The Champion Next Door: Recent Episodes
The Champion Next Door
Dene O'Kane is a New Zealand former snooker professional. He reached two world championship quarter finals and competed against the likes of Stephen Hendry, Jimmy White and Steve Davis
Rob Hewitt is an ex Navy Diver and water safety advocate who in 2006 survived 75 hours floating in the ocean after he got seperated from his boat during a diving trip.
Tony is a Police Officer, Defense Tactics Instructor, former Diving Instructor, multiple Ironman competitor and a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt!
Barrett Hocking is a New Zealand musician and member of the band The Black Seeds. He is a also a music teacher and trail runner.
Mike Altamura is an Australian boxing promoter, manager, consultant and writer who has managed 9 world boxing champions
Barefoot Ted is an Ultramarathon runner, skateboarder, surfer and entrepreneur. He is best known for featuring in the book 'Born to Run' and known as an advocate for barefoot/minimalistic running. He owns the company 'Luna Sandals' who manufacture Outdoor Water Adventure, Hiking and Running Sandals.
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You may be persuaded once you listen to this conversation!
Duane Kale is a 4 time Olympic gold medalist in swimming from the the 1996 Olympic Paraympic games
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Nick Willis is a New Zealand born middle distance runner who has won Silver and Bronze in the 1500 metres at the Olympic Games. He has also won the Fifth Avenue Mile race 5 times.
Eugene Bareman is the head coach at City Kickboxing in Auckland, New Zealand. He is the coach of the UFC Middleweight Champion, Israel Adesanya as well as UFC Featherweight Champion Alexander Volkanovski and top UFC Lightweight, Dan Hooker.
Andrew and Abby Harris are New Zealand underwater hockey players who both became world champions in 2018.
William Sichel is a British and Scottish international ultra-marathon athlete and has set multiple ultra distance running records (from 30 miles on the track to 3100 miles/ 5000 kms on the road) at World, British and Scottish level including age-group records.