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A film about four friends that almost took the biggest industry in the World by storm.
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00:01:00Joe Ferguson on his last sheep
00:01:02There are no more in the pan and top row
00:01:04And my word, it's an exciting sport
00:01:07Good shearing requires two
00:01:11Balance, grace, rhythm
00:01:13By the way, Gwendolyn's main interests are domestic, being cooking and sewing
00:01:18So she'll make some lucky shearer a jolly good wife
00:01:21These shearers will have sweated their way through a total tally of something like 5,000 sheep before these competitions end
00:01:29And the only lady shearer that has ever shown in an Open Championship, Pam Warren
00:01:34Now this will be worth watching
00:01:36Rock, I wish, I'd like to put my face on the floor
00:01:42And the other one has only a couple of years
00:01:43At the same time, the other one has always been a long time
00:01:46But the other one has already ever known
00:01:47And a half year
00:01:48With a pair of contracts
00:01:48I'm going to have a pair of contracts
00:01:50And a half year
00:02:01I think I've always sort of loved sharing.
00:02:25Our house was on a hill and the wool shed was down that hill and like if the share
00:02:30is coming on the weekend, I'd like quickly get my clothes on and run down to the shed
00:02:36and I'd be so shy.
00:02:37I'd just sort of like sneak in the door and by the end of the day I was like right up there
00:02:42annoying everyone and like getting in everyone's way.
00:02:45It was really hard actually at the start.
00:02:48I'm not from a sharing family.
00:02:50I would ring around, my dad would be like just keep ringing them, just keep hassling them
00:02:56and I'd ring and I'd be in tears though because everyone would just deny me.
00:03:00I couldn't get any dagging, no one would let me ever dag their sheep.
00:03:09I was reading back on like that little form that I wrote and it's in 10 years time I'm
00:03:13going to be a sharer you know.
00:03:15I think it's probably because you know growing up just seeing my dad sharing and something
00:03:21in my blood almost you know.
00:03:23I just love the hard work, you know, just yeah, love sheep.
00:03:29I think I've been begging my dad to shear a sheep since I was eight or nine years old
00:03:38but I was never allowed.
00:03:39I says to him I can shear sheep and I jumped on and chore one and it was back to front and
00:03:43I had it everywhere.
00:03:44It took me about five or six minutes to shear this sheep and then he said no that's it,
00:03:49you'll have to come and learn off me.
00:03:51You can't see it because it's a black sheep but that's the very first sheep I assure.
00:03:57It's a black merino and I was about 16.
00:04:01I just love it, it's a form of arte when you're taking the wool off.
00:04:13Dad used to buy thousands of store lambs and he you know like to keep the wool short and
00:04:17shore them a lot.
00:04:18So I got dad to teach me and I thought it would be good to get so I could do 200 a day,
00:04:23be called a sharer and then I'll go and get a real job.
00:04:26A few people have said you know it's a pretty hard job, why and I was like because I want
00:04:31to do and what's the worst going to happen I just have to quit because I can't but you
00:04:36know we were never allowed, we were never allowed to say can't.
00:04:40There might have been five women sharers in New Zealand when I started.
00:04:49As a professional sharer I got paid for doing sport.
00:04:54In those days women weren't paid for being competitors.
00:04:58I'm now working as a barrister, I'm a, I'm a barrister and solicitor of the High Court
00:05:04of New Zealand.
00:05:05A couple of times a year I come over and share Bill Kay's sheet and it's always a really nice
00:05:19sort of weekend job just to get myself organised and keeps my hand in sharing which is nice
00:05:28just to be able to keep that up.
00:05:32From 13, 14 years old I just, I loved watching shearing and when I went into the sheds and I was working as a wool handler I actually got told me that I'm going to be able to keep that up.
00:05:39From 13, 14 years old I just, I loved watching shearing and when I went into the sheds and I was working as a wool handler I actually got told off for watching the shearers rather than sometimes watching the wool.
00:05:46I just love the rhythm of it and because it's a pattern it's about the absolute perfection of that pattern.
00:05:53I know that the wool sheds are operating round here and sometimes I sort of have a wish to head out the door on a hot day and, you know, it's about the absolute perfection of that pattern.
00:06:00I know that the wool sheds are operating round here and sometimes I sort of have a wish to head out the door on a hot day and work with them.
00:06:15I know that the wool sheds are operating round here.
00:06:18And sometimes I sort of have a wish to head out the door on a hot day and work with them.
00:06:26When I was about 20, there was a woman sharer who was 40, Barbara Marsh.
00:06:32And I always felt like I would share till I was 40.
00:06:38And I used to sort of say to people,
00:06:41how long are you going to share for, they'd say, and I'd say, oh, well, I'll share until I'm 40.
00:06:45Oh, you can't do that. You're a girl.
00:06:48You know, and there was this real disbelief that a girl would even want to be still sharing.
00:06:54Well, you know, Barbara Shaw until she was in her 50s and I'm in my 50s.
00:07:00So, you know, I'll probably still be sharing when I'm 75.
00:07:06And that's a good example of sheep shit on the brain.
00:07:11It's a measure of you just can't learn enough.
00:07:14You are just hungry for technique, for skill, for information, for opportunities.
00:07:21To be successful in most things, you have to be pretty single-minded.
00:07:26And that's probably what I've been called a few times.
00:07:31So it's probably one of the nicer names.
00:07:34I don't mind it. I'm proud to have sheep shit on the brain.
00:07:38If you've never shorn, I mean, the first three or four weeks is quite painful, but after that, it's all, it's really relaxing, I think.
00:07:59I love wool handling as well.
00:08:04Wool handlers work with wool to get the best out of it, so we remove pieces and short wools and stuff to make the end product as perfect as we can.
00:08:13Competition wool handling still gives me the drive to get up and go and do it, but wool handling every day in the shed is just not giving me enough anymore.
00:08:21I think I'm in a unique position to have both my parents as a master wool handler and a master sharer.
00:08:33I think that they're the best in the world.
00:08:38I've worked with both of them in the shed, and I couldn't compare anyone to them.
00:08:43I've worked with a lot of good sharers, a lot of great sharers, and I've worked with the best wool handlers in the world as well, and I can't put anyone near them.
00:08:53I would try to be like both of them. I was always told you couldn't be a sharer and a wool handler at master level, but I think you can put enough time and effort into it.
00:09:06This one here is a picture of my dad. It's one of his records. One of his records. He shows 716 ewes in a nine hour day. Full share. Yep. Very proud of him.
00:09:22I want to do the same. I want to do a record just like him. None of my dad's sons share sheep, so I'm his only shot to carry it through. Yeah.
00:09:35I mean, I know my dad was a sharer. You know, he was such a cool sort of a guy that probably from the time I was 12, I was going sharer.
00:09:43This is a bit of an addictive game, and if you start doing it when you're sort of in that 15, 16, 17, 18 years, it gets in your blood and it's sort of next thing that 10 years goes by.
00:10:05We'd have to take days off school. Mum would ring up the school and say, the girls are going to be having work experience. I would call it work experience today.
00:10:33Us three daughters would have to be the Rouseys for, they'd get the Smith boys in, and I just loved it from there.
00:10:43Her and his sisters have always pitched, and that's how big happy families should be, happy shearing gangs.
00:10:55At first, I just thought it was like, you know, a man's job. Yeah, got a bit older, got a bit stronger, and realised, oh, I could do that maybe.
00:11:05You know, as a wool handler, I just asked, you know, one of the sharers, can I shear you a last sheep?
00:11:11So I was shearing four sheep a day. It takes a while to shear enough to get a stand.
00:11:17Just the technique, I think, is going to help me, yeah, get numbers and just keep pushing, just keep opening that catching pen door and grabbing another sheep.
00:11:26We all go through life trying to find what interests us or, you know, what makes us happy or what makes us feel at ease with what we're doing.
00:11:38Often, when we shear our own sheep, you know, because I'm often head rousey and that, and she says, come on mum, get up here, take my handpiece, have a go, have a go.
00:11:48And I said, no, no, Hazel, that's yours, that's yours. I know what you're doing is pretty, pretty cool, you know.
00:11:56I don't know why they are so keen on the shearing. It seems like backbreaking work in this day and age.
00:12:07Oh, well, pretty nice to shear. I'll be nice, alright.
00:12:13I'll see you guys. See you later on tonight.
00:12:27I miss the shearing. I did a couple of days this main chair and I really enjoyed just going to work and shearing.
00:12:43It was, you know, it was really good. It was really fun because, unfortunately, with business now, there's so much paperwork
00:12:49and I can't say that I desired to spend a lot of my time in my office doing paperwork.
00:13:04But it works to having a great family and to having the freedom of life to fit in the kids' stuff for them, not stuck in a nine-to-five job.
00:13:11Go, go, go! Go, go, go, go, go, go, go!
00:13:18So I talk to the farmers to take the bookings. The farmers have nothing to do aside from ring me, book the shearing in,
00:13:25and then I do all the other stuff and then they just have to pay the bill.
00:13:29In the summer we have four crews working all at different places,
00:13:33and that's, you know, 30 odd people I've got to contact every night to tell them where they're going.
00:13:37Being a business owner with children is challenging and I'm constantly juggling and you struggle
00:13:42with the guilt of that, you know, giving enough time to the business plus giving enough time
00:13:48to the children and trying to fit, you know, give them the best life.
00:14:07I brought a lamb, a couple of lambs back from Dad and Gizzy and some local lambs and I tried
00:14:34to mother them on to a couple of ewes out here.
00:14:52You sort of like got to teach them to drink out of a bottle for a bit.
00:14:57Throwing it like probably about five times a day for this little fella just because I'm
00:15:03they overfeed them, they're not even hungry.
00:15:11I grew up on the farm, like I'd always try and mother things that didn't even need mothering.
00:15:15I'd be like, Dad, there's an orphan out there. He's like, it's not even an orphan cat.
00:15:20Just leave it alone.
00:15:24I'm like the crazy sheep lady at the moment.
00:15:26I got this idea to make sort of like a blanket out of my ribbons.
00:15:40Which sort of just used to sit in the wardrobe and not do anything anyway.
00:15:47So yeah, this one's the first show I ever won, which was the Poverty Bay show.
00:15:54That's my local show in the junior.
00:15:56They're cool to get on the day, but really, they still have no purpose.
00:16:05Like, you know, just, I don't know what else to do with them.
00:16:09I think if I wasn't doing the shows through my sharing career, then I probably would have got sick of it by now.
00:16:21If I didn't have something to work towards.
00:16:24I started in the novice and I've just sort of seen what's happened every year.
00:16:42I've won my first show.
00:16:45It's been good for me.
00:16:47Because when I first started, I was really shy.
00:16:49Really shy.
00:16:51I never thought I would get to the senior, so anything's possible, I suppose.
00:17:01I just have secret goals and, like, I never say them out loud.
00:17:06Those competitors on the board, Pagan Remedy.
00:17:08I never wanted to do a show.
00:17:10I was forced into doing my first show and then I was addicted after the first one.
00:17:14I just wanted to jump back up.
00:17:16I don't like missing a show.
00:17:19It means the world when I turn up.
00:17:22I just, I love the whole environment and everything.
00:17:24The competition.
00:17:25The learning.
00:17:26I love learning new things.
00:17:28I love meeting new people.
00:17:30I've done tonnes of training.
00:17:31I've travelled around New Zealand and Australia because of shows.
00:17:34We had a deal if I'd win an open wall handling event.
00:17:39I was allowed to go sharing.
00:17:41It was my second open wall handling event.
00:17:43I won the Christchurch Corradale Championships.
00:17:46My mum was, um, second.
00:17:49Yeah, I was seven.
00:17:50I was seventeen.
00:17:51That was my proudest win.
00:17:57Always being a competitive person.
00:17:59I enjoyed that it gave you a purpose during the week.
00:18:01You were trying to better yourself for the weekend for the competition.
00:18:04So it gave you that determination and the goals, you know, for the daily job.
00:18:09Because it can be quite a grind.
00:18:11This one is mine.
00:18:14Yeah, we know pretty much who's the shoes, isn't it?
00:18:19All the red ones are mine.
00:18:20Yeah.
00:18:21Red's first.
00:18:23Yeah.
00:18:24This is it.
00:18:25And yellow's third.
00:18:26This would have to be one of your ones then.
00:18:28The local Franklin A&P show.
00:18:30Yeah, this was the first show I won.
00:18:32That's right.
00:18:33You guys want to be sharers when you grow up?
00:18:35Oh, yeah.
00:18:36Oh, yeah.
00:18:37Yeah.
00:18:39Dad's a sharing judge.
00:18:42So I got carted around to all the sharing shows.
00:18:45And he got invited down to the Golden Shares when I was twelve or thirteen.
00:18:50As soon as you go in that door, you know, you see a big stage up there with lights.
00:18:56And it's something I've always thought, yep, I want to do that when I'm older.
00:19:12The Golden Shares is the premier event of competition shearing and wool handling in the world.
00:19:30It's the biggest event in the world.
00:19:32It has the biggest number of competitors.
00:19:34It runs for three full days.
00:19:36And it has a status that is unequalled in competition in the shearing industry.
00:19:44Everybody goes to the Golden Shares.
00:19:46When you walk into the hall, there's just something about it, like, you have to win there.
00:19:50Someone told me when we were getting ready for the Golden Shares not to think of it as anything different, you know?
00:19:56You kind of put the shits up yourself, just all in the hype.
00:19:59The appeal is just because it's the Golden Shares and everybody's dream is to make a Golden Shares final.
00:20:05If you get that black singlet, you only get the black singlets if you make a final.
00:20:14Geez, I'd love to have won that one, you know?
00:20:16Because of the mana and the story behind that show, that's what gets people to go there.
00:20:21They try and get their name etched on that trophy because those names that are etched there, they're like gold for us.
00:20:28It just must be in you. You either want to do it or you don't.
00:20:31Yeah. Yeah. It's just a dream, I suppose.
00:20:50My dad's business, and he's a shearing contractor.
00:20:53I help with him. I try and take as much pressure as I can off him.
00:20:57So we're going to try, keep your blend in one pile, in as small as you can.
00:21:04And it was that same thing, starting off one, two, three.
00:21:18If you get really, really quick at it, you can do four.
00:21:21I enjoy training others a lot because everybody has a rough background.
00:21:26How rough sometimes can be a wee bit too much.
00:21:31And so lots of kids I've taken in.
00:21:35Got them off drugs is one of my biggest things.
00:21:38Give them something to look forward to, you know, for the weekends.
00:21:42Take them away, start it off as a hobby, and then they become competitors.
00:21:46I love to train girls, and I love them to have a crack at me.
00:21:52Test my skills out a wee bit.
00:21:55And a few times I've been beaten by them.
00:21:58So proud of some of them.
00:22:01Anne-Marie's probably my biggest one. Yeah.
00:22:05She just likes everything perfect.
00:22:09Like, everything has to be perfect.
00:22:11Like, she'll plot around looking at everything, what you're doing,
00:22:15and she'll just know straight away if you've done something wrong.
00:22:18Like, she's a freak.
00:22:21But you need someone like that, I reckon.
00:22:24Like, just to keep you motivated and stuff like that.
00:22:28She was so good in the shed, I just, I said to her,
00:22:32right, we're going to go to the show this weekend.
00:22:34And we took off and went to a few shows,
00:22:36and she got the bug straight away.
00:22:39She loved it.
00:22:41I come in here, didn't know how to throw a fleece,
00:22:43didn't know how to skirt one.
00:22:45Yeah, it's pretty cosy.
00:22:46But she's done a lot with me, trying to slow my mind down.
00:22:51She's got me into competing in the shows too.
00:22:54I've done the juniors, seniors, and I'm also in the openings too.
00:22:58I love teaching.
00:23:00I love seeing the results.
00:23:02Yeah, and the way it changes somebody.
00:23:06That's for sure.
00:23:08Look.
00:23:09Look out.
00:23:10Look out.
00:23:12Look out.
00:23:14Look out.
00:23:25Look out.
00:23:31Look out.
00:23:32Gimliy, come here.
00:23:33Go here.
00:23:34Okay.
00:23:35I always said I'd never ever go in a dairy shed, ever since I was little I was sheep
00:23:46and beef.
00:23:47I was going to be a shearer, I'm never going to be a dairy farmer and here I am.
00:23:55Mixed emotions right now about dairy farming, I wonder why I'm up in the cold, wet, early
00:24:02morning.
00:24:03I would pick the wool shed any day over dairy farming right now.
00:24:08Yeah I've kind of just worked on this dairy farm just to help my old man out a bit, he's
00:24:15still a bit undecided on what he wants to do with it, I've seen beef prices are so good
00:24:21at the moment.
00:24:22It's a bit of pressure taking over, I feel like I should be one of the daughters to take
00:24:29over a bit of the farm, the beef farm I'd enjoy a bit more than the dairy farm.
00:24:35I don't know maybe a bit later down the track I'd like to get out there and travel the world
00:24:44first.
00:24:45She'll be as helpful as you think she's going to be.
00:24:50I want to walk away from a sheep each day and just know myself that I've done a good job and sort of be proud of the job that I've done.
00:24:55It's a lot harder than it looks.
00:25:01It's a lot harder than it looks.
00:25:02Like that first sheep that I saw, it took me 15 minutes.
00:25:08Every single muscle in your body is working.
00:25:09Like my body was shaking afterwards I remember.
00:25:10It was a big year.
00:25:11It was a big year.
00:25:12It's a big year.
00:25:13It's a big year.
00:25:14It's a big year.
00:25:15It's a big year.
00:25:16It's a big year.
00:25:17It's so much fun.
00:25:18It's really hard to run from a sheep each day and just know myself that I've done a good job and sort of, you know, be proud of the job that I've done.
00:25:21It's a lot harder than it looks.
00:25:22Like that first sheep that I saw, it took me 15 minutes.
00:25:27Every single muscle in your body is working.
00:25:30Like, my body was shaking afterwards, I remember.
00:25:34It was a big year.
00:25:41It's physically hard, but mentally so hard.
00:25:46If you're having a bad day, sharing is one of the hardest jobs.
00:25:51You've got all that time to think about it.
00:25:54She just goes to work and doesn't complain.
00:25:57She's always trying to quietly push her tallies in her mind.
00:26:02She doesn't blow her own trumpet.
00:26:05I'm trying to, like, better myself for me,
00:26:08not so that I can say that I'm better than that guy.
00:26:11Yeah, I think if I put that pressure on myself
00:26:14to be the fastest every day, then I'd be disappointed,
00:26:19cos I know I'm not.
00:26:21So to get the tallies of over 400 or 500 sheep,
00:26:27you've got to be able to know every 15 minutes what number you're on.
00:26:31And you clock watch.
00:26:32You look at how long it takes you to shear each sheep.
00:26:35You take notice of your tally, and you work up.
00:26:39You go 10 sheep a quarter.
00:26:41It's 40 sheep an hour.
00:26:43It's 80 sheep in two hours.
00:26:45It's 320 a day.
00:26:47The majority of New Zealand sits on 250 a day.
00:26:49It's a very addictive sport.
00:26:51So you do your 200, and you think, well, 300's not that far away.
00:26:56300's good.
00:27:00400's better.
00:27:02500's just crazy to me.
00:27:06If I got back into work, I'd get to the 250 pretty easily, I think.
00:27:11I'd suffer for a while.
00:27:12And I think in lambs, I'd be able to do 300 still.
00:27:17I've done 400 on lambs in a day.
00:27:20Just this main share thing.
00:27:22I never ever thought I'd be able to share that many sheep in a day.
00:27:26I think the best day I've done is I was aiming for 150, and I think I was 146 or 7.
00:27:35So I'll just say just a bit under 150.
00:27:41You are what you've achieved, and that's the nature of sharing, really.
00:27:45The first time I came in this wool shed was pretty unreal to see those tallies.
00:27:59Yeah.
00:28:01You know, it's an old wool shed.
00:28:04It's a real wool shed.
00:28:06Where world records have been done and beaten.
00:28:10Someone sets it, and then someone's just trying to beat it.
00:28:13Yeah.
00:28:16Emily Shaw's 6.48 in nine hours.
00:28:20It doesn't say how many hours it took to share these tallies, but, you know,
00:28:26there's 6.26 and 6.07.
00:28:32She's up there.
00:28:35She's, it's pretty, pretty awesome.
00:28:38I've never actually spoken to Emily about her record.
00:28:43She's sort of, yeah, I get a bit star struck when I see her, to be honest.
00:28:47But, yeah.
00:28:49One of the biggest goals, things you've got to get over to start with is saying, putting it out there, that you're going to have a go at the world record.
00:29:00Because you're sort of putting yourself on the line to fail, you know, publicly.
00:29:02One of the biggest tasks on that was getting her to say yes.
00:29:07So, I just asked a simple question, do you want to do a record?
00:29:11And she said, I don't know.
00:29:13And I said, the answer's a yes or a no answer.
00:29:15But when I figured out that, you know, it's fine to put yourself out to fail, that's fine.
00:29:21You're never going to get anywhere unless you put yourself out to fail.
00:29:24Yeah, so it was quite intense.
00:29:25Quite a lot of work put into, came into that one day.
00:29:29Because you've got to set a date and source the sheet.
00:29:31I mean, just for that one day, to try and break the nine hour record.
00:29:36This is a checklist of everything that had to be at the wool shed.
00:29:38I remember how much it was to organise but I'd forgotten how much was involved until I found this stuff.
00:29:46Yeah, there's a lot of preparation and a lot of friends and family got called in behind the scenes to have a successful day.
00:29:53And she put everything on the line.
00:29:55She'd done a really awesome effort.
00:30:09I was set to break Gillian Angus Burney's record and that was 541 was her record that she'd set.
00:30:18The timing for that was probably, I think it was just under a minute a sheep.
00:30:23And so when I did my record, I did 648.
00:30:27And so I averaged 50 seconds a lamb.
00:30:30After the first run and they realised I was going to do a lot more, they adjusted everything to keep me on that target to try and get to sort of 650.
00:30:36It's a bit like looking in the mirror because she was about the same size, same weight, same height and looked very similar to me when she was shearing.
00:30:45So she beat my record, which was 18 years later.
00:30:50Men who'd known Emily watched her growing up.
00:31:08And so it was sort of their father's, you know, their dad's age.
00:31:11So they were sort of moved to tears at the end of it because they knew what she had to overcome to achieve it.
00:31:17She's still good enough to do more world records, I think, and if she wants to do that, I'll do everything that I can to help her do that.
00:31:33Bring it on.
00:31:38Bring it on.
00:31:39.
00:31:40.
00:31:41.
00:31:58In 2008 I had a car accident and the injuries that I had through that accident was I had
00:32:10a fractured T6, that's in the top of my spine, I had all the ligaments in my hips and arms
00:32:19were torn, I had a busted bowel, a hole in my intestine, lacerations on my liver, I had
00:32:30a broken sternum, my teeth were pretty well chipped up and I think it was my left shoulder,
00:32:40yeah my left shoulder was slightly fractured.
00:32:45We rolled nine times, I had my seatbelt on and I had to take it off because it was suffocating
00:32:52me and it had ripped my stomach up and when I took it off I flew out the back door, I landed
00:32:58by my sister, my sister was in that accident as well and two of my best mates died.
00:33:13You know we just focused her on the wind she was having every day, I can bend over and
00:33:27put a shoe on today without falling into a spasm.
00:33:31Coming off a series of drugs that they had her on, that was the story in itself, it was
00:33:35tough on her, she doesn't want medicine as such tough bugger to get bloody medicine into
00:33:39a real, almost old school.
00:33:41It was frustrating because the first couple of years I was so unfit and my injuries were
00:33:46taken a hold of me.
00:33:48She doesn't tell anybody but her friends and her family know the state of her body and
00:33:57you know I think that's what makes it incredible that she's had as much success as she has.
00:34:01I mean as a father you always, you're proud of your kids and when they do well I mean I
00:34:16don't think anyone celebrates more than you you know.
00:34:20But it meant more knowing the road that she's on and knowing that she's still got so far
00:34:25to go in terms of where her body's at and yet she still pulls off these ones.
00:34:37He rings me up on rainy days telling me how I should be walking the hill.
00:34:42He does a lot with my mindset, my father he's really good.
00:34:47He tells me the values of walking the hill in the rain, in the snow, even when it's really
00:34:55hot it gets around 40 degrees here in the summer time and you just don't want to do anything
00:34:59and he seems to get me out every day as well.
00:35:29Where there's livestock there's dead stock.
00:35:38Yeah, that lamb was a twin.
00:35:42Yeah it's mother had mastitis so we've saved the other one but that one we didn't get to in time.
00:35:51I'm not crying it's just so cold.
00:35:54I feel like hardly a farmer.
00:35:56We've got about 20 sheep but I don't like being inside you know with the fire roaring
00:36:03and it's pissing with rain outside and you're being born in the middle of it so yeah.
00:36:11I enjoy living out in the countryside.
00:36:27The city's not for me.
00:36:29Yeah, I do I love just the peace and quiet and yeah.
00:36:34It just feels, it feels good to live out here.
00:36:47Never a dull moment around here.
00:36:49Even in one day I'll do about four or five different, different jobs.
00:36:55Which is quite good. Keeps things interesting.
00:37:00Geez, quite capable.
00:37:02Very helpful. They've all been able to pitch in in any aspect of the farming, pub, career, anything.
00:37:10It's quite good because at the pub it's mainly night time work so by the time we finish sharing and jobs on the farm it's about six o'clock.
00:37:23Here it doesn't pick up till five o'clock, six o'clock so yeah it works out quite well.
00:37:30The young farmers of Northland are putting on a gumboot wall.
00:37:34They all dress themselves up nicely and scrub up their gumboots and come down and pretty much have a party.
00:37:42Five years time, probably I'd like to see myself probably in the same sort of situation I'm in now where I still live, rurally.
00:38:01I'd like to have probably done my three hundred and five years time.
00:38:06Yeah, I want to be a real share.
00:38:10I'll feed my dream job.
00:38:12Have a nice ute.
00:38:14Enough money to buy a nice ute and...
00:38:18Yeah.
00:38:20Yeah.
00:38:36How are you feeling, Payton?
00:38:48The neck has been a wee bit tight this week.
00:38:50Tight, I can tell.
00:38:56That's it.
00:38:57Is the hill walking starting to get the fitness up for the compo?
00:38:59Yeah.
00:39:00It's good though because it is like running a marathon so it's tough, tough work.
00:39:07It's constant, isn't it?
00:39:08Yeah.
00:39:09Because I've got a broken back, I have a lot of trouble right through down the middle of my lower back part area.
00:39:19So my core's got to be really strong because once that goes, my whole body goes.
00:39:26I video all my performances and I take them home and I analyse them.
00:39:43I also use it to study my other competitors.
00:39:47I want to learn how I can rattle them.
00:39:49I've been in the ball handling for 12 years now and I never used to play any games.
00:39:57But I've noticed that the further up you get in the open, the more games they start to play with you,
00:40:02they start to try and throw you off.
00:40:04So what I've learned in myself is if you look confident, even if you're not confident,
00:40:10that already unsettles them.
00:40:11They don't like confidence in anyone.
00:40:14If I'm unsure, I look sure.
00:40:16There's tons of games I've seen them play over the years.
00:40:20Like banging of the broom beside you.
00:40:25The banging of the table and the stomping their feet as they run past you to try and hurry along.
00:40:30And that stuff, that doesn't worry me anymore.
00:40:37My father spent years getting my mentality right for shows and I haven't always been this way.
00:40:43I used to get shaken quite a lot.
00:40:45And I think that's the key to getting to the top 2% or the top in the world for this,
00:40:50is actually to get in there, analyse it and understand what you're doing.
00:40:55I've made the last two or three years to understand everything I do.
00:40:58I'm determined to get to the top because I love the feeling when you win.
00:41:10For me personally, winning at the Golden Chairs would be one of the highlights of my career.
00:41:16I've been competing in the Open War Handling for 12 years and I haven't made a final there yet.
00:41:21I keep seeing top six and keep missing out.
00:41:26I'm not too hard out about improving for competitions, to be honest.
00:41:38I practise a bit at work.
00:41:41Yeah, other than that, I just see how it goes on the day really.
00:41:47I don't love being in front of a crowd or, yeah, putting yourself out there like that.
00:41:55To do something scary, which it still is, it's really scary.
00:42:01Even after however many I've done, it's always scary still to get up.
00:42:06Catherine is really at the top of the senior, which is a bit where Emily was maybe eight years ago.
00:42:14It's actually quite an exciting time for her.
00:42:16I think she doesn't actually know how exciting it's going to be for her.
00:42:20You know, I feel nervous for her at the moment.
00:42:22She's got her last chances in the grade she's in now.
00:42:27And then she's moving up into the fast lane of the motorway.
00:42:31Yeah, where she takes it is up to her. The sky's the limit.
00:42:36It just depends on what happens in her life and how hard she wants to push herself.
00:42:41You know, there's world records and stuff out there that's in reach of someone with her technique and mental ability.
00:43:06I still love it, but I needed to take some time off so that I still wanted to go back to it.
00:43:22Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I feel like I almost worked too hard for my body.
00:43:28Like my body can't handle it. Yeah.
00:43:32So I get really gaunt and I just get a bit, I feel a bit weak by the end of it.
00:43:38If you get too buggered, you've got no option but to go and do something else.
00:43:43Identity is a grief thing. If you change an identity from someone being a sharer to no longer being a sharer,
00:43:55there's a process of going through the grief of change and adapting to change.
00:43:59I went through quite a drama when I ended up being told by the orthopaedic surgeon that I couldn't carry on sharing and couldn't be a full time sharer.
00:44:09And I was like, that was all I knew. That's all I wanted to ever be.
00:44:12You know, and in the back of my head, you know, in my heart, it's probably all I ever still want to be, but you can't change, physical change.
00:44:21And when things like that happen, you just have to keep going and adjust.
00:44:25It's a big difference between being a black, single sharer to a white collar worker.
00:44:33When things aren't going right, I don't think there's any point in being a victim of circumstances.
00:44:38I think you just have to rise above and keep going and pushing through difficulties and troubles.
00:44:44Hey!
00:44:50Hey!
00:44:56Hey!
00:44:59Hey!
00:45:05Hey!
00:45:07Hey!
00:45:10Hey!
00:45:11Jack Drawiti Frost, Joseph Gordon, Steve Hakaraya,
00:45:40and Madison Bright come to the announcer's desk to get your singlets please.
00:46:10Competitors, set, go!
00:46:12This is the 2017 Golden Shears PGG Wrightson Junior Elimination Round.
00:46:19Get on with the job, get it done quickly and keep it nice and flat across the street.
00:46:24That's the aim of the game.
00:46:33I'm feeling a wee bit nervous. I'm feeling a bit dehydrated and sick and a bit of a spew.
00:46:40You know, you can see I have to share two sheep instead of one and I'm just hoping, hoping everything goes fine.
00:46:51Kind of holding the handpiece in my hand, the two hands, just like a bit nerve-wracking but I'm kind of just trying to be focused on,
00:47:01yep, it's a good, I'm going to get a good sheep and I'm going to share my sheep really well.
00:47:20I compete because I'm quite a competitive person. I've always been a really sporty person.
00:47:26And I just, yeah, like the competition and like to kind of better myself.
00:47:32To me it's a bit more challenging and enjoyable competing against men.
00:47:38I like to beat the boys, really.
00:47:41Tuck your singlet in please. Health and safety out.
00:47:46Require a couple of shoes to have your singlets tucked in.
00:47:49Competitors, set, go!
00:47:51So we're off again, another bunch of junior shearers, heat number two.
00:47:58Young Hazelwood, the young lady here on stand five, just putting those big undermine blows in.
00:48:03She actually shears a mob of cows. She's a full-time dairy farmer on Dad's farm.
00:48:08And then she goes out and shears between milkings.
00:48:10And she's actually quite, it's amazing we've got any sheep left in Northland, so she's actually found a few to shear.
00:48:15Pretty stoked at how I went. Everything kind of just worked in my favour.
00:48:21I thought the sheep were nice, the shear.
00:48:24The second one was a little bit kicky, but it wasn't too bad.
00:48:28Oh, Christy, she says, Hazel says, I'll pop the head out.
00:48:31This sheep's starting to move on me. She's a little bit tired.
00:48:34She wants to get out on the lawn for a bit of a nibble.
00:48:36It's only my first few years competing and so hopefully it will just keep getting better and better.
00:48:43A round of applause ladies and gentlemen, we'll have our next head onto the board.
00:48:48So the sheep comes down the porthole and the judges are looking for the faults that are left on the sheep.
00:48:56If there's any marks that show that the shearer has left wool on or grazed the sheep.
00:49:04And if you turn it round the other side, you can see that credit card lengths might be one point.
00:49:11And if it was the full size of the sheep, of that blow, then it would be maybe five points.
00:49:20So the credit card length is really one and the full is five.
00:49:22So what we're looking for is whether there's any marks on the sheep coming down the shoulder, up the legs and down the other side.
00:49:29And a small nick like that might just be carried into another point.
00:49:33So the judging is done on the basis of the number of faults on each sheep.
00:49:37And a good sheep might be round about five or six.
00:49:41And a bad sheep, something that's a little bit rougher, might be up round 12, 14.
00:49:45It's all right.
00:49:46The job was a bit high on the board, but then you took it off and you got a nice cart outside.
00:50:00So I had a look as I was going through.
00:50:02Yeah.
00:50:03So I came out of 46 competitors, I came 23rd.
00:50:18So I hit my goal of making the top half of the junior shearing.
00:50:24Yeah.
00:50:25And so I think they only took the 18.
00:50:29Yeah.
00:50:31So it was one or two points in it.
00:50:35Yeah.
00:50:36And what's on the menu pre-competition day?
00:50:41Um, a quick check over with you guys.
00:50:44Yeah.
00:50:45Physio, chiropractor, trying to stay as stress free as possible and just prepping for tomorrow.
00:50:49I've actually been getting so nervous I can't eat lately.
00:50:52Yeah.
00:50:53Just with the senior shearing.
00:50:56For me, I want to make every semi-final and sneak into the odd final.
00:51:01How's that feel?
00:51:04Yeah.
00:51:05That feels awesome.
00:51:06Feels all right?
00:51:07Yeah.
00:51:08You want to touch the ground for me?
00:51:10All good?
00:51:11Yep.
00:51:12Yep.
00:51:13Lean backwards.
00:51:14Fine.
00:51:15Yep.
00:51:16Good.
00:51:17Awesome.
00:51:18Just make sure you warm up properly and do your exercises.
00:51:22See you next week.
00:51:23See you next week.
00:51:24Good luck.
00:51:31I'll put a, um, I'll just set you up with a standard charger in because of all those
00:51:501-0 chargers.
00:51:51Yeah.
00:51:52I might have a bit of a blip with that if it's going all right.
00:51:56Me and Emily are sharing after lunch in the AIMPIN event.
00:51:58Uh, so this morning we'll just come out to this shed just, uh, shear a few sheep just
00:52:03to get rid of a, a few of the extra nerves that we might have.
00:52:07It's more about dealing with the animal and you shear a few sheep and then you sort of feel
00:52:13a bit more connected to them.
00:52:15You don't want to get up on stage and, and have like the first one kick out on you and
00:52:20then you get too nervous to sort of deal with it.
00:52:23So if you come out and shear a handful before you go up, then it sort of just gets rid of
00:52:27that edge.
00:52:28I'll leave it.
00:52:30Yeah.
00:52:31What's the end?
00:52:32You want to go on him?
00:52:33Let's put a video on this one.
00:52:34I don't know.
00:52:37Kick her in the guts.
00:52:38No regrets is the aim this year.
00:52:56What was the slogan I read on the way to the airport?
00:52:59Can't rise to low expectations.
00:53:00Can't rise to low expectations.
00:53:01Can't rise to low expectations.
00:53:03And I thought, yeah, that's true.
00:53:04You're going to have high expectations, be prepared for disappointment, but if you have
00:53:07low expectations, you're never going to rise.
00:53:09So I was like, okay, we'll make that our slogan for the weekend.
00:53:12What do you think?
00:53:25It's hard work.
00:53:26Hard work.
00:53:28There'll be nothing like these.
00:53:31My best result was when I was in the senior and I came second.
00:53:34So that was sort of the highest, you know, woman that achieved.
00:53:37So I haven't had great results in the open, but yeah, hopefully this year I can do a bit
00:53:41better.
00:53:42I've put a bit more training in, like I've been going to work in the morning and Sam's been
00:53:45doing the kids and then we swap at morning smoko or lunchtime.
00:53:48So I've had a lot more time on the handpiece.
00:53:50So it's been good.
00:53:56They take the top 30 and sometimes they take a hundred shearers down to 30.
00:54:00And I've been number 31 three times.
00:54:03I've been number 32 once and I'm kind of sick of being that place.
00:54:07So if it means coming here, shearing four or five sheep and then going in and then qualifying
00:54:1229th, then I'll be happy with that.
00:54:15That's what you do.
00:54:16Is even am I right.
00:54:17Am I ready to open the forebats?
00:54:21You're ready to go.
00:54:24You're ready to go.
00:54:25That's what you do, because you're really right.
00:54:30Am I ready to open the phone, guys?
00:54:32You are a carter, man. You're ready to go.
00:54:35And you see it! Come on!
00:54:38Just before I go up on stage, I'm actually so completely focused.
00:54:57I just want to get up there, and I can see where all my baskets are going.
00:55:02I know exactly where I'm going to walk and what I'm going to do before I get up there.
00:55:08All I will think about, really, is I'm going to get everything right this run,
00:55:15and I want to top qualify.
00:55:18And that just runs through my head for the first two or three sheep,
00:55:22and then it just becomes natural after that.
00:55:25Pagan Karauria here on table number two.
00:55:28She was Pagan Rimini.
00:55:30She got married this time last year, I think it was.
00:55:34Feeling good, actually. I'm confident everything I'm doing is right.
00:55:38I just need to tidy up a few things that I'm missing.
00:55:41But this is the fourth and final fleece, so these wool handlers, they'll be thinking about the clean-up.
00:55:46They know they've only got one minute, ten seconds, and time starts now.
00:55:50Here we go. Let's see what this young Anne-Marie Kahukura can do on table four.
00:55:54She's had lovely throws and another little beauty.
00:55:58Absolute honey.
00:55:59They're all there now, giving their tables a flick.
00:56:01There you go, the brews.
00:56:03Look at that.
00:56:05Pagan Karauria there from Alexander.
00:56:07Man, she was quick cleaning up there.
00:56:09I played a really good run in there, actually.
00:56:11I had a bit of blood and stuff on the last one, and I may have left a little bit in.
00:56:16But I still qualified for the quarter-finals in the morning.
00:56:23Heat 7, Tony Costa, Roland Smith, David Buick, Murray Henderson, Jacob Moore and Emily Welch.
00:56:31Oh, wait, no shot over the towel.
00:56:35Richard's on time up as well.
00:56:37Oh, they died.
00:56:38They're a bit nervous now, aren't they?
00:56:41Yeah.
00:56:42On stand six.
00:56:43No, it's not bad.
00:56:44It's not bad.
00:56:55Gavin Much, Richard Pearson, Rikihana Chase, Tama Nia Nia, Darren Ford,
00:57:00and Michael Fabish in Heat 8 up next.
00:57:07Ah, some of these boys, eh?
00:57:09Emily are gonna scorch some of these lads up.
00:57:12Unfortunately for guys, I think it is more about not wanting to be beaten by a girl.
00:57:15But I always tried to make sure I didn't make it girls versus guys,
00:57:19more just competitors versus competitors.
00:57:22Good to go, Willy.
00:57:25Okay, everybody's happy.
00:57:27Timekeeper's good.
00:57:28Competitors, set, go.
00:57:31Oh, we've got some big-name shearers once again.
00:57:36But this is another competition.
00:57:38You cannot rest on your laurels.
00:57:40The sheep will destroy you.
00:57:42They are wild animals.
00:57:45Undrugged, untamed, straight out of the truck, out of the bush, you name it.
00:57:49They're gonna let these shearers have it.
00:57:51As long as you mentally know that you can cope with failing, I think it's alright to be hopeful.
00:57:59But if you're hopeful with no idea of how to cope if it doesn't work out, that's when you'll have a problem.
00:58:04You go through the, like, if this doesn't work out, will I be alright? And you always will be alright.
00:58:10Emily Walsh around the back of the head and down towards that off shoulder.
00:58:14Turning away from the crowd to shear.
00:58:16The judge has got to peer around the corner a little bit.
00:58:19Emily was not expecting to do very well, so she just didn't want to come last.
00:58:26Oh, Emily goes in for number five. Roly goes in for number six.
00:58:31To be honest, I did alright. I was fitter this year and that. The sheep were hard going.
00:58:36She sort of hasn't been shearing for the last seven, eight years, so you can't really expect too much from that.
00:58:45You have to be doing it full time to do well.
00:58:47This wee girl on stand number one just pulls her head through right out onto the hind leg.
00:58:52Jacob Moore's got to do the same thing. Right out onto the hind leg for him.
00:58:57I enjoyed that. I've blasted the guy behind me.
00:59:00Jacob Moore and Emily Walsh up there turning for home together.
00:59:03Blow for blow these two as they drop down over the last front shoulder.
00:59:06I think he thought that he was going to beat me easily speed wise, but yeah, I was able to keep one for one with him.
00:59:12Yeah, which is always a bit of a nice battle when you hate.
00:59:17Emily Walsh will be reaching for the button. There it is.
00:59:20Jacob Moore, time clock stop. Well done, guys and girls.
00:59:33And Shannon Warnas, Terry Edmonds, Sam Walsh, Floyd Neal, Joe Zangas-Burney and John Kirkpatrick at nine.
00:59:45Everybody's happy. Green light. Time keepers good. Competitors, set, go.
00:59:52Into the band radio this time.
00:59:55Shearing's not just a case of brute strength and ignorance.
00:59:58You've got to move your feet, little steps.
01:00:00There's a ballerina in there. There's the footsteps.
01:00:02There's the hand work and then there's the hand eye coordination with that hand piece.
01:00:06Because, boy, if you hit yourself with that or hit the sheep, there's big holes.
01:00:10Now we move down. I think there might be three female shearers in this open class.
01:00:16And that's an old record holder, I should say. She's done a record.
01:00:20You know what? She's short sheep. She went away and she's a trained barrister now.
01:00:25So you wouldn't want to argue with her in the law.
01:00:27If she handled the criminals, she's handling that sheep.
01:00:30Got a shot of Sam Walsh. He's the husband of Emily, one of the women that show here
01:00:35and that current world record holder for lambs.
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01:04:23the rounds, you've really got to up the ante every time you get up.
01:04:26Okay, looks like we're good to go. Timekeeper's ready.
01:04:31Shirts, get set, go.
01:04:35This is a good hit too, Richard. All of these hits have been good hits.
01:04:39She's going to be hard work making that semi-final.
01:04:42Look at the throws there, folks out there.
01:04:45I'm actually thinking Iremia Niho. No, I believe the throw belongs to Pagan.
01:04:51You've got to be so controlled in your performance
01:04:55because everybody's at their best by the time they get to Masterland.
01:05:00You know, my father always told me,
01:05:02it doesn't matter if you scrape in on the last spot.
01:05:09And if you have to fight to the bitter end just to get over the line, then you do it.
01:05:17I was on the phone to my mother.
01:05:19She just wanted to know how I went and everything
01:05:21because she couldn't be here this morning.
01:05:23And I think she was all right. She watched the live stream.
01:05:27She enjoyed it. She did say my roles weren't very good.
01:05:30I think she's already caught in the close.
01:05:31She's really caught in the close.
01:05:32She's on the close.
01:05:58I was actually having treatment at about 6 o'clock this morning so I hopefully make the next round because I feel the best I've felt in years and I want to make the final tonight.
01:06:24There's a cracker up here from Pagan on stand one. This lady's not there just to make up the numbers. She poured her way through. There's an awful lot of good wool handlers. They haven't made this top eight and she's there for a reason.
01:06:36I want to be first or second all the time. Anyone does. I want to make sure I've done everything I can to get there.
01:06:43But here we go. One minute, ten seconds. Now is the fireworks, Richard.
01:06:47Pagan sent up a lot of time just organising that fleece before she put it on the table. Come on, you folks out there. You must be supporting this lady.
01:06:55Come on, a little bit of noise. Get them going. Come on, Ronnie. Come on, Cherie. Joel, what are you up to? Come on, let's see.
01:07:03Joel Hennari, he's done a ton of preparation. Here he goes. He's going to be the first to put his hand up.
01:07:09Ronnie Goss is right there as well. Who is it going to be? Is it Joel Hennari? He is happy.
01:07:14Cherie Alabaster, she's down there really working out. She's got a good sweater.
01:07:19She breathes a sigh, at least when she lifts her hand up. And Pagan's done it. There's your four. That's the second semifinal.
01:07:25What a great afternoon. Give it a little round of applause, folks.
01:07:38That was awesome. Been trying to make that final for ten years. It was crazy.
01:07:42It's one of the hardest finals I've ever had to try and make.
01:07:46And I remember standing there thinking that, you know, I might have a chance this year.
01:07:52It's a little bit tied up with family, too, in that, you know, because you always try to make the final so your grandparents can come down.
01:07:58I think I was so happy I made it that I couldn't stop crying, I think, for about an hour.
01:08:11It was bigger than normal as well because I was dealing with two things.
01:08:14I ticked two big goals off trying to make the Golden Chairs final.
01:08:19And then having someone I trained to make the Golden Chairs final was also a major goal of mine.
01:08:25But it happened all at once.
01:08:26So it was, it was quite a, at the moment it happened, it was all just a bit too much.
01:08:32I think the further along you go and the better you get, you start to get a feel for it.
01:09:02And after years, that competitive spirit, you, you've definitely got it.
01:09:09I love competition.
01:09:19I'm going to win.
01:09:20That's something that goes on in my head just before I go up.
01:09:23And even in the middle of a bad run, in my head, I'm having the worst run ever.
01:09:28And, and I'll be still singing the same tune in my head.
01:09:31Like, you know, you're going to win.
01:09:32You just have to pull through this part.
01:09:34That's the sort of stuff Dad drilled into me.
01:09:37Here comes Cherie.
01:09:52Cherie Alabaster, past world champion.
01:09:55She's been a champion here at Golden Chairs.
01:09:57She's experienced.
01:09:58Look at that serious look on her face.
01:10:00She's here to do business.
01:10:01But of course, Joel, Joel Henare, this is the in-form man right at this moment.
01:10:08He has won the last three Golden Chairs and he's the new reigning world champion.
01:10:13I think he looks sharp and a little bit cocky.
01:10:17That's, that's our job.
01:10:24And who have we brought on now?
01:10:38Pagan Karodia.
01:10:39Look at the beautiful big face on there.
01:10:41And look at this.
01:10:42She's going to die.
01:10:44Don't look at the crowd, Pagan.
01:10:45They'll put you off.
01:10:46And down there on table number four, we have Anne-Marie.
01:10:50Anne-Marie Kahukura.
01:10:53She's being mentored and trained by Pagan.
01:10:56So look at this.
01:10:57We have the master and the student.
01:11:01Doesn't come every day.
01:11:03Doesn't come every year.
01:11:04It doesn't come many times in a lifetime.
01:11:06Cherie, the six-two.
01:11:09Sorting it, getting it all lined up.
01:11:12They take a lot of expertise to land them flat on these tables.
01:11:15Here's Cherie.
01:11:17But it's a little beauty.
01:11:18Joe Hanarae.
01:11:19It's a little beauty.
01:11:21How are your two girls down there, Tumar?
01:11:23Oh, Anne-Marie.
01:11:24She's got a beauty.
01:11:25But Pagan Karodia, she's got a good throw as well.
01:11:29Feeling was sort of unreal at the first five minutes.
01:11:32You know, realised that everything you just put in had finally paid off.
01:11:38Ten years is a long time.
01:11:39He's still got the fleece on the table.
01:11:41All these wool handlers, they've got to run back to their sharer.
01:11:44They cannot forget about the sharer.
01:11:46We've got Anne-Marie Kahukura, the young gun.
01:11:49She's down here on table number four.
01:11:51Walking around.
01:11:52She's looking very, very comfortable up there.
01:11:54I didn't think I had a chance, really, to be honest.
01:11:58I was like, oh, well.
01:11:59Let's get up there and have some fun and look good.
01:12:02Come on, Anne-Marie.
01:12:03You can't afford to stand there and look pretty.
01:12:05You've got to get ugly.
01:12:06You've got to squint and you've got to stick your tongue out the side of your mouth
01:12:10and do what you need to do.
01:12:12Gerald, is this Joel Henare?
01:12:13He looks a bit flustered.
01:12:15Joel Henare is working hard.
01:12:18These are all the best of the best, the best in the world.
01:12:20We've got world champions up there at the moment.
01:12:23Here we go.
01:12:24Another fleece.
01:12:25Where does it go from here, Tuma?
01:12:26Where are all these fleeces going?
01:12:28They're going past you, mate.
01:12:29Someone's stealing them out the back.
01:12:31Shakedown is on its way, Tuma.
01:12:32Here we go.
01:12:34Here we go, ladies and gentlemen.
01:12:35Get in behind your favourite wall of the hill handler.
01:12:38Shakedown.
01:12:39Booyah.
01:12:40We've got Pagan Koronia.
01:12:41Give it up for Pagan Koronia.
01:12:43She's chasing this title.
01:12:45She wants the world with the world golden shares.
01:12:48Open wall handling.
01:12:49Here she goes.
01:12:50Shakedown going on.
01:12:51First with the brilliant hand.
01:12:54We're probably getting close to the 30 seconds, Gio.
01:12:56There you go, Pagan Koronia.
01:12:58She's the first one finished, ladies and gentlemen.
01:13:01And we've got Anne-Marie Kahukura crawling to her baskets.
01:13:06There she goes.
01:13:07Well done, all handlers.
01:13:11Pagan, I tell you what, you're looking pretty sharp out there.
01:13:13And you had your little protégé, Anne-Marie, beside you.
01:13:17That must have been a great feeling for you.
01:13:20It was awesome.
01:13:21Yeah.
01:13:21Being next to Pagan was my favourite thing.
01:13:24Yeah.
01:13:25It was pretty cool for us to make it through there together.
01:13:28Quite proud of her, really, because I know her background and where she came from.
01:13:31All my family that came out tonight to support me, I just want to say thank you.
01:13:39Well done, Pagan Koronia.
01:13:40I've taken some major goals off in the last 12 months.
01:13:48And it's all starting to happen, you know, quite quickly.
01:13:53At one point in your life, you think, this is taking too long.
01:13:58You just want to give up.
01:13:59But I sort of carried on and carried on.
01:14:03And then it's just starting to tidy itself up now.
01:14:06So it's getting easier.
01:14:11To be honest, right now I still feel like a million dollars.
01:14:15I don't feel any pain or nothing anywhere.
01:14:17My body feels free.
01:14:18I actually, when I got back, you know, I pulled out my ribbing, had a little wee, like, you know.
01:14:23It was still awesome.
01:14:25Yeah, I feel pretty good.
01:14:32And then Joel won.
01:14:34You know, everything about his performances was really elegant.
01:14:38It was just so placed and so composed.
01:14:40So he should have won.
01:14:44Pretty cool, eh?
01:14:47These are better than prize money.
01:14:49Because if you don't get a ribbon, like, 10 years down the track, you can't even remember winning them.
01:14:52There's a few shows I've won with no ribbons.
01:14:55I'd rather a ribbon than prize money.
01:14:57Oh, yeah.
01:14:58Hey.
01:14:58This is the goal.
01:15:00Get a ribbon, no matter what color.
01:15:04It'll be red next year.
01:15:05Yeah.
01:15:09Mine might be blue.
01:15:11I'll be red.
01:15:14What's red?
01:15:15Winning.
01:15:15You know, I hated writing goals in school.
01:15:38I used to think it was the stupidest thing when they tell you to write goals.
01:15:41And then now my life has been one of those lives that has actually been really goal-driven.
01:15:45Would you do another equal?
01:15:46If the opportunity came, it'd be really hard to say no.
01:15:58Dad's giving up, finally giving up the dairy cows, so I don't have to milk.
01:16:03So I feel a bit relieved about that.
01:16:07And I think I can kind of start focusing a bit more on sharing.
01:16:31Probably show the best stuff.
01:16:33Probably ever show in that final, I think, from all the shows that I've done, which is a good feeling.
01:16:52People around me thought that I was just obsessed with sharing.
01:16:55And, you know, 40 years later, I still am.
01:17:03I've got a little nudge bar on the front of it, but still saving up for a big bull bar.
01:17:23I've got a little nudge bar on the front of it, but I haven't had to hit anything with it yet.
01:17:28I've got a little nudge bar on the front of it, but yet...
01:17:29I've got a little nudge bar on the front of it, but yet...
01:17:35I really love my ute.
01:17:36Get up!
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01:17:42Come on!
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01:17:45Come on!
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01:17:54I've been high, and I've been low
01:18:12Around the globe, fancy, finding you here
01:18:18I strain to recall just what came before
01:18:23This beautiful thing that has just taken over
01:18:29And I won't let you down, I just want to make you proud of me
01:18:34I won't let you down, no, it's the small stuff when you're around
01:18:39I just want to make you proud of me, I won't let you down
01:18:44Now when I wake, you fold your arms around me
01:18:52Lying here, I think that I could drown in the morning
01:18:58I can see your eyes, but this is so pure
01:19:03We don't need to fill that space with conversation
01:19:08And I won't let you down, I just want to make you proud of me
01:19:14I won't let you down, no, it's the small stuff when you're around
01:19:18I just want to make you proud of me, I won't let you down
01:19:23I won't let you down, no, it's the small stuff when you're around me
01:19:29I won't let you down, no, it's the small stuff when you're around me
01:19:32I won't let you down, no, it's the small stuff when you're around me
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