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Jonny Wilkinson... Makes space for himself. | 0:00:15 | 0:00:17 | |
Good pass out of the tackle. | 0:00:18 | 0:00:20 | |
My name is Jonny Wilkinson. I'm a professional rugby player. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:33 | |
I've represented my country, represented Newcastle Falcons, represented the British Lions. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:39 | |
Wilkinson... Drop goal. Between the posts! | 0:00:39 | 0:00:43 | |
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Living and playing in France for me has been an amazing experience. | 0:00:51 | 0:00:55 | |
It's a different, unique style of playing. | 0:00:55 | 0:00:58 | |
In Toulon, we have great atmosphere amongst the supporters. A great passion for the game. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:02 | |
Coming here has been incredible in terms of the rejuvenating effect it's had on my career. | 0:01:20 | 0:01:24 | |
Injuries seem to have fallen to the backburner. | 0:01:24 | 0:01:26 | |
I'm able to get out there and do what I love doing. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:29 | |
What it's done, coming here to France, has relaxed me. | 0:01:29 | 0:01:32 | |
You need to be prepared to take hits, you need to be able to make hits. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:03 | |
You need to be able to move fast, change direction. | 0:02:03 | 0:02:06 | |
We're training weights, we're doing fitness, we're doing skills, we're doing team sessions. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:10 | |
We have a little expression, you try to train as you wish to play. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:13 | |
People get carried away by the idea that practice makes perfect, when in fact it doesn't. | 0:02:15 | 0:02:19 | |
I think perfect practice makes for getting towards perfect. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:24 | |
I'm Carl Hayman from New Zealand. I play rugby. | 0:02:45 | 0:02:49 | |
I played for the All Blacks from 2001 to 2007. | 0:02:49 | 0:02:53 | |
Now I live in Toulon in France. | 0:02:53 | 0:02:56 | |
HE SPEAKS IN FRENCH | 0:02:56 | 0:03:00 | |
Here, in the team we'll train in French. So all the meetings and everything is done in French. | 0:03:00 | 0:03:04 | |
The onus is on the player to get up to speed very quickly. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:07 | |
Communicating with the other players when you first arrive is difficult. | 0:03:07 | 0:03:11 | |
Just learning the rugby vocab was the first thing to really learn. | 0:03:11 | 0:03:16 | |
The club provide us with two lessons a week, which is really good. | 0:03:31 | 0:03:36 | |
And then the rest of it really just learning from getting out there | 0:03:36 | 0:03:38 | |
and giving it a go, meeting a lot of French people. | 0:03:38 | 0:03:41 | |
I learnt my French at school initially. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:44 | |
Coming here and using that experience in the French environment, | 0:03:44 | 0:03:48 | |
where you're forced to speak it every day, and you're forced to understand and you're forced to get by, | 0:03:48 | 0:03:53 | |
really helped me bring it all together. | 0:03:53 | 0:03:56 | |
If you want to really get to know people, | 0:03:56 | 0:03:59 | |
really enjoy the true experience of being in a foreign country | 0:03:59 | 0:04:01 | |
and working abroad, you have to be able to converse in that language. | 0:04:01 | 0:04:06 | |
It's imperative, especially in rugby, that you get to know your teammates | 0:04:06 | 0:04:09 | |
and you get to understand what they're saying. | 0:04:09 | 0:04:11 | |
I kind of fall more in love with the French language as the days go by. | 0:04:11 | 0:04:15 | |
It becomes something natural to you, being able to move around the tenses, | 0:04:15 | 0:04:19 | |
being able to go from past to future and to conditional, without having to even consider it. | 0:04:19 | 0:04:25 | |
When it comes to supporting, I'll always support England. | 0:04:25 | 0:04:28 | |
But I will always respect France and their players | 0:04:28 | 0:04:30 | |
and know what an incredible experience it's been for me here | 0:04:30 | 0:04:34 | |
and how much I appreciate France and this area in particular for what it's given me. | 0:04:34 | 0:04:38 | |
Hola. Bienvenidos a esta edicion especial de Partido del Dia. | 0:04:45 | 0:04:50 | |
Well, I learnt Spanish when I went to Barcelona. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:53 | |
I went there in 1986 and lived there for three years. | 0:04:53 | 0:04:57 | |
I figured it might be beneficial if I could learn the language. | 0:04:57 | 0:05:00 | |
I went to school about three times a week for approximately two years. | 0:05:00 | 0:05:04 | |
It's very useful to be able to speak another language, | 0:05:27 | 0:05:30 | |
especially one like Spanish which is spoken in so many parts of the world. | 0:05:30 | 0:05:34 | |
All of South America, parts of North America as well. | 0:05:34 | 0:05:38 | |
And of course Spain in Europe. | 0:05:38 | 0:05:40 | |
There are occasions when it's been more than useful, particularly when I lived there. | 0:05:40 | 0:05:44 | |
I thought it was vital. It helped me settle into life in Barcelona. | 0:05:48 | 0:05:51 | |
It helped me integrate myself with my teammates. | 0:05:51 | 0:05:54 | |
It was absolutely essential. | 0:05:54 | 0:05:57 | |
I can't remember when I first spoke Spanish in a press conference, | 0:05:57 | 0:06:01 | |
but I had a go pretty much early on to try to do something. | 0:06:01 | 0:06:04 | |
I thought the fans and media might appreciate it, even though it probably didn't go that well. | 0:06:04 | 0:06:10 | |
I was a bit nervous about it as well, for sure. | 0:06:10 | 0:06:12 | |
But, you know, have a go. People will respect that. | 0:06:12 | 0:06:15 | |
I would always encourage someone to try and learn a language. | 0:06:38 | 0:06:42 | |
I think it is a great thing to have, and it's worth making the effort. | 0:06:42 | 0:06:46 | |
Para! Para! Para! | 0:06:46 | 0:06:50 | |
Miguele! | 0:06:50 | 0:06:52 | |
Hey, Moratalia, bien. Perfecto. | 0:06:53 | 0:06:57 | |
There's lots of Spanish football phrases. | 0:06:57 | 0:06:59 | |
It's 20 odd years since I was there, so I'm trying to remember them. | 0:06:59 | 0:07:03 | |
I used to try and translate the ones that we use, like | 0:07:03 | 0:07:07 | |
estoy enfermo como un loro, which is sick as a parrot. | 0:07:07 | 0:07:10 | |
Or estoy encima de la luna, which is over the moon, | 0:07:10 | 0:07:14 | |
which are football cliches in our country. They didn't quite get them over there though. | 0:07:14 | 0:07:19 | |
We are here today at the unveiling of our new car, the VJM05. | 0:07:31 | 0:07:35 | |
It's been more than half a year from the first drawing of the car, developing it. | 0:07:38 | 0:07:43 | |
It's the start of a journey. | 0:07:43 | 0:07:45 | |
I'm Nico Hulkenberg, Formula One driver for Sahara Force India. | 0:07:54 | 0:07:58 | |
There are only 24 of us in the world who drive these cars, | 0:07:58 | 0:08:01 | |
so I think by itself is pretty exciting and a big privilege. | 0:08:01 | 0:08:05 | |
In this job if you don't have a feel for a car, | 0:08:08 | 0:08:10 | |
and for where to brake, what to do, how to turn in, | 0:08:10 | 0:08:14 | |
then it's going to be pretty difficult to take the job. | 0:08:14 | 0:08:17 | |
I am Otmar Szafnauer, technischer chef von Force India. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:23 | |
I'm Otmar Szafnauer, I'm the chief operating officer of the Force India Formula One team. | 0:08:23 | 0:08:28 | |
The quick drivers drive almost subconsciously. | 0:08:28 | 0:08:32 | |
They need the mental capacity to be able to do more than just drive the car quickly. | 0:08:32 | 0:08:36 | |
The main focus is on disziplin, discipline. | 0:08:36 | 0:08:42 | |
You've got to be disciplined and harsh to yourself in this job. | 0:08:42 | 0:08:45 | |
And always leidenschaftlich, passionate. | 0:08:45 | 0:08:49 | |
If you do something you should give your everything and throw your whole heart into it. | 0:08:49 | 0:08:53 | |
At the start of the race, obviously, that's the most exciting point. | 0:08:55 | 0:09:00 | |
The heartbeat goes up, the excitement. | 0:09:00 | 0:09:02 | |
You're just about to start. and the 24 cars launching. | 0:09:02 | 0:09:06 | |
It can be very tricky and tight. You need to find the right spots to gain some places. | 0:09:12 | 0:09:16 | |
In German we say: | 0:09:16 | 0:09:19 | |
That basically means we're focusing, we're in the zone. | 0:09:20 | 0:09:24 | |
Every driver has his own rhythm before the race, a warm-up thing. | 0:09:24 | 0:09:27 | |
Then he sits down in a corner and goes through a strategy for the race. | 0:09:27 | 0:09:31 | |
And getting really focused into the tunnel. | 0:09:31 | 0:09:33 | |
RADIO: We just need one or two tenths faster to be safe. | 0:09:44 | 0:09:47 | |
RADIO: We're going to give you about 0.3, 0.2%. Keep going, keep pushing. | 0:09:51 | 0:09:57 | |
Stay close in the next couple of laps. | 0:09:57 | 0:09:59 | |
The radiocommunication we have in a Formula One car is very important. | 0:09:59 | 0:10:03 | |
If you have a problem, | 0:10:03 | 0:10:05 | |
and you're able to communicate that with them, | 0:10:05 | 0:10:08 | |
they might fix it and tell me different settings | 0:10:08 | 0:10:10 | |
which only I can adjust on the steering wheel. | 0:10:10 | 0:10:13 | |
You communicate a lot about how the car feels, | 0:10:13 | 0:10:16 | |
what the tyres are like, what status the tyres are, | 0:10:16 | 0:10:18 | |
-whether we need to do a pit stop very soon or not. -RADIO: Pit stop, five more laps. | 0:10:18 | 0:10:22 | |
We would say pit this lap. In German it's Boxenstopp. | 0:10:22 | 0:10:27 | |
We'd probably say box diese Runde. | 0:10:27 | 0:10:31 | |
Boxenstopp, pit stop. Sometimes they tell us to push really hard before a pit stop. | 0:10:31 | 0:10:35 | |
Battling another car, it's very important to push the inlet hard, | 0:10:37 | 0:10:41 | |
to squeeze every little bit of time out. | 0:10:41 | 0:10:44 | |
That is one key communication, because if you don't get that right, | 0:10:44 | 0:10:47 | |
the guys are in the pit lane with the tyres, the tyres will go cold. | 0:10:47 | 0:10:51 | |
You lose time and there's risk of crashing if you have cold tyres. | 0:10:51 | 0:10:55 | |
We want them in their blankets as long as possible, | 0:10:56 | 0:10:59 | |
which means that communication is critical. | 0:10:59 | 0:11:01 | |
-Great job, keep it going. -Sometimes I'm not sure if I'm thinking in German or in English. | 0:11:01 | 0:11:06 | |
It depends, when I've been in the UK for two weeks, | 0:11:06 | 0:11:09 | |
my brain starts to think English. | 0:11:09 | 0:11:11 | |
When I speak to the senior Mercedes personnel that supply the engine, they will speak German. | 0:11:11 | 0:11:18 | |
It's good for me to have an understanding of what they say. | 0:11:18 | 0:11:20 | |
Formula One fans should come to Hockenheim to see a German Grand Prix this year. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:25 | |
Hello, I'm Tonia Couch and welcome to my house. | 0:12:33 | 0:12:36 | |
This photo is 2006 Commonwealth Games. | 0:12:36 | 0:12:41 | |
Diver of the Year 2011. | 0:12:41 | 0:12:43 | |
Two gold and two silvers. I train in Plymouth with Tom Daley. | 0:12:43 | 0:12:48 | |
We all get on really well. Like a little family, really. | 0:12:51 | 0:12:54 | |
So, I'll take you upstairs to my bedroom now. | 0:12:58 | 0:13:01 | |
Of course, here's my Commonwealth Games jacket 2010. | 0:13:02 | 0:13:07 | |
And of course 2008 Olympics, me diving. | 0:13:07 | 0:13:11 | |
Making the Olympics in 2008 at the age of 18 was incredible. | 0:13:12 | 0:13:16 | |
Beijing was just fantastic. | 0:13:16 | 0:13:18 | |
Everybody was just so pleased to be there. It was one happy moment. | 0:13:18 | 0:13:22 | |
When we go away to competitions, I like to speak a few words in another language | 0:13:22 | 0:13:26 | |
because that's how you become friends. | 0:13:26 | 0:13:28 | |
The few things I know in Mandarin is: | 0:13:28 | 0:13:30 | |
Which is, hello, my name is Tonia, how are you? | 0:13:33 | 0:13:36 | |
Peng Li is brilliant. He's our coach who's come over from China. | 0:13:36 | 0:13:42 | |
I come from Beijing. I coach Li Na. | 0:13:42 | 0:13:45 | |
She go to 2000 Olympic gold medal. | 0:13:45 | 0:13:50 | |
China are just fantastic at what they do because they train all day. | 0:13:50 | 0:13:54 | |
Our target is only gold medal. | 0:13:54 | 0:13:58 | |
I am off to training now. I hope you enjoyed my house and I'll speak to you soon. | 0:13:58 | 0:14:03 | |
Tonia is the best women's platform diver this country has produced. | 0:14:03 | 0:14:06 | |
For the last four years she's been a world finalist. | 0:14:06 | 0:14:10 | |
No-one else has ever achieved that. | 0:14:10 | 0:14:12 | |
Andy and me, we sometimes coach in Chinese Mandarin to the divers. | 0:14:14 | 0:14:21 | |
Peng Li is brilliant. He took a while to get used to English. | 0:14:21 | 0:14:25 | |
He couldn't speak much at first. We teach him a lot of English. | 0:14:25 | 0:14:28 | |
He teaches us a lot of Chinese. | 0:14:28 | 0:14:31 | |
All the divers can say, ni hao ma? | 0:14:52 | 0:14:55 | |
-How are you? -Wo hen hao, I'm fine. | 0:14:55 | 0:14:57 | |
Zai lai yi ge - one more time. | 0:14:57 | 0:14:59 | |
"Zai lai shi ge" is ten more. | 0:15:01 | 0:15:04 | |
That's too much. That was...I hate it. | 0:15:04 | 0:15:09 | |
My Mandarin's coming along a little bit, OK. | 0:15:09 | 0:15:12 | |
I'm not great at it, but I do try and I love it. It's really good fun. | 0:15:12 | 0:15:16 | |
Yi, er, san, zou. | 0:15:18 | 0:15:20 | |
The riskiest part of the dive is the take-off. | 0:15:23 | 0:15:26 | |
You have to get the take-off right | 0:15:26 | 0:15:28 | |
-so you don't land back on the board... -That was good. | 0:15:28 | 0:15:32 | |
You can lose where you are in the air. | 0:15:32 | 0:15:35 | |
You can slip out of your tuck position, you can land flat. | 0:15:35 | 0:15:38 | |
Just all different things can go wrong, | 0:15:38 | 0:15:42 | |
but if the take-off's wrong, probably all of it will be wrong. | 0:15:42 | 0:15:46 | |
The harder the dive, the higher the difficulty is. | 0:15:49 | 0:15:52 | |
It's marked out of ten, so the harder the dive, | 0:15:52 | 0:15:54 | |
the more points you'd probably get. | 0:15:54 | 0:15:56 | |
Perfect dive is the one that looks easy, however difficult it was. | 0:15:56 | 0:15:59 | |
The take-off is going to be good, which means | 0:15:59 | 0:16:01 | |
the dive'll be finished early, even if there's a lot that's gone into it. | 0:16:01 | 0:16:05 | |
It'll look good, the shapes will be nice. | 0:16:05 | 0:16:07 | |
It'll be pleasing to watch, | 0:16:07 | 0:16:08 | |
and it'll disappear out of sight when it hits the water. | 0:16:08 | 0:16:11 | |
I do shake a little bit on a handstand. | 0:16:14 | 0:16:16 | |
What goes through my mind is, "Don't come down." | 0:16:16 | 0:16:19 | |
A good take-off and to spin in the air with my toes pointed | 0:16:19 | 0:16:23 | |
and to get a good entry at the end of it. | 0:16:23 | 0:16:25 | |
When I get onto the board | 0:16:25 | 0:16:27 | |
and my name's been announced and everyone's cheering me, | 0:16:27 | 0:16:31 | |
that's when you start to get nervous. | 0:16:31 | 0:16:34 | |
Nerves get you going. | 0:16:34 | 0:16:36 | |
Nerves seem to, like, get you moving and it makes you dive better. | 0:16:36 | 0:16:41 | |
Without nerves, sometimes you feel like you're just in training | 0:16:41 | 0:16:44 | |
and it'll just be average, whereas nerves can make you score higher | 0:16:44 | 0:16:48 | |
and make you want it even more. | 0:16:48 | 0:16:50 | |
I just think to myself, "Come on, Sonia. You can do it." | 0:16:50 | 0:16:54 | |
Then I just think about the dive. | 0:16:54 | 0:16:56 | |
WHISTLE SCREECHES | 0:17:01 | 0:17:03 | |
Best supported team in the Premier League. | 0:17:10 | 0:17:12 | |
The most exciting team, the most unpredictable team. | 0:17:12 | 0:17:14 | |
I really like Gutierrez, I think he's very hard-working. | 0:17:14 | 0:17:18 | |
Obertan. Yeah, he's very good. | 0:17:20 | 0:17:22 | |
I'm Gabriel Obertan. | 0:17:22 | 0:17:23 | |
I play for Newcastle and I play on the right wing. | 0:17:23 | 0:17:26 | |
I'm French, so obviously, I speak French. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:28 | |
Jonas Gutierrez is our left winger from Argentina. | 0:17:28 | 0:17:31 | |
He obviously speaks Spanish. | 0:17:31 | 0:17:33 | |
I'm Sam Tweddle, first team fitness coach here at Newcastle United. | 0:17:33 | 0:17:37 | |
My job involves the physical preparation of players, | 0:17:37 | 0:17:40 | |
making sure they're at peak physical condition when we play games | 0:17:40 | 0:17:43 | |
at a weekend or midweek. | 0:17:43 | 0:17:44 | |
There's players from all over the world. | 0:17:44 | 0:17:46 | |
It's always useful to speak a lot of languages. | 0:17:46 | 0:17:48 | |
Gabriel, he understand a few words of English, French and Spanish. | 0:17:48 | 0:17:54 | |
I learned Spanish cos my mum is from Spain. | 0:17:54 | 0:17:57 | |
I used to go on holiday over in summer, because I wanted to learn. | 0:17:57 | 0:18:01 | |
We're lucky cos we've got a number of players | 0:18:01 | 0:18:04 | |
who speak both English and their native language, | 0:18:04 | 0:18:06 | |
so we're able to use those as translators. | 0:18:06 | 0:18:08 | |
We try to speak a lot on the pitch. | 0:18:10 | 0:18:12 | |
We are trained all the days and we know each other from a long time. | 0:18:12 | 0:18:15 | |
I think the communication is more important. | 0:18:15 | 0:18:18 | |
I try to speak Spanish with him. | 0:18:18 | 0:18:20 | |
It's not perfect, but it's always great when you help the team. | 0:18:20 | 0:18:24 | |
You do, along the way, pick up snapshots, | 0:18:24 | 0:18:26 | |
little words and stuff that you can use with the lads, | 0:18:26 | 0:18:29 | |
to encourage them as they go along. | 0:18:29 | 0:18:31 | |
So we use "Vamos," which is "Come on." | 0:18:31 | 0:18:33 | |
Uno mas. | 0:18:33 | 0:18:34 | |
Dos mas. One more, two more. | 0:18:34 | 0:18:36 | |
Otra vez... | 0:18:36 | 0:18:38 | |
which is to repeat or do again. | 0:18:38 | 0:18:40 | |
Listo, which is ready. | 0:18:40 | 0:18:43 | |
Pasala, which is to pass the ball. | 0:18:43 | 0:18:45 | |
You've got to be like a proper athlete. | 0:18:45 | 0:18:48 | |
It's not only the legs or not only the upper body. | 0:18:48 | 0:18:51 | |
You've got to work out, especially in England, cos it's quite physical. | 0:18:51 | 0:18:55 | |
We work dynamically. It's working the muscles through | 0:18:55 | 0:18:57 | |
a complete range of movement, but on a dynamic basis. | 0:18:57 | 0:19:00 | |
Largely around the hip, the hamstring, the glutes, | 0:19:00 | 0:19:03 | |
make sure those areas are working through full ranges of movement. | 0:19:03 | 0:19:06 | |
So we'll go through some fast foot drills and some sprints. | 0:19:06 | 0:19:09 | |
Make sure that everything's going nice and quickly. | 0:19:09 | 0:19:11 | |
I think we have a good relationship, all the team mates. | 0:19:14 | 0:19:17 | |
We are a very good group of lads. | 0:19:17 | 0:19:19 | |
We've got players from Senegal, | 0:19:20 | 0:19:23 | |
France, | 0:19:23 | 0:19:25 | |
Ivory Coast, | 0:19:25 | 0:19:27 | |
Argentina... | 0:19:27 | 0:19:30 | |
England as well. | 0:19:31 | 0:19:33 | |
I would go abroad, especially if they were playing Real Madrid. | 0:19:35 | 0:19:37 | |
Cuatro, isn't it? I don't know, I don't know. | 0:19:42 | 0:19:44 | |
I think it's a plus if you go abroad and you already speak the language. | 0:19:44 | 0:19:49 | |
I've been to Italy and France to watch Newcastle play before, | 0:19:49 | 0:19:52 | |
and there was thousands of fans, you know, young and old. | 0:19:52 | 0:19:56 | |
And they just had such an amazing time. | 0:19:56 | 0:19:58 | |
Well, of course they can go all the way. | 0:19:58 | 0:20:00 | |
Definitely. Yeah, definitely Europa League. Definitely. | 0:20:00 | 0:20:03 | |
Well, Champions League. | 0:20:03 | 0:20:05 | |
You just never know what's going to happen. | 0:20:05 | 0:20:08 | |
My name is Francesco Molinari. | 0:20:36 | 0:20:39 | |
I'm a professional golfer playing on a European tour. | 0:20:39 | 0:20:43 | |
I'm originally from Torino, Italy. | 0:20:43 | 0:20:46 | |
-Ciao, Dennis. -Ciao, Francesco. | 0:20:46 | 0:20:48 | |
My name's Dennis Pugh, | 0:20:50 | 0:20:51 | |
I'm a professional golf coach who specialises | 0:20:51 | 0:20:54 | |
in working with top end players, professionals who play for a living. | 0:20:54 | 0:20:57 | |
I think that gym-work's going to | 0:20:57 | 0:20:59 | |
give you a little more zip on the ball. | 0:20:59 | 0:21:01 | |
Dennis Pugh is one of the top golf coaches in Europe. | 0:21:01 | 0:21:05 | |
We've been working together for a long time now. | 0:21:05 | 0:21:07 | |
He's become a friend and he comes out on tour with me as well. | 0:21:07 | 0:21:11 | |
There, what we have learned | 0:21:11 | 0:21:13 | |
is if you just use your body now to take it to the top... | 0:21:13 | 0:21:16 | |
The secret of any relationship is that you trust each other. | 0:21:17 | 0:21:19 | |
You can have fun times, but behind it all is this desire, | 0:21:19 | 0:21:22 | |
this need to get better. | 0:21:22 | 0:21:24 | |
Now I'm going to nag you about your golf swing. | 0:21:27 | 0:21:30 | |
We have an Italian lesson as well. | 0:21:30 | 0:21:33 | |
-And don't forget, what do I always nag? -Piede destro. -Piede destro. | 0:21:36 | 0:21:40 | |
It's good to have a coach that you trust 100%. | 0:21:40 | 0:21:45 | |
He's the one watching you play | 0:21:45 | 0:21:48 | |
and he's seeing a lot more than we do when we're playing. | 0:21:48 | 0:21:51 | |
When Francesco's practising, every session is a fresh start, | 0:21:51 | 0:21:55 | |
a clean canvas where I'm saying to myself, "How's he gripping it today? | 0:21:55 | 0:21:58 | |
How's he set up today?" And I look at those things, | 0:21:58 | 0:22:01 | |
and little variations can mean big things in the swing, | 0:22:01 | 0:22:04 | |
so we'll start by looking at grip and set-up. | 0:22:04 | 0:22:06 | |
He's just hitting balls. I'm doing my job, he's doing his. | 0:22:06 | 0:22:09 | |
Even though you're only hitting the wedges, | 0:22:10 | 0:22:12 | |
are you starting to feel what we've been working on with balance? | 0:22:12 | 0:22:15 | |
Well, the key to a good golf swing for me | 0:22:15 | 0:22:18 | |
is the blend of the fundamentals. | 0:22:18 | 0:22:20 | |
Those three fundamentals are balance, plane and leverage | 0:22:22 | 0:22:24 | |
that every golfer uses. | 0:22:24 | 0:22:26 | |
It's how well they flow them together | 0:22:32 | 0:22:33 | |
and how well they complement each other. | 0:22:33 | 0:22:35 | |
Some players specialise in being able to use their body well, | 0:22:35 | 0:22:38 | |
but don't get a good swish. Others seem able to swish the club well, | 0:22:38 | 0:22:42 | |
but they don't use their body. It's blending together, but for me, | 0:22:42 | 0:22:45 | |
that's what makes a golf swing, the blend. | 0:22:45 | 0:22:48 | |
So we look at the grip and the stance as being, literally, basics. | 0:22:48 | 0:22:51 | |
I check that my grip doesn't change | 0:22:51 | 0:22:54 | |
and that my posture is always the same. | 0:22:54 | 0:22:57 | |
You been enjoying the gym-work this winter. | 0:22:57 | 0:23:00 | |
Whether I'm teaching a complete beginner or Francesco, | 0:23:00 | 0:23:02 | |
every time I look, I start by looking at the grip and the stance, | 0:23:02 | 0:23:06 | |
and the reason I do that is I want to see how it affects the swing. | 0:23:06 | 0:23:09 | |
It's a sporting action, so you need to consider your balance, | 0:23:09 | 0:23:12 | |
how you're going to move your body. | 0:23:12 | 0:23:13 | |
It's a question of getting the right alignment, | 0:23:15 | 0:23:18 | |
so as you set up there, Francesco, now we want shoulders square. | 0:23:18 | 0:23:21 | |
Spalle dritte. | 0:23:23 | 0:23:24 | |
-Hips square. -Fianchi dritti. | 0:23:24 | 0:23:27 | |
Perfect. | 0:23:29 | 0:23:30 | |
-Knees square. -Ginocchia dritte. | 0:23:30 | 0:23:33 | |
-Ginocchia dritte. -Yeah. | 0:23:33 | 0:23:36 | |
And feet square. | 0:23:36 | 0:23:37 | |
-Piedi dritti. -Piedi dritti. | 0:23:37 | 0:23:41 | |
Your Italian is improving every day, Dennis. | 0:23:41 | 0:23:44 | |
-Ready to hit. -Ready to go, let's see. | 0:23:46 | 0:23:48 | |
The other fundamentals are leverage. | 0:23:50 | 0:23:52 | |
Leva. | 0:23:52 | 0:23:53 | |
The way in which you use the levers of your arms, wrists and club. | 0:23:53 | 0:23:57 | |
The third and final one | 0:23:58 | 0:24:00 | |
is technically called the "swing plane." | 0:24:00 | 0:24:02 | |
We swing the club around and above ourselves. | 0:24:02 | 0:24:05 | |
And that's the angle of the swing. | 0:24:05 | 0:24:07 | |
Being relaxed together is really the key to it all. It's my job | 0:24:07 | 0:24:10 | |
not only to show him how to swing a club, | 0:24:10 | 0:24:12 | |
he's getting pretty good at that, | 0:24:12 | 0:24:13 | |
it's being able to stay in the right frame of mind, | 0:24:13 | 0:24:16 | |
the right mood to perform. | 0:24:16 | 0:24:18 | |
Hi, I'm Bryony Shaw, I'm a professional windsurfer, | 0:24:28 | 0:24:31 | |
and we're here in South Spain to get some quality training in. | 0:24:31 | 0:24:34 | |
We're here at the Puerto Sherry Marina in the Bay of Cadiz, | 0:24:34 | 0:24:37 | |
and this is where we keep our equipment. This is where | 0:24:37 | 0:24:40 | |
all the international windsurfers are kept. | 0:24:40 | 0:24:42 | |
We all come down here and rig up and head out on the water. | 0:24:42 | 0:24:45 | |
Bryony, from an early age, round about 18, | 0:24:45 | 0:24:48 | |
started moving up into the international rankings. | 0:24:48 | 0:24:50 | |
From thereon she's never really been out of the top eight in the world. | 0:24:50 | 0:24:54 | |
I train a lot with the foreign girls, | 0:24:54 | 0:24:56 | |
including the Spanish sailor, Marina Alabau. | 0:24:56 | 0:25:00 | |
-Hola, Bryony! -Hola, Marina. | 0:25:00 | 0:25:02 | |
Marina is one of the best in the world. | 0:25:05 | 0:25:07 | |
She was World Champion in 2009, | 0:25:07 | 0:25:10 | |
has never really been out of the top three since then. | 0:25:10 | 0:25:13 | |
One of Bryony's main competitors, | 0:25:13 | 0:25:15 | |
but also one of her best friends. | 0:25:15 | 0:25:17 | |
-Yo tambien. -Ah, perfecto! | 0:25:18 | 0:25:19 | |
Normally when I am here, I speak in Spanish with Bryony Shaw, | 0:25:21 | 0:25:25 | |
and when we are in England we speak in English. | 0:25:25 | 0:25:28 | |
Being a windsurfer on the world tour, | 0:25:28 | 0:25:30 | |
you're surrounded by a lot of foreign windsurfers. | 0:25:30 | 0:25:34 | |
I learned French at school, but actually surround myself | 0:25:34 | 0:25:37 | |
with training partners and things with Spanish. | 0:25:37 | 0:25:39 | |
You pick up little phrases and ways to be polite and friendly. | 0:25:39 | 0:25:43 | |
This week, we have the teams from Hong Kong arriving. | 0:25:46 | 0:25:49 | |
We have teams from Ukraine arriving. | 0:25:49 | 0:25:52 | |
We've got the Spanish team that we train with regularly, | 0:25:52 | 0:25:54 | |
we've got the French team here. | 0:25:54 | 0:25:57 | |
It's like the tour has arrived in Cadiz early. | 0:25:57 | 0:25:59 | |
Here I used to train with Bryony Shaw. | 0:25:59 | 0:26:01 | |
We trained together for Beijing, | 0:26:01 | 0:26:03 | |
and in the Olympics we were fighting for the medal | 0:26:03 | 0:26:06 | |
until the last day, but finally she get third and me fourth. | 0:26:06 | 0:26:10 | |
But we're still really good friends and we're still training together. | 0:26:10 | 0:26:14 | |
Olympic windsurfing is about a fleet of windsurfers, | 0:26:14 | 0:26:17 | |
you're all trying to hit the start line on the gun. | 0:26:17 | 0:26:20 | |
And then you race upwind to a mark, | 0:26:20 | 0:26:23 | |
using your sort of wind strategy and tactics | 0:26:23 | 0:26:26 | |
and you sail around the course, and it's first past the finish. | 0:26:26 | 0:26:29 | |
When we go training on the water, | 0:26:32 | 0:26:35 | |
my coach will set up little training drills. | 0:26:35 | 0:26:38 | |
We position ourselves very close alongside each other | 0:26:38 | 0:26:41 | |
and we do speed testing, and that close proximity is very important. | 0:26:41 | 0:26:45 | |
You're kind of adding pressure like you would in a race scenario. | 0:26:45 | 0:26:47 | |
Also, he might drop some buoys in the water | 0:26:47 | 0:26:49 | |
and set up a little course area for us, | 0:26:49 | 0:26:51 | |
and we're introducing the tactics as you would in a race. | 0:26:51 | 0:26:55 | |
From the lighthouse towards me! | 0:26:55 | 0:26:57 | |
Bryony, she's a really good athlete. | 0:26:57 | 0:26:59 | |
She's really a strong girl, she push a lot in the water. | 0:26:59 | 0:27:02 | |
I often compare windsurfing to the heptathlon because it is so varied. | 0:27:08 | 0:27:13 | |
It might be that we have a light wind day where you have to be | 0:27:13 | 0:27:16 | |
strong and powerful, a bit like throwing the shot put. | 0:27:16 | 0:27:18 | |
Another day, it might be stronger winds | 0:27:18 | 0:27:21 | |
and therefore you need your endurance part of your athleticism, | 0:27:21 | 0:27:24 | |
maybe, like the hurdles. | 0:27:24 | 0:27:26 | |
There's a lot of technique involved, | 0:27:26 | 0:27:28 | |
or you're holding onto the boom and you can directly feel | 0:27:28 | 0:27:31 | |
where the wind is shifting around and twitching the sail. | 0:27:31 | 0:27:35 | |
It's not one-dimensional in terms of what the conditions are going to do. | 0:27:35 | 0:27:38 | |
The conditions can change minute-by-minute, | 0:27:38 | 0:27:41 | |
and you need to know what mode to go into at that moment. | 0:27:41 | 0:27:45 | |
The board is skipping over the water and you're almost trying to jump it | 0:27:45 | 0:27:49 | |
over every wave to make sure that it's tracking as fast as you can | 0:27:49 | 0:27:53 | |
in a straight line. The manoeuvres are really quite tricky. | 0:27:53 | 0:27:55 | |
We do a lot of practice with the gibing and tacking. | 0:27:55 | 0:27:59 | |
You're trying to get through the eye of the wind | 0:28:00 | 0:28:03 | |
as quickly as you can and often accelerate the other side, | 0:28:03 | 0:28:06 | |
so it's a big part of trying to get | 0:28:06 | 0:28:07 | |
as fast as you can round the race track. | 0:28:07 | 0:28:10 | |
Quite often, the wind and the weather isn't always in your advantage. | 0:28:10 | 0:28:13 | |
It might be that it was too windy that day, | 0:28:13 | 0:28:15 | |
so you might have a fantastic second day | 0:28:15 | 0:28:18 | |
and your balance might be a lot better, so always keep trying. | 0:28:18 | 0:28:21 | |
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