Awabapod

Season 2, Episode 2: Gehamat Shibasaki, Newcastle Knights

Episode Summary

Welcome to Awabapod. In this episode we chat with Gehamat Shibasaki from the Newcastle Knights. We cover all things family, and his unique cultural background, his routines and habits as a professional footballer and get his predictions on who to watch in the Newcastle Knights this season.

Episode Notes

  1. How are you? Been in Newcastle for over a year now. How are you settling in and how do you feel about Newcastle?
  2. Townsville born. Indigenous Allstars game in Townsville. How’d you feel about that being played there?
  3. Your family background is Torres’s strait, Japanese and Malay? Can you explain to me more detail of your family history?
  4. Covid. I had quite a few chats last year with your communications team & how it affected them, and the dramatic changes put in place to make the NRL work. From a player’s perspective, what did you think when it first happened and how did you handle it overall?
  5. Health. Let’s talk food. Because you are a professional sportsperson, is food planning harder for you or easier? 
  6. Game day. Is your game day eating different to the rest of the week?
  7. Training. It seems a lot of our people are too skinny legged not to make the higher grades. Did you do much weight training as a kid and is weight training important now?
  8. Talent vs hard work. First, which one wins? Secondly, is too much talent a curse when you’re a junior?
  9. Hardest built player in the Knights?
  10. Fastest Knights player?
  11. Slowest Knights player?
  12. Trickiest Player in the Knights?
  13. Besides yourself, Knights Player to watch this year?