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00:00Hello and welcome along to Invicta Sport. Of course, as always, the only show on your
00:22TV dedicated to wrapping up all of Kent's sporting action. Whether it's the League
00:272 Gilles or the Isthmian Premier Ramsgate, I should say. I'm Finn McDermott and here is
00:34what you can expect on this Monday 8th December.
00:40From Buckmore to the best, we hear how Lando Norris raced on Kent tracks before winning
00:44the World Championship. Unsung hero, Canterbury squash player, wins a national award for efforts
00:53to help the niche sport. And one rep at a time. Anxiety-friendly gym set to triple in size
01:02as demand grows.
01:07But first off in Formula One news, Bristol-born Lando Norris has won his first F1 Championship
01:13with the final race of the season taking place in Abu Dhabi.
01:18The 26-year-old Briton finished a mere two points ahead of Max Verstappen, breaking his
01:23four-year reign as champion. Norris has also plied his trade as a young carter at Kent tracks
01:28like Buckmore Park and Brands Hatch. Despite coming third in the lone race, Lando Norris
01:34amassed enough points to secure his very first championship. He admitted to unexpectedly crying
01:40during the slowdown lap upon receiving congratulations from his team, thanking them and his family
01:45sorry for helping fulfill his lifetime ambition. We can hear more from the managing director
01:52at Buckmore Park all about what it means to really bring that youth into the side.
01:57Absolutely fantastic. You know, it's one of those moments where obviously you go into the
02:02race thinking, you know, this could happen now, you know, another Brit becoming world champion.
02:08Obviously, with any race, anything can happen right up until the end. So, you know, you're
02:14never sure, but fantastic result at the end of the day. In terms of juniors coming into the
02:21sport or people, you know, really looking to get into F1, it's not just Lando, you know,
02:28there's been other people that have come through more recently, even people like Ollie Bearman,
02:33you know, newest rookie into it, came through with us. But in the past, it's been all about
02:38those personalities and the Brit drivers that have, you know, really kind of fuelled motorsport,
02:45if you excuse the pun, in this country.
02:49And now to some rugby news where Gravesend made it four wins in a row with a dominant 52-19 victory
02:55over bottom place Old Rygatian in the regional to southeast.
02:59Josh Barnes opened the scoring inside the first minute and further tries, including a penalty
03:05try, plus more efforts from Sims, Hopes and Barnes again, secured a bonus point by halftime
03:10at 31-7. Old Rygatian fought back after the break, but Gravesend regained control through
03:16Les Falafatu and a flowing team move finished by player of the match Josh McKenzie. Ben Stelfox
03:22added the final try converted by Barnes to wrap up the win. Gravesend now fifth, visit seventh
03:27place Old Colfanians on Saturday.
03:30Now to cricket. Seam bowler Matt Quinn has managed to secure his spot in Kent's County
03:35Cricket Club for another two years, despite previously suffering hamstrings, lower limb
03:39and back injuries. Now this news might come as a shock to cricket fans as the 30-year-old
03:45former Essex player had unfortunately missed an entire year of play within his previous Kent
03:50contract. Hopes are high though for the players. He once held membership with the Spitfires,
03:54who won the 2021 T20 Vitality Blast, as well as the One Day Cup the year after.
04:00Quinn himself says, Kent is now my home and it was an easy decision for me to remain a
04:04part of this exciting project. Now to football. Gillingham manager Gareth
04:08Ironsworth has said he's enjoyed his return to the pitch with a 0-0 draw at Colchester,
04:14marking his second game back. The manager recently underwent open heart surgery, which caused him
04:19to miss six of his team's games while he recovered. Back at it, Ironsworth has spent his past couple
04:24of matches on the sidelines rather than the stands, but it took to the pitch to have a rather
04:28heated exchange with Colchester manager Danny Cowley, as you can see there. Ironsworth noted
04:33the game as full-blooded, despite feeling he lost his voice previously. He celebrated his return to
04:37football, noting, I've got my mojo back a little bit as well. And it was a goalless draw,
04:42as you heard there, for Ainsworth's side at Colchester at the weekend. And I was joined
04:48earlier by our student journalist, Tom Fullegar, to tell me more about the details of the match.
04:53Well, thanks for joining us, Tom. A 0-0 draw at Colchester. Tell us about the line-up. Was
04:58this something you could sort of see coming? Tell us about it. Well, yeah, we had a lot of injuries.
05:03Both the Smiths out, Johnny and Andy, Vokes, Andrews, Serenio, all gone. So, you know,
05:09it was going to be hard to pick a side. We had two academy players on the bench, which was really
05:14nice to see. But the biggest surprise was that Gale filled in at left-back and Clark was relegated
05:20to the bench, which I thought was surprising, but Gale did really well. Absolutely. And yeah,
05:25that's a growing injury list, I'm hearing. Tell us a bit about that. Who is making this list?
05:30Well, the fans are left a bit in the dark, I think. We find out about injuries when the line-up
05:36comes out. We don't really know how they happen. People like Ewan Williams have been
05:40out, what seems like, forever now. It's great that Little's come back, but we're just struggling,
05:46especially up front. You know, Seb's Palmer Holdens are only then starting striking Nebbitt
05:51coming on. But that's it. I mean, that's bad. Tell me, there was a moment during the game
05:56where a former Gilles Academy player actually prevented what could have been the deciding
06:00goal. Tell us about that moment. Yeah, so Roe had a shot that was blocked off the line by
06:04Jack Tucker. It was a really good chance, probably our best chance of the game. But
06:08Jack Tucker had a lot good to say about Gilles in the media before the game. But yeah, why
06:13did you have to stop? Yeah, that is a heartbreaking one there, but understandable, obviously.
06:18You mentioned chances there. Dak, after the game, said that he very much had some big chances
06:24that he feels he should have scored. Tell us a bit about those chances. Yeah, so Dak had
06:28one that come in from a long throw-in. He was able to get a good shot through quite a lot
06:32of bodies, and that was unfortunate. And he also had a really good one where a pass was
06:38coming in, and he sort of looked like he lost it at first, but he got it. He slid in, controlled
06:43it, and then managed to get a shot away, which just wasn't powerful enough to trouble the
06:46keeper. So it's just unfortunate, but he played really well.
06:50Now we're going to hear from a Canterbury squash player who's won a national award. Take a listen
06:55to this chat. Well, thank you so much for joining us, Joe. And first of all, where did your love
07:00of squash really start? I'll say probably when I started university,
07:06because I went to the University of Kent in Canterbury. I hadn't really heard of squash
07:11that much. I mean, I played a couple of times when I was in boarding school in Malaysia. But
07:18it was only really, I started playing at university just for fun. And then I realised that it was
07:24actually quite a fun game. And then eventually when I graduated, I joined Canterbury squash
07:28club and it kind of sort of went from there.
07:30Tell us a bit about the journey then from playing in university to now where you've won
07:35the Unsung Hero Award at the England squash awards. Tell us a bit about that whole journey
07:41for you.
07:42I think it probably started, I played in a greater tournament, Wimbledon. And at the
07:48time, it was like the only one in the whole country. And I was quite shocked there weren't
07:53any other events. So I sort of had a go at running a few at Canterbury squash club, did
08:01a few here and there, nothing too serious. And then it was only really 2014, we had our 50th
08:08anniversary and I sort of decided to try and run a few more because other players from
08:11other clubs were keen to play in them. And then it kind of got to the point where other
08:16players from other clubs approached their own club saying, can we get him to come and run
08:21one at our club? So I did a few here and there just to sort of help them out. And then I had
08:26more and more requests and more and more players and it kind of snowballed into this sort of full
08:31on circuit. And then COVID hit, COVID lifted and the demands just skyrocketed. And it's
08:37kind of gone to the point where we've pretty much got something going on every weekend now.
08:42And then England squash, to my surprise, told me that I'd been nominated and won this award
08:48for Unsung Hero.
08:49You mentioned a little bit earlier, a graded tournament. For anyone who doesn't know,
08:52what's the difference between a graded tournament and your normal tournament?
08:56Well, with a normal tournament, you've got one big draw, a bit like the Wimbledon tennis,
09:02where you've got everyone in one big draw. And then it's obviously last man standing
09:05as the winner. Whereas with the graded tournaments, you've got players of different abilities.
09:10And what we try and do is we have several categories, usually four or five categories
09:15of players of similar abilities. So you'll have top end players sort of county level playing
09:20in the A grade and you've got beginners playing in the E grade. So the idea is you're always
09:27in a category of people with similar standards. So you'll get a decent game and you won't lose
09:31really easily. You won't win really easily. So it just makes it a little bit more enjoyable.
09:36Tell us about the kind of demand that was there for that. You mentioned that you had done a graded
09:40tournament before and there just wasn't that sort of thing in Kent. So tell us a bit about
09:44that response. How much was this needed?
09:46To be honest, initially I kind of did one because I just wanted one in Canterbury because I just enjoyed
09:56the Wimbledon event so much. So I didn't actually think too much about whether there's going to be
10:01demand for it or not. And then quite a few people sort of liked the idea. We sort of did a few more
10:07and then it got to the point where players from other clubs then decided to want one. And I then
10:11realised there's actually quite a big demand. And because there wasn't really anything going on,
10:16I thought, well, I'll get a few started and hopefully others will take this on board.
10:19And it never sort of really happened to probably only in the last two or three years. We've got a
10:25handful of people now running events similar to what I've been doing, like up north and in the
10:31Midlands and in the southwest. So I think some people have kind of then seen or been hopefully
10:37been inspired by what we've done and started doing their own thing. And it's actually going really
10:41well for them as well, which I'm very pleased about. Brilliant. And I'm also curious, do you think that
10:46really creates an environment that's a lot easier for beginners or more inexperienced players to be
10:52able to come in and still be able to play in a competitive tournament? Oh, yes, 100%. So one of
10:58the things that I found is the most common thing people would say is I'm not good enough for a
11:03tournament. And what used to happen is, unless you were a team player or good enough to play for the
11:09team in your club, you would never really venture outside of your club. So you play against other
11:14clubs, home and away fixtures. But if you weren't good enough playing a team, there was really nothing
11:19for you to do other than maybe the internal box leagues at your club. So the idea was to give
11:24players of all standards the experience to be able to travel to clubs, play in these events,
11:28play people similar standard. But you could literally be any standard. It didn't matter if
11:33you were a beginner or if you were a county level player. And we found the lower grades, the D&E,
11:38they were very, very popular and they still are to this day. Because players just like the fact that they can
11:44meet new people, they go to other clubs, they enjoy themselves. And as I say, they don't,
11:49that sort of stigma of I'm not good enough for a tournament, you know, at the end of the day,
11:52everyone is good enough for a tournament as long as you're in the right category.
11:57Well, it is now half time. So I'll see you in a few minutes for the rest of the show.
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15:39I've got a gym membership, put it like that.
15:41For many people, going to the gym can be easier said than done.
15:44I think it's a crazy situation that you go to a gym and you're kind of stressed.
15:48The only thing that could be easier is when you can't always get on the equipment you need.
15:53A lot of people, maybe there's a barrier in your head rather than actually in the gym.
15:57And if you go and you show up and you get busy, then I think they're much less intimidating when you first think.
16:06At this gym, they want to make it easier for people to get fit.
16:09Mind and Muscle Gym in Folkestone opened two years ago after owner Steve Brenner decided he wanted to create a safe space for people who may feel intimidated by the normal commercial gyms.
16:19Geared towards health and wellness, the gym, just off Folkestone's seafront, has seen such demand that it'll soon be expanding into the building next door, tripling in size.
16:28Most people, especially starting out, haven't got a clue what they're doing.
16:32So they're going into a gym, seeing all this equipment, they haven't got a clue how it works, how to set it up.
16:36And by coming here, because we're a small member base and it's relatively empty all the time, we've always got staff on board.
16:43So we're here to do inductions, do PT sessions and just to help people in general figure out the machines.
16:49We've got a great app as well where we give all of our members a basic training plan to follow from start, so they're not coming in sort of trying to figure out what they're supposed to be doing.
16:59There's always something there for them to follow.
17:01Most gyms the size of the new building offer over a thousand memberships.
17:04But here, Steve says keeping numbers down to 250 is paramount to keep the values of the business.
17:10So the area we're in at the moment is going to be the upstairs gym area.
17:15It's going to be predominantly resistance machines.
17:17As you can see, we've already had big delivery over in the corner.
17:20This is our downstairs area, which is going to be more resistance machines, more plate loaded equipment.
17:26Steve says he hopes the new space will remain a judgment-free zone for local people wanting to get fit.
17:33I mean, going from my own sort of story, if you like, I was very overweight and very unhealthy, as I mentioned.
17:40It completely changed my life.
17:43And being able to do that for other people, as far as job satisfaction, it's fantastic.
17:49Getting more people moving can never be a bad thing.
17:51So let's hope the expansion here helps others take that first rep towards self-improvement.
17:56Chloe Brewster for KMTV in Folkestone.
18:00Now it's time to remind you you can keep up to date with all the latest sports news, interviews and features from here on Invicta Sport
18:06by heading to our website kmtv.co.uk and clicking on the Sports tab.
18:11There, you'll see videos like this one.
18:14In the small village of Barham, near Canterbury, is a class teaching Tai Chi,
18:18a Chinese martial art practised around the world.
18:22Although it has its roots in combat, in the modern day,
18:24it's mostly used as a form of exercise, with slow, low-impact movements to help people with their health.
18:30It's often called meditation in motion.
18:32It gives them a balance, helps with their mobility,
18:38helps to, helps them to do movements they're not used to,
18:43so it helps to stimulate your neuropathways, if you know what neuropathways are.
18:49If you don't, it's the connection between your brain and your body.
18:55And it helps to prevent things like Alzheimer's and things like that.
19:00Overall health and relaxation.
19:03Now, Barry's been showing me and the class some Tai Chi.
19:07I've never really done it before, but he's shown me this move,
19:09where you put your Lao Gong, basically the palm of your hand,
19:12onto your Yun Men, or this area around your collarbone.
19:15It's called a lung point as well.
19:17All to strengthen your lungs ahead of the autumn, where you might get colds or flu.
19:21Now, Barry's been running the group for about ten years,
19:23and his students tend to be between the ages of 70 and 80.
19:27And they say that Tai Chi helps with their movement, their joints,
19:30and provides a nice social group that they can come back to every week.
19:34It empties my mind.
19:36I always feel good afterwards.
19:39He puts it on the video.
19:40You can go home and follow it at home.
19:43And I just find it really useful.
19:47I feel much better after a session.
19:49I feel that I've been exercising my body,
19:51especially balance, because I think balance is very important.
19:56Especially as you get older, our balance can go a bit.
19:59I find it very, very helpful.
20:03And apart from the sociability of it all,
20:07with a group, you seem to concentrate more on what you're doing.
20:11Naturally, I had to have a go myself.
20:13And it did feel quite good, quite calming, like a meditation,
20:16although my balance might need work.
20:18There was also a lot of emphasis on natural movements,
20:21like making sure we aren't moving our arms on their own,
20:23but instead using the whole body for motion,
20:26starting with our hips and shoulders.
20:29Now, while it was a good stretch, I think I'd need to come back a few more times
20:32before I could look like I had any idea what I was doing.
20:35Finn McDermid for KMTV in Barham.
20:37Now, a woman from Kent has been on quite the adventure for charity.
20:46She's helped to raise over £800,000 for Copperfield, a breast cancer awareness charity.
20:51Camila Seaton travelled with a large group of people through the Sahara Desert in what she's called
20:55an amazing experience.
20:57We spoke to her before the trek, and now, after its completion, she joins us again to tell us all about it.
21:03So, tell us a bit about the reasons behind doing this.
21:07The reason was to raise awareness for breast cancer in young adults.
21:11So, that's what Copperfield's mission is,
21:14is to be able to ensure the fact that it goes out to universities, to schools,
21:19because there's a very large percentage of people who are on that trek who are under the age of 35.
21:24So, it's trying to make it the norm, check your chest to be able to get out there,
21:28create the awareness, and it saves lives.
21:31Absolutely. And I'm also quite curious,
21:34was there any specific reason you chose the Sahara of all the places?
21:37Um, Copperfield do two treks a year, and I'd actually applied for three consecutive years,
21:43but didn't get in, but got in last year. They did one in the Isle of Skye and one in Sahara.
21:48So, that's the one that I decided to join.
21:51I didn't realise you applied for three consecutive. Have you done any kind of long-distance trekking before?
21:57Yeah, I did a jungle trek in Borneo in 2017. So, that was to raise money as well for cancer.
22:05Amazing. How do you train for that kind of thing? I don't know the exact distance,
22:08but from here to the Sahara, how do you train for that?
22:11Um, a lot of trekking, a lot of walking. Yeah, so I worked it out that actually on my
22:18app that I'd done over 200,000 steps. But it's literally, I'd be walking most days,
22:2410k, and then at weekends, I'd be doing two back-to-back 20ks. So, it's just over nine months of
22:31continuous walking.
22:32I see. And tell us a bit about why it's so important to you, personally, that you did this.
22:37Um, I've been widowed twice through cancer, and I opened my clinic 25 years ago,
22:43poignantly enough, on the 8th of November, which is the day I went on the trek.
22:47And that was where I was doing the nipple and areola tattooing for breast cancer,
22:52people who've gone through breast cancer and mastectomies.
22:54So, it's something that I've always worked with charities, with cancer charities,
22:57and Copperfield was one of the ones that, um, that I was interested in joining.
23:02Fair enough. This is going to be a bit of a strange question. Imagine
23:05that you were sitting here right before doing it. What would you have said to me about
23:09the experience ahead of time?
23:10Everybody said to me I was crazy. But, um, it's something that I will always do.
23:17I love a challenge. It's just, um, yeah, raising awareness, raising money,
23:22and just going out there was just incredible.
23:24And we can see a picture of you there. Is this you at the finish line?
23:27Uh, no, that was me on the second day. Uh, that one there that's actually about to show
23:32as I decided that I'd roll down in, uh, being a child that I wanted to roll down one of the sand dunes.
23:37Oh, brilliant. And tell me, what was the feeling like when you did reach that end point?
23:44Just, words can't describe it. It was incredible when we all came through at the same time.
23:50Um, just how did we all manage to do it? I don't know, but it was, as a team, just incredible.
23:56Amazing. And, uh, obviously a huge accomplishment. But tell me as well about the accomplishment of how
24:01much money you raised. I'm aware it's quite a lot.
24:03Yeah. So I think it's about a hundred, uh, 857,000 and we're still raising it.
24:08Their target was 600,000. So we smashed the target. Um, they didn't expect us to be able
24:13to get that amount, but, uh, yeah, and we're, and we're still raising it.
24:16So it's the largest amount that they've actually, uh, ever raised on any trek.
24:20Wow. And can, can people still donate?
24:22Yes, they can. They can go on my JustGiving page or they can go on the Copperfield Trek page.
24:25Amazing. Amazing. Now, how many people were with you on the trek?
24:30Um, 120 trekkers. Wow. So was it always sort of like you stuck with the people you know,
24:36or was it just like you're with random people every day? What was it like being in a sort
24:40of group that big? Well, we divided into four teams. So my team, there was 31 people, which
24:45was headed by, um, Ashley James. Uh, she was our team captain. She kept the glue together with all
24:51of us. Um, and yeah, we'd all 30 of us be walking together. We were making sure the fact that we
24:56were actually as a team, rather than going forward or behind. Um, but just walking throughout the group
25:02and just talking to everybody, listening to their experiences. That is amazing. I'm sure there were
25:06lots of personal stories there about why they were there and what they were doing. Can you share any
25:10highlights of yours from that? Um, the personal story was for me is because I've been wedded twice and
25:15that I've worked with the cancer clients for the last 25 years. Um, I'd say a good 80% of the people
25:23who were actually in my team have gone through breast cancer themselves. Um, there was three
25:27wonderful guys there as well, who's, uh, either their wives or the mum, um, was going through, uh,
25:32breast cancer. So lots of different stories, but it was, uh, we were all there for one reason.
25:38Absolutely. And why is it so important to raise that awareness of breast cancer? I'm sure many people
25:44out there might not realise that breast cancer can affect men as well. Tell us. Absolutely.
25:48Yes, absolutely. Um, as the, one of the people who was actually on the trek, uh, with me,
25:54she'd actually lost her husband to breast cancer. Um, but also there was a percentage of people,
26:00let's say under the age of 35. So it's trying to make it the norm to get people to understand that
26:06you need to be checking your chest. That's one of the, uh, sort of hashtags that, uh, Copperfield have,
26:11that it can affect people at all ages. And if anyone's out there watching, we haven't got much
26:16time. What would you say to them if they're sort of on the edge of thinking about doing something
26:20like this for a good cause? Go for it. Brilliant. Go for it. Brilliant. Well, thank you so much for
26:25joining us. Thank you. Really appreciate your time. Thank you very much. And that is full time on
26:30today's episode of Invicta Sport. If you want more from KMTV, you can head over to our website,
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