CSB - Jack Jordan - STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® World Trophy

The country’s top axeman, Jack Jordan, is also a triple world-title holder but there’s one title he’s chasing this week that’s so far eluded his swing – the World Championship.

 

Jordan achieved the sport’s first-ever three-peat last year in winning the STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® World Trophy – held annually in Europe and described as the 20/20 cricket of international wood chopping. It’s a quick fire event with four disciplines back to back (no rest in between) suited to competitors with superior fitness and endurance as they make their way through knockout stages to the final showdown.

 

But this weekend Jordan is back in Europe in Toulouse, France trying to knock off the elusive STIHL TIMBERSPORTS® World Championship - the more traditional, long-form format across six different wood-chopping and sawing disciplines.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Country Sport Breakfast with Brian Kelly on Gold Sport. Touching
up right now with the country's top axe men. Jack
Jordan is also a triple world title holder. He's in
to Louse in France at the moment, chasing a title
that so far eluded his swing, eluded his axe, and
that is the exclusive Still Timber Sports World Championship title,

(00:22):
which is the more traditional long form format of the
well the x chopping World really. He joins us out
of Toulouse in France this morning, bojior.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Jack, bonjour.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
How are we going very very well? Thank you? How
are things in Toulouse?

Speaker 2 (00:40):
You're not too bad. We got a yesterday. We flew
into Germany first for a few days and had a
training camp there and you only got a sort of
late yesterday afternoons. So weather's pretty good here and things
should be pretty good.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
When do the champs get underway?

Speaker 2 (00:56):
So yeah, tomorrow night we've got the Team World Championship
tomorrow night, and then the following following evening we've got
the individual World Championships. So yet to mind the next day.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
So the team, the Still Timber Sports World Championships, the team,
I think you've got your brother in there as well,
haven't you.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah, yep, that's my brother's there and Kyle living from
road Rual, plus Bobby Dowling, who I was from Bottom
of South Island but living in South Australia.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Now, yeah, what are our chances of winning the Team's
championship this year?

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Not too bad? We've been going right so yeah, and
hopefully things go well for us on the night and
we'll see there we go.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yeah, what do you have to do in the team's Championship?
Do you each do an individual event?

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah? So we all do one event. Each four man
team start off with the stocks or within their six
six one and then goes over to the underround, which
I'll be I'll be cutting the underround. That's where we
stand on top of the log and cut the cut
the log betwenty our feet, goes back to a cross
cut sowing where Bobby didailing from South Australia. He'll be

(02:02):
doing that, and then we'll finish with a standing block.
That's what my brother's doing.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah alrighty well, how the nerves is it pretty exciting
at the moment?

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, pretty exciting. Yeah, nerves aren't too bad. I don't
don't get three flustered the day before. Yeah, they sort
of kicking closer to the event, I guess, But now
I feeling pretty good at the moment.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
So you're a past winner of the Timber Sports World Trophy,
which is a much quicker, quick fire of sort of
event in the world of wood shoppings, like twenty twenty cricket,
but this one, this title that's alluded to it, it's
more traditional. I guess it requires better fitness, does it?

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Probably not so much fitness, it's it's sort of you've
got to be more consistent throughout all six events, and
it's with the way the point system goes. You get
certain amount of points for each event, but in the
last three events that it goes double points and then
triple points right at the end. So it's a little
bit easier on the by this one. But yeah, probably, yeah,

(03:04):
you just got to be so much more consistent throughout
those later events.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Here, of the six events, is there one that you
absolutely love that you just chopped the hell out of.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Over the years, It's probably been the underrand were stand
on top of the log and a couple of twenty
feet there's probably always been my favorite. But yeah, the
more and more. The more I do of it, the
more I like the other events too, So yeah, and
hopefully it goes right.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
So you're against what eleven other competitors? Who are your
big rivals?

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Oh, you'd have to say Australia at the moment. I
loved one the last few years, so yeah, yeah, that'd
probably be the biggest one. But there's a few countries there,
and especially with the points sort of being doubled and
tripled right at the end, it sort of opens the
field up to everyone. I guess.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, I guess you've been training hard on the old
King Country farm, have you? Who's looking after farm while
you're away? Mate?

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Your work is there full time, so Miles was there.
Plus the old man's come over for a better week
or thought look after things too, So hopefully everything's worded
back there.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
So you mentioned that, you know, we've got your big
rivals Australia. What other countries are really strong in timber sports?

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Australia, Canada, USA, that's sort of right up there. A
couple of European countries sort of been gone going pretty
good the last couple of years, two years.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
I guess this is the big one for you. You'll
join the sport. If you win this one, you'll join
sports the last year's company of Jason when Yard and
David Bolsted is the only other ki we to who
ever win the coveted title, which will be pretty cool, really,
wouldn't it.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, out of the awtin. Yeah yes, hopefully. Thanks go
go good on the night and you see here we go.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
All right, Well, we wish you the very very best
of luck Jack to you and into the New Zealand
team as well at the World Championships.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Hi, thank you very much.