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The best thing about South Africans is they don't hold the grudge. 'cause the grudge is a place to block your core. I tell you. But I promise you. Eh,
what a weekend. What a weekend.
The teams, the people we interviewed. Yep. Guys, it was amazing.
This is the media platform for dragon boating.
Thousands of people have gone to sleep at night
with
my voice.
Oh, I could've tell you, Alfred, if we were going from bar to bar in Hong Kong. Yeah. When you want to get us all together. You'd yell out paddle's ready and everyone would come through it. That's true.
Everyone would just like paddle's ready, set their racing about 300 meter. Where are we going with this? Am I gonna go 300 meters to go?
Why can't
we see this sport in the Olympics? I can see it.
Paddle's ready.
This is Paddle's Ready, the Global Voice of Paddle Sport. Live commentary, race coverage, athlete stories, and expert analysis from across the world of paddling, from dragon boat racing to ocean ski. This is where the competition, the culture, and the stories come together. Let's get into it.
We've been escorted by Sabrina from the Sunshine Coast Stadium, Sabrina High. It's a wrap up from the Sunshine Coast. Kiwana National titles here. We're paddles ready. I'm with Doug. I'm Hando and Dougie. What an event.
What an event. It has been, I mean, we've had to be ushered out of here 'cause uh, we've out stayed our welcome.
But
well, we're gonna move around here. Let's all move together. So we have a look at the background. There's the Sunshine Coast Stadium there, and then we've got the footy ground in the background. Where are you? There you are. She's there.
What
a great week here.
It is.
It's been a great week. It's been fantastic.
We met some great people, including Sabrina, who, uh, and her. The gold medal. Sunshine
Stadium.
The gold medal for the girls on the Sunday was, oh,
phenomenal. Oh my goodness. Typhoon had won a gold medal.
Unbelievable.
Sunshine Coast were dominating as well.
Makos, aka,
aka Kuma,
the Cora boys.
Ra got the third in
that.
You name it, we've done it, but we are getting escorted out of here, believe it or not. We're just at the back of the bar, and we're gonna go and have a beer. I'm gonna have a shave. I'm Dougie
and I'm Hannah. But we've had hints of takeouts. We had s, we had Mary. Blair, everyone's gonna be coming on board with the, the, the takeouts, and we can't wait to see you back.
Paddle's ready?
Paddle's ready. Over and out.
Hey, thanks, Sabrina
Ando. How was the wrap up there of the Aussie titles? The Aus Champs up there at Kawana Waters.
Oh my goodness.
I tell you what, it's what
A
weekend.
What a weekend. The teams, the people we interviewed. Yep. Guys, it was amazing. It
was
awesome up there.
Awesome. In, in Kuan at the oz champs.
And thank you for giving your time. Um, paddle's ready. We got a few interviews up there and, um, but the racing was unbelievable. Um, the format, the way it was put on, uh,
state verse State Day,
it was, uh. It was just a beautiful Rico mate
first mate.
I had time to catch up with some family while I was up there who I hadn't seen.
So that was good to catch up with mum. Um, yeah. So, but mate, what's going on now? We, we, what's happening in the next 12 months? In our sport and where we, where are we traveling? What are the big regattas coming up, um, here in Australia abroad? What's coming up? Where? Tommy. Hi Tommy. How way over there in the States.
Um, gonna
get you on very soon, Tom. Gonna
get you on soon, Tom. So Leon, good morning. Um, what's coming up Nick?
Well look. Hey, what's coming up? It's paddles ready. Paddles ready. Number two.
Oh, episode
two, take two. Episode two. So welcome back. I'm Hando. I'm Dougie. And we're the paddles ready team. So, great question.
Where it's been, we've, we've obviously episode one, we touched on club crews. Yeah. And what was happening there. Yeah. So just had the national titles. New Zealand had their national titles. They had some New Zealand teams called the Oceania Group. They were paddling over here. We'll get into that a bit later as well,
right?
Yeah.
But so. The club crews now are qualifying for the club Crew world Championships where we'll be going to Taiwan.
Yep.
Claudio, we'll see you there. He's the chairman. Uh, the of, of, of the IDBF, international Dragon Boat Federation. So it was a great question. Where are we going? It's the club crew Next, we we're going next for us.
Yep. Is the Club Crew World Championships
in August?
Yeah, that's August and
September.
Yep. Off to Taipei. So that'll be a bit of fun. You mentioned the other day, club World, champs Ravenna, you got to go there, didn't you?
That was amazing. So not, not, not that it's, it's any harder or way, but however there's many different cultures.
Yep.
And there's many different countries. So from Yugoslavia. Yeah. Uh, some of the, the, I trust you. I know, I know some of the Kiwi to actually, I got presented. With a Maori and, and, and Mary, you'll have to get back to me on this, but it was a, a, a gentleman that came up to me about the pronunciation, where it was the Wao Warrior, the, the Wao or, um, you know, not, not, not like you've got Taaka here.
And, and I got presented and, and we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll get to that one episode. That just reminds me, he presented me with the medal. It was, it was really heartfelt and I, I wore it everywhere on my lapel of my jacket for the pronunciation. So yeah, that. Club Crew World Championships where I, I'm on the, I'm on the corner with, with, uh, Luigi and that my beautiful Italian commentators.
Yeah. That, that were over there. But it, it's really hard to pronounce some of the teams and you don't wanna offend people and we never want, you know, controversially like we, we, we will just try to do our best. Uh, from, from Baloon to to, to teams in Yugoslavia, the Filipino teams were the United Arab Emirates.
The, you, you know, you have teams from all across the globe in Canada, America, Iceland, Chile.
Dare I ask what, what's your international dialogue like with these teams? Rattle, rattle off a couple. Rattle a lot of capital teams.
Well, well, you know, you've, you've, you've, you've got the, the Philadelphia you're talking about as in, in, in, in their accents or, or, or where are you
going?
Yeah. Give us, well give us, uh. Give us something that's not English and give us some that, uh, English and in accents, and let's see how you go because, uh, oh,
well, you, you, you know, you, you've, you've got some of the Quebec teams. Yep. Um, the, the Canadian teams that were, uh, probably challenging as well. Uh, but you've got teams from Toronto.
You, you've, you've got normal wasabi paddlers from, from Japan.
Yep.
Uh, Filipinos, Philippine teams. Uh, the one I, I, who's that? That was the Yugoslavian team. Yeah. Got it wrong every time.
You get it wrong every time.
Got it wrong every time.
How's your South African? South African?
Actually, you know what, the best thing about South Africans is?
They don't hold the grudge. 'cause the grudge is a place to park your core. I tell you. But I promise you, eh, yeah. South Africans are awesome. Yeah. Uh, they've actually, the, the, the, the coach now, uh, Izzy, he's, he's South African and started paddling in the nineties. In, in, in, in, uh, Cape Town there.
Right.
The, the club crews, it's, it's so fierce in different categories as well.
Doug.
Yeah. Gotcha. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. What, um, what's happening in Australia now? Do we have a bit of a, we've got a bit of a hiatus now. The Aussies are done, the odds champs are finished. Aus oz,
champs are finished. They, they'll
go, go all the clubs, go back to their, uh, all the clubs, go back to their, you know, re respectful, you know, respective, uh, areas.
And they just start again for. Start training for the states and next season?
Well, no, they're, they're preparing for, for club crews.
Right. Gotcha.
So you've gotta be able to qualify. Yep. And each federation has different, different, uh, not rules or regular, I suppose it's, it's, it's, how do I qualify? So you, you have to either come first, second, or third in a category at your national titles to represent your club.
Yep. So it's not just a matter of, you know. Dragon boating is huge. And these athletes from young men and women and the powerful women that are in this movement. Yeah. And it's not a movement. It is, it, it is huge. If you haven't heard about Dragon boating and listening to this for the first time, 'cause someone said, come and listen to Dougie in Hando.
Yeah. Uh, it, it's, it's a phenomenal, and when you hit, when you hit the catch and the boat, whether it's a tens boat or a 20 boat Yeah. The power that's generated from. Paddlers that are 18 all the way up through to
80, 60. Yeah, whatever. Um, morning, Mary, we had a chat to you, uh, last week, um, with Mary talking about and going back to the ladies and the women of our sport,
and she was in the nationals.
Mary came up from New Zealand.
Oh man. Mary came. How good was it? Was there, we saw her. Um, she did make a point and it was a very good point on how powerful. The women's movement of our sport is across the globe. Um, she was talking about the numbers, the 40,000 members plus, and then talking about, we're not even throwing in how powerful the clubs are in numbers because they're registering the boats.
But actually it's the boat and the team. Oh, the club. That's right. The club. The club. But it's times 20. So the numbers are skewed, but they're skewed in the wrong way, so to speak, because as Mary said. The numbers are phenomenal. They are so out there and the the women, um, in our sport. And we wanna hear from
you
and we want hear from the girls out
there.
We're gonna get some data, but like you're talking about the clubs, again, what Mary was talking about at the national titles.
Yep. '
cause they've got their b, c, b, the breast cancer survivors category.
Yep.
At the states, at the clubs.
Yep.
At the national titles and then now at the world titles.
It's amazing, isn't it?
They are just coming. They're, they're here. It's massive. And, uh, they're an army. Those girls, and I love nothing better than commentating, uh, when they're racing
and the following, you're talking about powerful young men and women?
Yep.
And it's great not just for the breast cancer survivors, but the, the, the young women that are driving the sport.
Is it, you know, they, they also the demographic. Yes. Yep. We've got people that were paddling 30, 20 years ago that are still paddling and they're still traveling and they're given the opportunity and this is the voice that we want to be. We want to, we can use, we want to be that global voice. Come on to our channel, subscribe, send us, well, we're gonna be doing some phantom calls.
That's it. Which we might do some different clubs. Doug.
That's it. So I was going to get onto that, but. For everyone out there. This is the media platform for dragon boating. We are going to have other people on, you know, we down the other day and ran into Phil Clayton, um, Australian Iron Man Champion, uh, uncle Toby's the whole box and dice
the surf
ski paddlers, the surf ski paddlers.
They're amazing. So we will touch on that. But this is the media platform for dragon boating. This is what you and I. Just love talking about, um, they say, do you want a script, a hando? And I don't need a script. We
just, but we'll try and structure it OO over. We'll try. I get some more structure so we know, because we're gonna have a lot of guests like you're talking about South Africa, Oscar Kiski.
Yep.
His story. Go and see. Oscar,
what's
he, what's his story? Nine. He's a surf ski paddler. Yep. He's an Olympian. Kayaker. He's going through hell and back with cancer at the moment.
Right.
And he's got his story. Oscar Big O. We love Big O We love you. And I was just texting him last week about the channel.
Yeah. He's always supported the diggers when we've traveled and give us inspirational, just like Trevor Hedy's done.
Yep.
Yep. As well. And, and that's, that's where paddle's ready is going. For all paddle sports. Yes. And, and Oscar was like this moloca that, that the, the, the, the people paddle on the pros. Yep.
They paddle the outriggers. The, the, the surf skis.
Yeah.
They're all paddling everywhere. And we want this. And it's not that, that we want it, it's needed. We are fortunate enough that, that, that you guys have given us the opportunity to have the platform. Yep. And a great question about clubs. Again, Doug. So yeah, it's just about having your paddles ready.
That's
good. It is all about having the paddles ready. So let's talk about, we've just got away from the, we've just got a Aus champs all done. You touched
on Aus. Chances were good, but let me ask you a question.
Yes.
When you came to me about paddles Ready?
Yep.
There must have been different names. Why did you, what made.
Paddle's ready? Obviously we always say you look back at our reels and paddle's ready off Canada's off in one Hungary and two Ukrainian three. Tell me about that, mate, because
it actually goes back to 1996 when I first started paddling with you in Hong Kong in Stanley.
Yes.
Um, you had your starts and, uh, for those of you out there, um, Nick is synonymous.
Well, I don't wanna blow up, blow you up too much, but he loves his starts. I love the start. Um, and
1, 2, 3,
4. Yeah. And I guess that's where it came from because I know you hear the starts now in your back, you know. Um, attention bang and off they go. In my head, when I used to practice my starts, I always had paddles ready in my head.
And that was because you were barking out at me or someone. And then
thousands of people had gone to sleep at night
with my voice. Oh, I
couldn't tell you.
Paddle. And then I remember if we were going from bar to bar in Hong Kong.
Yeah.
When you want to get us all together, you'd yell out paddles ready and everyone would come.
That's true. Everyone would just like, woo. And then that's right. We'd go outside and paddles ready was the call to start. But paddles ready was also. Get outside.
Thank you.
And, uh, we're going to the next pub. So it kind of just worked. I, I kind of went through the dragon's layer. I had, uh, the dragon's voice.
Wow. Um, and then it was just a lot. I just went paddle's ready hando. And I have been doing this for 30 years. Um, and that's how I came up with the name,
everyone that I've shared it with. And we haven't shared it much.
No.
This is our second episode. So it it's raw, it's real. Yep. It's, it's what we want to have global and it's already glowing global.
Yeah. No, it's good. It's good.
You think, you, you think about it, the state titles in 48 hours, we had 3,700 views off our little,
well, that was
just
not your little, it was if it's your iPhone 17.
Yeah. That was on my, i I shot. Is that a plug iPhone? Yeah. I shot that whole regatta on a uh, tripod. A, a $100 tripod and my iPhone 17, which tell you, you talk about bloopers and you talk about this kinda stuff.
Um, we had it, I had it on selfie mode.
That's right.
And so when we went back to go and have a look at it, we, we go back to our hotel room that night and I'd go to it and I'm thinking. Why are they starting all away? Why isn't it on the other side? How come the sun's on that side? I couldn't work it out.
We were down under people over people in Dubai were going, Hando, how come, how come the race is on one side, but you're starting the other side?
And then the next morning was into the second day and the, uh, mc Ben came up and he said. Oh, Dougie. Um, why you got it like that? And I said, well, like what? This is really? He goes, no, you're filming it in selfie mode. Oh my goodness. So then all of a sudden he just touched it. But that's a generational thing.
He touched my phone and it swung around and all of a sudden the, the lamb was on the right side, the water was on the other side, and everything was so,
and the feedback from that, when I saw people going back and watching their, the footage.
Yep.
Great for teams, great for coaches.
A hundred percent.
Having a look at the starts,
and I had a look this morning, actually, I think it's nearly four and a half thousand now since the to, uh, since the Regatta.
Yeah. Well, Blair e even Blair, who's head of Dragon Boat Queensland up here, it was great for the teams that night to go back because look on the day it is, it's, it's back to back racing at these club crews. It's, and, and it, it is, it's hectic and it's backseat. I get. A couple of the people were sharing with their grandkids in New Zealand.
A
hundred percent. I had someone, yeah,
a hundred percent in Dubai. The Filipinos for watching. Yeah. Hey, Filipinos, Ali. Um, um, and we'll break into that.
Well, a hundred percent, but I, off that regatta, the feedback we got both online, but also from people phone calls and text messages when we did around the grounds.
And we ducked off in between breaks. You went downstairs,
we'll have to get a, a proper
stability stick. You went and the feedback from around the grounds and when you went. You know, we, we ran into a couple little licensing issues there because of the background noise.
Yeah. Tell me about that.
What happened?
Oh, that's crazy. Obviously at the, at the Regatta you've got, you and I doing the commentary.
Mm-hmm.
And, you know, we are novices, we we're no Bruce McVay or any of that, and we're definitely not, haven't
got the strapping young legs.
We, we definitely don't have the budget of, uh, channel nine production, but.
The ground announcers or the Queensland, uh, dragon boat. They have music playing over the loudspeakers.
Yes.
So my phone was recording in the commentary box and obviously we had the windows open. It picked up the loud music, so I didn't Were you the
champions?
Yeah, we were the champions. And so I couldn't upload and then people are there going Dougie, where's the, how come it hasn't upload and I'm looking.
And then once again, generational. We had Kat in there with us who was doing her thing and doing the drones and she goes, Dougie, you've been picked up on a, um, licensing copyright. Yeah. Yeah. Wasn't she cat
Social media?
Yep. So, and they picked me up on three songs. I think one was from Snoop Dogg, one was from We Champions.
So next thing you know, I had to go in and do a bit of a your case and plead my case for three days. So. The last day of the finals, some of those finals weren't up for 72 hours because I had to explain to YouTube. On our live channel that that wasn't us playing it.
We're always
was learning.
We're learning.
So yeah, I got a long story. Yeah, it's, yeah, it took a while to get there, but we got there. Um, now where were we? What were we talking about? What's coming up?
Obviously nationals was amazing.
Yep.
So now around the world, around the globe, one thing to preparations for teams. Is so different,
right?
In Canada it's winter coming into June.
Sorry, where winter here? It's there summer there. So different preparations for different, uh, federations is very challenging. So now all around the world, and I think there's. 172 countries. Yep. That, that went to the, the, the club crews. Uh, don't, I mean, but maybe, maybe that, I think that was right. I don't, I don't know.
Right. Um, I think there's like for the, for the, for the club crews coming up in Taiwan. Be a lot more Asian dominated, obviously, what's happening with the climate of the world at the moment.
Yep.
With, with with the Middle
East. Yeah. Obviously. Yeah. We've got a number of factors
there, haven't we? Fuel prices, uh, you know, uh, you know, cost
of airfares.
Yeah. Yeah. So, so these clubs now are in training.
Yep.
Preparation, team selection for their club crews, also fundraising. Yeah, they're, they're getting together to, to, to help each other, uh, to, to, to get their paddlers to that and, and that'll be another segment in their own, so then, yeah. Gotcha. Then, then, you know, where do we go from Taiwan?
It'll be heading next year. And they're, they're already, the, the, the IDBF uh, uh, are, are already looking forward to the next nation's cup, which I think is bringing back is in Hong Kong in 2024.
Not 2024,
no, sorry, 2027.
2027. Because when we were in Berlin. The Hong Kong. Um,
Simon.
Simon. Simon
and I, I just seen, we met Simon.
I've just seen Simon. I was in Hong Kong two months ago.
Yes,
Simon met me at the Four Seasons.
Three. So Simon was running, you know, shadow with shadowing.
Yes.
Um, Claudio and Mel. Hi
Simon.
Hi Claudio. Um,
hey, fat, joy, Lacy Dole.
Um,
bit of Cantonese. That Doug?
Yeah, I like your Cantonese. It's good. Simon was shadowing everyone because they're obviously going to be hosting in 2027.
Yes,
yes. Good point. Um. I know we've mentioned a name already in this episode. Mary, you say we got the Taipei. There's a female, is it four and a half thousand athletes? I think Mary said going to France.
The France. But the next one, the only thing holding back. She's got bids for the next breast cancer paddlers World Championships, where they're seeing where they're gonna host it.
Right. And, and, and, and don't quote us, but I think Mary will be on here.
Yep.
And they'll be looking to what can accommodate more paddlers. They could possibly have 6,000 paddlers.
Well, she actually said when we had a chat to her, when we had a bit of a hookup with her the other week, and this wasn't like last weekend, she did mention that they could have taken five and a half thousand paddlers, but due to the size of where they're going.
They could only take four and a half.
Well, stay tuned because we did interview her. Yes. At the national, so stay tuned for that one.
Yeah, that'll come up later on in, uh, on our channel, um, or on the blog. But interesting. It's not a bad problem to have, is it? When you, you can take five and a half, but you have to cut it down to four and a half.
It just shows the numbers once again of the girls. Uh,
let's, let's talk about clubs, shapes and sizes of different people. Also what they have to wear.
Yep.
You are, you are. You are thinking paddle shorts, singlets. Long shorts. There's companies out there Fire that we saw up in, in, yep. In, in, um, the national titles at
Kawana Water there.
Yeah.
Designing Australian uniforms and paddles with the indigenous and the cultural Chinese, um, uh, designs for metals that they had, that they came up with these amazing designs. Yeah. Regatta Sport.
Yeah.
Was, was, was, was talking to the boys in Canada. They're excited about us. Yeah. I'm like, what, what? Well, because Paddles ready is, is such a, an amazing
logo
brand.
Yep. Because everyone's gotta get their paddles ready.
Yeah, a hundred percent. So,
so that, that's coming up. We're gonna get, we're gonna get Manu, we're gonna get manufacturers on board. Well,
that's
it. We're gonna get that. But it's very important what to wear because. We're fortunate enough here in Australia that our climate's not too bad.
That's it.
Can you imagine they've got the ice dragons, like they're, they're paddling on ice.
It's crazy.
In Canada it's cold. Yeah. In the Ukraine, in, in, in the uk the UK's got Mark Hus and, and, and all the marks like the history. IDBF, international Dragon Boat Federation. Doug was housed, it was a home in the uk.
Yep.
They've just moved it back to its roots in Asia, in Hong Kong, China.
Really?
Yeah.
Okay.
That's another episode coming up soon we'll be talking to Simon. We'll be talking to Claudio.
Yes.
Uh, Luigi now head of Youth. Yep. He's a, he's, he's, uh, our, our German Italian friend.
Yep.
And, and we're just gonna be getting it.
It's just exciting. This is our second episode. We've been talking for, what are we, 21 minutes. And I dunno about you, we might be saying something going around and round like a clown as they say, but it, but, but we are loving it and I can't wait to get the interviews on
once we get the interviews on, you know.
Um, another thing that I wanted to quickly talk about to people at home and. We are going to do a in of, we've organized an interactive, um, I've called it the phantom call and it's going to be,
but what are you getting me into now?
It's going to be hand. You haven't
told, you haven't told me about
this, so it's going to be called hand os Phantom Call.
Okay? Now for those of you at home. Um, I have had the privilege of listening to Nick and he mucks around every now and again and thinks he's a Johnny Tap, but he's actually just hando and he loves his horse racing and he has mastered the art of doing what's I call a phantom call.
Off the cuff.
Off the cuff, used to
ring me up.
Yep. What I want to do, and I'm gonna throw this out to everyone there in Dragon boating land and paddles ready land, if you subscribe to the channel. You then go in to being one of the teams in your phantom calls. Now it's going to be a 10 boat race.
I like it.
So you've got, let's just call it for teams at, you know, um,
I can, I can, I
can.
I, I, I, I can do one globally. Let's,
let's see how we go. Yeah, we do. But you know, so 10 boat race, you call the race. I'd have no idea who's going to win the race. But then whoever wins the race, paddles ready. We'll give a $200 donation to that club to ver whatever they want to do. And we're going to do that.
Well, actually, that's where, that's where our, our sponsors, our, our merchandising partners, whether it's Cross Bone or Hornet or Regatta Sport or Fire.
Yep.
That's perfect. Yeah. Dougie, it's, throw that one on me.
So let's do it now. So I've got, I'm gonna throw this on to you now. Okay.
There we are. It's the
first hang I'm gonna give you, I'll give you.
See if you can remember what, no, you can do the teams but don't do 10 'cause we've time's limited. Okay. Maybe do five or six teams. But I'm gonna give you the floor now for 35 seconds and you are going to show the for 40 seconds. And I you are gonna show the people at home how you do the fandom call. I'm going to speak to uh, the guys out the back.
We're going to set up a subscription on our website. Be Hand's, fandom call. You subscribe and you can have multiple people subscribe. You have to put your club,
so put your club team in there that they're, and, and you go and then, and then we'll ran, there'll be a random pick out of, of, of each, of each
club.
And then every week, you and I will, whoever wins, we'll give out a $200, um, let's just call it a voucher or $2, $200, um, um, thing to that club. Whoever wins. So that'll be a
weekly big capital. Pete Flanders.
Woohoo.
Ooh,
there we go.
So I'm gonna throw it over to you, um, and give us one of your phantom calls.
Okay. There we have it. We've got the lineup. We've got Baloon in one of the first Phantom race call Typhoon in two. Out the back is Falls Creek from Canada Surge and his Melbourne type Mel Melbourne Flames in five upcoming the UAE, the the Filipino Warriors. Wasabi Warriors. From. Japan, they're all set paddle's ready.
Set there racing about 300 meter.
Where are we going with this?
Am I gonna go 300 meters to go with Subbies taking out, here comes the Melbourne Flames Fourth Creek, the Canadian champions of about 300 liters to go. It's was Subbie Warriors from Japan. Here comes Tyron from Hong Kong, so Wasabi Tai paddles are ready.
We got it. Anyway, we'll probably retake that one. You get the juice of it. We'll probably retake that one, but when I've got the names of them there, we'll be there.
And that's how I want it to run. And that's exactly how I wanna run.
Ah, set ready. Racing.
Racing. Put you on the spot there. But that's for everybody to get involved.
Um, and, you know, if Hando calls you as the winner and he's not going to know right up until that time.
Well, well that's it. I'll, I'll, I'll have the team list just like we do a team list.
A hundred percent. And whoever wins it's $200 coming to your club.
Yeah. It might even just be the finish. Or, or, or, or we can.
You guys are gonna give us your feedback. Maybe it'll be lane one. Typhoon two is, is the Flames, three is Falls Creek, Dubai Diggers in Five Dragon Warriors out in six from the Philippines, Barracuda from month, all of that. Yeah. Nice. I like it. Yep. Thanks for throwing me. Uh, under
the bus. Bus. Under the bus.
Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Well, that's it for this one. Um, we got through Hando. We're having a ball here. That's, uh,
well, we hope, we, we hope, Hey, we're having a ball.
We're having a ball.
We look. To see you on the channel, on the website. What, you know, what, what have we, what have we got set up?
Follow, well, you can follow us on Insta.
Follow us on Facey. Um, so Facebook, Instagram, I gotta, I gotta learn these terminology. We've got younger kids, so, um, I actually, I don't think the younger kids do Facey anymore. I think it's, our generation does Facebook, but we got Facebook, Instagram, we are you. YouTube live channel, uh, and our website. Our website has everything on it.
Paddles ready.com. So if you need anything, our weekly newsletter, um, and our members, so yeah,
get on it. Well, we, it is episode two. We do look forward to being this media platform and inviting the guests, the clubs, the, the, the, the coaches, the federations, everyone at, I'm Hando. I'm Dougie, and we are.
Paddles ready. Bye for now.
This is Paddles ready. We are with Big Papa from Kuma. We've got Dougie doing 60 seconds with Dougie, right? Let's get into it. Here we go. Got here. Ah, Papa Dubby from
Kuma
Tracker. Worst excuse you've heard someone not turning up for training.
Well, the worst one I ever heard was, oh, bro, I just need a break.
Ugh. Downwind or grind?
Grind all day.
Early morning training or sleep ins,
early morning, all day.
What's more important, fitness or technique?
Ooh, that's a tough one. I think you've gotta put them together and make it fit. Nick,
look. Be before or after training.
Oh, nah, I don't have coffee. That stuff's bad for you.
Okay. Biggest talker on the boat.
Biggest talker on the boat has to be the sweep. Anyone else talking no one can hear. He's the boss man.
Spring to distance.
Oh, I'm a distance guy myself.
Bees or lemonade on a Sunday after Regata be all day. Favorite Regata you've competed at?
Oh, I'd say my favorite would have to be P Stone, uh, Byron Bay.
Your one team. That instantly makes someone a better paddler.
Ooh, one trip. To make a better paddler. Bury that paddle and rip that bugger back
completely sentence. If I wasn't a paddler, I'd be a
Wow. I. I, I'd be a nobody.
No way. Doing must that Big Papa. This is 60 Seconds with Dougie. Over an hour. See you papa.
Ando, guess what time of the week it is. What's
happening? Douglas
Dougie's. Hot take of the week.
Hi. Here we go. The fir, the first one. What about the people mate? I, they did call me.
Don't
worry. Oh, were texting me calling. I'm gonna have to change my number.
Yep. So Dougie's hot, take it a week. Yes. I know you're not gonna like this one because it's gonna roll.
It's rolling into last Yesterday's or yesterday's. It's rolling into last week's question. Okay. On who owns dragon boating? So I thought while we're on that, let's get an Olympic reality check and I've got a question here. Dragon boating in the, in the Olympics. Can we be real for just one second? Why can't we see
this sport
in the Olympics?
I can see it. A lot of people out there can probably see it. Hurdles, participation numbers.
Right.
So when you think about Olympic sports, whether when the Rugby sevens came in, they take sports out.
Yep.
That's why I think IDBF and other federations and, and Mike Hu, they, they and, and the manufacturers, they got a tens boat because instead of each country or each participating country.
20 paddle is a mix of women's that it, it calms it down. So you could have 10 men, 10 men, 10 women, and a 20 mixed boat. Yeah. And, and that's, that's how I'd see it.
Yep.
With dragon boating, small, small, big, all, all that. That's just how I could see it. But imagine. China, they had it as a, as a demonstration sport.
Yep.
I think that's where the federations, the ICF and the IDBF have to come on because the Olympics have to agree.
Yes.
Is there room for it? Absolutely. Would that attract the most amazing athletes like you think about dragon boating in general. Imagine the C one.
Yep.
The kayakers that would go, I've done my racing.
I wanna jump in a dragon. I wanna have a
go.
You know, because like the C ones, like Gary Cordain, the famous Canadian that you've coached under with Brisbane River Dragons. Yep. So going off a bit, 'cause I know I've only got three minutes with you and you've thrown it, but I'd love to see 2032. Can you imagine down the brown snake of Brisbane?
Well, that was gonna be my next question. It's not a bad topic to be talking about because we've got the Olympics coming here in 2032.
There's your next hot topic. Where should the rowing be?
Yeah, well there
that, that could be, lemme do my
homework on that.
Look, dragon Boat Queensland have already put their hand up and said we would take so much of it.
Yep.
Dragon Boat. That'd be amazing for a purpose. So Queensland government, we're on you soon.
Well, but that's what I was gonna say. We need to get Chris Philly on here. Yeah,
yeah,
yeah, yeah. 'cause for me, someone needs to explain to me how. Where the Brains Trust was. And I love Rocky, don't get me wrong. I love a good schooner in the Criterion Hotel.
How can rowing, and I know we're getting off topic here, how can rowing it be good for rowing internationally to be done in Rockhampton?
No. Yeah. When we have facilities, the athletes to there and, and we,
we have
facilities. That's, that's another one for another topic. I think. Let, let's stay on the Olympics.
What I'd see. I'd, I'd, I'd love to, to to sit back with you and Mike and Claudio and Loretta Lewis and go, wow, look at. 20 dragon boats, the flag bear is coming down. Yeah. And then that's showing and then you panning into the stadium. Like it'd be amazing. We are the river city. Yeah. Anyway, that's my take.
It's probably a bit too long,
probably a bit too long, but I just wanted to get it. I'm glad we touched on the rowing because I tell you what, we're gonna gonna
very Aussie centric
Yeah. Is a lot about Australia, but we do have the Olympics coming up here in 2032. I wanted to throw that hot take to you. Uh, thanks again and I look forward to finding another one for you next week.
Uh, you are Dougie. I'm Dougie. And you are
Ando
Ando.
We're paddles ready. See you later. Well, Dougie, I hope everyone enjoyed our, uh, wrap up of the national titles because Yeah,
I know
that was episode two.
Feedback's been pretty good. Woo. We we're still here. We're still here, but Aussie titles. How good.
Back up, you know, up there at Kiwana. Uh, caught up with Mary Gibson, one of our, uh, favorites and co commentator around the world, but, uh, wow.
Oh, absolutely. And we've got some fabulous. New interviews. They're not gonna tell you who we're
not. We, we, yeah. Keep that under wraps.
But, uh, yeah. So that's episode two.
Doug, please get on, subscribe, drop your email. There's an email section on our website. We'd love to get our newsletter to you.
Well,
that's the thing. That's what I was gonna say the subscription to is for our newsletter. Um, anything you've missed, um, you, you just have a weekly rundown basically. But that's episode two.
Aussies are out of the way. And let's get cracking on, uh, episode three.
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