Breakfast Bonus: Retirement sports

With the games in full swing in Paris, it's got us thinking - what sports are we going to play to keep fit in retirement?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Coast Breakfast Bonus Podcast with Tony Jason Sam Hi,
thanks for listening to our Breakfast Bonus podcast today. We've
been inspired by the Olympics and we think to ourselves
again in future, what would be our retirement sports.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Not easy to pick a retirement sport. You have to
allow for the fact that your body will be starting
to have more ailments and begin to failue.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
I've already picked mine as easy as that A short podcast.

Speaker 4 (00:23):
Yeah, twenty five years until I retire retirement age, and
by then we probably all won't be retiring till seventy five. Yeah,
I am tennis. It's going to be tennis for me.
So it wasn't a sport that I played as a kid.
But I'm part of a tennis club now with my kids,
and Jeff, who is in his late sixties at the club,
still plays in the club. Champs still kicks it with everyone.

(00:45):
You can interact with the younger people because what happens
is you don't have to do heaps running. You just
get someone as your doubles partner that can run and
you play the net. And that's where that's where I
intend to sit.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
I take your tennis and I downgrade it to table tennis,
which is the greatest retirements audible all the time.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
You're not that social though, is it.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:03):
My grandparents are the late grandparents.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
They were absolute legions at the criber Pass Table Tennis
Club back in the day.

Speaker 5 (01:11):
They played right up till their mid eighties.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
My dad is playing both tennis and table tennis as
a retiree now.

Speaker 5 (01:17):
Is one of the great games.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
Well, why can't you do both sammy tennis by day
table tennis by night game.

Speaker 5 (01:23):
I just think tennis is going to be too hard
on the old knees, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
No, you've got to keep yourself young somehow. And I
don't know how many young people you're mixing within table
tennis circles.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Oh, table tennis is very popular, especially most of the
Chinese community.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
I'll tell you what I will do is that as
my father and was doing this as well. He's just
joined a Peton club. He's been member of the Herne
Bay Boton Club.

Speaker 5 (01:42):
And it's so social. Yeah, and I think he's doing
it now.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
He his weekends now taking up with social events with
this Bton club.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Bowls of the same thing, giving up. It's had a
resurgence with young people because.

Speaker 5 (01:57):
His cheek pints. Yeah, but still the game is good too.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Played from the Poles community.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Maybe darts, but I think I think is probably my thing.
But bar game, Well, that's a right to some sort
of sport.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Though.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Do you know what the hardcore retirees to They still run.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
I see a lot of people are still you know,
older people still were in their calliope outfits and they're running,
And I think to myself, you shouldn't be running, you know, walking.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
What about the norder walkers with the Poles.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
Yeah, yeah, it's probably best for cardio.

Speaker 5 (02:31):
You know, I'm going to tell you to another tear now.
I want to also throw on the mix.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Horse riding.

Speaker 5 (02:39):
Wow, aero shooting, which is much like parachuting, but you
have a little like a little two setter car at
the bottom of it. Now, I've always wanted to do.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
It's one of those sports you can't really get into
until your family's growing up.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
It's like a land.

Speaker 5 (02:57):
It's much like one of the ones that jump off
the cliffs.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Of the ponting No no, no, paras sailing or is that.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
The one behind a boat gliding.

Speaker 5 (03:04):
I'm talking about the one that you just lob yourself
off the top of a cliff.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
You're going to do your shoots?

Speaker 5 (03:10):
Are Richt before year there's paraponting. No, that's not paraponting. Yeah,
so you're just going.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
To suddenly do that when you hit sixty five.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
I always wanted to do that, but you can't do
it if you've got a young family, because the chance
of breaking a leg or dying is very high.

Speaker 5 (03:25):
And I feel like once you retire, the stakes are lists.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
No one's mentioned what about croquete? You know, get the
little gold thing? We just the ball.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
I play that now every Christmas?

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Do you really?

Speaker 4 (03:35):
And I happen to be very good at croquetes give
it a good whack, Not that I want.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
To blow my own trumpet, but I'm going to.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
I got a trophy and I never played before.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
You got a trophy for croquet? Yeah, So what sort
of trophy was it?

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Participation Pacific Pan, Pacific Championships, there short Pacific.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
This is a lie, it's not I've.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Got the trophy somewhere. That's a little we want. So
I came mean, Jiff came third, but I was I
was in seeing it and there were short of players,
so I teamed up with mate Jeff and.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
We got third, like no one good places cocaine. So
you imagine joy moment you have just decided, after all
the years I've known you, just to throw this into
a podcast.

Speaker 5 (04:15):
Completely forgot about. Wow.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
So Jason's going with the He's going to ignite his
Pan Pacific croquet tournaments.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
I forgot to tell you, guys, I once want to
still a middle at the Olympics for swimming.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
Like that's literally what you just said.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Stop telling you was like, Tony, thanks for listening to
the Coast Breakfast Bonus podcast.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
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Speaker 2 (04:39):
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