Watch: World Skills Illawarra participants talk ahead of competing in the 2025 WorldSkills Australia in Brisbane. Video by Adam McLean.
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00:00I'm excited, a little bit nervous. This is actually my second time around. I competed last time for the Euro for Weldon as well. Didn't get the gold, but I'm excited and pretty confident in my ability.
00:12Excited. Should be a good time. Be a very big experience. Really shows off the skills of the trade, what I can do in the trade. It should be good to see other people from the trade all competing and see what their skills are like, see what they're like in general.
00:28So we've got, I think, four or five modules each day and then the last day we've got a two-hour bridal construction piece that we have to do.
00:38So yeah, it's just all different bits, a lot of floristry techniques used in everything we have to do.
00:45You don't understand at regional, but when you come to nationals and you're representing the, you know, the Illawarra, New South Wales,
00:53and then to be told that you can go even further, like it's just very surreal. But yeah, it's very nerve wracking at the moment.
01:01It'd be good to see what everyone creates. Like I love watching other florists, like their design, their creativity, yeah,
01:08all the different aspects of how they take floristry in their own hands.
01:11They're absolutely amazing. They've been training for months and months and months for this. So we catch up with them every week and just monitor their training.
01:25They've got great mentors in all the different categories. We've got one competitor who competed last time, so it's his second coming up.
01:33So yeah, they've been training really well and we've got some amazing talent there. So we're hoping to bring home some medals.
01:42I've been with WorldSkills for over 20 years and each time it's, it's, it just, it's, it's even better and better.
01:50The commitment that these competitors have and even with the support of their employers as well is incredible.
01:57And they're an amazing bunch of people.
02:01Well, we came, we've just come back from, back up from the international from, that was in Lyon last year.
02:08We had one of our hairdressing competitors who represented Australia and many others from the Illawarra region.
02:14So we're hoping to do it again. We're known for being good and we are good.