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Yeah, we do.
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Is it good to coach youngsters like they are?
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It is.
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And for these guys, they're very driven. So they're easy
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to coach because they just work.
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They just work.
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So they know what they want and they're going to
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achieve it.
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Is it a hard sport, this one? It's tough.
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It's tough.
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As they grow and mature.
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It is tough sometimes.
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How many years have you been coaching?
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Many. Let's say many. Many.
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Okay. You have been an athlete as well?
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I was a gymnast, yeah. I probably had like a
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seven-year break when I had children. Yes. So it's been
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many years.
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So you fell in love very young with this discipline
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as well.
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I have a love-hate relationship with it sometimes.
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It happens. It happens sometimes if the relationships are not
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that good. Maybe they fell under circumstances, they say. And
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do you have some kind of suggestions you give to
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your athletes when they go home, like rest a lot,
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like eat well and what to eat sometimes, also what
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not to eat before competitions, for instance?
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but we recommend it. Yep.
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We try. But I have to say these two are
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pretty good.
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They're pretty good. They're really straightforward.
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And when do you think, when do you see athletes?
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And when you say they're very good, they're very driven,
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how do you realize this? I mean, you can't be
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with them all the other hours of the day, but
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what makes you think that they are driven?
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They can be a very good team.
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Gymnast and be capable of doing things physically but they
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have to be mentally capable as well and you've got
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to put it all together to get it out and
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then you mix it as a partnership and hopefully if
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you get all that right you'll get a good partnership
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that will but they have to be driven.
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What do you mean with mentally driven also besides physical
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they have to be coachable they have to be coachable
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they have to want it And they have to be
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able to listen and take instruction and.
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Move forward with it rather than feel, oh, I'm being
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told off.
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Also, not to be afraid.
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Ready to sweat. Yeah. Not afraid to sweat also.
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That's right. Also.
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Reina, you're looking at me with your eyes like a
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small deal like Bambi, you know, the cartoon from Disney.
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And I feel you have such an open smile that
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makes happy all the people. But sometimes I tell you,
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you're like the sun. When you get into a room,
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everybody's smiling. I know some people like you with this
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kind of smile. Do you think that this sport helped
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you grow up?
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Yeah, definitely. I feel like I've grown loads since I started.
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Can you make some examples? Yes, you do.
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When Raina started acrobatic gymnastics, she had a little fear
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of heights. And we'd be doing our little grade four
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moves and she'd be terrified. But now she has somersaults
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and all and she's fine with it.
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So this part has made you crazy. Of course, as
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a dog, I mean, it makes you brave, not crazy.
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And what's the exercise you like the most?
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I don't think there is one. I love exercises. I
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love the feeling after. I feel very like a complex.
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Have you already competed today? Yes. Yes. How did it go?
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Really well.
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Really well. So you're passing to the finals on Sunday.
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There's still tomorrow too.
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We still have our dynamic routine tomorrow, but currently we
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are sat in first.
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Wow. Wow. So congratulations. And are you here to win
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or to participate?
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Obviously, when you go to a competition, not even internationally,
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you always go with hoping to your best routines. And
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we're kind of just hoping that our best routines maybe
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get us a medal. But if not, then whatever we've done, we'll.
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Be proud of.
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It must be a satisfaction. It really gives you satisfaction
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when you finish something and people praise you, right?
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Do you feel this kind of sensation spread also to
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other aspects of your life, like studying or behaving well
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in the family, loving your parents, or is it just
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something that is related to this discipline?
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I feel like it's very related to everything. All the
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skills that you learn in gym help you in life
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a lot, like discipline and being kind and taking instructions.
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I think it helps a lot.
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Coach, I think you have two really good athletes and
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their answers are perfect. I don't know if you taught
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them to say this, but they feel very sincere to me.
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This is not the first international competition you've done. It
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is your first international competition.
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Second year.
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But as a partnership, you were a top, weren't you,
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in your previous?
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You're almost newbies to international competitions, so it's going well
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and hopefully it will end very well for you. But
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when you travel abroad to attend some competitions, do you
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also take your time to understand and see how other
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nations approach to the discipline?
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It's always good to watch. You learn from watching, so.
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As coaches, we always watch what everybody else is doing,
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what other clubs, what other coaches, what other preparations they're
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all doing and learn from it.
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Take the bits out that you need. Take the bits
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out that will work.
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Is it now the time, this is the chance in
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which you think you learned something more? Is there something
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you already learned here? Yeah, I think you can.
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Always learn something. You can always watch and you can
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always learn something.
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That's wonderful. Are you leaving on Monday?
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Monday, yes.
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Monday, yes. So you will take your time on Sunday
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evening to eat something. Where are you bringing them? Where
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are you bringing them? Pizza?
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We had pizza last night.
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Pizza last night. Come on, pizza. It's so hard to digest.
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You should not do it before competitions. Okay. What's the taste?
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What taste did you pick with the pizza?
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You shared a margarita.
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We shared a margarita pizza with some chips.
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Margarita.
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You see that we do things different because we were
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born with this. With fish and chips, we're not that good.
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That's a speciality.
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They were very confused getting their pizza with the chips
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on top.
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So, they were very confused with that.
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So, you ate Margherita pizza with chips on top?
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on top. So, it was a bit weird.
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Yes, it's strange to me too. But I don't know.
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Tastes of, especially children, like that kind of pizza. And so,
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what are your plans? Are you going to visit also
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the city?
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I think we I don't know if we're going to
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visit the city but obviously when we walk from the
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hotel room to the restaurant back to the arena we
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do see some things lots of yeah lots of traffic
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lights what we've all realised.
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You try to count the city lights yeah.
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Or how many traffic lights and we lost count it
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was too many.
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Yeah, there's many. There's many. We like cars in this city.
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Once it was the city in which we Italians produced
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more cars. So it was once upon a time. But
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now they stay. They set so many traffic lights because
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there are plenty of cars. But anyway, so tomorrow you're
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having your second exhibition and then maybe Sunday, but it's
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almost certain that it will compete. So thank you very
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much for your presence here and these minutes that we
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shared together. So thanks to Reina, thanks to Sofia, and thanks,
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of course, to Coach Sarah. Thank you very much, and bye-bye.
