August 22, 2024 • 6 mins
Kiwi axe-woman Anne Paterson is in Germany ahead of Sunday's Timbersports International Women's World Cup
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we x Woman and Patterson heads into just the
second tilt at the world title this weekend at the
still Timber Sports International Women's Cup in Germany, hoping to
go one, two, or even three places better than a
fourth place last year. She joins me now out of Germany,
good morning and from.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
New Zealand, good morning. How are we going on?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Very well? How are you going You've made the trip
over there. You're getting ready for your second tilt at
this title or are you prepared?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Well? Yeah, I'm going good. We've just had two days
of training with a local failure here in Germany and
the wood's good and been cutting well. So yeah, feeling good.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
That's great to hear. Preparation wise, I mean, you're based
in Australia. How's the preparation been?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Really good? So, I've just come off the back of
a season We've sort of started in May on and
just finished in the last couple of weeks and had
a really good season. I've come away with a few
wins and I'm yeah, I'm feeling pretty good.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Tell us about the events that you're in.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
The ones coming up. I've got the stock sawing, I've
got the single handed sawing, and the underhand chop.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
So when it comes to preparation, obviously you've got to
cut a lot of wood, You've got a lot to do.
What else do you have to do to be prepared?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Well, just mentally prepared as well. You've sort of got
to go out there and know what you need to do,
and like the chopping of the logs is probably the
best way to prepare. But just yeah, being comfortable, know
what you need to do when you get out there
on the stage, and yeah, just execute it. Well.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Do you have support in doing that? I mean now,
I mean I'm involved in coaching. There's a lot of
you know, mental well being but also mental processes. Do
you get a lot of support in that or is
it a lot of self taught?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
No, do get a lot of support. I've got a
great group of friends that would chop with me. I've
also got my partner, Mitch. He's a he wold shop
since he's been old enough to walk, so he's had
a lot of experience and he's here with me for
this weekend. So I'm pretty lucky that he is. And yeah,
(02:03):
he's very much a rock to help me sort of
keep calm and push through physically.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I mean, what else do you have to do, because
when you watch it, you know endurance, strength, timing, power,
The whole work needs to come together.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah. Absolutely, as well as chopping through the season, I
do drop a fair bit of firewood as well, so
that keeps my strength bace. But yeah, just the normal
things like, yeah, looking after your body, making sure you're
stretching and moving. You just got to sort of keep
that mind forward, make sure you look after any sort
of aches and pains that occurs.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
So yeah, you just spoke about preparation a couple of
days of cutting, difference in wood and what you have
to encounter.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yes, yes, we cut a lot of pine where I'm
living in Australia and the wood here is popular, which
is quite a soft wood in comparison, so it almost
works in an advantage used to cutting a bit more
sort of harderwood where we can cut the softer wood
and it's a little bit easier for us. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah, I mean does that change the I suppose you
know the way you saw is it just simply you're
pretty much you get into your rhythm and then the
sword takes care of itself when it comes to dealing
with the wood.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yes, absolutely, you've got to be able to read the
saw if it's generally when it's a softer, softer wood,
it does saw like it's heavy and you sort of
really have to let the saw do do what it's
needed to do and you sort of can't sort of
force it too much. And same with the chopping, you can.
You've got to be able to read the wood to
be able to know how many hits you need to
(03:36):
put in and sort of what needs to be done
and executed well to get the fastest time.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
What did you learn from last year that's going to
help you this year and your preparation, but also going
to the event, just the whole experience.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
That was only my second time on the still timber
Sports format, so I've done a few more runs similar
to that, so I'm more familiar with what I'm expecting
and probably a little bit more familiar with the softer wood.
I've been able to cut a lot more in the
last twelve months, so hopefully I'm able and a bit
more prepared for what's going to be ahead in the
(04:12):
next couple days.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, what's the format? What are your timing's timing of
the day? You know when it comes to the competition.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yes, so there's twelve other ladies from throughout the world,
a lot of them European based. We've got a couple
from the US as well. But so generally starts out
with your stock saw, so fastest stock saw time out
of the twelve women, and then the same for the
other two the single handed and the underhand. So you
get ranked on a points system, so twelve would be
(04:41):
first place time in each event, and so the overall
most points out of the three events will come away
with the gold medal.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Must be great having events like this now and an
opportunity to showcase your skills on the will stage.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Absolutely to have the Women's World Cup like it is
our third year will be having it. It's the second
time a female has gone for New Zealand, so super
lucky and it's coming a long way to be able
to be out there and competing with the men. This
event will be a standalone event, so purely just woman,
So that's pretty cool. I've not had that before. They
(05:18):
usually run it before the men's events, so to have
our own event is yes, pretty.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Awesome, Yeah, wonderful And also I mean I read that
you know for you representing New Zealand as a real
you know, it's been a dream come true. You grew
up on the West Coast of New Zealand and then
moved over to Australia, but you know, knowing that you're
representing the country, how does that feel?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
And that's yeah, it's been a dream of mine since
I first started playing sports. So to be able to
pull on that silver fern and represent my country that
it truly is something to be so proud of. And
I absolutely love it and I hope I do everyone proud.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yeah, how did you get into it? If we go
back to your to your time, but growing up on
the West Coast.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah, I always had a sort of a hand in
firewood with mild and my brothers, and I started chopping
sort of quite late in life, so about in my
early twenties, I picked up an axe with a family
friend and we sort of started together and then from
there it just really sort of grew and then had
learnt from there that I had my uncles and great
(06:18):
uncles were all involved in the timber industry, competing competed
like competitively as well as for a living, you know,
in the timber industry. Coming down trees and swamaling, et cetera.
So yeah, it's always been in my blood and I
didn't realize it at the time, but yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
It's awesome. It's awesome. Hey, we wish you all the
very best this weekend. We'll be rooting for you, and
thank you very much for being available join us this morning.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Yeah, not a problem at all, Thank you so much.
Here we x Woman and Patterson heads into just the
second tilt at the world title this weekend at the
still Timber Sports International Women's Cup in Germany, hoping to
go one, two, or even three places better than a
fourth place last year. She joins me now out of Germany,
good morning and from.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
New Zealand, good morning. How are we going on?
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Very well? How are you going You've made the trip
over there. You're getting ready for your second tilt at
this title or are you prepared?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Well? Yeah, I'm going good. We've just had two days
of training with a local failure here in Germany and
the wood's good and been cutting well. So yeah, feeling good.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
That's great to hear. Preparation wise, I mean, you're based
in Australia. How's the preparation been?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Really good? So, I've just come off the back of
a season We've sort of started in May on and
just finished in the last couple of weeks and had
a really good season. I've come away with a few
wins and I'm yeah, I'm feeling pretty good.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Tell us about the events that you're in.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
The ones coming up. I've got the stock sawing, I've
got the single handed sawing, and the underhand chop.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
So when it comes to preparation, obviously you've got to
cut a lot of wood, You've got a lot to do.
What else do you have to do to be prepared?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Well, just mentally prepared as well. You've sort of got
to go out there and know what you need to do,
and like the chopping of the logs is probably the
best way to prepare. But just yeah, being comfortable, know
what you need to do when you get out there
on the stage, and yeah, just execute it. Well.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Do you have support in doing that? I mean now,
I mean I'm involved in coaching. There's a lot of
you know, mental well being but also mental processes. Do
you get a lot of support in that or is
it a lot of self taught?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
No, do get a lot of support. I've got a
great group of friends that would chop with me. I've
also got my partner, Mitch. He's a he wold shop
since he's been old enough to walk, so he's had
a lot of experience and he's here with me for
this weekend. So I'm pretty lucky that he is. And yeah,
(02:03):
he's very much a rock to help me sort of
keep calm and push through physically.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I mean, what else do you have to do, because
when you watch it, you know endurance, strength, timing, power,
The whole work needs to come together.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah. Absolutely, as well as chopping through the season, I
do drop a fair bit of firewood as well, so
that keeps my strength bace. But yeah, just the normal
things like, yeah, looking after your body, making sure you're
stretching and moving. You just got to sort of keep
that mind forward, make sure you look after any sort
of aches and pains that occurs.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
So yeah, you just spoke about preparation a couple of
days of cutting, difference in wood and what you have
to encounter.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yes, yes, we cut a lot of pine where I'm
living in Australia and the wood here is popular, which
is quite a soft wood in comparison, so it almost
works in an advantage used to cutting a bit more
sort of harderwood where we can cut the softer wood
and it's a little bit easier for us. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah, I mean does that change the I suppose you
know the way you saw is it just simply you're
pretty much you get into your rhythm and then the
sword takes care of itself when it comes to dealing
with the wood.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yes, absolutely, you've got to be able to read the
saw if it's generally when it's a softer, softer wood,
it does saw like it's heavy and you sort of
really have to let the saw do do what it's
needed to do and you sort of can't sort of
force it too much. And same with the chopping, you can.
You've got to be able to read the wood to
be able to know how many hits you need to
(03:36):
put in and sort of what needs to be done
and executed well to get the fastest time.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
What did you learn from last year that's going to
help you this year and your preparation, but also going
to the event, just the whole experience.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
That was only my second time on the still timber
Sports format, so I've done a few more runs similar
to that, so I'm more familiar with what I'm expecting
and probably a little bit more familiar with the softer wood.
I've been able to cut a lot more in the
last twelve months, so hopefully I'm able and a bit
more prepared for what's going to be ahead in the
(04:12):
next couple days.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, what's the format? What are your timing's timing of
the day? You know when it comes to the competition.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yes, so there's twelve other ladies from throughout the world,
a lot of them European based. We've got a couple
from the US as well. But so generally starts out
with your stock saw, so fastest stock saw time out
of the twelve women, and then the same for the
other two the single handed and the underhand. So you
get ranked on a points system, so twelve would be
(04:41):
first place time in each event, and so the overall
most points out of the three events will come away
with the gold medal.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Must be great having events like this now and an
opportunity to showcase your skills on the will stage.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Absolutely to have the Women's World Cup like it is
our third year will be having it. It's the second
time a female has gone for New Zealand, so super
lucky and it's coming a long way to be able
to be out there and competing with the men. This
event will be a standalone event, so purely just woman,
So that's pretty cool. I've not had that before. They
(05:18):
usually run it before the men's events, so to have
our own event is yes, pretty.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Awesome, Yeah, wonderful And also I mean I read that
you know for you representing New Zealand as a real
you know, it's been a dream come true. You grew
up on the West Coast of New Zealand and then
moved over to Australia, but you know, knowing that you're
representing the country, how does that feel?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
And that's yeah, it's been a dream of mine since
I first started playing sports. So to be able to
pull on that silver fern and represent my country that
it truly is something to be so proud of. And
I absolutely love it and I hope I do everyone proud.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yeah, how did you get into it? If we go
back to your to your time, but growing up on
the West Coast.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah, I always had a sort of a hand in
firewood with mild and my brothers, and I started chopping
sort of quite late in life, so about in my
early twenties, I picked up an axe with a family
friend and we sort of started together and then from
there it just really sort of grew and then had
learnt from there that I had my uncles and great
(06:18):
uncles were all involved in the timber industry, competing competed
like competitively as well as for a living, you know,
in the timber industry. Coming down trees and swamaling, et cetera.
So yeah, it's always been in my blood and I
didn't realize it at the time, but yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
It's awesome. It's awesome. Hey, we wish you all the
very best this weekend. We'll be rooting for you, and
thank you very much for being available join us this morning.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Yeah, not a problem at all, Thank you so much.
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